Vatican II ABOUT FACE! - Chiesa viva

«We teach and declare, in conformity with the
testimony of the Gospel, that Jesus Christ
promised and conferred immediately and directly
on the Apostle Peter the primacy of the
jurisdiction over the universal Church (…) and
that only on Peter, the Risen Jesus conferred
the jurisdiction of Pastor and Supreme Head of
His flock.» 5
To doubt or deny this signifies a wavering of our Faith on
the cornerstone that is Christ. In fact, this deterioration of
the authority of the Church has changed the motto “cum
Petro et sub Petri capite” into that of “Catholicity.”
However, we must follow the first motto, if we want our
Christian life to still be worth living!
As we have seen, the “episcopal collegiality” is a doctrine
that attacks the Divine Constitution of the Church, to
transform it from a monarchy into a democracy, attributing the
supreme power not only to the Pope, but also to the college of
Bishops.
After having shook the unity of the Faith, the Modernists
did their best to upset the unity of the government and hierarchical
structure of the Church.
The doctrine, already suggested by “Lumen Gentium” of
Vatican II, was continued explicitly in the new “Canon
Law” (C. 336), a doctrine according to which the college of
Bishops, united with the Pope, enjoys the same supreme power
in the Church and in a habitual and constant way. But this
doctrine of twofold supreme power is contrary to the
teaching and practice of the Ecclesiastical Magisterium,
especially in Vatican I (cfr. Dz. 3055), and the encyclical of
Leo XIII “Satis Cognitum.” Therefore, only the Pope has
such supreme power, and he delegates it at the level that he
5 In this passage, the Council Fathers cite: Jn. 1,42; Mt. 16, 16-1; Jn. 21,
15-17.
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