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To: ninenot
I of course disagree. It's not that I don't believe that there are enemies to the right; it's simply that I have difficulty becoming upset over Roman Catholics that I probably could not distinguish from MY Catholic ancestors. What is it exactly that they believe Liturgically, that my grandfather didn't believe? Why does the Church bend over backwards for Protestants, Jews, Muslims and Bhuddists and give these guys the shaft? It simply seems uncharitable.
25 posted on 04/12/2003 7:34:58 PM PDT by TradicalRC (Fides quaerens intellectum.)
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To: TradicalRC
I agree with you that various Bishops and Cardinals are jerks. Doesn't make SSPX correct. I attended the Old Rite 'unauthorized,' and my father's Funeral Mass was an 'unauthorized' Requiem. At the time, there were no alternatives, and Weakland was in power here.

I am convinced that I was justified in my previous actions, although I will learn the real answer within the next 30 or 40 years from St. Pete.

I'll try to send you the results. Be paying attention.
30 posted on 04/13/2003 5:56:09 AM PDT by ninenot
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To: TradicalRC; ninenot; Canticle_of_Deborah; Cap'n Crunch; St.Chuck; saradippity; american colleen; ...
"Why does the Church... give these guys the shaft?"

It might be their attitude or their inability to keep a civil tongue in their heads or their incessant carping and complaining against the pope or their invention of non-existent "crises" to justify their defiance or disobedience or impudence. Maybe it's the willingness to put words in the pope's mouth as to foreign policy matters or to accept the AP's alleged paraphrase whose accuracy the Vatican denies. Maybe, just maybe, they are not getting the shaft or even one tenth of the punishment they deserve. Protestants, Jews, Muslims and Buddhists make no claim to be Catholic. The pope has no obligation to accommodate the enemy within.

Here is how to distinguish your ancestors from SSPX. Your ancestors were probably not in the habit of vilifying (not just disagreeing with/not just criticizing) the pope. Your ancestors probably did not take pride in disobeying the pope. In the event that they did any of these things, the fact that they were your ancestors does not insulate them from the consequences and they knew that.

Finally, God is love. Therefore, God is charity (another word for love). Yet God is just and he sends some whom He loves to hell because they have insisted on such justice by their behavior. It is not uncharitable to refuse to indulge the fiction that SSPXers claim when they claim to be Catholics while rejecting the authority of the Church itself. It is charitable to insist that they accept the unvarnished truth or the truth with the bark on.

35 posted on 04/13/2003 10:28:15 AM PDT by BlackElk (Viva Cristo Rey! The concept of a schismatic Catholic is a contradiction in terms.)
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