The Leader of the SSPX says that the Canonizations are NULL and VOID and that there is NO way John Paul II is saint. Now we Catholic must decide WHO to follow and WHO is right: ----1. In one hand we have Pope Francis, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the Prefects of the Congregation of Saints and Doctrine, all the Cardinals and Bishops of the Church. ---2. In the other hand we have Bishop Fellay of the SSPX and historian Roberto DeMattei. We Catholic must choose WHO is right and who can lead us with True and Light. The Vicar of Christ Pope Francis, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, The Prefect of the Congregation of Doctrine of Faith, the Prefect of the Congregation of Cause of Saints, and hundreds of Cardinals and Bishops with Doctorates in Theology are 100% ABSOLUTELY SURE that John XXIII and John Paul II are Saints. BUT Roberto Demateii and the formerly Excomunicated Bishop Fellay (who think the Holy Spirit has been in vacations for 50 years and abandoned the Church, the Church can teach heresies in its official documents, and Christ LIED to us when he said He will be with us ALWAYS) think that they are NOT saints. Fellay on his letter to benefactors said the Canonizations are null and void and NOT infallible acts. DiMattei said the same. Who is right? Fellay and DiMattei in one side or the Pope, the Pope Emeritus, the Prefects and Cardinals in the other?? Hard, hard, hard decision, but for this time only, I think the Pope, the Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and the Cardinals know a “little” bit more than Fellay and DiMattei: --Congregation of Doctrine of Faith under Cardinal Ratzinger (commentary on the Professio Fidei”): With regard to those TRUTHS connected to revelation by historical necessity and which ARE TO BE HELD DEFINITIVELY, but are not able to be declared as divinely revealed, the following examples can be given: …the canonizations of saints (DOGMATIC FACTS), the declaration of Pope Leo XIII in the Apostolic Letter Apostolicae Curae on the invalidity of Anglican ordinations...” ---Pope Benedict XIV: If ANYONE dared to assert that the Pontiff had erred in this or that canonization, we shall say that he is, if not a heretic, at least TEMERARIOUS, a GIVER OF SCANDAL to the whole Church, an INSULTER of the saints, a favorer of those HERETICS who deny the Church’s authority in canonizing saints, SAVORING OF HERESY by giving unbelievers an occasion to mock the faithful, the ASSERTOR of an ERRONEOUS opinion and LIABLE to very GRAVE PENALTIES.” --St. Robert Bellarmine: We hold that the Church does NOT err in the canonization of her saints. Proofs for this are not difficult to find. If we were ever granted the privilege of doubting whether a canonized saint is really a saint or not; we should also have the liberty of doubting whether he has to be worshipped or not. But this, to borrow a phrase from Augustine, would be dogmatic suicide because then we should be allowed to call into question whether we have to do anything that the whole Church of Christ is doing. (Quoted in Bellarmine’s Defence of Canonised Saints) --St. Francis De Sales: (1602): “…to say the Church errs is to say no less that God errs, or else that He is willing and desirous for us to err; which would be a great blasphemy.” --St. Alphonsus Liguori (The Great Means of Salvation and Perfection): To suppose that the Church can err in canonizing, IS A SIN, or is HERESY, according to St. Bonaventure, Bellarmine, and others; or at least NEXT DOOR TO HERESY, according to Suarez, Azorius, Gotti, etc.; because the Sovereign Pontiff, according to St. Thomas, is guided by the infallible influence of the Holy Ghost in an especial way when canonizing saints.” ---The Catechism Explained : (Nihil Obstat: Imprimatur: Patrick J. Hayes D.D. Archbishop of New York. 1921): By the act of canonization, the veneration of a saint, and so to a certain extent the acknowledgment of the Churchs belief in him, IS imposed on the faithful, and he is then officially recognized in the Churchs offices, as in the Mass and Breviary; hence if anyone not a saint were declared holy, the whole Church would approve an error. Such a supposition IS IMPOSSIBLE. Pope Benedict XIV. declares his own experience in these cases of the ASSISTANCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT in removing insuperable difficulties which beset a process, or, on the other hand, in breaking it off entirely. Finally the Church in its decisions whether of beatification or canonization is dealing with things which have the closest connection with doctrine of faith or morals. --FUNDAMENTALS OF CATHOLIC DOGMA. (Dr. Ludwig Ott. Pgs296-99): To the secondary objects of INFALLIBILITY belong... the canonization of saints, that is, the final judgment that a member of the Church has been assumed into eternal bliss and may be the object of general veneration. --Outlines of Dogmatic Theology (Sylvester J Hunter, 1895): …then a further decree may be issued by which the Pontiff defines that the person is a “Saint” and is to be honored as such in the whole Church with public worship. No writer of repute doubts that this last degree of Canonization IS AN EXERCISE of the INFALLIBLE AUTHORITHY of the Church, for, were it mistaken, the whole church would be led into offering superstitious worship. ---Handbook of Fundamental Theology (1932): Infallibility belongs only to the doctrinal judgment of the Church expressed in the formal act of canonization. ---Catholic Encyclopedia: The Canonizations ARE infallible according to St. Antoninus, Melchior Cano, Suarez, Bellarmine, Bañez, Vasquez, and, among the canonists, of Gonzales Tellez, Fagnanus, Schmalzgrüber, Barbosa, Reiffenstül, Covarruvias (Variar. resol., I, x, no 13), Albitius (De Inconstantiâ in fide, xi, no 205), Petra (Comm. in Const. Apost., I, in notes to Const. I, Alex., III, no 17 sqq.), Joannes a S. Thomâ (on II-II, Q. I, disp. 9, a. 2), Silvester (Summa, s.v. Canonizatio), Del Bene (De Officio Inquisit. II, dub. 253), and many others. ---A Manual of Dogmatic Theology (1959): The Church IS INFALLIBLE in regard to canonization of saints, but not to beatification. This opinion is true and common: truly the Church canNOT make a mistake in matters which concern a profession of faith and morals, when she is making known a definitive judgment and is imposing a precept on the faithful. ---St. Thomas Aquinas , Honor we show the saints is a certain profession of faith by which we believe in their glory, and it is to be piously believed that even in this the judgment of the Church is not able to err (Quodl. 9:8:16). --Catholic Encyclopedia: The dogma that saints are to be venerated and invoked as set forth in the profession of faith of Trent (cf. Denz. 1867) has as its correlative the power to canonize. ... The pope canNOT by solemn definition induce errors concerning faith and morals into the teaching of the universal Church. Should the Church hold up for universal veneration a mans life and habits that in reality led to [his] damnation, it would lead the faithful into error. It is now theologically certain that the solemn canonization of a saint IS AN INFALLIBLE and IRREVOCABLE decision of the supreme pontiff. God speaks INFALLIBLY through his Church as it demonstrates and exemplifies its universal teaching in a particular person or judges that persons acts to be in accord with its teaching. catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=21192
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 02:30:50 +0000
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