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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

To: Quo Vadis Petre

Cardinal Ratzinger used the term Schismatic Mentality.

225 posted on 05/16/2005 6:33:19 PM PDT by Dominick ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)

To: Quo Vadis Petre

Cardinal Ratzinger used the term Schismatic Mentality.

226 posted on 05/16/2005 6:33:21 PM PDT by Dominick ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)

To: Quo Vadis Petre

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

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Without any doubt, the problem that Lefebvre has posed has not been concluded by the rupture of June 30. It would be too simple to take refuge in a sort of triumphalism, and to think that this difficulty has ceased to exist from the moment in which the movement led by Lefebvre has separated itself by a clean break with the Church. ... If once again we succeed in pointing out and living the fullness of the Catholic religion with regard to these points, we may hope that the schism of Lefebvre will not be of long duration. (Cardinal Ratzinger, Remarks to the Bishops of Chile, June 13, 1988)

236 posted on 05/17/2005 8:01:11 AM PDT by gbcdoj (Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life.)

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