Posted on 02/29/2004 1:04:29 PM PST by Canticle_of_Deborah
On Sunday, Feb. 22, 2004, Rev. Daniel Cooper, pastor of Our Mother of Perpetual Help in Los Gatos, CA, denounced Bishop Patrick McGrath for heresy. The priest was responding to a stand taken by the bishop against the historical truth of the four Gospels
Bishop McGrath wrote the heretical comments as part of an op-ed piece which appeared in the February 1st edition of the San Jose Mercury News. The newspaper also recently featured a number of by-line pieces linking The Passion of the Christ and Mel Gibson to charges of anti-Semitism. Under the title "Its Just a Movie", Bishop McGrath states:
"While the primary source material of the film is attributed to the four gospels, these sacred books are not historical accounts of the historical events that they narrate. They are theological reflections upon the events that form the core of Christian faith and belief."
Father Cooper said the bishop had contradicted official teachings of the church and thereby committed heresy. "Non-Catholic Christians will look down on us" he noted, "since our common thread has always been a belief in the Gospels." Presumably, the priest’s position was taken from church documents such as the Syllabus of Errors and Dei Verbum, Vatican II.
"Holy Mother Church has firmly and with absolute constancy held, and continues to hold, that the four Gospels just named, whose historical character the Church unhesitatingly asserts, faithfully hand on what Jesus Christ, while living among men, really did and taught for their eternal salvation until the day He was taken up into heaven." Second Vatican Council, Dei Verbum 19. Promulgated in 1965.
The Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office at the command of Pope St. Pius X issued the Syllabus of Errors condemning the errors of the Modernists on July 3, 1907 which officially CONDEMNED 65 modernist propositions including #16 "The narrations of John are not properly history, but a mystical contemplation of the Gospel. The discourses contained in his Gospel are theological meditations, lacking historical truth concerning the mystery of salvation." (See also #3,16,29 and 36) etc. Promulgated in 1864.
"I was surprised to hear him take the position he did, but then, how many holy priests do I really know" said one eye witness. "For a supposed schismatic, he was pretty true to the Gospels."
Father Cooper’s chapel is located in the St. Aloysius Retreat Center at 101 Bear Creek Road, Los Gatos, CA within the Diocese of San Jose which is headed by Bishop McGrath. St. Aloysius is operated by the Society of St. Pius X, the largest organization within the Catholic traditionalist movement. Catholic traditionalists, whose number includes Mel Gibson, typically suspend obedience from church office-holders who reject church teachings handed down by their predecessors because of biblical (2 Th 2:15, 1 Co 11:2, Ga 2:11) and various papal injunctions to defend Tradition.
I do think they are pushing a bit too hard, and trying to strong-arm Rome into granting a universal indult.
That's not going to be granted as long as they are outside the formal Church. They should accept what has (allegedly) been offered them, and then work from within on other things. If they truly believe in the primacy of the See of Peter, they must do this.
On the other side, Rome should begin to clean house. "Promote" bishops who are borderline heretics to some kind of papal commission renumbering shelves in the Vatican library.
No. If you don't like it here, then YOU leave. I was here before you arrived, and I'll be here after you leave.
Knotts, ask UR if a universal indult will bring him back into the Church.
He will tell you no.
The SSPX does not want a universal indult. It wants the suppression of the Mass of Paul VI!
Nothing short of that, and the renunciation of, at the very least, the Decrees on Ecumenism and Religious Liberty from Vatican II, will do.
IOW, the SSPX is never coming back, Knotts. They want the clock turned back, and that is not going to happen.
Good for them; it's a shame no one else, especially the Vatican, denounces such heresies.
You don't "remain faithful to Tradition" apart from the successor of Peter.
That's a lie, and you know it.
Who's "apart"?
The SSPX doesn't want the suppression of the Mass of Paul VI?
You and your fellow zoo-keeper, Ultima Ratio, need to get on the same page. He indicates otherwise.
What is wrong with wanting this? I am loyal to John Paul II, have never had anything to do with SSPX, and yet I would love nothng more than to see the Mass of Paul VI suppressed for all time!
I have never said this before now but I have to. I absolutely cannot believe you are a deacon in the Catholic Church. Would you say that about Lutherism or Anglicanism or any of the Protestant demominations?
Are the members of the SSPX Christians and your own brothers and sisters?
If I'm a zoo-keeper, you must be one of my chimps.
What kind of Deacon are you?
I like animals.
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