OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE
by
H.E. Bishop George J. Musey
APRIL 22, 1983
ARCHBISHOP PETER MARTIN NGÔ-DINH-THUC, HIS BISHOPS, CLERGY AND LAITY HOLD THE POSITION THAT THE VATICAN 2 COUNCIL IS BOTH INVALID AND ILLICIT AND THAT THE PRESENT POPE IS LIKEWISE INVALID AND ILLICIT, THAT IS, HE IS NOT A POPE. THIS MEANS THAT THE CHAIR OF ST. PETER IS VACANT - IN LATIN, "SEDE VACANTE". ARCHBISHOP THUC AND HIS FOLLOWERS TEACH THE SAME DOGMAS AND PRACTICE THE SAME RITES WHICH THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH CONSISTENTLY TAUGHT AND PRACTICED FOR 2.000 YEARS, UNTIL VATICAN 2,
CONSECRATIONS OF BISHOPS BY ARCHBISHOP THUC HAVE BEEN THE SUBJECT OF CONTROVERSY IN CATHOLIC CIRCLES. HOUSTON BISHOP GEORGE J. MUSEY, D.D., RECENTLY COMMENTED, AS FOLLOWS, ON THE PUBLIC RUMOR CIRCULATED IN THE NEWS MEDIA IN MEXICO AND HERE IN THE UNITED STATES, THAT JOHN-PAUL 2, ON EASTER THURSDAY, FORMALLY EXCOMMUNICATED ARCHBISHOP THUC. IT IS FURTHER RUMORED THAT THIS DECREE APPLIES TO ALL OF THE BISHOPS CONSECRATED, EVEN INDIRECTLY, BY THE ARCHBISHOP.
THE REASON GIVEN BY ARCHBISHOP THUC FOR CONSECRATING BISHOPS WITHOUT THE SO-CALLED "PAPAL MANDATE" IS THAT JOHN-PAUL 2, FOLLOWING THE IMPETUS OF VATICAN 2, HAS PERMITTED NEW FORMS FOR THE CONSECRATION OF BISHOPS, ORDINATION OF PRIESTS AND OTHER CHANGES IN THE SACRAMENTS AND THE MASS, WHICH, IN EFFECT, CHANGED THE NATURE OF THESE SACRAMENTS AND THE MASS, MAKING THEM INVALID. IN SO DOING, JOHN-PAUL 2 IS VIOLATING THE OATH OF THE POPE-ELECT, THE CORONATION OATH OF THE POPE, AS WELL AS VARIOUS CANONS OF DOCTRINAL COUNCILS, VARIOUS DECREES OF VARIOUS PAPAL DOCUMENTS. ALL OF THESE HAVE BEEN ISSUED IN PERPETUITY BY THE LAWGIVER AND HAVE ALL BEEN RATIFIED BY THE OFFICE OF THE PAPACY, AS SUCH AUTHORITY HAS BEEN EXERCISED BY VARIOUS VALID AND LICIT POPES. JOHN-PAUL 2 FELL INTO HERESY PRIOR TO HIS SELECTION AS A "POPE" BECAUSE HE USED THE INVALID, ILLICIT, AND HERETICAL NEW RITE OF MASSUSUALLY REFERRED TO AS THE NOVUS ORDO RITE (NOR) -AND THEREBY DISQUALIFIED HIMSELF AS A VALID AND LAWFUL CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE OF THE PAPACY.
THE APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION WILL BE LOST UNLESS BISHOPS ARE CONSECRATED AND PRIESTS ORDAINED ACCORDING TO THE FORMS REQUIRED BY THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH WHICH THE CHURCH HERSELF HAS ALWAYS HELD UNCHANGED THROUGH APOSTOLIC TRADITION. AS A BISHOP, IT IS THE DUTY OF ARCHBISHOP THUC TO PERPETUATE THE CHURCH BY THE VALID CONSECRATION OF BISHOPS AND THEIR ORDINATION OF PRIESTS IN OBEDIENCE TO APOSTOLIC TRADITION.
IF THIS RUMOR IS TRUE, SUCH EXCOMMUNICATION WOULD SEEM TO INCLUDE TWO AMERICAN BISHOPS, NAMELY HIS EXCELLENCY LOUIS VEZELIS, O.F.M., D.D., AND BISHOP GEORGE J. MUSEY, D.D. WHOSE CONSECRATIONS ARE IN THE LINEAGE OF ARCHBISHOP THUC. WE HAVE RECEIVED NO OFFICIAL NOTICE OF THIS DECREE FROM THE VATICAN. HOWEVER, BY SUCH A PRONOUNCEMENT OF EXCOMMUNICATION AS IS RUMORED, WHATEVER GROUNDS MIGHT BE ALLEGED AS ITS BASIS, JOHN-PAUL 2 AND THE VATICAN WOULD CONCEDE THAT ALL THE BISHOPS CONSECRATED BY ARCHBISHOP THUC, AS WELL AS THE BISHOPS THESE BISHOPS HAVE IN TURN CONSECRATED, ARE ALL VALID BISHOPS.
ALTHOUGH WE DO NOT CONCEDE TO THE VATICAN ANY AUTHORITY TO EXCOMMUNICATE US FOR PRACTICING THE CATHOLIC FAITH, SINCE THEY THEMSELVES STAND EXCOMMUNICATED FROM THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, IT WOULD BE PATENTLY UNJUST FOR THEM TO ATTEMPT SUCH A PROCESS WITHOUT GIVING THEIR OPPONENTS THE RIGHT TO AN ECCLESIASTICAL COURT HEARING AS PROVIDED UNDER CANON LAW AND FOR THEM TO SHOW CAUSE AS TO WHY THEY SHOULD NOT THEMSELVES BE UNDER THE CENSURES OF EXCOMMUNICATION PRONOUNCED AGAINST THEM BY PRIOR POPES AND COUNCILS, WHICH EXCOMMUNICATIONS ARE STILL IN FULL FORCE AND WHICH LAWS REMAIN IN EFFECT.
TO HELP CONCERNED PEOPLE UNDERSTAND CHURCH TEACHING ON THE VARIOUS ISSUES, WE HAVE PREPARED A NUMBER OF POSITION PAPERS, AVAILABLE FROM ME. THESE INCLUDE A BRIEF PAMPHLET IN WHICH ARE BRIEFLY EXPLAINED: WHO WE ARE, WHY WE DO NOT ACCEPT THE TEACHINGS OF VATICAN 2, WHY WE DO NOT USE THE NEW MASS-CALLED THE NOVUS ORDO RITE OF MASS, THAT TRUTH DOES NOT CHANGE, THAT HISTORY DOES INDEED REPEAT ITSELF, AND WHY A POPE CAN'T DO JUST ANYTHING HE MAY WANT TO DO. ALSO AVAILABLE TO THOSE WHO WISH TO COVER THIS SUBJECT IN DEPTH ARE SEVERAL MORE TECHNICAL WORKS, INCLUDING "SEDE VACANTE", "THE MODERN ANTI-COUNCIL", "THE ANTI-POPES", "QUO PRIMUM TEMPORE", "PRAESTANTIA SCRIPTURAE SACRAE" AND "QUOTES FROM A FEW POPES" (ON THE MASS).
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