Fr. Williamson tackles the question of obedience, the hierarchical nature of the Church, when disobedience can be legitimate, what St. Thomas Aquinas said on this question, and a short history of the SSPX.
Fr. Williamson gives a definition of the Mass, mentions Sacrosanctum Concilium, the liturgical movement, brief history of the Traditional Latin Mass, how the New Mass departs from Tradition and how it relates to the Church’s indefectibility.
Bishop Williamson explores the new theology concerning Christ as Redeemer, God being viewed as a “sugar daddy,” how Novus Ordo priests typically view sin, and the concept of the “seeds of the word” as taught in Nostrae Aetate.
Bishop Williamson explains how this encyclical dissolves the differences between nature and grace, potential and actual salvation, the ambiguity this encyclical has towards the Incarnation and asks whether John Paul II could be Pope.
Bishop Williamson explores the reasoning behind Assisi I, Fr. Garrigou Lagrange’s teaching of the future Pope, Gaudium et Spes, and the admiration man has for himself.
His Excellency explains what “reciprocal integration” means, how the Pope sees himself teaching the old doctrine into the new teaching, and H.E. maintains that there is an overall lack of defining terms.