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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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To: kidd
Thanks for the witness, brother. I think your priest is wise.

Also, credit should be given to the local sspx which does not seem to be trying to recruit others to their cause.

24 posted on 12/30/2004 2:00:58 PM PST by bornacatholic
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Like somebody said, an oak tree is an acorn that held its ground. SSPX had only about 150 priests when the motu proprio was written in 1988. It is now over 400 priests-strong and growing. It has chapels in over 60 countries and numbers over 1,000,000 adherents worldwide. More than its numbers is its influence. It is about one quarter-part of a global traditionalist movement--which is itself the most dynamic aspect of the Church today--but which is studiously ignored by the revolutionary Church. Yet it is the traditionalist movement that is most influential and powerful force on the culture--as exemplified, for instance, by Mel Gibson's film, which came out of the heart of the traditionalist ethos.


48 posted on 12/30/2004 4:52:49 PM PST by ultima ratio
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