Catholics/Lumen Gentium. Resignation
Expert: Griff Ruby - 7/31/2009
QuestionDear Mr.Ruby
What has been the academic reaction to your proposal that Paul V1, in signing LG, thereby established a church different to that of the Mystical Body of Christ, and so effectively resigned his role as Universal Pastor, himself creating the vacant See?
Has their been any considered critique either pro or contra?
Thanks
Stephen
AnswerI wish I could find some academic forum in which to present it. Can you point me to a credible Catholic college where real Catholic teaching takes place instead of mere propaganda for the New Order (or else the SSPX party line for the case of its two or three colleges)?
At this point all I can do is put it "out there" and hope that any academically-minded persons could somehow stumble across it and find in it an explanation of the present situation.
As it is, many individual souls (of varying, but unknown-to-me education) have read it, and so far the only criticisms (apart from a very few constructive helpful points and thoughts, such as those you have sent me) have been from those who either don't "get it" at all, or else who are so steeped in some other "theory" as to be past considering any other alternatives. From what I have seen, everyone who has read it and understands it has also agreed with it, apart from having minor "tweaking" suggestions. But of course there is no way for me to know how many people might have read it, disagreed outright, but never wrote back to me about it.
I really wish I could find someone academically qualified to scrutinize it and genuinely challenge it so that I can hone it down more than I have thus far. So far the only objections to it I have had have all been like "Oh, that's just a bunch of sedevacantist ramblings" or "That's not necessary since Cd. Siri was elected Pope Gregory XVII and his successors are the true popes" and suchlike.