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To: Catholicguy
"The Magisterium decides what is and isn't Tradition."

Thank you for some sanity, for a while there I felt like Alice on the other side of the looking glass. I had assumed if someone referred to the term Trad, they were supportive of Magisterial teachings and the Pope.

I'm starting to wonder if there should be a list of definitions for all these labels. Or some sort of silly multiple choice test to figure out one's nomenclature. I didn 't realize how tiered Catholicism had become. In what decade did this start?
36 posted on 07/24/2002 6:34:06 PM PDT by Domestic Church
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To: Domestic Church
I'm starting to wonder if there should be a list of definitions for all these labels. Or some sort of silly multiple choice test to figure out one's nomenclature. I didn 't realize how tiered Catholicism had become. In what decade did this start?

When we profess the Creed, we profess "I believe in One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church..." That "One" means Unity; Unity of Worship, Doctrine, Authority.

Those who refuse to accept the Authority of the Pope and those who refuse to accept the Doctrines of an Ecumenical Council (such as D.H.) really ought to remain silent during the Creed because if they profess that while acting otherwise, they are liars.

I don't know when the soi disant "Trads" began adding that to Catholic. It'd be interesting to do a nexus/lexus search and see who the first was to use it. I'd bet it was one who was in opposition to the then living Pope.

The more one learns about what the "Trads" actually believe, the more one notes their own modernism. They are neologists and they invent words like "Papolotry" and 'Neo-Catholics" to denigrate those that ARE in that tri-fold Unity. Amasing.

Years ago, there was a gentleman that wrote for "The Wanderer" that suggested the "no enemies on the right" strategy that I see appearing on this thread. I guess we are just supposed to silently suffer sustained, outrageous, insipid, destructive, abominable, sickening and schismatic attacks against the Pope, an Ecumenical Council, Papal Encyclicals, and the normative Mass just because those so destructive of Unity describe themselves as "Traditionalists." Come on...

Those that are soi disant "Trads" do NOT act that way. They do NOT focus on what UNITES them and the Pope. Their ENTIRE METIER is OPPOSITION to what they say is "Tradition." That is how they sell their fetid little periodicals. They have been toiling away for decades and their mephitic machinations are not performed with the intent to succor the Papacy.

They sign public declarations that they will not submit to the Divinely-constituted authority - and those of us who are in Union with the Pope are only supposed to focus on the things we have in common with those that refuse their obedience to the Pope? Come on...

They promote that ghastly, sick piece of pathetic trash-book called "Loveth me thou, Peter," or whatever the hell it is called, that is INTENDED to sow uncertainity about the actions of the Pope and which the Calvinists have been gleefully referencing to trash John Paul II and those of us who ARE in Union with the Pope are supposed to adopt a quietist posture towards such cacophanous calumny directed at a great and Holy Pope and focus on things we "agree" upon? Come on...

The soi disant "Trads" initiated this destructiveness. It is their DUTY to end it. The Pope has gone WAY out of his way to appease these Ecclesiastical bastards (They will not have the Pope as their father).

Were it me, I'd publicly and permanently excommunicate the entire worthless lot of them and make them do public penance before accepting them back - but, that is just me. AND, if they WERE real "Traditionalists" they'd DEMAND they be treated like the "Old Days" and before they were accepted back in Communion,they would have to submit to the same sort of Public Penances that one used to have to undergo for such pertinacious perfidy. But we all KNOW the "Trads" want it both ways. They roar when they attack then mewl when they are challenged.They will blindy rip away at the Magisterium like some rabid wolverine then whine like a tabby when they are called to task. Jejune jackanapes.

This Pope is far Holier and honourable than these "Trads" are and he will seek after these lost sheep and do whatever he can to bring them back within the Sheepgate even while they will do everything they can to injure him and his reputation as he seeks them out....

Those that want to succor such devilishness are welcome to it, but, include me out.

38 posted on 07/25/2002 5:49:50 AM PDT by Catholicguy
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