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To: sitetest
Did you know the SSPX has chapels in Africa, in Japan, in S.korea, in the Philipines, in Ireland, in Britain, in Italy, in France, in Poland, in Czechoslovakia, in Portugal, etc., etc.--they are all over the world, truly Catholic, by the way. The young priests are heroic, travelling long miles to get to distant chapels. I travel an hour with my family to get to church on Sunday.
326 posted on 08/08/2002 3:15:12 PM PDT by ultima ratio
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To: ultima ratio
Dear ultima ratio,

Yes, I know that there are SSPX in a number of countries.

The organization has approximately 370 priests world-wide, or at least, that is what is reported at the organization's headquarters website. Imagine that! Three hundred seventy priests world-wide! In only 30+ years! Why, in another 30+ years, they'll be as big as a medium-sized religious order in the real Catholic Church!

"The young priests are heroic, travelling long miles to get to distant chapels. I travel an hour with my family to get to church on Sunday."

Yes, well, in the real Catholic Church, when we see this sort of thing, we are saddened because of the lack of vocations, and we wonder what poor spiritual administration the local bishop has committed that things have come to such a sorry state.

You know, "By their fruits you shall know them."

sitetest

PS: I'd love to continue our little dialogue, but in a little while, I'll be leaving to hang out with faithful Catholics - it's Knights of Columbus night. So, at some point, I will disappear from this otherwise edifying conversation.

331 posted on 08/08/2002 3:35:56 PM PDT by sitetest
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