Understanding Papal Authority...per Bishop Athanasius Schneider

Greetings in Jesus and Mary...

The question of the day.....who are we to be obedient to? This is a very important question since we have so many world and Church leaders that believe good is evil and evil is good. We are at that phase in history where everything is turned upside down and we are left CONFUSED...to say the least!

Below is a link to a substack article from Diane Montagne, a Catholic journalist. She is giving a direct address from Bishop Athanasius Schneider to Pope Leo XVI titled:  
A Fraternal Appeal to Pope Leo XIV to Build a Bridge with the Priestly Society of St. Pius X
This text is very long so the link is below for you to view....here are just some clips from it to give you an idea of what is contained in Bishop Schneider’s appeal to Pope Leo XIV. I truly advise you to read it in its entirety....it gives Church history on this and is written very clearly for all to understand that we are in a crisis and IT COMES FROM ROME!  AGAIN....I REPEAT....COULD THIS BE THE CONTENT OF THE THIRD SECRET OF FATIMA!......A CRISIS IN THE CHURCH WHICH STARTED IN THE 60's WHEN THE SECRET WAS TO BE REVEALED BUT WAS NOT?

"The following words of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre are deeply moving and reflect the attitude of the current leadership and most members of the SSPX:

“We believe in Peter, we believe in the successor of Peter! But as Pope Pius IX says well in his dogmatic constitution, the pope has received the Holy Ghost not to make new truths, but to maintain us in the faith of all time. This is the definition of the Pope made at the time of the First Vatican Council by Pope Pius IX. And that is why we are persuaded that in maintaining these traditions we are manifesting our love, our docility, our obedience to the Successor of Peter. We cannot remain indifferent before the degradation of faith, morals, and the liturgy. That is out of the question! We do not want to separate ourselves from the Church; on the contrary, we want the Church to continue!”

The acceptance of papal primacy as a revealed truth is often confused with the concrete forms—forms that have evolved throughout history—through which a bishop expresses his hierarchical unity with the Pope. To believe in the Papal Primacy, to acknowledge the actual Pope, to adhere with him to all that the Church has taught infallibly and definitively, and to observe the validity of the sacramental liturgy, is of divine right. Yet, a reductive view that equates disobedience to a papal command with schism—even in the case of a bishop’s consecration performed against his will—was foreign to the Church Fathers and to traditional canon law. For example, in 357, St. Athanasius disobeyed the order of Pope Liberius, who instructed him to enter into hierarchical communion with the overwhelming majority of the episcopate, which was in fact Arian or semi-Arian. As a result, he was excommunicated. In this instance, St. Athanasius disobeyed out of love for the Church and for the honor of the Apostolic See, seeking precisely to safeguard the purity of doctrine from any suspicion of ambiguity.
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