For John: Considerations on Sedevacantism, I

Dear John W.

This evening, you sent us a comment on a post 

that nearly two years ago

was written on the subject of Sedevacantism. 

Providence has given the prompt. 

We address these blog posts to you.

St Alphonsus often quotes the Holy Scripture verse that says: 

"With desolation is all the land made desolate, 

because there is none who considereth in his heart."

(Jer 12:11) 

I invite you 

and all readers who have taken the Sedevacantist "position" 

to mull over some Sedevacantist points worthy of consideration.

Fr. Joaquín Sáenz y Arriaga, S.J. 

(Oct. 12, 1899 - April 28, 1976). 

Let us consider that this priest was spiritual father of Sedevacantism: 

He was the first to announce that 

there has been no true Pope from the time of Pius XII; 

or, according to the position, if,

for the sake of argument John XXIII was validly elected, 

he fell from his papacy 

at some moment during the Second Vatican Council.

Let us consider carefully: 

Fr. Joaquín Sáenz y Arriaga announced that there was no Pope 

only in 1971...

... 8 years after the death

of Pope John XXIII 

(+ 3 June, 1963)
or
13 years after the death
of Pope Pius XII
( + 9 October, 1958).

Conclusion: 

For between 8 and 13 years 

the Roman Catholic Church throughout the world 

did not know that it had no Pope.
But that is impossible!

For, if that were true,
the Ecclesia docens, the Teaching Church
[which is the bishops in their divinely authorized capacity 
of teaching the faithful in matters pertaining to salvation 
and sanctification]
was duped!

Which would mean that is all the Bishops of the Church
were left in darkness 

about this vital information pertaining to salvation. 

It would mean that the Holy Ghost left the Church in error 

for between 8 and 13 years.....
...no...
 Sedevacantism is not credible.

  Consider the mystic Padre Pio: 

He could read hearts, he bilocated, he had the gift of prophesy 

and he bore the stigmata wounds of Our Lord. 

Padre Pio said Mass until 23 September 1968.

He named Pope John XXIII in the Canon of the Mass. 

Was this prophet who could read hearts also duped

perhaps for 5 years, perhaps for 10 years?

Consider again the Ecclesia docens, the Teaching Church: 
(The Bishops in their divinely authorized capacity 
of teaching the faithful in matters pertaining to salvation 
and sanctification.) 

Which portion of the teaching Church 

considered that Pope John XXIII was not the Pope? 

(They were all together at the Council with John XXIII. 

John XXIII was before the eyes of 2,100 bishops.
All could hear and scrutinize him.
They could talk together.
The didn't even need to call a Council, since they were in one.

Could it ever get better than that?)

There was no portion of the teaching Church

that arose to contest Pope John XXIII as the true Pope;

There was no portion of the Ecclesia docens, 

that even doubted the papacy of John XXIII.

there was not even one bishop.

Consider the case of a real Antipope: 

Some part, large or small, of the Teaching Church, the Bishops, 

guided by the Holy Ghost, 

immediately knows the Antipope is there and declares the fact. 

This is not the case with the Sedevacantism of
Fr. Joaquín Sáenz y Arriaga. 

He was not part of the Teaching Church.
His theory is a dangerous error and causes
fatal spiritual delusions and the loss of souls. 

Dear John,

Pope John XXIII was a real Pope, a holy Pope
and here is the proof:

Six years before 1971,
 when Fr. Joaquín Sáenz y Arriaga published his book,

on 26 May 1966
John XXIII worked this stupendous miracle.

In the light of this miracle John,
consider your own soul and renounce your position. 

Miracles decide questions and resolve doubts.
They cut to the chase.
This miracles proves that John XXIII was a true Pope.
This miracle proves that the theory of Sedevacantism is wrong.

Blessed John XXIII,
pray for your child John
and for all who cling to the delusions of Sedevacantism.