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To: gbcdoj; BlackElk; ninenot; Sean O L; sinkspur; Mershon; Religion Moderator; Land of the Irish; ...
A good article, but there's little point to posting it. The SSPXers aren't going to be convinced by anything anyone posts here.

*sadly, I think you're right.

By the way, you may not have seen this, but the Religion Mod asked that threads on SSPX v. Catholic Church cease to be posted.

*Makes sense. Everything has been endlessly rehashed and I doubt anything positive would be accomplished by continuously bringing the sspx war against the Church to FR.

Were it not for FR, few Christian Catholics would have even heard of the schism. I have never heard it mentioned in any Church I have gone to. It is alive only on FR and in the few schismatic rags which themselves have diminishing subscribers.

This schism wil go the way of all schism. It will continue to splinter and fade into oblivion remembered only by the most rabid defenders of lefevbre and that memory will die with them.

What will continue, thankfully, is the so-called Traditionalist Movement in union with Rome - the FSSP and the other approved apostolates/societies etc. I knew men in those groups in union with Rome and while we do not see eye to eye in matters of the Liturgy etc they are exemplary men; intelligent, faithful, manly, holy etc.

The attention ought to be focused on Traditionalists in Union with Rome. Those of us who prefer the restored Rite/Pauline Rite/Normative Mass will only be strengthed by having them remain within the Body of Christ as every act of virtue they engage in (and they are legion) strengthens the entire Body of Chirst.

21 posted on 12/30/2004 1:44:57 PM PST by bornacatholic
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To: bornacatholic
Were it not for FR, few Christian Catholics would have even heard of the schism. I have never heard it mentioned in any Church I have gone to. It is alive only on FR and in the few schismatic rags which themselves have diminishing subscribers.

I lived two miles from an SSPX establishment for four years and didn't know it. I asked my priest to discuss it with the parish. He told me that it was not an issue worth mentioning.

23 posted on 12/30/2004 1:54:25 PM PST by kidd
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