Posted on 01/31/2003 5:43:59 AM PST by Land of the Irish
IT is no different an orientation than that of the scores of protestants who come here demanding that we follow their peculiar, particular, and personal opinions about Scripture, Doctrine, Liturgy, Ecumenism ect. They really do think themselves the authority.
And they really do think themselves better informed about Scripture, Doctrine, Liturgy, Philospohy, Ecumenism then us poor Neo-Catholics.
They sift through old manuals, missals, maunscripts and mendaciously manufacture quibbles based upon partial quotes selected out of context to contend against the Divinely-Constituted authority and, then, if you call them what they are, protestants, they whelp like ululating Bedouin wives at the burial of their husband and demand we prove them wrong. Sheesh...they are a catty and contentious lot
It is as though Jesus never intended a Living Magisterium...No, I guess he intended a debating club where converts like Woods can castigate a brilliant Pope as though he were a toothless rube from the foothills of Pine Bluff<>
Of course, I know you won't read it. It is Faithful to the Catholic Church. Stick with the opponents of the Pope, an Ecumenical Council and the Normative Mass. THAT is the "tradtional" Catholic way; always has been, always will be.<>
HDMZ pings the three of us and he calls the Pope an Apostate and a servant of Satan...and neither of you are going to object, are you?
Mebbe it is just the case that HDMZ has the courage to speak what is in his heart - no matter how insane it is. When he pings you and you don't respond, it does leave the appearance you agree with his judgement the Pope is an apostate and a servant of Satan<>
I have, at least, 40 cassettes that my friend has sent me from speakers in the SSPX, I have video tapes and books and she asks questions so I do read, watch and listen to them but most of the time I'm just rolling my eyes. Where I agree with them it is when they are truly in line with the Church but then there are the snide remarks stuck in there, sometimes unobtrusively, sometimes couched as humor but always there. They are brainwashed.
One of my best friends is in this movement and I really feel sorry for her. I see what it has done to her marriage and her children. Her mother is at a loss to explain what happened to her and most of her friends avoid her and she hasn't made any new ones within her new church either and she certainly hasn't made one new convert except her children over which she has direct control. This is definately proof to me that the fruits of her labor are not good.
What I find to be the saddest part of all is that it all started with the modern, liberalism that she saw in the Church. So instead of becoming an integral part of her Church, she isolated herself. She homeschooled her children in the Catechism, they went to Mass where the boys were Altar Servers, but then she segregated herself again. She taught her boys so well that when the bishop came he always requested that they serve for him because they were so proper and did everything right. So instead of trying to work within she took the easy way out. She'd never admit it out loud or maybe even consciously but it is all about her salvation and everyone else be damned.
It's not even about her salvation; it's about her fear. She'll leave the true Church and follow a guy like Williamson who admires the thinking of the Unabomber because she's vulnerable to the kind of garbage you see at the top of this thread.
Next, she'll leave the SSPX, since even this odd cult won't be pure enough for her, and she'll join the sedevacantist crowd, who call the Pope the apostate Wojtyla.
There is a conscious effort among the Catholic Caucus on Free Republic to ignore these misguided souls here, which is why you see so many of these posts intended to "bait."
Ignore, ignore, ignore.
I'm so glad your friend is worried about her salvation, and that of her children. Aren't you?
Ignore, ignore, ignore.
Ignore, as you have just done? Three weeks into your boycott, and you neo's are failing miserably.
Anxiously awaiting your next "ignorant" post.
The Catholic Church, with the Pope as its head on Earth, is the Body of Christ. The Holy Spirit is its soul. For some reason, your Faith has failed and you think the Holy Spirit has exited the Body and we are left with a Corpse.
That is purely a failure of your weak Faith, a failing on your part you wish to fob off onto others, especially the Pope. Grow-up and take responsibility for your actions
You folks believe in Extra Ecclesia Non Salus...well?<>
Sinkspur is correct...more'n more are coming to similar conclusions....ignore the schism<>
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