This past week, I have read with great indignation of yet another prelate, Fr. Anthony Ward, who has been excommunicated latae sententiae for basically nothing other than wanting to practice the Traditional Catholic faith.
Yes, I know Ward—the leader of the “schismatic” group the Servants of the Holy Family—was excommunicated for having been consecrated as a bishop without papal permission, but boiled down to its essence, men like Ward and the retired bishop from Lusaka who consecrated him, Telesphore George Mpundu, are merely desperately trying to preserve the Catholic faith. This is about as outrageous as a Protestant pastor wanting to excommunicate a Catholic from the Catholic Church.
While faithful Catholics are daily being labelled heretics, schismatics, and are being excommunicated and ostracized left and right, the irony is that all the post-conciliar popes, most of the hierarchy since 1962, and the majority of the post-conciliar clergy have excommunicated themselves—not once, but repeatedly—by way of the false religion they persistently promote!
We are literally living in a time in which heretics have occupied the structures of the Church and are now “excommunicating” and labelling faithful Catholics and prelates as schismatics and heretics. What a preposterous joke!
But for those who are going to jump into the comment section shocked and scandalized by my statements, let us look at just two of the most glaring examples from the past week of exactly what the Synodal False Religion has to offer as an alternative to us “heretical” and “schismatic” Traditional Catholic folks.
Our first stop in Synodal La-La Land is an article which appeared on the garbage heterodox website Religion Digitale about the latest vomit from celebrated German “theologian,” Prof. Dr. Michael Seewald.
The German Research Foundation’s website states:
“Seewald has dedicated himself to concise, unconventional, and creative studies in systematic theology, particularly in the history and hermeneutics of dogmas. With his historically and critically derived and systematically reasoned plea for the changeability of dogmas while maintaining tradition, he has succeeded in building a bridge between opposing camps in Catholicism.”
Oh boy, this doesn’t bode well.
According to the article on Religion Digitale, Seewald sketches a vision of the Church that reads like a blueprint for dissolving the very structure Christ established. It definitely sounds nothing like classic Catholic theology! His proposals do not offer a genuine path of renewal but rather a programme of capitulation to the ideological currents of the age. His critique of authority, his demands regarding the structure of a future council, his enthusiasm for synodality, and even his reinterpretation of Christ’s Passion all point in the same direction: away from the Church as divinely constituted and toward the Church as a satanic sociological experiment.
Seewald asserts that the Church’s “model of leadership, based on authority, is coming to an end,” as though the divine constitution of the Church were a temporary administrative arrangement that history has simply outgrown. This claim does not arise from theology but from a secular suspicion of authority—the same suspicion that has hollowed out every institution that attempted to appease it. For Traditionalist Catholics, the issue is not that authority has exhausted itself, but that theologians like Seewald have exhausted their patience with the idea that the Church teaches with the mandate of Christ. His proposal that the Magisterium should abandon juridical authority in favor of a perpetually self-doubting “epistemic authority” amounts to replacing a Church that proclaims truth with one that apologizes for doing so.
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