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To: ultima ratio
Lefebvre's tree is also in the garden. You can tell which one it is because it's the only one around bearing any good fruit.

Puny nodules aren't "good fruit" UR, especially since some of those pomegranetes think other trees look better.

We've worn this metaphor out, I think.

132 posted on 09/20/2004 10:49:16 PM PDT by sinkspur ("John Kerry's gonna win on his juices. "--Cardinal Fanfani)
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To: sinkspur; NYer; Unam Sanctam
The whole thread is worn out. It is pretty much the same old wrong song, sang off key, and from someone else's sheet music. It is like the song, that was written in English, translated to French, and then back into English.

The SSPX is not Catholic. Easily shown by documents from the only authority that matters, the Holy See. Every Pope from that past would not tolerate Lefebvre, just as the did not tolerate Luther, or others who left the Church. All those people fall into the same group, opposing the rightful authority of the Pope, and shirking the obedience they promise to render him.

The fruit the SSPX has yielded is evident here. Even the Mod who isn't Catholic sees this fruit from the SSPX; insults to others, sedavacanism, petty squabbles, and now from a "bishop" of the SSPX, more of the same.

Nobody here who is a Catholic in good standing can say the Tridentine Mass is invalid. We can see that the SSPX is attempting to hijack it to make their own little fiefdom. When talking about the SSPX, they hide behind the Mass like an attack on them is an attack in the Tridentine rite.

Now we have the statements that every Novus Ordo Mass is a "Clown Mass", a conference of leaders to defuse violence at Assisi is elevated to Council status, and any contact with any other faith or talking about any secular figures results in a taint. Perhaps the Pope should not use a Radio, because Maxwell, who formulated the equations governing electromagnetism was a Scot and hence a Presbyterian.

As was pointed out, this isn't how a Catholic acts, much less a Christian.
142 posted on 09/21/2004 6:46:45 AM 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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