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To: etradervic

"Because if you do not accept the New Mass then you do not accept the Church that sanctions it."

The Church does not sanction it.

Eh?

That's right. I regard the Church as a supernatural entity that is 2000 years old, and has existence independently of the mortal men who occupy positions of authority at any given time.

Some mortal men have sanctioned the NO, that's all.

The NO and the rest of the Modernist Heresy will pass, but the Church will remain.


23 posted on 09/11/2004 8:49:59 AM PDT by dsc
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To: dsc
That's right. I regard the Church as a supernatural entity that is 2000 years old, and has existence independently of the mortal men who occupy positions of authority at any given time.

You have a misunderstanding of the Church.  The Church is part supernatural and part of this world, one foot in heaven and one foot here.  We are a part of the Church in our complete wholeness body and soul.  Christ began the lineage passed on to St Peter to Pope John Paul II. Faith in Christ compels to accept both His Church and this authority. If you say that the Church is just supernatural, that leaves you free to create the Church as you desire it to be.

I too have grave reservations about the misuse by secular Catholics of Vatican II.  If anyone leaves the Church, I would prefer it to be these Catholics who are not Catholic at all rather than those of the Society who are attempting to follow traditional teachings.  The secular Catholics would like nothing more than for people who think as you to leave the Church.

26 posted on 09/11/2004 9:38:31 AM PDT by etradervic (Kerry is a Left-Wing Dinosaur)
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