BECAUSE OF POPE LEO’S BOMBSHELL LETTER TO THE FRENCH BISHOPS (THE EPICENTER OF THE LEFEBRVE MOVEMENT) ENCOURAGING BISHOPS TO ALLOW THE GROWTH OF THE VETUS ORDO WHILE SEEING THE BUGNINI MASS AS THE ORDINARY VATICAN II MASS, MANY MISSED THE OTHER BOMBSHELL FROM POPE LEO, BUT YOURS TRULY DID NOT!

 Here’s the other bombshell from Pope Leo:

This apostolic succession, founded on the Gospel and in the Tradition, is explored further in Chapter III of Lumen gentium, entitled “On the hierarchical structure of the Church and in particular on the Episcopate”. The Council teaches that the hierarchical structure is not a human construct, functional to the internal organization of the Church as a social body (cf. LG, 8), but a divine institution whose purpose is to perpetuate the mission given by Christ to the Apostles until the end of time.

Emphasizing the hierarchical nature of the Church and that she ordains only men to be ordained to the three degrees Holy Orders, bishop, priest and deacon, he emphasized that these infallible teachings are not products of social organization based on cultural prejudices. 

And that in a nutshell, is the 1960’s “spirit of Vatican II” that was promoted by progressive theologians and bishops aligned with them, that so many aspects of the hierarchical Church are prejudiced by social constructs, out-dated cultural paradigms which can and must be changed by the enlightenment of the current cultural context and social movements. 

Pope Leo called that mentality out and using a document of Vatican II to do so.

This has implications not only for the hierarchical nature of the Church and her all male Sacrament of Holy Orders, but also for moral teachings. 

We can’t change the anthropology of the male and female paradigm concerning the Church and her Sacraments because these are not cultural but divinely revealed for all times and places. 

We can’t change the sexual moral teachings of the Church either because these are divinely revealed and not culturally determined by prejudiced thinking and attitudes. 

This is also confirmed by Pope Leo in his letter to the French bishops. So many in the Church today want to accept the sins of people as well as the sinner. This manifests itself in Jesuitical Father James and his pastoral outreach to the ideologues of the LGBTQ++++ MOVEMENT. He wants the sin and sinner loved and accepted. 

But Leo, though, teaches us what the Church teaches in his letter to the French Bishops:

The Church cannot renounce justice, nor diminish the gravity of the facts, but neither can she lose sight of what the Lord Jesus has entrusted to her: the possibility of conversion, the call to penance, the duty not to reduce anyone to his sin. In a cultural climate that increasingly seems inclined towards a summary form of justice, more interested in the public elimination of persons than in their responsibility and real change, the Holy See calls for justice, reparation, responsibility and conversion to be held together.