To: forkinsocket
Was he reinstated as a bishop or just have the ban of excommunication lifted?
9 posted on
01/28/2009 11:50:21 AM PST by
Tribune7
(Obama wants to put the same crowd that ran Fannie Mae in charge of health care)
To: Tribune7
Willimson (Note that I use no title) was consecrated a bishop illicitly ... that means in defiance of the Pope (John Paul II), for which he was automatically excommunicated. He has never held any office of Bishop within the Catholic Church, and does not now. Three other men were, at the same time, also illicitly concecrated and consequently excommunicated, along with the (legitimate) Bishop who did the consecration. B-XVI has lifted the penalty of excommunication on all four ... it has nothing to do with Williamson personally, and everything to do with attempting reconciliation with the sane members of their traditionalist religious community. Whether Williamson himself will choose to walk the path of sanity remains to be seen.
12 posted on
01/28/2009 12:05:56 PM PST by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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