Quote from: Bonaventure on May 17, 2024, 12:07:04 PMSo if you want to open the door on V1, why not Trent?
Quote from: Bonaventure on Today at 11:05:01 AMThe thing about the VVTI upgrade is that would make it interference, no?
Those T Belt jobs can be pricey.
Quote from: JJoseph on May 17, 2024, 07:10:30 PMYes, it is a problem, and yet, more recently, abortion and gender ideology were condemned, in Dignitas Infinita. Take what you can get, be wary about the rest. That's my approach.So then we should consult with you or Stubb whenever the "Pope" speaks and make sure "there are no problems"; in effect both of you have become "the Pope of the Pope".
Quote from: Stubborn on Today at 04:48:03 AMIt really isn't "part of Francis's universal and ordinary magisterium." There actually is no such thing.
What it is, is the pope teaching "new doctrines" or heresy to the whole world. We know from V1 that the Holy Ghost was not promised to the pope so that he might make known new doctrines, which are heresies. We also know that the Church's Magisterium is always immune from error.
Quotehow many of the current bishops in the N.O. Possess "formal apostolicity"?
Quote from: JJoseph on May 17, 2024, 07:24:28 PM1. Apostolicity: Now, let's come to identifying Apostolicity, for if we can identify Apostolicity, the CE says, this "virtually contains the other 3 marks"."Formal Apostolicity" is only held by bishops who are Catholic i.e. Publicly profess the Catholic faith; how many of the current bishops in the N.O. Possess "formal apostolicity"?
For non-sedes, the Apostolic Succession is confirmed in the Succession of Popes themselves. For sedes, even they must admit that the Bishops appointed by recent Popes are the only ones capable of having the Apostolic mission or ordinary jurisdiction that is vital to Apostolicity.
QuoteCE: "Billuart (III, 306) concludes his remarks on Apostolicity in the words of St. Jerome: "We must abide in that Church, which was founded by the Apostles, and endures to this day.: Mazella (De Relig. et Eccl., 359), after speaking of Apostolic succession as an uninterrupted substitution of persons in the place of the Apostles, insists upon the necessity of jurisdiction or authoritative transmission, thus excluding the hypothesis that a new mission could ever be originated by anyone in the place of the mission bestowed by Christ and transmitted in the manner described." The words are very clear. Apostolicity continues in the dioceses, by Papal Appointments conferring the Apostolic Mission, just as it did before Vat. IITrue, but where are these bishops?
Quote2. Catholicity: we will consider just one more mark. The Catholicity or Universality of the Church. This is not well known to many, but the Church in Africa has grown fairly large. It is estimated there will soon be more Catholics in Africa alone than there were Catholics in the entire world in 1950! "It is strange then to realise that this Church – which is already, by far, the largest religious institution on the planet – is in fact enjoying global growth on an unprecedented scale. In 1950, the world's Catholic population was 437 million, a figure that grew to 650 million by 1970, and to around 1.2 billion today. Put another way, Catholic numbers have doubled since 1970, and that change has occurred during all the recent controversies and crises within the Church, all the debates following Vatican II and all the claims about the rise of secularism. Nor does the rate of growth show any sign of diminishing. By 2050, a conservative estimate suggests there should be at least 1.6 billion Catholics ... If current trends continue, as they show every sign of doing, then by the 2040s there will be some 460 million African Catholics. Incredibly, that number would be greater than the total world population of Catholics as it stood in 1950."But again how many of these millions of people profess and practice the Catholic faith?