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To: Scotswife
SSPX? in you family? really?

Notice anything funny about their attitude towards the pope? jewish people?

Why engage in such generalised stereotypes? Surely you realise that we Catholics, of all types, are being treated in just this way by the world at large. Does it seem just to you? I don't think it is.

The SSPX are in talks with the Holy Father, who has been very generous in his language regarding that group. I have not heard anything from him suggesting that they are not Catholic. And smears of anti-semitism are so cliche and common these days I can't help but disregard them entirely. Oh, I know, people will point out the crazy Bishop Williamson as somehow representative. I would only counter that if that holds true then of course the Catholic Church must be founded on sexual abuse of children. After all, I have no doubt that I can find many, many more bishops and priests associated with abuse in the Catholic Church than you could holocaust denying bishops and priests in the SSPX.

67 posted on 07/20/2010 11:42:46 AM PDT by cothrige
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To: cothrige

JP II declared SSPX adherents to be in schism and their leaders excommunicated in Ecclesia Dei. As Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (then running the Holy Office), Benedict XVI signed off on the excommunications as did Bernardin Cardinal Gantin of Dahomey, head of the Congregation for Bishops. Has B-XVI formally withdrawn the excommunications and the declaration of schism??? If you claim that B-XVI himself has done so, please document the claim. Castrillon de Hoyos and his subordinate bureaucrats are not popes and lacked the authority to whitewash SSPX. As head of the Holy Office, B-XVI “had discussions” with his onetime professor Hans Kung but not to Kung’s relief. Quite the contrary.


69 posted on 07/20/2010 12:11:48 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline, Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club: Burn 'em Bright!!!)
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To: cothrige

I don’t have to rely on generalized stereotypes. I experienced it.


70 posted on 07/20/2010 12:20:43 PM PDT by Scotswife
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