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To: irishjuggler
The priests and faithful of the Society have not been excommunicated. They are not heretics.

I don't know anything about that cardinal or his authority on the topic, but regardless the statement is irrelevant. The question isn't whether the priests and lay people are heretics, but whether they are schismatics. I personally believe that anyone who would deny that the SSPX is in schism is either a fool or a liar, and this is exactly why their arguments and equivocations are always so weak. I am not interested in discussing this with them, however, since I would rather spend my ecumenical efforts in conversation with more intellectually honest protestants.

As Pope John Paul II said to the priests and laity of the SSPX:


23 posted on 01/13/2009 5:07:47 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: Ronaldus Magnus
I don't know anything about that cardinal or his authority on the topic,

FWIW, he's the top cardinal at the pontifical Ecclesia Dei commission which handles relations with traditionalist (aka Latin Mass) Catholics, so his views aren't exactly irrelevant.
24 posted on 01/13/2009 5:12:42 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: Ronaldus Magnus

You just called Pope Benedict and Cardinal Hoyos fools and liars.


26 posted on 01/13/2009 5:35:51 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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