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What reconciliation? SSPX Demotes Former French Superior
Envoy Encore ^ | 5/28/03 | Pete Vere, JCL

Posted on 05/30/2003 11:43:43 PM PDT by Theosis

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To: sinkspur
"In your world, Hussein would still be in power, not only in Iraq, but in Kuwait, too, as the Pope opposed the Gulf War in 1991."

In "[my] world," Saddam Hussein would never have made his presence felt, because his ancestors--and those of his Islamic thugs, would never had escaped Godfrey of Bouillon and his Crusaders' swords. Hussein, terrorism, et al. are the sole fruit of the Mohammedian heresy, which, in turn, is one more result of Protestant trechory.
141 posted on 06/04/2003 5:40:53 PM PDT by jt8d (War is better than terrorism.)
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To: sinkspur
I have read his letters--none of them goofy. If anyone is goofy, it's yourself, peddling this stuff. Yes, he mentioned the Unibomber's writings--but he put distance between himself and the man first, addressing only the writings, which were hostile to unbridled technological development. I am not a fan of this viewpoint--but it is not goofy. His views on women's dress are old-fashioned, but not worthy of the kinds of overwrought attacks you favor. The charges of Nazi sympathizing is the most serious attack of all--which you hurl freely, without consideration of the harm this does. This is culpable, and slanderous, motivated by sheer malice.
142 posted on 06/04/2003 5:40:54 PM PDT by ultima ratio
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To: ultima ratio
Dear ultima,

"Neither you nor sitetest do anything but slander people."

ROTFLMAO.

For myself, all I've done is quote the guy, and then offered my opinion about it.

I guess that's slander enough. All you have to do is read his trash, and you can figure it out on your own. And if you can't, it says more about you than even about Mr. Williamson. ;-)

As for picking bishops, our Holy Father is responsible for choosing more than 3000 bishops, worldwide. He has relied on his brother bishops from around the world to assist him. Unfortunately, time has shown that not all these brother bishops were worthy of his trust, and they didn't assist him as they should.

Yet, he could not have appointed scores or even hundreds of bishops per year without assistance.

Mr. Lefebvre only felt the need to defy God in consecrating four schismatic bishops. These were men he knew well, or should have known well. But in his choice of Mr. Williamson, he shows how easily he could be deceived by even one quite close to him. It is clear that the Holy Spirit was not with him in his decision to defy God and consecrate these rebel renegade bishops.


sitetest
143 posted on 06/04/2003 5:42:38 PM PDT by sitetest (I'm still praying for you, ultima! Someday, you WILL return to the Catholic Church!! ;-))
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To: ultima ratio
Read the WTC letter. You'll see that Dickie-boy's not wild about Arabs either. In fact, he seems to dislike most everybody, but himself.

You missed the fun last night, ur.

Is the SOUND OF MUSIC pornographic? Does your wife wear shorts, or pants, even in your own home? Did your wife go to college?

Does she ever have an idea? Williamson's not wild about women having ideas.

No. Your man passed from Anglicanism, briefly through Catholicism, on his way to the SSPX.

BTW, I'll start posting references to you when you start posting references, something you never do.

144 posted on 06/04/2003 5:43:10 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: k omalley
Yes, I have read some of Kasper's works and have remarked on them on this site. He doubts the historicity of the Resurrection. He interprets this event as a spiritual reality, rather than as something that physically happened and was even witnessed--as St. Paul argued. This is why Ratzinger opposed his being awarded the red hat--but JnPII went ahead anyway.
145 posted on 06/04/2003 5:44:35 PM PDT by ultima ratio
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To: sinkspur
Dear sinkspur,

"Did your wife go to college?"

Hey, what's wrong with you anyway?? Don't you know that:

"That girls should not be in universities flows from the nature of universities and from the nature of girls: true universities are for ideas, ideas are not for true girls, so true universities are not for true girls."

- Richard Williamson

Oh, wait, I guess that's slander. LOL!


sitetest
146 posted on 06/04/2003 5:47:07 PM PDT by sitetest (I laughed, I cried, but mostly I cried. :-( Some people actually take this wackjob seriously.)
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To: ultima ratio
Thanks, UR. I really need to read the book. I hope I'll understand it. I think I have permanent brain damage from deconstruction studies.
147 posted on 06/04/2003 5:48:25 PM PDT by k omalley
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To: ultima ratio
The charges of Nazi sympathizing is the most serious attack of all--which you hurl freely, without consideration of the harm this does.

I never said Dickie-boy was a Nazi sympathizer; I said he admired things Nazi and has Nazi paraphernalia in his residence, according to an ex-SSPXer.

Now, maybe he just likes broken crosses, or maybe he thinks Hitler was a genius (as Pat Buchanan does). I don't know. Do you?

148 posted on 06/04/2003 5:51:36 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: sandyeggo
Where are these "quotes" from? Are you sure they are Williamson's? I find them hard to believe. I have been reading his letters the past several years--and never came across anything like these quotations.
149 posted on 06/04/2003 5:51:47 PM PDT by ultima ratio
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To: sinkspur
"Now, maybe he just likes broken crosses, or maybe he thinks Hitler was a genius (as Pat Buchanan does). I don't know. Do you?"

Now, sir, I have got your number. It is becoming most obvious that you puposely quote out of context, that you may imply injury where none exist, and thus affect gross character assassination. We both know full well, Sinkspur, that Pat Buchanan did in no way advanced the message of Hitler being a "genius" under a positive light, which you here ascribe to him very shrewdly. The context of Buchanan's remark revolved around Hitler's cunning, as a populist orator, to manipulate an entire nation. Even as Hitler set to motion a system that accomplished efficiency in the material realm--which one could generically ascribe the character of organizational "genious," doing so in no way implies a benevolent, or otherwise complimentary, global sense of the word, for Hitler's true "genious" was that of being supremely evil.

Sinkspur, while I may not agree with Mr. Buchanan on several issues, I would still maintain my integrity by quoting the man in full context. That you willfully attempt to turn the phrase, in order to slander Pat Buchanan, is obvious.


151 posted on 06/04/2003 6:13:12 PM PDT by jt8d (War is better than terrorism.)
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To: sandyeggo
On Women attending the University. Here is what you left out:

"But Pius XII encouraged you to make the best of being forced out into the world? - Maybe he was making the best of an already bad situation in the 1940's and 1950's, when he hoped women would bring to bear their femininity on the public domain. However, by the definitions of "feminine" and "public", that is a contradiction in terms. Fifty years later, who can deny that the public domain has de-feminized, woman? As a friend said, "Women used to have careers open to them only in nursing and teaching, which they did well. Now they no longer know how to do either!"

"It is high time for Catholics to buck the current and to buck the world! Europe, center of Christendom, is collapsing, because European girls are all being taught to go to "university" and to "put off' having babies! Woman and family are in desperate crisis - do we want to follow the swine over the cliff?

"But men today are unfit to lead, so you have to go to university to take their place? – You cannot take their place!!!! (The exception proves the rule). Today you are merely following them into "universities", tomorrow you will be following them out. By hook or by crook, do something motherly, play your part as God meant you to do, and God can give you back from above the manly leaders and the husband that you pray for and need, but that you cannot by the nature of things wrest to yourselves from below. You cannot restore God's order by breaking it. Get behind your men! Behind, you have an enormous power to inspire and guide. In front, you will merely make them more irresponsible than ever..."

I do not ascribe to this view, neither does my wife--which has always been an obstacle for me as far as Williamson goes. But neither should his view be trivialized as goofy. He clearly knew he was exaggerating. As women are more masculinized, men have become more feminized. This was his essential point.
152 posted on 06/04/2003 6:17:29 PM PDT by ultima ratio
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To: sandyeggo
On WTC--here is the full quote:

"For the last fourteen hundred years Mohammedans, whether Saracens or Arabs or Moors or Turks, have served God as a scourge to punish faithless Christians, or slack Christendom. When Catholics are fervent, God can grant them miraculous victories over the Mohammedans, as at the sea-battle of Lepanto in 1571. When Catholics are slack, God can allow the very survival of their nations to be threatened, as now, by birth-rates in Europe, by terrorism in the USA. When Spanish Catholics were slack in the 700's, God allowed the Jews to betray Spain to the Arabs. When Spanish Catholics were truly Catholic, God granted them by 1492 to reconquer Spain from the Arabs, and then granted them to create a Catholic empire in the Americas. Either way, God writes straight with crooked lines for the salvation of souls.

"The Jews are a similar case. As early as 200 the Church author Tertullian remarked that as Catholic faith goes up, so Jewish power goes down, while as Catholic faith goes down, so Jewish power goes up. In the Catholic Middle Ages the Jews we're relatively impotent to harm Christendom, but as Catholics have grown over the centuries since then weaker and weaker in the faith, especially since Vatican II, so the Jews have come closer and closer to fulfilling their substitute-Messianic drive towards world dominion.

"If we return for a moment to politics, the United States is now caught precisely between these two scourges of God. Unquestionably one main grievance of Arabs against the United States, provoking their terrorists to lash out as we have seen, is the United States' one-sided favoring of Israel over the Arabs for the last forty years. But each time the United States attempts to act even-handedly towards the Arabs, Jewish power inside the United States - e.g. virtual control of finance and the media - blocks the attempt, and the United States returns to oppressing the Arabs.

"This problem of the United States is politically insoluble, because it is a religious problem! The United States is caught between these two scourges of God, because it has turned away from God. God chastises those whom He loves (Heb. XII, 6), so that if God were not now chastising the United States, it would be the proof not that He loved, but that He did not love the United States! Let us be grateful that God is using Arab and Jew to chastise us! And let us therefore, with no thought of hating Arab or Jew, because they are NOT the real problem, turn to the real problem, which is the sins by which we offend God."

Again, I do not ascribe to these views--but they are not anti-Semitic strictly speaking. If anything, they are biased against other religions, the Islamic and the Judaic. Williamson's reading is toxic, perhaps, but not crazy. Any Catholic is free to disagree--and most do, including most traditionalists.
155 posted on 06/04/2003 6:29:24 PM PDT by ultima ratio
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To: jt8d
That you willfully attempt to turn the phrase, in order to slander Pat Buchanan, is obvious.

How much of Pat Buchanan have you read? The man is obsessed with 1) Jews and 2) Hitler. Bill Buckley concluded, in 1992, that he could not defend Pat against charges of anti-semitism, and Pat has only gotten worse as time has gone on.

Pat's dad was an old "America Firster", a follower of the Jew-hating Fr. Coughlin and the Hitler-admiring Charles Lindbergh. Pat himself has argued against the theory of diesel engines being used in concentration camps, and defended the infamous John Demjanjuk against charges of being a guard in a Nazi concentration camp, only to find out that ole John had been a guard in a Russian concentration camp.

Pat's pretty well discredited himself, and will never be anything but an interesting anachronism.

156 posted on 06/04/2003 6:33:57 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: ultima ratio
In the Catholic Middle Ages the Jews we're relatively impotent to harm Christendom, but as Catholics have grown over the centuries since then weaker and weaker in the faith, especially since Vatican II, so the Jews have come closer and closer to fulfilling their substitute-Messianic drive towards world dominion.

You don't find this to be anti-semitic? It's the old "Protocols of Zion" point of view.

Go here to see how well Williamson seems to know the "Protocols," one of the most anti-semitic, conspiratorial screeds ever written.

157 posted on 06/04/2003 6:41:31 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: sandyeggo
Granted Williamson is our hairshirt. He ascribes to especially far-right views at times, but neither is he typical of how most SSPXers think. I have said this before. Using him as a whip to scourge traditionalism generally--as Sinspur does--is ridiculous.
158 posted on 06/04/2003 6:41:47 PM PDT by ultima ratio
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To: sinkspur
I don't think it reflects the "Protocols" so much as a distrust of Jewish freemasonry and Zionism.
159 posted on 06/04/2003 6:44:52 PM PDT by ultima ratio
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To: ultima ratio; sinkspur; sandyeggo
Dear ultima,

Oh, heck, ultima, you left out the very best part of the WTC dreck:

"That is a religious and not a political calculation. Man proposes, God disposes. On the political level, we can be virtually certain that the vile media will not tell us the full story. There is serious reason to believe--that in 1898, it was not the Spaniards who sank the 'USS Maine'; that in 1917, it was not the Germans who set up the "Lusitania" as a target; that in 1941 it was not the Japanese who set up Pearl Harbor for attack; that in 1963 it was not Lee Harvey Oswald who killed President Kennedy. In 1990 it was certainly not Saddam Hussein who promised not to react if he invaded Kuwait. In 1994 it was certainly not Timothy McVeigh's van exploding outside the Alfred Murrah building in Oklahoma City which brought the front of the building down. In 2001...? Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, now Osama bin Laden, from CIA-assets to personal enemies of the American people -how many more times will the trick work?"

This crackpot sounds more like the leader of some nutjob Aryan Nation or Christian Identity group rather than a "catholic" bishop. Heck, if I didn't know better, I'd think that Oliver Stone was writing his material!

Listen, if you want to defend him, be my guest. If you want to say that this dreck isn't off the wall, be my guest.

Or, I could be wrong and you're really not offended by this sewage!

The Catholics here think the guy is a basket-case.

sitetest

160 posted on 06/04/2003 6:46:10 PM PDT by sitetest (I laughed, I cried, but mostly I cried. :-( Some people actually take this wackjob seriously.)
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