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To: ultima ratio
Dear ultima ratio,

"'It may well be that kneeling is alien to modern culture--insofar as it is a culture, for this culture has turned away from the faith and no longer knows the One before whom kneeling is the right, indeed the intrinsically necessary gesture. The man who learns to believe learns also to kneel, and a faith or a liturgy no longer familiar with kneeling would be sick at the core. Where it has been lost, kneeling must be recovered.' (The Angelus, citing Ratzinger, April 2002, p. 15.) "

I don't think anyone takes your quotes seriously, ultima, especially of Cardinal Ratzinger, after our previous experience of tracking down what you quote, and finding that you've misrepresented whom you've quoted, especially Cardinal Ratzinger, or just made up the quote entirely.

Also, I assume that when you quote "The Angelus", you are referring to the house organ of the SSPX organization. Considering that this is an organization run by excommunicated people outside of the communion of the Holy Catholic Church, considering that none of its priests can offer a licit Mass, or generally offer a valid absolution in confession, nor validly marry Catholics, and that the Holy Father has warned all Catholics to avoid its services, because attendance thereto leads to a schismatic mentality, it is not, obviously, a reputable or reliable source of information for Catholics.

sitetest
45 posted on 09/01/2002 9:54:26 AM PDT by sitetest
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