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To: sevry

It's one thing to advocate the old rite, but you justify disobedience to the Magisterium on the grounds that *you personally* think it's wrong.


16 posted on 11/12/2004 1:42:19 PM PST by UnbornChild
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To: UnbornChild
justify disobedience to the Magisterium

No, I don't excuse that at all. In fact, I'm saying to you - the laity should never have gone along with that. The Church has spoken on so many things that the present institutional church has tossed aside. It can't be both. Some things cannot be changed. Those who attempt to do so are no friend of The Catholic Church. They never have been in the past when exactly these same things were done, for example in England at the time of Cranmer and Henry VIIIth. The recently deceased Michael Davies was keen to point out just these sort of comparisons.

17 posted on 11/12/2004 3:18:14 PM PST by sevry
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To: UnbornChild

"It's one thing to advocate the old rite, but you justify disobedience to the Magisterium on the grounds that *you personally* think it's wrong."

There's that old, old pattern.

When you're the "outs," disobedience is justified, but when you're the "ins," it's the worst of crimes--and always just the other fellow's "personal opinion," despite the Scriptures and despite 2,000 years of the Church's teachings.

No, he's not advocating disobedience based on his personal opinion. He's advocating resistance to the disobedience of the magisterium.


32 posted on 11/12/2004 5:23:28 PM PST by dsc (LIBERALS: If we weren't so darned civilized, there'd be a bounty on them.)
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