The very existence of a response from Bishop Athanasius Schneider confirms in a spectacular fashion what the Catholic Monitor has been saying lately that the Benedict-is-Pope movement and the Bishop Rene Gracida movement are growing! They can't ignore us forever.
I would point out two basic things about Bishop Schneider's arguments in favor of Bergoglian validity:
1. The first section of the argument presumes what it sets out to prove--here is how we have to treat Bergoglio because that is how you have to treat a Pope. But what if he isn't the Pope?
2. After arguing for Bergoglian validity on the basis of what has been excluded from the 1917 Code of Canon Law, Bishop Schneider goes on to argue that subjective affirmations of Benedict make Bergoglio the Pope, without any reference to UD Gregis or Canon Law at all. Is Bishop Schneider the Pelagian?
He says others are Pelagians--in other words, we are using our own strength and trying to have our own way by saying Benedict is Pope. In truth it is exactly the other way around.
As Bishop Schneider has just demonstrated, it is the champion of Bergoglian validity who superimposes his own thoughts and preferences on Divine Revelation and Canon Law, who tries through brute force of prestige or numbers to induce others to look on a man as the Successor of Peter in the absence of objective evidence--more precisely, flying in the face of both facts and reason.
Note: This post was by a Catholic Monitor contributor.
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as for the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
I would point out two basic things about Bishop Schneider's arguments in favor of Bergoglian validity:
1. The first section of the argument presumes what it sets out to prove--here is how we have to treat Bergoglio because that is how you have to treat a Pope. But what if he isn't the Pope?
2. After arguing for Bergoglian validity on the basis of what has been excluded from the 1917 Code of Canon Law, Bishop Schneider goes on to argue that subjective affirmations of Benedict make Bergoglio the Pope, without any reference to UD Gregis or Canon Law at all. Is Bishop Schneider the Pelagian?
He says others are Pelagians--in other words, we are using our own strength and trying to have our own way by saying Benedict is Pope. In truth it is exactly the other way around.
As Bishop Schneider has just demonstrated, it is the champion of Bergoglian validity who superimposes his own thoughts and preferences on Divine Revelation and Canon Law, who tries through brute force of prestige or numbers to induce others to look on a man as the Successor of Peter in the absence of objective evidence--more precisely, flying in the face of both facts and reason.
Note: This post was by a Catholic Monitor contributor.
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as for the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
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