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To: Dominick

You are illogical and all over the place. Stick to the issue. Here is what the encyclopedia says: "Excommunication is said to be unjust when, though valid, it is wrongfully applied to a person really innocent but believed to be guilty." It goes on to say such an unjust decree may be ignored since it has no effect.

The Pope's motu proprio is just such an unjust declaration and may be ignored--and is. You don't like this attitude. But the truth is the truth. It is clear that the Archbishop saw Traditional Catholicism being wrecked by modernism. It is also clear the Pope did not seem to mind. It was the Archbishop who acted to protect Tradition and preserve the faith--something the Pope himself ought to have done, but didn't.


855 posted on 07/21/2004 12:00:50 PM PDT by ultima ratio
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To: ultima ratio
Fellay admits he is excommunicated.

There is nothing you can say to deny this admission. The Pope comments and confirms the sentence, and no trial is needed.

The facts are clear. The admission is final.
857 posted on 07/21/2004 12:06:27 PM PDT by Dominick ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
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