A “square” lacking the necessary property of four sides is not a square.
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Many traditional Catholics assert that the Conciliar Church – which we could now call the “Conciliar-Synodal Church” – is not identical to the Roman Catholic Church.
This claim seems incomprehensible to many well-intentioned persons who simply want to be Catholic. After all, we all know that the Conciliar-Synodal Church has a more or less plausible prima facie claim to be the Roman Catholic Church:
- It is headed by a man claiming to be the Roman Pontiff, based in Rome
- Its representatives occupy various formerly Catholic buildings
- Even its most outrageously non-Catholic officers appear to have some sort of material succession to the Apostles
- It has retained some aspects of the Catholic faith and religion.
All these points could be summed up by saying that the Conciliar-Synodal Church has retained a sense of visibility, and it is to this visibility that its defenders most frequently appeal.
But those who appeal to this supposed visibility to insist that the Conciliar-Synodal Church is the Roman Catholic Church are motivated by natural considerations and are missing what is most important….
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