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To: pgkdan
Dear pgkdan,

I think everyone is in agreement that the chapel is now a Tridentine Rite regularized church in communion with the Holy Catholic Church and the See of Peter.

However, it seems that Orual disputes the story told by AB, which is supported by the independent facts, and by your own post, too.

PGK sitetest ;-)

67 posted on 07/22/2002 4:22:28 PM PDT by sitetest
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To: sitetest
Thank you for your information, I still have not had the opportunity to idependently check the SSPX involvement in the Chapel in question.

I was very disturbed by the tone of Arrogant's first comment. He described all the parishioners he spoke with, and later, the pastor, as "ignorant, self-righteous, and arrogant" (interesting adjective considering his choice of ID). I don't believe that all those parishioners and the priest told him he would go to hell if he attended a NO Mass. As I said in my last reply to Arrogant, it is altogether possible that a misguided, misinformed parishioner or two might say something like this - I'm sure you will agree that fanatical members of all religions are guilty of an excess of zeal.

This incident happened 15 years ago according to Arrogant. He has admitted now that perhaps the priest wasn't an SSPX priest, and could have been a member of a Sedevacantist order. The SSPX is not Sedevacantist,we pray for the Pope frequently and a page on the SSPX website is devoted to him. The SSPX's position has always been that it is not in their province to decide whether or not the Pope is in error, although they (and I) do definitely believe he is. They have consistently maintained that it is up to a succeeding Pope to decide this question.

Arrogant also was exceeding rude and used name-calling instead of engaging in a reasoned discussion. Usually I wouldn't have continued to reply, but I found his story so outrageous that I felt compelled to challenge it. As usually happens when I make the mistake of trying to establish some sort of dialogue in this type of atmosphere, with hindsight I always regret having done it.

68 posted on 07/23/2002 5:54:38 AM PDT by Orual
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