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To: Patrick Madrid
"More Catholic Than the Pope" — New Book Responds to Arguments Raised by Extreme Traditionalists

After reading your book title, I didn't bother to read your commentary. I guess I have read more than my share of the same drivel. The title alone is blatant commercialism, designed to appeal to the majority of un-churched Catholics, who wouldn't know a Sacrament from a sacramental.

For instance, what would be the definition of an extreme traditionalist, as opposed to an ordinary traditionalist, and how would one, as compared to the other, stack up with the Catholicity of the Pope?

Would a fair statement be that an extreme traditionalist believes every doctrine and dogma promulgated by the Church prior to 1962 to be sacrosanct, whereas the Pope does not?

Has it ever occured to you, or any of the others throwing rocks, that traditionalists have been given the Grace to do exactly what they are doing, and may be the remnant promised in Scripture?

There is nothing wrong with making a buck, but at the expense of your Church? "What does it profit a man...."

271 posted on 08/01/2004 5:34:51 PM PDT by Arguss (Take the narrow road)
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To: Arguss
For instance, what would be the definition of an extreme traditionalist, as opposed to an ordinary traditionalist, and how would one, as compared to the other, stack up with the Catholicity of the Pope?

Ordinary traditionalists attend the Indult, and remain within the fold of Catholicism. Madrid's book is directed at the schismatic SSPXers and the sedevacantists, members of whom are outside the bonds of unity with the Pope.

272 posted on 08/01/2004 5:37:25 PM PDT by sinkspur (It is time to breed the Pit Bull Terrier out of existence!)
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To: Arguss
Has it ever occured to you, or any of the others throwing rocks, that traditionalists have been given the Grace to do exactly what they are doing, and may be the remnant promised in Scripture?

Extreme trads, such as SSPXers and sedes, occupy the same role vis-a-vis the Church as the Libertarian and Constitution Party members occupy relative to the Republican Party.

Lots of noise, but they have no effect and no influence because they are renegades.

274 posted on 08/01/2004 5:40:00 PM PDT by sinkspur (It is time to breed the Pit Bull Terrier out of existence!)
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