Fr Cekada omits a crucial part of a quote? (episode 2)
Aug 18, 2023 20:57:51 GMT -5
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Post by John Lewis on Aug 18, 2023 20:57:51 GMT -5
As many of you are already aware, Fr Cekada is one sectarian sedevacantist author who is known to have omitted crucial parts a quote which didn't suit his purposes as was exposed by Pacelli here. I'm afraid that this may not be a one-off occurrence, with Robert Siscoe accusing him of the same thing in relation to a different quote in this article.
Can anyone verify whether Robert Siscoe is in fact correct in this claim? If he is omitting part of the quote, this makes a material difference to one's view of the crisis.
Source: www.trueorfalsepope.com/p/robert-siscoe-and-john-of-st-thomas.html
"Fr. Cekada has attempted to counter a number of articles against Sedevacantism by claiming that these were referring to the crime of heresy, while, according to him, the loss of office is caused by the sin of heresy. Here is one such example:
Notice that Fr. Cekada quotes Cardinal Billot in support of his position. What he doesn’t tell his readers (or even indicate by an “ellipses”) is that he is only quoting half of a sentence. If you read the entire sentence you see that the Cardinal is not speaking merely of the sin of heresy, as Fr. Cekada would have his readers believe, but of notorious heresy, which is a crime. (15) Here is the complete sentence:
What the half sentence giveth, the complete sentence taketh away. If it was the sin of heresy alone that caused the loss of office, a pope who fell into occult (secret) heresy would also cease to be pope. Yet, as Bellarmine teaches (citing the authority of Melchor Cano): “the Pope who is an occult heretic is still Pope.” (17)
Fr. Cekada’s position is also contradicted by John of St. Thomas who, no less than twelve times, states that it is the crime of heresy that causes the Pope to lose his office. Numerous examples have already been cited in this article. One more will suffice: John of St. Thomas speaks of “the deposition itself, which must be done after the declarative judgment of the crime.”
14 Sedevacantism Refuted?, Fr. Cekada
15 See Canons 2197.2 & 2197.3 of the 1917 Code
16 De Ecclesia, 1927, 5th ed. 632
17 De Romano Pontifice, lib. II, cap. 30
"Fr. Cekada has attempted to counter a number of articles against Sedevacantism by claiming that these were referring to the crime of heresy, while, according to him, the loss of office is caused by the sin of heresy. Here is one such example:
“Like many who have written against sedevacantism, one fundamental flaw runs through Mr. Sparks’ article (…) Heresy is both a crime (delictum) against canon law and a sin(peccatum) against divine law. … It is by violating the divine law through the sin(peccatum) of heresy that a heretical pope loses his authority – ‘having become an unbeliever,’ as Cardinal Billot says, ‘he would by his own will be cast outside the body of the Church’.” (14)
Notice that Fr. Cekada quotes Cardinal Billot in support of his position. What he doesn’t tell his readers (or even indicate by an “ellipses”) is that he is only quoting half of a sentence. If you read the entire sentence you see that the Cardinal is not speaking merely of the sin of heresy, as Fr. Cekada would have his readers believe, but of notorious heresy, which is a crime. (15) Here is the complete sentence:
“Given, therefore, the hypothesis of a pope who would become notoriously heretical, one must concede without hesitation that he would by that very fact lose the pontifical power, insofar as, having become an unbeliever, he would by his own will be cast outside the body of the Church.” (15)
What the half sentence giveth, the complete sentence taketh away. If it was the sin of heresy alone that caused the loss of office, a pope who fell into occult (secret) heresy would also cease to be pope. Yet, as Bellarmine teaches (citing the authority of Melchor Cano): “the Pope who is an occult heretic is still Pope.” (17)
Fr. Cekada’s position is also contradicted by John of St. Thomas who, no less than twelve times, states that it is the crime of heresy that causes the Pope to lose his office. Numerous examples have already been cited in this article. One more will suffice: John of St. Thomas speaks of “the deposition itself, which must be done after the declarative judgment of the crime.”
14 Sedevacantism Refuted?, Fr. Cekada
15 See Canons 2197.2 & 2197.3 of the 1917 Code
16 De Ecclesia, 1927, 5th ed. 632
17 De Romano Pontifice, lib. II, cap. 30