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He is the Supreme Legislator indeed. That is why careless statements in Motu Proprio letters are damaging to his credibility. As Legislator, his laws are expounded in his own Canon Law--which provides explicitly for disobedience in a state of necessity. It also states no penalty is incurred for any act which is not done out of malice.

So the Pontiff's letter is in disagreement with his own Canon Law. This is why he himself has sought for some rapprochement with SSPX. He knows he is wrong--and admits as much indirectly. Msgr. Perl has already stated Catholics are permitted to attend SSPX Masses. And the SSPX has never been placed on the official list of those Christian communities OUTSIDE the Church. When a bishop tried to do this, he was told the SSPX was an internal Church matter. This is also why, when the Bishop of Honolulu tried to excommunicate Catholics for attending SSPX events, his excommunication decree was declared invalid by Rome. The SSPX is NOT, and never has been, schismatic.

As for undermining the faith--don't make me laugh. It is the Novus Ordo which does this--and the Vatican itself. Nothing could have undermined the faith more than the scandalous and heretical behavior of bishops appointed by this Pontiff, nor more than the radical behavior of this Pontiff himself at Assisi I and II, as well as at other venues. It is traditional Catholics--like Gibson--who have sustained the faith, not the Novus Ordo--and we have to deal with the kind of misperceptions and disinformation disseminated by people like yourself who believe whatever nonsense is spewed out of Novus Ordo circles.

...and we have to deal with the kind of misperceptions and disinformation disseminated by people like yourself who believe whatever nonsense is spewed out of Novus Ordo circles.

You mean I am wrong and I should quit my job as Eucharistic Minister, Altar woman, Liturgical dancer (in tights) and official neighbor door greeter? Can't I hold hands with my brothers and sisters during the Our Father? How could I be wrong on centering prayer and enneagrams? I don't know where I'd be without my crystals and I couldn't attend a Mass that didn't include "On Eagles Wings."

I'm not parting with these, I don't care what you say.