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To: narses
He is the authority and they rebel. They do, in the defense of feminism, Modernism and Americanism what the SSPX does in defense of Tradition.

A valid point, and one that has often crossed my mind.

I do not adhere to SSPX, and disagree with their strategies, but it seems to me that the dissenters within the formal Church are at least as disobedient as most of the so-called "schimatics" in SSPX.

Yet, the SSPXers are treated as pariahs, while the liberals are handled with kid gloves.

43 posted on 04/09/2004 8:57:17 PM PDT by B Knotts (Salve!)
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To: B Knotts
The Society ordained their own bishops. Any Modernist bishop in the Church who did the same thing would get the same treatment from the Vatican.

The fact that Lefebvre and his Society didn't get excommunicated for this:

We refuse, on the other hand, and have always refused to follow the Rome of neo-Modernist and neo-Protestant tendencies which were clearly evident in the Second Vatican Council and, after the Council, in all the reforms which issued from it.

really says it all concerning the laxity with which the Roman Pontiffs treated the SSPX.

44 posted on 04/09/2004 9:44:07 PM PDT by gbcdoj (in mundo pressuram habetis, sed confidite, ego vici mundum)
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To: B Knotts; GatorGirl; maryz; *Catholic_list; afraidfortherepublic; Antoninus; Aquinasfan; Askel5; ...
I do not adhere to SSPX, and disagree with their strategies, but it seems to me that the dissenters within the formal Church are at least as disobedient as most of the so-called "schimatics" in SSPX.

Yet, the SSPXers are treated as pariahs, while the liberals are handled with kid gloves.

Look, as far as the SSPX is concerned, they are a part of a much larger Catholic Church. They know it is the Church Christ founded that carries His guarantee, not any particular order within the Church. They know, they are not the issue, God's Will is. (They often don't ACT like they know they are not the issue, but they do know that.) Is it conceivable that God's Will include child molesting priests being aided, recruited, enabled and protected by the Weakland's of THIS world? The reality is that the leadership of the RCC in America is demonstrably FAR more swift to punish in every way possible ORTHODOXY in defense of Tradition than they are HETERODOXY in defiance of the same.

Can anyone explain that in a way that makes sense?

49 posted on 04/10/2004 8:34:54 AM PDT by narses (If you want OFF or ON my Catholic Ping list, please email me. +)
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