[piusv]

If it is possible for this Pope to be “for all practical purposes schismatic” – and I would say also heretical – why could not that Council also have been so, despite the fact that both one and the other were instituted by Our Lord to confirm the brethren in Faith and Morals? I ask you, what prevents the Acts of Vatican II from deviating from the path of Tradition, when the Supreme Pastor himself can deny the teaching of his Predecessors? And if the persona Papae is in schism with the papacy, why could a council that wanted to be pastoral and abstained from promulgating dogmas not be able to contradict the other canonical councils, entering into a de facto schism with the Catholic Magisterium?

I would like Archbishop Vigano to provide Church teaching on the Papacy and the Magisterium that supports this theory.

[G Larry]

AB Vigano is citing the theory and logic that Father Thomas’s used to make his assertions regarding the Pope and the Papacy and applying them to Vatican II.