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To: ultima ratio
I reject nothing.

Yes you do. First, you have rejected the indult mass that is available to you.

Second, you reject objective truth by making this statement:

"It is perfectly legitimate to resist a pope who is destructive of the faith or who abuses his office in some way.

What specific order has the pope made that could be construed as denying one doctrine of the faith? What is it you think he has destroyed? How has he abused his office?

88 posted on 01/02/2005 10:22:37 PM PST by St.Chuck
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To: St.Chuck

First, whether I go to an Indult Mass or the SSPX Mass has absolutely nothing to do with obedience or schism or heresy or any of the other negatives you like to charge me with. In other words, it's hardly anybody's business except for me and my confessor.

Second, the order not to consecrate was a death sentence for the traditional Mass. Without bishops to ordain traditional priests, Catholic tradition would eventually have disappeared. It was either disobey the Pope, or watch the ancient Mass--and with it countless souls--go down the drain.

The Pope's refusal to give a mandate--when he had given the mandate to countless perverts and apostates around the globe--was for one reason only--to starve the Traditionalist Movement of priests, to nip the movement in the bud and destroy Traditional Catholicism. He was properly resisted. No Pope has the authority to destroy Tradition--which he is mandated to protect.


90 posted on 01/02/2005 10:35:46 PM PST by ultima ratio
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