Postconciliar Rome is threatening to excommunicate some or all of the SSPX because the society refuses to accept certain outcomes of Vatican II.
Nevermind the society accepts roughly 95% of Vatican II’s teachings, because many of them are continuations of the Catholic past.
Since the Second Vatican Council was not binding by its own admission, the SSPX’s rejection of a minor portion should not be that big of a deal.
But it is.
In March 1964, the Theological Commission of the Council concerning the authority of the Council stated, “In view of the conciliar practice and the pastoral purpose of the present council, this sacred Synod defines matters of faith or morals as binding on the Church only when the Synod itself openly declares so.”
The Second Vatican Council did not openly declare any of its teachings as binding on the Church. VII is not binding. Period.
Yet Prevost and crew are now demanding that the SSPX bend a knee and accept 100% of Vatican II, as if this is what makes one a Catholic. It’s not.
The post-Catholic church isn’t about obedience. It’s about coercion:d “Do what I say, or else.”
The SSPX rejects the Vatican II documents that contradict prior Catholic tradition. These include:
- Religious Freedom: The SSPX rejects Dignitatis Humanae because it contradicts the teaching of the previous Tradition and was condemned by Pope Gregory XVI and by Pius IX.
- Ecumenism: The SSPX rejects that other religions might be valid paths to salvation.
- New Liturgy: The SSPX opposes the Novus Ordo Missae because it’s a hot mess of innovation built out of a hodgepodge of historical components.
That these three points are a rupture from Tradition is self-evident.
Taken together, the three points that the SSPX rejects and Leo demands are, interestingly, the core beliefs of Freemasonry.
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