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Author Archives: Rev. Anthony Cekada

The “Canonized” Mass and Abp. Lefebvre

Thursday, August 16, 2007

QUESTION: In your Quidlibet article “Quo Primum: Could a Pope Change It?” I read your comment that a future pope after St. Pius V could, as a supreme legislator, abrogate this Bull. However, I still wonder why the Bull then states that “and that this present document cannot be revoked or modified,” which could only […]

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Seminary High Schools after Vatican II

Thursday, August 9, 2007

THE AUGUST 9, 2007 issue of The Wanderer contained an article by James K. Fitzpatrick on the demise of seminary high schools after Vatican II. Seminary high schools, also called “minor seminaries,” once played a major role in fostering priestly vocations. These institutions provided boys who felt inclined towards the priesthood with a spiritual and […]

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Frankenchurch Rises Again: Ratzinger on the Church

Monday, July 16, 2007

ON JUNE 29, 2007, the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), with Benedict XVI’s approval, published “Responses to Some Questions Regarding Certain Aspects of the Doctrine on the Church.” Our local paper carried a short article on it entitled “Pope Says Others Are Not True Churches.” The writer portrayed the Vatican document […]

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Splendor of Raiment: The Bishop’s Dress Code

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

QUESTION: I recently came across a picture of Bishop Clarence Kelly wearing a stole over a purple shoulder cape with a black cassock underneath, and I remember seeing old photos of Bishop Francis Schuckardt dressed just the same way. Were they both correctly dressed? Also, I’ve seen newsletters from SSPX and several other traditionalist organizations […]

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Can an Excommunicated Cardinal be Elected Pope?

Monday, June 25, 2007

QUESTION: The Constitution of Pope Pius XII that establishes the rules for a papal conclave says the following: “34. No Cardinal, by pretext or reason of any excommunication, suspension, in-terdict or other ecclesiastical impediment whatsoever can be excluded in any way from the active and passive election of the Supreme Pontiff. Moreover, we suspend such […]

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The “Error” of Pope Nicholas I

Saturday, June 9, 2007

QUESTION: I’ve been having a debate with someone about sedevacantism. To prove that the Pope taught error in an official document, my opponent pointed out the letter of Pope Nicholas I to the Bulgars (Dz 335), in which the Pope says that those baptized in the name of Christ are not to be rebaptized (see […]

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Quo Primum: Could a Pope Change It?

Thursday, May 17, 2007

QUESTION: During a recent argument with a Novus Ordo friend, she told me that (according to her priest) popes can change whatever they want, as long as it is not dogmatic. We were discussing Quo Primum. I told her that it was forever, but she said that even if the pope said forever another pope […]

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Bp. Mendez, SSPV and Hypocrisy

Tuesday, September 11, 2001

Introduction In early 1995 the Society of St. Pius V (SSPV) an­nounced that the Rev. Clarence Kelly had been secretly consecrated a bishop on October 19, 1993 by the re­tired Bishop of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, the Most Rev. Alfred F. Mendez CSC, who had just died on January 28, 1995.       Up to this point, […]

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June 29, 1989 Letter to Fr. Kelly

Thursday, June 29, 1989
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