[FBDinNJ]

This is an interesting article which summarizes Bishop Fellay's reasons for not coming back into full communion with the Church.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Those of us, orthodox and still in the Church under Rome,
share our prayers for the Church in its current trials.

[narses]

Thanks for the post. I would love to see the text of the letter from Card. Castrillon. If it is as reported, it is a gross misrepresentation of the Doctrine of Infallibility.

[Dajjal]

This would remove the pretence that the old Mass had been abrogated, make it very difficult (if not impossible) to abrogate it in the future and would cause many graces to flow into the Church because of the increased celebration of the old rite. The answer from Rome to this request was that "Basically, the Pope does agree that the old Mass has never been abrogated and that all priests have the right to say it" but the request was refused...."

In France, the Bishop of Poitiers reported that he had twelve young priests who wish to say the old Mass, and in France as a whole a petition from over three hundred and twenty diocesan priests have made a similar request.

The Pope apparently believes that all these priests already have the right to say the Traditional Roman Catholic Mass, but he refuses to publicly say so.

We must pray that the truth becomes known.

[narses]

Ping.

[Antoninus]

Praying for a Church reunion with the SSPX. I'd certainly rather have you folks aboard than our "Call to Action" Catholic liberals.

[topher]

Some of the things in this article are propaganda.

Pope John Paul ex-communicated the late Archbishop of SSPX for disobedience in ordaining two bishops in DIRECT DEFIANCE OF THE VATICAN.

The late Archbishop always held that he was right and Pope John Paul II was wrong -- including about Vatican II.

One must remember the source of this news letter and understand Canon Law. I do have a friend who will be ordained priest on Saturday who has studied at the Vatican and has studied Vatican law (though he is not an expert.

I guess if any of the late Archbishop's priests would have disobeyed him (as he disobeyed Pope John Paul II), he probably would have kicked them out of SSPX.