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Yours sincerely in Jesus and Mary,
Father François Laisney

 

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Father, a young man called me if SSPX believe the Theory of the Earth Flat and Ptolemaic System. I said it couldn't be, but he says there are SUCH claims on the SSPX blog. I looked into it and I found that those who claim such argument are former seminarians who were dismissed from SSPX seminary. You can guess who they are.


They claim that the Sun is 50 kilometers in diameter. The Earth does not move around the sun, Einstein is a fake scientist. SSPX believes in pseudoscience. etc.


Because they use their name of SSPX Marian Corps, so youngsters outside of SSPX are confused. These are very ridiculous, unreasonable and ludicrous to me.


Q  1. Father, Do you believe in the the Earth Flat and Ptolemaic system.
    2. Is there anyone who believes in pseudoscience and the above argument in SSPX?


A  The SSPX, as such, certainly does NOT teach that the earth is flat, nor the Ptolemaic system. I know only one odd priest in the SSPX who thinks that way – whom others patiently bear with, without approving his ideas.
 

There is the excellent book of Father Paul Robinson, SSPX, ¡°the realist guide to Religion and Science¡±; you can also go to its side: https://therealistguide.com/ I read the whole book and fully support its thesis, which is basically the Catholic and Thomist approach.


 I fully agree with you that all these ideas of flat earth are ¡°very ridiculous, unreasonable and ludicrous.¡± I have been personally around the earth four times (travelling from France to Australia to USA and back to France; then also doing a whole tour of the world at the time of my appointment to Menzingen: France to Australia to Argentina (passing close to the South Pole) and back to France. Such travel would be impossible with a flat earth (distances would not match travel plans). Also I am known for star-gazing: anyone who has actually paid ATTENTION to the stars would easily understand that the earth is NOT flat.

The ancients – including Aristotle and Ptolemy – did not hold a flat earth, but rather a spherical earth: they had a very simple proof: the shadow of the earth on the moon during partial eclipses of the moon is ALWAYS round, from any side, which could only be if the earth is a sphere, because only a sphere has a round shadow from any point of view. Then, there are all the photos from the space! Have you seen this site:
https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/ ? this is a tremendous documentary, accompanying the whole Apollo mission¡¦ and one sees the images of the earth recorded from Apollo! (And let them not say that it is a fake video, because I was living at the time, and ANY ONE living at the time would testify that everyone was following these events of the first moon landing: have they ever find a film-company making available for FREE such expensive film to millions to viewers??? Anyone with his TV could follow the event (my parents did not have a TV, but for sure we followed the radio).


 This root of the error of all such people is FUNDAMENTALISM, this protestant approach to the Scriptures, as if it were a book of modern science to be interpreted by one¡¯s own personal preconceived ideas. This was NOT the interpretation of the Fathers of the Church, which the First Vatican Council binds every Catholic to uphold. These people have no real knowledge of the Fathers. They only follow their own ideas and interpretation of the Scriptures. IF their interpretation were true, it would mean that the Bible is wrong in half of the world – in the whole southern hemisphere, where I live now.


Indeed the Scripture says: ¡°The sun riseth, and goeth down, and returneth to his place: and there rising again, maketh his round by the south, and turneth again to the north:¡± (Eccle. 1:5-6). Now this is true in Jerusalem and in the Northern hemisphere, but NOT in the Southern hemisphere! If one takes the words of the scripture as ABSOLUTE movement, one makes the scripture LIE; if one takes the words of the scriptures as APPARENT movement, as visible in Jerusalem, then the words of the scriptures are TRUE. There would be many other proofs of the errors of the fundamentalist explanation of Scriptures – basically, this is the private judgement, private interpretation which the Church condemned in Luther.

 It is very sad to see that these ¡°resistance¡± people do not see it. if you can help anyone of them to open their eyes, and leave these foolish interpretation, and rather read the writings of the Fathers and Saints, you would have rendered them a great service. I personally read much of the Fathers, and not only did not find anywhere in them this fundamentalist approach, but rather found its clear rejection. I suggest they read the ¡±de Genesi ad litteram – about Genesis¡¯ letter¡± of St Augustine, in which he explicitly says that the first six days were ¡°of another nature¡± as the present days. But they should not read only one line, they should rather read it from first to the last line.

 

This is how one gets to know an author and his understanding. In another little work, called ¡°Adversus mathematicos¡± (see n¡Æ45), he takes great care to distinguish and praise their mathematics ("tantum potuerunt scire, ut possent aestimare saeculum¡±) and reject their astrological superstitions (¡°volentes actus nostros corporibus caelestibus subdere et nos vendere stellis¡±): that is the attitude of the Fathers concerning science: they approve true science and reject the errors of these scientists concerning God.
 

 Courage! Help the youth not to be deceived by such fundamentalism, but rather to follow the Saints and the Fathers, and certainly not to follow ¡°wandering priests¡±.


Yours sincerely in Jesus and Mary,
Father François Laisney