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To: Catholicguy
Since the SSPX is not in schism, there is no quarrel with the interpretation you present. Again, there is no schism, we have said all along there is no schism, let alone any attempt on our part to justify a schism. So what's your point? That we are because you want us to be? See my previous post of Bishop Williamson's presentation of why we are not and never have been, despite kooky claims to the contrary.
243 posted on 12/02/2002 10:27:16 AM PST by ultima ratio
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To: ultima ratio
Various motives have been brought forward in justification of Schism:

(1) Some have claimed the introduction into the Church of abuses, dogmatic and liturgical novelties, superstitions, with which they are permitted, even bound, not to ally themselves. Without entering into the foundation for these charges it should be noted that the authors cited above do not mention or admit a single exception. If we accept their statements separation from the Church is necessarily an evil, an injurious and blameworthy act, and abandoning of the true way of salvation, and this independent of all contingent circumstances. Moreover the doctrines of the Fathers exclude a priori any such attempt at justification; to use their words, it is forbidden for individuals or particular or national Churches to constitute themselves judges of the universal Church; the mere fact of having it against one carries its own condemnation.

<> Lefebvre died excommunicated and you and your ilk, daily, invoke the long-condemned arguements the Old Encyclopedia references. Rationalisn schism...

And here you and your ilk think you are on to something new here in defending schism. Nothing changes. Same old schisms, same old lies explaining schism away. "We are the true Church, eternal Rome...." blah, blah, blah

250 posted on 12/02/2002 11:12:26 AM PST by Catholicguy
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