Post by Pacelli on Oct 26, 2022 10:13:19 GMT -5
I ask the question fully knowing the answer, as all Catholics must: Absolutely not, under any circumstances!
With that said, we are now living through the gravest crisis in the history of the Church, and we have not had a Pope for a very long time, either with the death of Pius XII or possibly since the early 60's.
Catholics are clearly struggling to grasp how this crisis can happen and solutions to how it might end. That is only natural to ponder, as Catholics love the Church and are deeply distressed witnessing what appears to be its destruction.
With that said, our obligation is not to solve this crisis, it is to hold the Faith completely and entirely with no deviation, and secondly to remain in communion with all other Catholics. Those that have kept the Faith or have found it at this late stage of the crisis by all appearances are the elect, so be wise, and realize that the Devil is going to tempt you and many other loyal Catholics to fall away into heresy or schism or both.
Those who have kept the Faith are not easy prey for the novelties of the Vatican II sect, but that doesn't mean they are perfectly safe either. There are more dangers than that sect. When Catholics theorize about solutions to the crisis, they must remain within the bounds of orthodoxy. If something was taught as a truth of the Faith in the Church, and can be demonstrated as such through catechisms, the writings of countless dogmatic theologians, etc., that means that the teaching is theologically certain and cannot be denied.
What happens if in theorizing about the crisis, one hits a roadblock, where he must deny what was taught previously in the Church in order to maintain his theory of how the crisis can be resolved? The answer should be obvious: hold to what the Church teaches, go back to the drawing board and keep working on your theory until it is no longer in conflict with the teaching of the Church. If you can do that, stop theorizing altogether, stop overthinking, pray your rosary, get to mass, stay silent, hold to the teaching of the Church, admit that you can't figure it out, and wait for better days!
Nothing is worth jeopardizing your salvation!
With that said, we are now living through the gravest crisis in the history of the Church, and we have not had a Pope for a very long time, either with the death of Pius XII or possibly since the early 60's.
Catholics are clearly struggling to grasp how this crisis can happen and solutions to how it might end. That is only natural to ponder, as Catholics love the Church and are deeply distressed witnessing what appears to be its destruction.
With that said, our obligation is not to solve this crisis, it is to hold the Faith completely and entirely with no deviation, and secondly to remain in communion with all other Catholics. Those that have kept the Faith or have found it at this late stage of the crisis by all appearances are the elect, so be wise, and realize that the Devil is going to tempt you and many other loyal Catholics to fall away into heresy or schism or both.
Those who have kept the Faith are not easy prey for the novelties of the Vatican II sect, but that doesn't mean they are perfectly safe either. There are more dangers than that sect. When Catholics theorize about solutions to the crisis, they must remain within the bounds of orthodoxy. If something was taught as a truth of the Faith in the Church, and can be demonstrated as such through catechisms, the writings of countless dogmatic theologians, etc., that means that the teaching is theologically certain and cannot be denied.
What happens if in theorizing about the crisis, one hits a roadblock, where he must deny what was taught previously in the Church in order to maintain his theory of how the crisis can be resolved? The answer should be obvious: hold to what the Church teaches, go back to the drawing board and keep working on your theory until it is no longer in conflict with the teaching of the Church. If you can do that, stop theorizing altogether, stop overthinking, pray your rosary, get to mass, stay silent, hold to the teaching of the Church, admit that you can't figure it out, and wait for better days!
Nothing is worth jeopardizing your salvation!