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To: Unam Sanctam

"Your use of the term 'neo-Catholics' demonstrates that you are a schismatic"

The term was coined by traditionalists to describe Catholics who latch on to every papal novelty, no matter how bizarre and outrageous. Witness Assisi I and II. It has nothing to do with schism. It has to do with the careless way some Catholics regard their own patrimony--passed-down from the apostles. If the Pope asked neo-Catholics to worship Radha Krishna, they'd oblige. As long as the pope says so, it's all right with them. They've already swallowed eliminating kneeling for Communion--which the Pope allowed to be instituted without a murmur; they've accepted his giving Holy Communion to Cherie Blair, a known abortion activist; they've shrugged their shoulders at his praying to the Great Thumb as well his pouring out of libations; they've ignored his apologies to Islam. Anything is permissible to them--as long as the Pope says so.


79 posted on 09/20/2004 6:08:11 PM PDT by ultima ratio
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To: ultima ratio
If the Pope asked neo-Catholics to worship Radha Krishna, they'd oblige. As long as the pope says so, it's all right with them.

These "neo-Catholics" are a total fantasy in your brain. I've never met anybody who believes such rubbish. And yes, your use of the term demonstrates that you believe the Vatican II Council created a new religion. You share this belief with many modernist dissenters. You completely caricature and misrepresent what the Catholic Church stands for, what the Catholic Church teaches, what the Pope believes and teaches. You create fantasy straw men in order to impugn faithful and orthodox Catholics and equate them with liberal dissenters who are the true enemies of the faith. You have no desire to build up orthodoxy in the Church. You simply want to tear down the Catholic Church and the Pope and build up your schismatic sect. And as I have said to you countless times, your utterly subjective private judgment that it is necessary to disobey legitimate authority of an orthodox pope because you disagree with certain liturgical legislation that is not part of the deposit of faith (and especially when the Tridentine rite is allowed by the authority you thumb your nose at) simply makes a mockery of the entire concept of legitimate authority. It swallows up the entire concept. It makes mincemeat of the whole notion of authentic magisterium It is pure Protestant private judgment. Luther and Calvin would be proud of you!

91 posted on 09/20/2004 6:40:36 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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