Posted on 07/31/2004 3:18:06 PM PDT by Patrick Madrid
Catholic canon lawyer Peter Vere and I have co-authored a new book critiquing the claims and controversies of extreme traditionalism that will come out in September, published by Our Sunday Visitor Publishing.
Written in a popular and accessible style, More Catholic Than the Pope provides a detailed analysis of and response to common arguments raised by extreme traditionalist Catholics (in particular, adherents of the Society of St. Pius X) against the Second Vatican Council, Pope John Paul II, the fact that the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre committed a schismatic act by illicitly ordaining four bishops in 1988, and more. Chapters include a history of the SSPX, a background on the controversy between the SSPX and the so-called "Conciliar Church," and answers to several standard canon-law and historical arguments often raised by extreme traditionalists.
Our hope is that, by God's grace, the evidence presented in this new 224-page book will inform, encourage, and strengthen Catholics who have been shaken or confused by the misguided arguments raised against the Catholic Church by some extreme traditionalists and, with regard to those who have adopted a schismatic mindset, that this book will help them recognize the errors of extreme traditionalist groups, help them to see why they should abandon those errors, and help them come home to the Catholic Church.
Additional details on More Catholic Than the Pope will be available soon at Envoy Encore weblog.
By crying 'apostacy' and 'heresy' and calling into question the "moral behavior of a post-conciliar Pope" plus (for added entertainment value) the always finely worded and carefully phrased hints that the pope is not adhering to Catholic doctrine and proper practice?
As to motives, it's really just that simple.
Oh, so 'your guys' get a free good motives pass but the other guys get a bad motive judgement. Please. Charity in all things.
Interestingly, the Indult seems to be more widely available in dioceses with "liberal" bishops, such as Los Angeles, Richmond (under Sullivan) and San Antonio.
Here's a list of approved Tridentine Masses in the USA - should put to rest whether or not it 'seems' that the indult is more readily available under liberal bishops... and one should factor in how many Catholics are in those particular dioceses, too.
Bruskewitz, in Lincoln, has a couple of FSSP parishes, but does not allow the Indult.
Bruskewitz has two indult parishes for a diocese of less than 90k Catholics... but the FSSP is quite active there.
Some people maybe have other stuff to do and don't regularly search FReeRepublic to make sure their character isn't being publicly slandered (without source, too)?
The Latin Rite of the Catholic Church has married priests. Nearly 200 of them.
KATY BAR THE DOOR! THE GATES HAVE BEEN OVERCOME!
Unless it's the pope or the magisterium after 1962, that is. Since the magisterium is a living entity and it is entirely composed of ACTIONS - which you say you protest... the ones YOU PERSONALLY INTERPRET as heterodox, of course - hence the title "MORE CATHOLIC THAN THE POPE".
You are resorting to personal attacks AND, once again, twisting words in a most uncharitable fashion (when you know perfectly well what she meant) in order to make sport of a daughter of Christ.
Makes me wanna come right over to the local SSPX group and be in the "real Catholic Church" oh yeah.
Yes,I read Machiavelli in college,a long,long time ago. More recently,I think I worked for his Prince.
What has this to do with the subject at hand?
Isn't this scenerio how the gnostic gospels got written? Secret knowledge and all that?
Not to say that I don't respect what and how the SSPX started out and what it did for the traditional Catholics caught in the progressive crossfire, but it seems to me that pride/power is now the sticking point in the reconciliation process - but the SSPX would probably say the same thing. I think they all have as a matter of fact ;-)
"KATY BAR THE DOOR! THE GATES HAVE BEEN OVERCOME!"
No use barring the door after the gates have been overcome.
Think about it and it may come to you.
Sometimes I don't check or post for days (lately weeks) - even when I 'hit and run' (post a thread topic) - due to time constraints, obligations outside of FR and then the increasingly vitriolic circular firing squad on the Catholic threads doesn't interest me or help in my relationship with my Savior.
Preserving the common good of society requires rendering the aggressor unable to inflict harm. For this reason, the traditional teaching of the Church has acknowledged as well-founded the right and duty of legitimate public authority to punish malefactors by means of penalties commensurate with the gravity of the crime, not excluding, in cases of extreme gravity, the death penalty.
If bloodless means are sufficient to defend human lives against an aggressor and to protect public order and the safety of persons, public authority should limit itself to such means.
Catechism 2266-67
I don't even want to get into extrapolating the death penalty for a murderer to the death penalty for abortion procurement if that is where you are headed.
Asinine.
Goodnight to you - you have my pity and my prayers.
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