How To Respond To Sedevacantists?

[Lil Red]

[quote name='Prosologion' timestamp='1348085462' post='2484288']You are all wrong and need to realize what is going on, and abandon the Newchurch.[/quote]

[mortify]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' timestamp='1348107235' post='2484507']
He is right about the interregnum thing though. The Church still exists during the sedevacant period after the death of the previous pope, when there legitimately is no pope.
[/quote]

Yes I understand that but my statement was taken too narrowly. Popes are mortal and there are durations of time between new ellections, obviously the Church still exists in these instances. But the Sedevacantist position is that the office is empty, that in reality anti-popes have been rulling over us for decades, and that there is no theoretical way to fill the office again. Im afraid in this instance the Church is in fact non existant, for the Pope is the visible head and source of unity, and without him there is no visible Church. It is ultimately a self defeating doctrine, and if I ever came to share it I would simply start searching for another religion.

[mortify]

[i]"Take away the sovereign Pontiff and the Catholic Church would no longer be catholic."[/i]

For further reading (parts 1 and 2):


[url="http://maryvictrix.com/2012/05/22/on-the-pastoral-authority-of-peter/"]http://maryvictrix.com/2012/05/22/on-the-pastoral-authority-of-peter/[/url]

[url="http://maryvictrix.com/2012/05/25/pastoral-authority-of-peter-ii/"]http://maryvictrix.com/2012/05/25/pastoral-authority-of-peter-ii/[/url]