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To: Hermann the Cherusker

Wrong. The Pope commanded the Archbishop not to consecrate in order to destroy the traditional Mass. This was bad. The Archbishop refused to be complicit in such destruction and its consequent harm to souls. This was good. It had nothing to do with denying his papacy, by the way. That was a gratuitous slam by an irate pope.


634 posted on 07/18/2004 10:44:17 PM PDT by ultima ratio
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To: ultima ratio
The Pope commanded the Archbishop not to consecrate in order to destroy the traditional Mass. This was bad.

You stretch credulity here when the Pope was trying to negotiate a regularization of the SSPX situation, including the granting of a new Bishop. Also when the results of the consecrations were the approval of a number of traditionalist groups to work within the Church to augment the already approved 1984 norms for continuing to use the 1962 Missal.

645 posted on 07/19/2004 5:49:25 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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