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Editor’s Note: If you want to face the reality of the problems in the Church and especially among Cardinal Electors in the recent Conclave, you can start by reading the above article, which summarizes a homily given by Cardinal Eijck, of the Netherlands, at the shrine of Our Lady founded by Cardinal Burke in Wisconsin, USA.
For therein he seems to be claiming that you are a Catholic, not because you accept the traditional Roman Rite liturgy, but because you accept Vatican II.
Here is a prime example of what I called out as the “presumption of right”, which is the fundamental Masonic legal principle, because what the Dutch Cardinal is saying is that a Council which did not teach anything under the note of infallibility nor imposed any discipline under any sanction or penalty is now the very corpus of texts whereby someone is to be defined a Catholic or not.
This notion of the Cardinal, if we reduce it to its principles in the juridical order or theological order, is simply absurd and totally false.
A Catholic by definition, from the first use of this term, means a Christian who accepts and professes the same kind of Christian Faith which is found everywhere the same in the world because it comes from the Apostles of Jesus Christ and is not a human invention.
Thus, only if a Christian breaks from communion or falls into some denial of that sacred deposit of faith, can he reasonably and honestly be said to not be a Catholic. Certainly, whether you agree with or accept the documents of Vatican II, which themselves declare they are not obligatory, has nothing whatsoever to do with being Catholic or not being a Catholic.
If you are a Cardinal Elector and do not even understand this elementary school Catechism, then it is no wonder that you could not understand how to observe the Papal Law how to elect a pope, Universi Dominic Gregis, or even whether you violated it or not, because you are obviously totally incompetent and should not be allowed even to act as a prelate or a priest, because as soon as you open your mouth you will be spreading error.
The Church’s full authority to teach in the name of Christ does not grant to even Cardinal Electors the authority to redefine what it means to be a member of the Church or a faithful Catholic. Their arrogation of right in violating Universi Dominici Gregis nn. 4 and 33, is merely the consequence of their arrogation of right in saying that Vatican II defines what a Catholic is.
Theologically speaking, I think it is reasonable to suspect that Eijk is not a Catholic, since for some reason he finds annoying the claim that attachment to the form of the Mass imposed by the Bull of Pope Saint Pius V should not be in the definition of what it means to be a faithful Catholic, even though that Bull was promulgated nearly 454 years ago as perpetually binding by the Vicar of Christ, the Successor of Saint Peter, to whom Christ Himself said, Whatsoever you bind upon earth, shall be bound in heave.
Seeing that it has been 60 years since Vatican II and no Vicar of Christ has yet established a canonical penalty which explicitly requires Vatican II to be accepted, it is factually erroneous to claim that it has entered into the definition of what it means to be a Catholic.
Finally, I think it should be obvious that there is something deeply wrong with how a man thinks, if he believes a papal law from 454 years ago means nothing, but a non-papal aw from 60 years ago means everything. This is theology 101, and Canon Law 101. And if Eijk was my student, he would have gotten a 0 our of 10, and a F.
Forensically speaking, such ignorance in an unlettered person is excusable, because in such a case one presumes that they are ignorant. But in a Cardinal elector no such presumption can be argued for his defense, since his status in the Church requires that he know these things.
Here is his biography at the Vatican Website: it seems he does not hold any degrees in theology, since they are not mentioned therein. I assume, at least that he has a STL, licentiate in sacred theology, since that is a requirement for ordination as a priest.
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You should go and watch the so-called homily. He oozes pride and ego. Which was a foreign sense for me to receive being around other cardinals or archbishops previously. Bragging about the new mass and how Burke promotes it (as if bi-ritual was as cool as bi-sexual’s are) perfectly while traditionalists are stuck in their antiquated single rite.
It’s the only video that I clicked thumbs down to, for a mass there at the shrine. Turned it off and went on about my day wishing I’d heard something more deep and more important for my soul.
Many thanks for another robust Editorial analysis & comment!
All these Cardinal Electors who consider Vatican II to be canonically & liturgically superior to all previous Church councils are sadly deceived, they have become puppets of the enemy……
Abbot Gueranger in his monumental “The Liturgical Year”, waxes lyrical in reflecting upon the Gospel for the 7th Sunday after Pentecost [St Matthew 7: 15-21] wherein Jesus warns his disciples to beware of false prophets who appear in the clothing of sheep but, inwardly, are ravening wolves – I quote just a portion from the Holy Abbot’s superb 7-page commentary:-
“It is in the battlefield against error that the Church brings forth the armour of GOD [Ephesians 6: 11-17], and shows herself all brilliant with that absolute truth which is the brightness of the Word, her Spouse [Hebrews 1: 8]; it is by his personal triumph over the spirit of lying, and by spontaneous adhesion to the teachings of Christ and His Church, that the Christian shows himself to be a true child of light [St John 12: 36], and becomes himself a light to the world [St Matthew 5: 14].
The combat is not without its dangers for the Christian who would hold, in all its integrity, the faith of his mother the Church. The tricks of the enemy, his studied and obstinate hypocrisy, the crafty skill wherewith he tries to stir up in the soul, almost without her knowing it, a score of little weaknesses of hers which more or less favour error – all this frequently ends in injuring the light, not perhaps extinguishing it altogether, but in robbing it of some of its brilliancy. And yet, they who live on the teachings given us in today’s Gospel are sure to come off with the victory. Let us meditate upon them with gratitude and love: for it is by such teachings that eternal Wisdom grants us what we so ardently ask of Him, when in Advent we thus beseech Him: ‘Come and teach us the way of prudence!’ [First of the Great Antiphons}
(The Liturgical Year, Volume 11, pages 186-187)
St Mary of the Snow, pray for us.