Sedevancast?

[avemaria40]

Can someone please tell me who the Sedevancasts are and why they are in schism? is it like the SSPX or something?

[Cam42]

[quote name='avemaria40' date='Jul 8 2005, 10:46 AM']Can someone please tell me who the Sedevancasts are and why they are in schism? is it like the SSPX or something?
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First, sede vacante means "empty see" in Latin.

Sedevacantism is the belief that since the time of Pope John XXIII (who called the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s) the office of pope of the Roman Catholic Church has not been legitimately held by the persons widely acknowledged as pope, sitting in the Vatican.

Generally, Sedevacantists consider themselves traditional Catholics who oppose the reforms of the Second Vatican Council and the replacement of the Latin language Tridentine Roman Missal and its order of Mass with a new one which allows the celebration of the Mass in the vernacular. They insist that the men who have occupied the Vatican palace since the latter part of the 20th century are heretics for promulgating those changes. Other traditionalists maintain that the popes since Pope Pius XII, although they may have personally held many of what some traditionalists perceive as scandalous heretical beliefs, nevertheless were true popes who never tried to use their infallible power (which is only used exceptionally) to promulgate a heresy, which all Catholics believe would be impossible.

The Sedevacantist view is often based in part on the decree on Papal Infallibility of the First Vatican Council. If a pope promulgates heresy, they reason, he lacks infallibility and thus cannot be the Pope. Alternatively, a pope falls from office if he embraces heresy and even if he does not explicitly promulgate heretical teachings by doing so. Sedevacantists also cite Paul IV's 1559 Bull Cum ex apostolatus officio, which teaches that a heretic cannot be elected pope.

The SSPX are not sede vacantists, they are schismatic. Which is:
[quote name='CCC #2089']....the refusal of submission to the Roman Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him.[/quote]