Trackcast Express tradcast Express it’s Monday October 30th 2023 Scott Han is a famous convert to the Vatican 2 religion from presbyterianism he converted back in 1986 and has long been a professor of theology at The Franciscan University of Stubenville and of course a prolific author for popular books on Theology and
Apologetics although he may appear Orthodox compared to Pope Francis he has at best died in the wool conservative novel Ordo in the mold of John Paul II he is also a raving charismatic ACC humanist and has publicly put forward the blasphemy that the Holy Trinity is a
Family and since a family does not only have a father and a son but also a mother you can probably guess which of the three Divine persons is feminine motherly and Bridal for Han and what impact that has on the teaching that the Holy Ghost is the
Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary well we don’t need to go there because our topic now is a different one Han just appeared on the YouTube show pintes with a coinus with Matt frat who is a novel’s Ordo apologist from Australia the episode premiered on October 24th under the title Catholics
In Exile and a 5minute excerpt of that was made into a separate video entitled Christ is head of the church with Dr Scott Han released on October 27th Han was asked to respond to a viewer’s question about how to deal with that Jesuit from Wen oires the so-called Pope Francis Jorge bolio considering
That it is evident now that he is changing doctrine that he’s teaching things at variance with the Catholic faith let’s listen to the response Han gives you know for 2,000 years the Catholic church has gotten by with what 265 popes and some like Benedict the 9th have just been ranked Scoundrels I mean
Perverts and most of them been good some great some holy but only a few Saints um and we’re not no personality cult because the pope is not the head of the church he’s the vicer of Christ and he alone is the head whoa whoa whoa whoa
Let’s stop right here for a moment Scott Han just said in all seriousness that the pope is not the head of the church that our blessed Lord Jesus alone is the head of the church really now do do they not teach the first Vatican council at Franciscan University in Stubenville
Only Vatican 2 huh well here’s what Vatican 1 says back in 1870 quote if anyone then says that the Blessed Apostle Peter was not established by the Lord Jesus Christ as the chief of all the apostles and the visible head of the whole militant church or that the same received great
Honor but did not receive from the same our Lord Jesus Christ directly and immediately the Primacy in true and proper jurisdiction let him be anathema unquote that’s from the dogmatic Constitution Pastor eternus chapter 1 found in denzinger number 1823 let’s choose another example in Chapter 3 of the same document Vatican 1
Quotes the Council of Florence as follows quote the pontiff of Rome himself self is the successor of the Blessed Peter the chief of the Apostles and is the true Vicor of Christ and head of the whole church and faith and teacher of all Christians unquote that’s found in denzinger
1826 now let’s fast forward to 1943 popas the 12th writes in Mystic corpies his great encyclical on the church as the mystical body of Christ quote since he Christ was all wise he could not leave the body of the church he had founded as a human society
Without a visible head nor against this may one argue that the Primacy of jurisdiction established in the church gives such a mystical body two heads for Peter in virtue of his Primacy is only Christ’s Vicor so that there is only one chief head of of this body namely Christ
Who never ceases himself to guide the church invisible though at the same time he rules it visibly through him who is his representative on Earth after his glorious Ascension into heaven this church rested not on him alone but on Peter to its visible foundation stone that Christ and his Vicor constitute one
Only head is the solemn teaching of our predecessor of immortal memory bonfice VII in the apostolic letter UNAM Sanam and his successors have never ceased to repeat the same unquote again that is pasus I 12th encyclical mysti corpies number 40 and honestly I could give you endless
Quotes on this but we can just stop here the bottom line is that the pope is so linked with Christ that together they make up only one single head and that’s why you sometimes hear the pope being referred to as the head of the church and sometimes Christ now because of this intimate
Union of our Lord Jesus Christ with his Vicor it is clear that we can never pit the pope against Christ nor Christ against the pope and of course by that I mean the Pope in His official acts not the pope as a private person who is obviously a sinner and can be immortal
Even and can even go to hell God forbid so Han is wrong to say that Christ Alone is the head of the church and the pope is not the head of the church and it’s very important to understand that this is not just semantics this is a matter of real theological difference because
If the pope is not the head of the visible Church on Earth then he cannot function as the head and have all members of the body under his Direction and preeminence otherwise each dicese could just say to Rome well you know what it’s nice you’ve got the pope there and all
But that’s really just a ceremonial thing and we’re done with you we’re just going to submit to Christ instead of you because he’s the true head of the church anyway that’s impossible in the Catholic church in fact that’s heresy against Vatican 1 and you can find that in
Denzinger number 1831 if you want to look it up see Christ established the papacy and made the pope his Vicor precisely so that while he is in heaven until a second coming there would be a visible representative of him to govern and teach with his authority one who alone would have the
Ultimate power of binding and loosing on Earth and in heaven the whole idea the whole point of the papacy is to be able to cling to Christ in a way that is objective and visible and ratified by our Lord himself it is the visible way of knowing for
Sure that you are in the true church and have the true Doctrine the true sacraments and salutary disciplinary law and so it’s by being subject to the Pope that you can be sure you are subject to Christ that is the point and that is why it’s so important to
Understand understand that Francis is not a true Pope and could not possibly be one in Mystic corpes popus I 12th says they therefore walk in the path of dangerous error who believe that they can accept Christ as the head of the church while not adhering loyally to his
Vicor on Earth they have taken away the visible head broken the visible bonds of unity and left the mystical body of the Redeemer so obscured and so maimed that those who are seeking The Haven of Eternal salvation can neither see it nor find it unquote that’s paragraph number
41 now this is a very significant passage there notice two things first Pas I 12th condemns those who have taken away the visible head I think he’s talking about Protestants there or maybe Eastern Orthodox but it’s also applicable to Scott Han because he just said that the pope is not the head of
The church so Han is taking away the visible head in principle we might add just like Protestants and no that has nothing to do with sedevacantism right some people will say that’s a condemnation of sedevacantism no it’s not we don’t take away the Pope in principle at all we
Believe in the papacy right we believe the pope is the visible head of the church we believe he is the principle of unity in the church and the true Vicor of Christ who governs teaches and sanctifies in Christ’s stead and with his authority such that what he binds
And looses on Earth is bound and loosed in heaven it’s just that given the evidence We believe We Don’t at present have a pope that no man current fills that office so we’re not saying that the Catholic church has no Pope in the sense of not having the institution of the
Papacy that that the church has no papal office we’re saying that Jorge bolo isn’t the one who fills that office and there hasn’t been anyone to fill it legitimately validly as far as we know since the death of Pope high the 12th in 1958 and the reason why one of the reasons
Why is evident from the second Point P the 12th makes in that quote from Mr CH corpes namely that if you take away the Pope the papacy then those who are seeking The Haven of Eternal salvation can neither see it nor find it meaning that the whole point about having a
Visible head of the church the point of having a hope a papacy is to be able to cling to him and follow him as the safe haven the sure guide to Eternal salvation now who in his right mind could possibly say that Jorge bolio Pope Francis is a sure guide to Eternal
Salvation and I’m not talking about his personal sins right we’re all Sinners I’m talking about his official majeran the official acts of his supposed pontificate who in his right mind could say that by clinging to the magesium of Francis one is assured of clinging to the doctrine of Jesus Christ I mean
That’s just insane so in a nutshell if Francis is the pope then his teachings are safe to follow if on the other hand his teachings are dangerous nonsense then he cannot be the Pope and notice this has nothing to do with infallibility per se okay we’re not even
Addressing that topic but in order for traditional catholic Doctrine on the papacy to have any meaning it must be the one or the other either he is Pope and then you can safely follow what he teaches or you cannot safely follow what he teaches and therefore he cannot be
The pope what you cannot do what you cannot have is pre precisely what the semi trads that’s why we call them that by the way semi trads is what they keep offering you and that is verbally acknowledge Francis as Pope but don’t even think about following him because
His Doctrine is false and a danger to your soul all right let’s go back to the audio with Scott Han and listen to some more of what this celebrity Professor had to say on the pints with aquinus show with Matt frat if the Catholic church has expanded and flourished in
All kinds of places for centuries where they didn’t even know for sure the name of the Pope because he might have died last year and you haven’t heard yet who the new one is you pray for the Holy Father you love the Holy Father and then
You pray some more for the Holy Father but as though you’ve got to keep up with every daily release from the Vatican I think it’s unhealthy yeah it is I think it lends itself either to a personality cult or ecclesiastical gossip and a kind of critical spirit that will invariably
Lead to divisions within the church we love Pope Francis we don’t have to read every single word that he publishes we want to pray for him so that he is teaching with Clarity and when he when he doesn’t seem to be we want to pray
For him a little bit more and try to find the good you know my goodness what a poor answer so apparently Scott hans’s suggestion on how to deal with Francis is well don’t pay so much attention to him pray and just focus on what he gets
Right well excuse me but one could say the same thing about the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury right or the Dalai Lama the advice Han just gave does absolutely nothing to resolve the actual problem posed by the bolian magisterium look prayer is a good thing but the problem with Francis is not a
Lack of prayer for him I think there is not a single person in the world who gets more prayers every day than Francis close your eyes and pray is not a theological answer okay you’re just asking people to please ignore the problem and spend time doing other
Things so Han says you don’t have to keep up with everything the pope does or publishes every single day all right fine but that’s besid the point the problem isn’t that people are paying too much attention to Frances the problem is what Frances is teaching and legislating in his official magisterium regardless
Of whether anybody is paying attention to it or not I mean come on and by the way as far as papal personality cult goes I may not be remembering this right but I thought that Scott Han and this whole Stubenville e WTN World contributed a lot to the personality Cult of John Paul
II okay that just as an aside also Han seems to be thinking that the problem with Francis is just the lack of clarity and that if only he were clearer all would be well so let’s just pray for Francis to teach more clearly now that too is a misrepresentation of
The real problem sure lack of clarity is one of the problems but we’re way beyond that now let’s listen to some more from Professor Han it’s always the Philippians 4:8 principle that is if there’s anything true anything good anything excellent anything worthy of Praise think on these things so when am
Morris Letizia comes out all we think about is chapter8 and that controversial footnote that is still problematic in my interpretive Matrix but you read the first seven chapters he quotes Pi the 11th Cy canoe more than John Paul ever did that was one of our favorite documents when we were becoming Catholic
There is so much good stuff in amoris latier okay there is that flash point let the experts adjudicate that over time and all of the rest well wait a minute isn’t he supposed to be one of those experts in any case let me address this argument that we should just find the
Good and focus on that the reason why that is baloney is that an essential defect ruins the whole thing let me illustrate that with a very simple analogy when you go to buy a car and later you find out that the vehicle they sold you has a defective engine and a
Transmission that only lets you get into second gear you don’t want to hear from the dealership that well but it’s got leather seats and a cool spoiler and look at those rims right that’s the problem with that but what about the good things argument a single heresy a single pernicious error in a
Papal document would the papacy and prove it false for Scott Han to argue that oh well but there’s you know 77% of the encyclical is really great that is a really really bad argument you would never want to fly in an airplane that’s only 77% intact and yet Doctrine matters of Faith
Matters of Salvation are much more serious than flying in an airplane let’s remember what Pope Leo the 13th wrote in his 1896 in cyclical satis Kum paragraph 9 quote there can be nothing more dangerous than those Heretics who admit nearly the whole cycle of Doctrine and yet by one word as
With a drop of poison in fact the real and simple Faith taught by our Lord and handed down by Apostolic tradition unquote and let’s also not forget the words of Pope Clement I 13th in his encyclical in Dominico Agro issued in 1761 this is from paragraph 2 quote
Meanwhile the matter is such that diabolical error when it has artfully colored its lies easily clothes itself in the likeness of Truth while very brief additions or changes corrupt the meaning of expressions and confession which usually works salvation sometimes with a slight change Inus toward death unquote and Scott Hans says eh just
Focus on the good stuff unbelievable oh and then of course there’s Pope St pasus I 10th in his great and cyclical against modernism pendi dominici grais in paragraph three he calls the modernists the most pernicious of all the adversaries of the church and later on in paragraph 18 He
Says about them quote in their books one finds some things which might well be approved by a Catholic but on turning over the page one is confronted by other things which might well have been dictated by a rationalist unquote pasus I 10th is warning us that the modernists don’t only rate heresy
There is a lot of Truth in their writings too but that makes them all the more dangerous St Pas I 10th did not say hey look the modernists aren’t all bad just focus focus on the good stuff okay one last clip from the Stubenville Professor but I think we
Just live in terms of the news cycle and we live in terms of the election cycle and we’ve got to break out of this kind of straight jacket and think as Catholics live from an eternal perspective think in terms of the generations and build houses you know
And avoid cable news at least more than you have been that’s good advice yeah really good advice there turn off the news just don’t listen to it shut up and pray folks if you have to tune out the Pope in order not to become a heretic what does that tell
You see that conundrum is precisely what the questioner wanted an answer to and Han really didn’t answer anything sure he said a lot but he really failed to give a substantial response and you know what there is no response for as long as Francis is accepted as a true Pope the only
Consistent response would be Catholicism is false but we know Catholicism is true and therefore it is Francis who must be false and okay it’s fine to point out that just saying that Francis isn’t the pope or that we haven’t had a pope since P the 12th that that by itself isn’t
Sufficient okay that it raises all all kinds of other issues ETC all right that’s fine but the fact Still Remains that Francis is not the pope and unless we first acknowledge that with all the difficulties that may entail we will never be able to make sense of what
We’re seeing coming from Rome and will’ll never arrive at the truth of the matter we cannot reject a clearly evident conclusion simply because we don’t want to deal with the repercussions of it it won’t work and it’s not honest in any case it’s pretty clear now I think that the novel Oro apologists
Are at their wits end with regard to Francis they’re essentially telling you to distract yourself with other things just don’t look at it right hey look over here a traditional prayer book or oh my gosh check out this Catholic artwork well that’s all well and good
But ad this is the point the point is that whether we pay attention to it or not the supposed Pope is teaching all kinds of heresies and other errors and this leading souls to destruction and we’re not talking about private moral failings here like a pope
Who has a mistress or who’s a sodomite okay we’re talking about the official magisterium Doctrine catechism liturgy sacraments canonized Saints and disciplinary laws and that’s not something you can just wipe away with comments like hey hundreds of years ago the average Catholic didn’t even know who the pope
Was or what he was teaching so what the point is you do know you do know the man whom you’re accepting as Pope and what his official acts are and you cannot plead a kind of ignorance by prop y on the grounds that peasants a thousand years ago wouldn’t have known what you
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