Chris Jackson posted a questionnaire (link) that was handed out at Sunday Mass in San Antonio Tx.
Comparing this with the SSPX doctrinal declaration (see link and below) here's how I would answer:
- Yes (duh, convened by Pope, attended by Catholic Bishops, Concluded by Pope)
- Yes (yep a bad one but Pope nonetheless)
- Yes (yep - along with the appropriate theological note)
- Yes - as long as we understand is as legitimately promulgated and not necessarily 'goog'
- Yes (although not covered this is the traditional role of the Bishops)
- N/A
Bishop Fellay's Doctrinal Preamble
Presented to Rome
15th April, 2012
I
We
promise to be always faithful to the Catholic Church and to the Roman
Pontiff, the Supreme Pastor, Vicar of Christ, Successor of Peter, and
head of the body of bishops.
Question #2: Yes.
II
We declare that we accept the
teachings of the Magisterium of the Church in the substance of Faith
and Morals, adhering to each doctrinal affirmation in the required
degree, according to the doctrine contained in No.25 of the dogmatic
constitution Lumen Gentium of the Second Vatican Council.(1)
III
1. We declare that we accept the doctrine regarding the Roman
Pontiff and regarding the college of bishops, with the Pope as its head,
which is taught by the dogmatic constitution Pastor Aeternus of Vatican
I and by the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium of Vatican II, chapter
3 (de constitutione hierarchica Ecclesiae et in specie de episcopatu),
explained and interpreted by the nota explicativa praevia in this same
chapter.
2. We recognise the authority of the Magisterium
to which alone is given the task of authentically interpreting the word
of God, in written form or handed down (2) in fidelity to Tradition,
recalling that "the Holy Ghost was not promised to the successors of
Peter in order for them to make known, through revelation, a new
doctrine, but so that with His assistance they may keep in a holy and
expressly faithful manner the revelation transmitted by the Apostles,
that is to say, the Faith."(3)
3. Tradition is the living
transmission of revelation "usque as nos"(4) and the Church in its
doctrine, in its life and in its liturgy perpetuates and transmits to
all generations what this is and what She believes. Tradition progresses
in the Church with the assistance of the Holy Ghost(5), not as a
contrary novelty(6), but through a better understanding of the Deposit
of the Faith(7).
4. The entire tradition of Catholic Faith
must be the criterion and guide in understanding the teaching of the
Second Vatican Council, which, in turn, enlightens - in other words
deepens and subsequently makes explicit - certain aspects of the life
and doctrine of the Church implicitly present within itself or not yet
conceptually formulated(8).
5. The affirmations of the
Second Vatican Council and of the later Pontifical Magisterium relating
to the relationship between the Church and the non-Catholic Christian
confessions, as well as the social duty of religion and the right to
religious liberty, whose formulation is with difficulty reconcilable
with prior doctrinal affirmations from the Magisterium, must be
understood in the light of the whole, uninterrupted Tradition, in a
manner coherent with the truths previously taught by the Magisterium of
the Church, without accepting any interpretation of these affirmations
whatsoever that would expose Catholic doctrine to opposition or rupture
with Tradition and with this Magisterium.
6. That is why it
is legitimate to promote through legitimate discussion the study and
theological explanations of the expressions and formulations of Vatican
II and of the Magisterium which followed it, in the case where they
don't appear reconcilable with the previous Magisterium of the
Church(9).
7. We declare that we recognise the validity of
the sacrifice of the Mass and the Sacraments celebrated with the
intention to do what the Church does according to the rites indicated in
the typical editions of the Roman Missal and the Sacramentary Rituals
legitimately promulgated by Popes Paul VI and John-Paul II.
8. In following the guidelines laid out above (III,5), as well as Canon
21 of the Code of Canon Law, we promise to respect the common
discipline of the Church and the ecclesiastical laws, especially those
which are contained in the Code of Canon Law promulgated by John-Paul II
(1983) and in the Code of Canon Law of the Oriental Churches
promulgated by the same pontiff (1990), without prejudice to the
discipline of the Society of Saint Pius X, by a special law.
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