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To: ninenot

"You can do better if you intend to be a thoroughgoing schismatic."

Being truly "in communion" with the NO Church will require going to Protestant churches and praying with heretics with my bishop on St. Patrick's Day. Or maybe adopting teenage boys with my bishops approval when he knows I'm going to do unmentionable acts with them will be better suited so I can claim to be obedient to my bishop. Or I can build a Jewish/Catholic camp where both can pray together, after all, both covenants are valid. Heck, why be Catholic at all, when I can remain in Christ's Church by being a Jew is perfectly justifiable to my bishop. Or parading down the street with 100's of "Catholic" queers, my parish's banner, and my bishop's approval will suffice to lift the stigma of being "schismatic"? Our local parish this year also welcomed charismatics with all their goofy antics. Point being, I must at least tacitly accept these events as they are authorized/approved by my bishop else I become a nasty schismatic, disobedient, pope-basher, etc. These are my alternatives, as my bishop will not allow a Traditional Mass (or rarely, and then in a hotel meeting room). So what will you have me do? What will it take to appease you, BE, and my bishop?


502 posted on 07/19/2004 3:53:56 PM PDT by corpus
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To: corpus; ninenot; GirlShortstop
If you are going to mention me, you are supposed to ping me. You have no obligation to appease me. The eternal disposition of your soul is your business and your reward or your desolation as the case may become in the time left to you.

Also, instead of whining about the Seattle Archdiocese, move to a Catholic one of which tyhere are plenty even in America. If you won't, then inquiring minds may wonder whether you are serious in your complaints in which case you place far too low a priority on your salvation compared to material considerations and whether you value convenience more than the Faith while insisting on service to your cultural tastes. I take it that you freely chose Seattle University in spite of its deviations in other directions.

504 posted on 07/20/2004 12:00:32 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: corpus

Poor snookums! They're pickin' on him or her as the case may be.


505 posted on 07/20/2004 12:01:42 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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