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To: ArrogantBustard
but I was there. You weren't. (Or maybe you were? If so, then maybe you were one of the pinheads who told me I wasn't a 'real' Catholic and that the new Mass was going to send me straight to Hell if I didn't join their little group forthwith?)

Sweet talk, Arrogant. No, my "pinhead" self has never visited that Chapel which has magically transformed to a Diocese Chapel with an OSB Pastor. I will check to see if it ever was an SSPX Chapel some 15 years ago. But it probably isn't worth the effort. It is not up to me or anyone to decide whether you are going to hell, and I don't believe that anyone ever said that to you. I am confident that you have made that up along the complete story about the ignorant, self-righteous parishioners. The tale is redolent of viciousness, not veracity. Good, hateful story, though.

44 posted on 07/22/2002 7:42:28 AM PDT by Orual
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To: Orual; Bud McDuell
[I have] never visited that Chapel

IOW, you don't know what you're talking about. I'll concede that a sample of one can't be extrapolated to the larger group. I never said otherwise. But that sample that I saw 15 years ago was a really poor ambassador for the group. I was there, Charlie. I know what I saw, I know what I heard. It was 'way too shocking to forget.

Go HERE, read this:
This was the very first of what is now six known Catholic parishes (Western Rite) inside the Vatican institution. At this parish, all teaching and sacraments are performed according to the Catholic (Tridentine) forms. This same bishop would soon bring about the second Indult parish. In 1992, St. Benedict's Chapel in Chesapeake was acquired by Bp. Sullivan after existing for years as a parish ministered to by priests of each of the SSPX and SSPV in turn. For his own curious reasons, Bp. Sullivan prefers not to have his traditional parishes serviced by the FSSP, but merely by older Benedictine priests to whom he has granted the Indult.
and admit that I know what I'm talking about, and you don't. There's another reference HERE that may shed a little light on the topic. I await your apology, Orual.

AB

45 posted on 07/22/2002 8:07:50 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard
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To: Orual
BTW, my name is Bustard.
46 posted on 07/22/2002 8:08:30 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard
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