Time to become a sedevacantist! Here is what Vatican II says about the teaching authority of the bishops:
"Christ gave the Apostles and their successors the command and the power to teach all nations, to hallow men in the truth, and to feed them. Bishops, therefore, have been made true and authentic teachers of the faith, pontiffs, and pastors through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to them.Remember, the Archdiocese of Chicago published this stuff, they own the copyright, I think they might even own the publisher, Liturgy Training Publications. Virtually every bishop in the US (and in France according to your report) has followed the same theology and taught the same things. I'm friends with a seminarian in a New Mass seminary, and I can confirm that this is what he is being taught, and what he will believe when he becomes a priest -- that his job is to preside over assembly as they celebrate the eucharist. This is the teaching of virtually the entire Catholic hierarchy which shares in the collegial magisterium, according to Vatican II.Bishops, sharing in the solicitude for all the churches, exercise this episcopal office of theirs, which they have received through episcopal consecration, in communion with and under the authority of the supreme pontiff. As far as their teaching authority and pastoral government are concerned, all are united in a college or body with respect to the universal Church of God."
"I'm friends with a seminarian in a New Mass seminary, and I can confirm that this is what he is being taught"
Sankt Poelten was a "conservative" novus ordo seminary remember.
I shudder to think what's going on in the more liberal establishments - all with the bishops' tacit approval.
The new pseudo-Catholic religion (if it can even be called religion) truly knows no bounds.
Sadly it seems that even the pink palace seminaries in the U.S. are "conservative" compared with the rest of the world...
http://www.sspxasia.com/Newsletters/2004/Jan-Jun/Indian_Seminaries.htm
Do you think the present problems have anything to do with the modernists now ruling Rome?
"Time to become a sedevacantist!"
Are you certain I'm not? For all you know I may be the only sedevacantist N.O. deacon in the world! ;)
"As far as their teaching authority and pastoral government are concerned, all are united in a college or body with respect to the universal Church of God."
The bishops' teaching office - membership of the Magisterium - and ability to define doctrine, is dependendent on their unity in this with all the other bishops of the world, and particularly dependent on their unity with the Supreme Pontiff.
It wouldn't matter if every bishop in the world apart from the Pope said "The Eucharist has no existence apart from the celebration of particular assemblies." - that would still not make the doctrine "Church teaching".
Just as when every bishop in the world, apart from Athanasius and the Pope, adopted Arianism - that never meant that Arianism became official Church teaching.
The Archdiocese of Chicago may have published Huck's drivel, but that does not mean it is formally taught by Cardinal George. He may well have been negligent in failing to scrap the publication of this trash, and will at some point answer to a higher authority because of it. But that is still not the same as if he had formally promoted these ideas himself.
Even if the Pope himself decided to endorse Huck's sacramental theology - it would still not become the official teaching of the Church as no Pope or Council has the power from God to invent new doctrine. Even Vatican II reiterated this latter point.
"I'm friends with a seminarian in a New Mass seminary, and I can confirm that this is what he is being taught, and what he will believe when he becomes a priest -- that his job is to preside over assembly as they celebrate the eucharist."
That may be the case, and he will probably become another casualty of the modernist heresy infecting the Body of Christ. However, this was not taught at my seminary and none of the candidates on the diaconate formation course were taught this by any of our lecturers. (We were blessed by the chap who designed and set up the course - he now runs round the country offering the Tridentine Mass wherever there is the need!)
"This is the teaching of virtually the entire Catholic hierarchy which shares in the collegial magisterium, according to Vatican II."
So? Many of the current hierarchy are at least material heretics - tell me something I didn't know already!
The most encouraging thing about the last Mass I attended in France was that out of a congregation of 400, only 10 were under the age of 60. That particular parody of the Catholic Church does not have much to look forward to.
It was the spookiest feeling - all these ancient white-haired dears locked in this folksy pap of a 1960's timewarp. It reminded me of the film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" where the "Child Catcher" had created a town devoid of children - desperately sad really!