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To: BlackElk; All

By the way, where's the slippery trick? This is background information of the sort most Catholics haven't got a clue about. It's necessary to understand how Lefebvre was being railroaded from day one simply for being faithful to his Catholic faith and not getting with the modernist agenda.

If anybody was slippery, it was the Vatican. Here is the letter which was sent to Lefebvre, inviting him to meet for a "discussion." The "discussion" turned out to be a kangaroo court--later described as a "tribunal", to which he was offered no counsel, no documentary evidence, no transcript of proceedings, no appeal. Anyhow, here's the letter:

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Your Excellency,

Their Excellencies Cardinal Wright, Cardinal Tabera and I have studied the result of the visit to the Ecône Seminary by His Excellency Mgr. Descamps. We are grateful to you for having given him every facility to accomplish the mission on behalf of the Holy See.

We would now like to discuss with you some points which leave us somewhat bewildered following his visit, and concerning which, among others, we must report to the Holy Father.

Can you arrange to be free for this meeting at 10:00 a.m.6 on the morning of 13 February next in the premises of our Congregation?

Thanking you in anticipation in the name of the three Cardinals entrusted with this question and assuring you of my respectful and fraternal sentiments.


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Notice the lie--the purported reason for the meeting was to discuss the result of the visitation to the Econe by Rome's representatives. But the report--which was positive--never came up! It was a mere pretext for a meeting that was later called a "tribunal", though it was illegal and broke the conditions for a tribunal set by Canon Law.


11 posted on 06/23/2004 7:32:28 PM PDT by ultima ratio
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To: ultima ratio; ninenot

See #5 for the explanation of the usual sort of schismatic dishonesty you employ. You must be getting for a regular festival on Davies's upcoming death of metastasized prostate cancer when you can quote all of his oldest errors without fear of rebuke by him. Since the excommunications of your heroes and the declaration of schism, has Davies become an SSPXer???? I did not think so.


12 posted on 06/25/2004 9:25:32 AM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: ultima ratio

If Marcel the Impudent was being railroaded, Marcel was doing the railroaded. Query: Did he railroad himself and others straight to hell in obeisance to his Gallican arrogance????? Did he care? Did he massacre his priestly vow of obedience?


15 posted on 06/25/2004 9:51:11 AM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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