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To: ninenot; Canticle_of_Deborah; Mershon

"Desperation is an adjective which you ought to recognize, as it applies to SSPX and its FR adherents"

What a silly statement. If the SSPX were so desperate and unsure of itself, then why was it Rome who initiated the overtures for reconciliation? And please don't tell me it was out of some motive of charity. Baloney. Rome was embarrassed by the scandal represented by its own intolerance for the Church's own past and for Catholic Tradition in general. People can put two-and-two together, they can smell Rome's modernism a mile away, they understand that intolerance for Catholic Tradition exists on a very profound level. Contrariwise, the SSPX knows it holds onto the traditional faith, that it is preserving the Catholic heritage in the face of Rome's intensifying corruption. That is why it is content to accept the slanders of people like you--and Bishop Bruskewitz. By such persecutions, despite its many human faults, it grows in sanctity and more and more resembles Christ.


45 posted on 12/30/2004 4:40:12 PM PST by ultima ratio
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To: ultima ratio
If the SSPX were so desperate and unsure of itself, then why was it Rome who initiated the overtures for reconciliation?

Rome was charitable, UR. But, make no mistake. There's a stake in the ground, and the next move is up to Fellay.

Oh, and the SSPX is not going to suppress the Novus Ordo.

52 posted on 12/30/2004 4:57:06 PM PST by sinkspur ("How dare you presume to tell God what He cannot do" God Himself)
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To: ultima ratio

"If the SSPX were so desperate and unsure of itself, then why was it Rome who initiated the overtures for reconciliation?"

Out of concern and mercy for the salvation of the souls of the bishops and priests and laymen.

Perhaps Rome really believes the De Fide dogma, "Outside the Church, there is no salvation." It appears you do not. Also, Mystici Corporis by Pius XII confirms that the Church is "visible," so your claims to be attached to the Church, when the Church itself doesn't recognize this "attachment" are fruitless.

"You will know a tree by its fruits."


89 posted on 12/31/2004 6:06:06 AM PST by Mershon
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