"Until then, it can only be conceded that this is the official policy of the SSPX..."
Only if everything that comes out of the USCCB can be considered "official policy" of the AmChurch. Sordid stuff like it is heretical to prosyletize the Jews? No Sitetest, a 1993 answer by one SSPX website is no more "official policy" than one white paper from the USCCB is. When the reconcilliation occurs, will this FAQ remain? I don't know, but it has it's recipocal in anti-SSPX and anti-Tridentine FAQ's and determinations by hierarchs around the world. Will they remain?
Recall clearly that Weakland and his ilk insisted that the Tridentine be totally suppressed and their argument was that progress towards the "new" church couldn't occur absent such suppression. Recall their anguish at the current Indult? How is the denigration of one Rite any different than another? I condemn all such denigrations but do not ascribe them to any other than the denigrators.
Finally, see the difference: almost every SSPX adherent here was of good cheer when the "reconcillation" was announced, now that it is delayed, posts like this appear. How does this help heal the Wounds in the Mystical Body? See
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/899986/posts for another approach.
Dear narses,
The USCCB may be an organization of American bishops, but it has no actual ecclesiastical standing. The comparison doesn't stand.
Further, you know that the document about evangelizing Jews was not even an official USCCB document, but rather the musings of a subcommittee of a committee, and was taken down rather hastily in embarrassment by the bishops.
Additionally, though the cited execrable article was written in 1993, it is still maintained on the official SSPX website. Here is the link:
http://www.sspx.org/SSPX_FAQs/q10_indult.htm To get to this evil insult against the Catholic Church, one need merely go to www.sspx.org, click DIRECTLY FROM THE HOME PAGE to the FAQ page, and then click to this question. It is an active, current link, not found in some archive of dead letters, but presented as the current thinking of the schismatic excommunicated SSPX.
Do you think that a similar article condemning the Tridentine Rite, if found on the Vatican website, could be naysayed away by saying, "Oh, well, that was written ten years ago."?
It would be the bitterest irony that a group so taken with their delusional defense of "tradition" would wave away their evil words by citing the advanced age of the missive. That is disgusting.
The fact that some hierarchs have not embraced the Tridentine Rite is not pertinent, here, narses, and you know it. The Church herself, through the actions of the Supreme Pontiff, contradict the actions or words of a hierarch here or there. When Mr. Fellay openly condemns these words, you will have some grounds to your argument. When he has them stripped from his schismatic website, then you will have an argument.
In the meanwhile, the facts still stand, this is abhorrent, and to sugar-coat it is equally morally disgusting.
As to "healing the wounds", there will be no "healing" without truth. And the truth is that the SSPX promotes hatred of the normative Mass of the Roman Catholic Church. And any who seek to paper that over join in their crimes.
sitetest