I know I'm a little late on response to this as I have been out of town on business. An act of gratitude? To receive a book that denies the Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His death and Resurrection? That confuses His Holy Mother with being the sister of Moses? He was grateful for THAT??
At length she brought (the babe) to her people, carrying him (in her arms), They said: "O Mary! Truly a strange thing has thou brought! "O sister of Aaron, thy father was not a man of evil, nor your mother a woman unchaste!"-- Sura 19:27-28
And publicly judging innocent actions as sinful used to be matter for Confession.
This wasn't innocent. He was a highly educated man and he knew exactly what was in that book. Gee, what would I have to confess? Forgive me God, because I don't like it when the Pope presses his lips to a book that calls for killing Jews and Christians, denies your Divinity, and is highly confused about your Blessed Mother. Yeah.. I am sure that God would put one thousand black marks in the Book of Life against me for that one!
Well, it used to be in Traditional Catholicism but Traditional Catholicsm now appears to have been distilled into its modern essence - bitter attacks and accusations against he who holds the Keys.
Hmm.. I'm sitting here thinking that St. Peter, who held the Keys originally, wouldn't have put his mouth on that piece of crap. Yep..pretty darned sure he wouldn't have. I think St. Peter is probably about as Traditionalist as they come.
How can one tell the difference between the public attacks against the Pope made by a So. Baptist and public attacks against the Pope made by a soi disant traditionalist? The one wearing the scapular is the traditonalist.
ROFLOL! I would rather side with the Southern Baptists on this one than to side with error. BTW, I am a Traditionalist that is in full communion with the Church as I go to an Indult Mass approved by my Bishop in the area that I live. In post #37 you seem to lump anyone who has the courage to speak out against this as a SSPX follower.
Well, you are sadly mistaken because there are many Catholics that are in full communion with the Church who didn't like it when he did that and who have said so publicly.
Let's examine a query you made in post #37:
"How does this new tradition differ from the old Pharisaical tradition of publicly attacking and falsely accusing Jesus?"
WHO has falsely accused the Pope? Did he or did he not kiss the Koran? It is also not an "attack" to publicly announce that those actions were wrong. They were. To say otherwise, or insist that we keep silence, you might as well tell us that we should just follow blindly whatever actions the Pope makes!
Are you aware that a kiss is reserved for the books of the Gospel and on equal par with the holy kiss given to the altar? Do you see the implications in this at all?? If not, then I am wasting my breath and talking into thin air.
*The planes carrying the Pope to foreign countries were landing on Gospels and Altars, I guess, because Johannes Paulus Magnus always kissed the runway.
* Being a traditionalist measn is is Never too late to hate