Anonymous Response of “Abenader” to The Remnant Regarding the Term “Sedevacantism”

Dear Mr. Morrison,

I have been reading your work for several years, and I believe the time has come to clarify a few things. I myself am what is known as a sedevacantist. I reject this label, because for me, I am Catholic.

Sedevacantism is not a movement. Nor is it a church or a doctrine. Sedevacantism is an observation; we observe that the Holy See is occupied by an intruder who pretends to be pope but is not. Why is he not pope? Because he does not profess the catholic faith. Because he is a modernist. Modernists, denounced by Saint Pius X, are ipso facto and latae sententiae excommunicated. A non catholic cannot be pope.

Sedevacantism is not a solution either. The solution, from a human point of view, could have been found many years ago, if the resistance had united, at the very beginning, around the wise people who had the foresight to understand the problem quickly, such as Father Saenz y Arriaga, with Archbishop Lefebvre, if he had not deviated into a fallacious doctrine. But now it is too late, everything is in God's hands. Humanly speaking, it is all over.I mean, in human terms, we cannot resolve the crisis. Well, there is one thing to be done, but it is nothing new. As you very wisely pointed out, what needs to be done is to pray, do penance, and pursuing sanctity.

But also, and this is where what is known as sedevacantism comes in, we must not publicly declare ourselves in communion with the modernists who emerged from Vatican 2. It is not a question of speculating on who or how to declare Bergoglio or Prevost antipopes; we must break communion with them. This is what all Catholics have always done: publicly break communion with public heretics. And this, even before any declaration by the Authority. St. Paul tells us: if even an angel announced another Gospel to you, let him be anathema. He does not say : wait until the Authority renders its judgement, and then declare him anathema. If anyone, pretending to be anything, even an (apparent) pope, even an angel descended from heaven, gives us a doctrine other than that of Christ, let him be anathema. Now, all the (so-called) popes since Pius XII have given us a doctrine other than that of Christ. I must therefore consider them anathema. They call themselves popes? Even if they were an angel, they would be anathema, and I would have no communion with them.

That is sedevacantism. It is the application of Catholic principles to the current ecclesiological situation. And applying Catholic principles to the current situation is simply acting as a Catholic.

God bless you.

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