You're listening to the SSPX podcast and welcome to episode 30 of the Crisis in the Church series.

Today's episode takes us into the disconnect between two periods of the Catholic Church,

the time before 1965 and the post-concilier or after Vatican II Catholic Church.

Everyone in the Catholic Church from Archbishop Lefebvre to Pope Francis, agrees

something changed between these two periods, but there are vast differences between the two

in how to explain the transition. Father Stephen Ruder will join us to explain a theory

that gained a lot of traction under Pope Benedict, the hermeneutic of continuity. In short, the central question is, can both periods of the Catholic Church live in agreement?

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Now, we'll turn to our conversation with Father Router.

Welcome back to the SSPX podcast and our next episode on the crisis in the church.

Welcome back, Father Ritter. How are you? I'm well. Good. How are you, Andrew?

Doing well. We were talking to you

today, Father, about the hermeneutic of continuity. Before we get started on that at all, I think

we're going to need a dictionary. So can you help us with what the heck does hermeneutic of continuity

mean even? What do those words mean?

That's where we need to start. So in order to understand this critical debate in the church

regarding the proximate and sufficient cause for the current crisis and consequently the

appropriate solution, we must understand what is meant by a hermeneutic.

And it comes from the Greek and quite simply means to interpret.

So a hermeneutic is a useful key which is used to understand difficult documents. We say it's a key by which we understand the document, enter into the document, or a lens,

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