[Dominick]

The Pope does not wear the Church on his back. Where the office of the Pope is, there is the Church.

I don't see a problem watching other faiths pray at Assisi. I have a problem uncatholicizing the building for them, but anyone can pray where they like. They also prayed separately, however, I pray all the time with non-Catholics. I Pray to God, and maybe offer a Hail Mary, or a Prayer to St. Michael sometimes, but praying in the presence of others sometimes helps is winning them over.

Your smugness leaves me cold. Is that gleee with another twist of the SSPX dagger in the back of the Church?

[Grey Ghost II]

I don't see a problem watching other faiths pray at Assisi.

You don't have a problem with those, who deny Christ, using a Catholic facility to pray to cows? What a surprise - neither does John Paul II.

But God forbid allowing a Catholic priest to offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass at a Catholic Church according to the missal of 1962 - that will not be tolerated!

[Land of the Irish]

The Pope does not wear the Church on his back.

No, he does not. But he does wear the mark of Shiva on his forehead.

[ultima ratio]

"Your smugness leaves me cold. Is that gleee with another twist of the SSPX dagger in the back of the Church?"

The smug one is yourself. What makes what you say a mockery is the way you accept anything but the SSPX--including the desecrations at Assisi and Fatima. You have no problem with Catholics praying alongside witchdoctors--so long as they don't attend the ancient Mass celebrated by SSPX priests. What hypocrisy! If you had a modicum of honesty, you'd recognize the double-standard instead of casting slurs.

Take another look at Assisi. Those were Catholic altars heathens were praying to their gods at. Then take another look at the first commandment: I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt not have strange gods before me. How you can pass this off as just another papal peccadillo is beyond me. This was the pope who did this--hugging even Voodoo priests all the while as was giving the back of his hand to the Archbishop. Something very wrong there.

[ninenot]

Is that gleee with another twist of the SSPX dagger in the back of the Church?

Despite all the claims...SSPX's "dagger" is merely a pinprick in the Church.

Out of a Wisconsin Catholic population of about 1 million+, the SSPX membership is around 1,000.

Perhaps it's growing fast. Nobody could possibly notice.