Sede Vacante!: Part Two: The Lumen Gentium Theory About Our Present Ecclesial Circumstance

Many concerned Catholics today, seeing the ways and teachings of Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis), are asking themselves, Can that man be a real Catholic pope? From the time of Paul VI, a small contingent of faithful Catholics known as sede vacantists have expressed the gravest doubts that he and each of his successors in turn since then were real popes of the Catholic Church. This minority view, long dismissed by most, now emerges into a wide public view as Jorge Bergoglio seems to go out of his way to puncture every expectation a Catholic should have for a Vicar of Christ. But this latest step in the deCatholicization of the church is merely the fullest flowering yet seen of an erroneous direction taken during the Second Vatican Council. Those looking to find detailed lists of all the abominable acts and teachings of Jorge Bergoglio or his immediate few predecessors or justly deserved ecclesiastical anathemas heaped upon them will doubtless be disappointed. Rather, the severe theological implications of the Sede Vacante findings are explored and vindicated for the first time in a systematic and complete book form. In this volume, a theory to account for the Sede Vacante findings is academically ventured, based on the theological findings presented in the previous volume and on events doctrinally predicted therein and herein documented. Sede Vacante! Copyright Contents Introduction The Academic Nature of This Theory 0 The Basic Problem That Faces Us 1 A Statement of the Basic Theory Itself 2 The Theory as Applied to the Papacy 3 The Theory as Applied to the Remainder of the Council 4 Episcopal Succession in Lumen Gentium 5 Episcopal Collegiality in Lumen Gentium 6 How the Theory Addresses the Questions from Part One 7 Considerations Questions and Objections to the Theory A. Is Lumen Gentium’s “subsists In” Statement a Heresy? B. What About Other Errors and Heresies Contained in Lumen Gentium? C. Does Lumen Gentium Really Intend to Extend Jurisdiction? D. Did Vatican II Happen All at Once? E. Would This Mean That the True Church Spawned a False Church? F. Is This Theory a Novelty? G. What About Denials That Lumen Gentium Changed Anything? 8 Considerations for If the Theory Were Not True A. Example of an Adequate Theory B. Evangelical and Explanatory Value C. Acknowledgement by the Modernist Heretics of the True Situation D. Usefulness in Routing Novus Ordo Critics E. Usefulness for My Own Discoveries F. Unity of Traditional Catholics G. Careful Distinction Between Doctrinal Fact and Theory 9 In Summary: The Basic Claims of the Theory 10 Further Hypothetical Ideas Suggested by the Theory A. What Is Rome? Geography? B. What Is Rome? The Cardinals? C. What Is Rome? Those with Immediate Access to the Popes? D. What About the Dioceses? How Do They Affect the Roman Diocese? E. What Does the Merging of All Catholic Sees Mean, in Practice? F. Geographically Overlapping Jurisdictions Within the Church? G. Can the Church Really Have so Redistributed Her Jurisdiction? H. Retirement Versus Resignation I. The Fall of the Bishops J. The Canonical Structure of the Church as a Remnant K. A Review of the Remaining Eight Questions 11 Putting Together the Full Canonical Sequence A. Growing Liberalism and Modernism B. Papal Infallibility, but Roman Clergy Grow Lax C. Unqualified Papal Claimants Tax the Limits D. Lumen Gentium Is Promulgated E. Bishops and Cardinals (mostly) Desert the Church F. Faithful Bishops Continue the Church – Dragging Their Feet in Hope G. Faithful Bishops Continue the Church – Concerns Grow H. Faithful Bishops Continue the Church – Abp. Lefebvre Begins I. Faithful Bishops Continue the Church – Another Canonical Erection J. Faithful Bishops Continue the Church – Abp. Thục Acts First K. Faithful Bishops Continue the Church – Thục’s Reasons Were Right L. Faithful Bishops Continue the Church – Thục Searches for His Isaac M. Faithful Bishops Continue the Church – Sede Vacante Is Declared N. Faithful Bishops Continue the Church – A Diocesan Exaggeration O. Faithful Bishops Continue the Church – Lefebvre Acts Cautiously P. Catholics Learn About Their Ecclesial Circumstance Q. A Conclave Is Organized and Carried Out R. Vital Precedents to Follow from All These Considerations 12 Conclusion – Last Questions and Closing Thoughts Appendix Comparison to Other Known Theories Comparison to Other Theories as Known Today