Army of Mary cast out (Vatican excommunicates members of a Quebec Catholic movement)

Puhleeeze do not confuse yet another cult of self-worshiping poseurs as actual Catholics. The Vatican has acted. They are excommunicated. So be it.

21 posted on 09/13/2007 1:18:07 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)

To: MIchaelTArchangel

Maybe this bunch of excommunicated loons can merge with SSPX???

22 posted on 09/13/2007 1:21:34 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)

It's entirely possible for a young priest to harbour goofy theology, without giving outward signs of it. There was once an up-and-coming young priest out in California named Fr. Roger Mahony ... looked and sounded like quite the conservative. So Pope John Paul II made him the Archbishop of Los Angeles.

Roger Cardinal Mahony has turned out badly.

Pray for him. For the whole diocese, actually. Even from your point of view, I'd think that for them to return to the Catholic Faith would be an improvement.

I'll add the same request regarding these "Army of Mary" excommunicati. It may be fun to throw verbal brickbats at them, but I'd rather see them repent and return to Christianity.

Hell is horrible.

I don't wish it on anybody.

23 posted on 09/13/2007 1:25:50 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)

Has the priest's theology changed since ordination?

How many guesses do we get?

24 posted on 09/13/2007 1:31:33 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)

To: ArrogantBustard

Even from your point of view, I'd think that for them to return to the Catholic Faith would be an improvement.

Remember, we were the only non-Catholics who cheered the current Pope's statements. It was the ECT crowd that was squealing.

But yes, when I encourage high church folks to leave the Episcopal church, I do note that some RC churches would be an improvement.

25 posted on 09/13/2007 1:42:11 PM PDT by PAR35

Thank you for those comments ... I think it’s important that we be able to talk to each other respectfully, and without imputing base motives, especially when we disagree.

26 posted on 09/13/2007 2:11:49 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)

Oh my, I admit you have me “LOL”!

27 posted on 09/13/2007 3:36:27 PM PDT by baa39

EXcellent.<p.She, poor dear, has ME LOL!

28 posted on 09/14/2007 7:47:34 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)

People always scream in horror when the Vatican expels these people,

The Vatican can expel whoever they wanna expel.

but just think - if the Church had been powerful enough in the ME at the time of Mohammed to denounce him and declare him a heretic (because his syncretist religion included Christian figures as well as pagan and Jewish figures), and then seriously defend people from him and go after him by any means, the entire history of the world would have been different.

If the Church had never gotten into the business of war, Mad Mo may have never gotten the idea to start his own religion. If Christians had been more Christian, Mo may have seen a need to come up with his own "fix" of God's teachings. Arab numbers with the Arab supremacy angle combined with a "holy" cause, stuck in a land with few interesting natural resources offered little incentive to root out Islam in its infancy.

Heresies aren't purely theoretical matters, but have profound consequences in human life.

If we took up the sword & went on the offensive, how would Christianity be different than Mo's abomination?

29 posted on 09/14/2007 12:50:03 PM PDT by GoLightly

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