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To: Wessex
I would say one of the hallmarks of Modernism, the pick and choose mentality, is well entrenched in the SSPX.

If you consider that every Priest there is a vagus, and knows that are not incardinated, but they continue to operate irregularly. Without that they have no means to offer absolution, yet none of the faithful are told this before confession.

Yes, we can pick and choose in order to keep the doors open.
221 posted on 05/16/2005 1:02:55 PM PDT by Dominick ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
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To: Dominick

"If you consider that every Priest there is a vagus, and knows that are not incardinated, but they continue to operate irregularly. Without that they have no means to offer absolution, yet none of the faithful are told this before confession."


Obedience has its limitations. You obviously don't think so. Rules and regulations employed to curtail traditional practice in favour of passing fads and damage limitation exercises are now bypassed by a growing number of priests who prefer the straight and narrow. We are in a dark era where cardinals are chosen for their heretical credentials, bishops are chosen for their close familiarity with corruption and priests emerge from the sewers of society. We are extremely indebted to the likes of Father Heidt in once again revealing the sickness that passes for the Church of today though some of us wish to remain blind to it.


222 posted on 05/16/2005 3:14:57 PM PDT by Wessex
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To: Dominick

Pope Benedict XVI, when he was still Cardinal Ratzinger, did not see the SSPX as being in schism, as well as other canonists.


223 posted on 05/16/2005 4:01:29 PM PDT by Quo Vadis Petre
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