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! JUNE 2020 Published by Most Holy Trinity Seminary, 1000 Spring Lake Highway, Brooksville, Florida 34602. This newsletter is sent free of charge to all Seminary benefactors who contribute $75.00 or more annually. If you would like to be on our mailing list, please contact us by mail, or at [email protected]. Please visit our website at mostholytrinityseminary.org My dear Catholic people, outside the building in order to make it suitable for There is a good deal to say in this newsletter, our use. both about the Church and about our nation. We will not move the seminary to Pennsylvania First, we are looking forward to the ordination until the Easter vacation, at the earliest. I want all of to the priesthood of Rev. Mr. Luke Petrizzi on June the renovations to be done before we move in. 24th. Rev. Mr. Petrizzi has been with us since 2013, At this writing, we are expecting five new semi- when he entered as a high school seminarian, com- narians next year from five different countries: from pleting his senior year here in Florida. He had done the United Kingdom, Nigeria, the United States, his earlier years of high school at Our Lady of La Spain, and Poland. It is possible that we could gain Salette, a boarding school in Illinois operated by the one or two more candidates before the end of the SSPX. But his family felt compelled to remove him summer. The overflow next year will be handled by from there because of the problem of their using placing the future Fr. Petrizzi and two or three older priests ordained with the new rite. This problem seminarians in the house which is presently occu- persists, of course. Our faithful may remember that pied by our nuns in the City of Brooksville. The nuns this very issue was one of the causes of our split will move into their new facility on Spring Lake with the SSPX in 1983. As time goes on, more and Highway, down the road from the seminary. more does the SSPX pursue appeasement with the What is now the seminary will become the Novus Ordo, and more and more our actions in school, and what is now the school will be sold, the 1983 are proven justified. proceeds going to the seminary. Second, we are back in contract to buy the Our school apostolate both in physical schools building in Reading, Pennsylvania which I showed and in the virtual school is expanding. At this writ- you in my last newsletter. Our fund-raising has ing, the nuns expect to be teaching over 140 children been successful, due especially to a benefactor who enrolled in the three physical schools (Modesto, is not even American. We are now in the process of Phoenix, and Brooksville) and in the virtual school. seeking approval for use as a seminary. Up to now it The coronavirus lockdown has caused a spike in has been a Bed and Breakfast. The process takes a interest in our virtual program. long time. I doubt that the approval will come Our seminarian from France, Henry Chappot de through until the beginning of October. None- la Chanonie, has been making steady progress in theless, I am very optimistic about the outcome. The overcoming the mysterious illness, as yet undiag- neighbors are favorable, and ordinarily the attitude nosed, which afflicted him in December of 2018. He of the neighbors is the most important single factor has been given seminary courses steadily for the in the process. So please keep the intention in your past year over Skype, and since the autumn of 2019 prayers, and please continue to be generous with us has been living in Fr. Guépin’s rectory in Nantes, for the project, as there is much to do inside and where he has daily Mass and a religious life. He is !1 well enough to return to the seminary for the 2020- Vatican II needs to be reduced, by a papal pro- 2021 academic year, but not in Florida. He fears that nouncement, to Ephesus II or the Council of Basle, the climate in Florida may have contributed to his or the Council of Constance in its early sessions. problem. He will take his courses in Quebec, which These were councils which entirely or in part deviat- will be an annex of Most Holy Trinity Seminary. Fa- ed from the Catholic Faith. For this reason they were ther Dutertre will be in charge, and will provide him condemned and nullified as councils, either entirely with the courses he needs. Seminarian Chappot de or in part. la Chanonie will also take seminary courses given in The obvious “inconvenience” of a nullification Florida, since Quebec is in the of Vatican II is the fact that it was same time zone. I am hoping to promulgated by Paul VI, so he too ordain him in June of 2021. needs to be declared a false pope. To Where he will go thereafer re- me, there is no other way out of this mains to be seen. problem. If these steps are not taken, the seamless garment of the Bishop Schneider’s state- Church’s unchanging doctrine will ment. On the feast of Pentecost be torn to shreds. The Catholic Bishop Schneider issued a Church will be finished, and the lengthy statement in which he claim of He who hears you hears Me rightly criticized Vatican II for will no longer have any meaning. having errors, concentrating par- The bad aspect of Bishop Schnei- ticularly on Dignitatis Humanæ, der’s declaration is his “fix” of the which proclaims the moral right problem of error in the Council. He to embrace false religions. In this is having recourse, like Cardinal he was correct, of course. How- Burke, to the Correction Theory, ever, his solution was very seri- namely that popes and councils can ously erroneous, namely that the make errors, but the sensus fidelium Church’s councils can err, and are (the belief system of the laity) is in- in need of correction occasional- fallible, and will correct the error. ly. He then went on to point out This is precisely the conciliarist “errors” in past councils. Novus Ordo Bishop Athanasius Schneider heresy of Pierre d’Ailly and Gerson, The good aspect of his of which I spoke in the May 2020 statement is that a member of newsletter. It is also the teaching of the Novus Ordo hierarchy is recognizing that there the arch-modernist heresiarch Hans Küng. is error in Vatican II. Up to now the neocons have This cockeyed notion strips the pope and the been attempting to interpret Vatican II in some or- hierarchy of their teaching authority, and places it in thodox manner. That system, false as it is, worked the hands of the learning Church. for them until Bergoglio’s Apostolic Exhortation Here I must explain. Theologians commonly Amoris Lætitia1 came along. The content of this en- distinguish between the teaching Church and the cyclical is clearly a heretical teaching in conflict with learning Church. The teaching Church is the hierarchy; the Sixth Commandment and even the natural law. the learning Church is constituted by all those who I think that the recognition of this error of Vati- receive with faith or religious assent the teachings of can II by Bishop Schneider is a good development, the hierarchy. So even the popes and bishops them- since, as everyone knows from my writings, I hold selves are bound to believe and accept the very doc- that Vatican II is the source of the entire problem in trines which they teach, and in so doing are mem- the Church. It is a council which introduced Kantian bers of the learning Church. The sensus fidelium, or subjectivism into the Catholic Church, which is a belief system of the faithful, is not due to some di- lethal poison to an institution which is dogmatic by vine assistance given to them by the Holy Ghost its very nature. All of the big errors of Vatican II, ec- whereby they infallibly judge concerning the truths umenism, the new ecclesiology, collegiality, and reli- of Revelation. To the contrary, if the faithful have gious liberty, spring from this Kantian subjectivism, universally and constantly believed a doctrine, it is which is ingrained in the modern mind. 1 The Joy of Love, which we sarcastically call The Joy of Adultery. !2 because the teaching authority Church, the hierar- nore or resist, since they are not part of the pattern. chy, has taught it to them. But who decides what is in conformity with the pat- In Bishop Schneider’s system, however, the tern or not? The pope or the SSPX? learning Church becomes the teaching Church. Does No Catholic theologian mentions this condition of this make sense? And the teaching Church learns temporal continuity. It is true that UOM has the prop- from the learning Church? Where do we find such a erty of consistency over time, but this consistency is notion in Sacred Scripture? In Tradition? In the the effect of the assistance of the hierarchy by the teachings of the Fathers? In the teachings of the Spirit of Truth, and not the cause of the infallibility of popes or general councils? In the teachings of the- the doctrine. In like manner, smoke is the effect of ologians? fire, but not its cause. Therefore something is not This upside-down error concerning the UOM because it is consistent with the past teaching, Church’s teaching is based on yet another: That the but instead the reverse is true: something is consis- universal ordinary magisterium (UOM) consists not tent with past teaching because it is UOM.