Is +Vigano Schismatic?
No doubt, tomorrow all the media around the world will report that +Vigano was excommunicated for the crime of schism, for questioning the legitimacy of Francis. But does questioning the legitimacy of …More
No doubt, tomorrow all the media around the world will report that +Vigano was excommunicated for the crime of schism, for questioning the legitimacy of Francis.
But does questioning the legitimacy of the Roman Pontiff (or papal claimant) always present a clear cut case of schism?
Not according to some of the more reknowned theologians and canonists.
Here’s what a few of them had to say on the subject:
1. “Finally, those who refuse to obey the Roman Pontiff because they consider his person worthy of suspicion or doubtfully elected cannot be counted among the schismatics…” (Wernz-Vidal: Ius Canonicum , vol. vii, n. 398)
2. “There is no schism if one…refuses obedience to the extent that one…suspects the person of the pope or the validity of his election…” (Szal, Abbot Ignatius: Communication of Catholics with Schismatics , CUA, 1948, p.2)
3. “…is not a schismatic who refuses submission to the pontiff for having probable doubts concerning the legitimacy of his election or his power…” (de …More
But does questioning the legitimacy of the Roman Pontiff (or papal claimant) always present a clear cut case of schism?
Not according to some of the more reknowned theologians and canonists.
Here’s what a few of them had to say on the subject:
1. “Finally, those who refuse to obey the Roman Pontiff because they consider his person worthy of suspicion or doubtfully elected cannot be counted among the schismatics…” (Wernz-Vidal: Ius Canonicum , vol. vii, n. 398)
2. “There is no schism if one…refuses obedience to the extent that one…suspects the person of the pope or the validity of his election…” (Szal, Abbot Ignatius: Communication of Catholics with Schismatics , CUA, 1948, p.2)
3. “…is not a schismatic who refuses submission to the pontiff for having probable doubts concerning the legitimacy of his election or his power…” (de …More
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Ivan Tomas
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Imagine if this just could be live streamed!
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I really think if something bad happens to Archbishop Vigano it will be the beginning of the end for homo Francis and homo Tucho. So many will rise up in support of Vigano and the TLM, that Pope Francis will go running back to the hospital.
Gal 2:11 “But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.”
St Peter didn’t sanction St Paul, because St Paul had called him out, because St Peter acting in truth, knew that it wasn’t his church but Christ’s Church and the truth is to prevail.
“Clergy and the People of God to seriously ask themselves whether it is consistent with the profession of …More
Gal 2:11 “But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.”
St Peter didn’t sanction St Paul, because St Paul had called him out, because St Peter acting in truth, knew that it wasn’t his church but Christ’s Church and the truth is to prevail.
“Clergy and the People of God to seriously ask themselves whether it is consistent with the profession of the Catholic Faith to passively witness the systematic destruction of the Church by its leaders, just as other subversives are destroying civil society.”
“I claim, as Successor of the Apostles, to be in full communion with the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church, with the Magisterium of the Roman Pontiffs, and with the uninterrupted doctrinal, moral, and liturgical Tradition which they have faithfully preserved.”
St Peter didn’t sanction St Paul, because St Paul had called him out, because St Peter acting in truth, knew that it wasn’t his church but Christ’s Church and the truth is to prevail.
“Clergy and the People of God to seriously ask themselves whether it is consistent with the profession of the Catholic Faith to passively witness the systematic destruction of the Church by its leaders, just as other subversives are destroying civil society.”
“I claim, as Successor of the Apostles, to be in full communion with the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church, with the Magisterium of the Roman Pontiffs, and with the uninterrupted doctrinal, moral, and liturgical Tradition which they have faithfully preserved.”