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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
"He was wrong in so many areas it was difficult to pick just one."

But please try. Only use canon law and Papal pronouncements, not SSPX wish list (spin).

To think that you are the Church because your theology is more correct, and that the Church is not the Church because their new theology is wrong, is extremely arrogant. The Church may be wrong, but it is still the Church.

I never wanted to say this because I am sympathetic to SSPX, and that the Tridentine Mass is the only Mass, but you guys are just wrong. You have left the Church just as assuredly as have the Protestants.

The only difference is the great deceiver picked the perfect time (Vatican II) to continue his work begun in the 16th century. You use a theology that can't be refuted, but you are outside the Church. What a stroke of genius and confusion.

Just don't use your words to lure others away.

55 posted on 11/21/2004 11:19:40 AM PST by Arguss (Take the narrow road)
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To: Arguss; Canticle_of_Deborah

Nobody says the SSPX is the Church. But it certainly is a part of the Church. And by the same token, it is a mistake to confuse the papacy with the entire Church. A pope is its steward only, not its creator; it is his job to protect what has been handed-down to him and to transmit this, not to invent novelties nor to change what he should be guarding against change. If he does not do this, others must do so by default--in this case, traditional Catholics who care about such matters. The arrogance, therefore, is with those who would dare to impose a new religion on the faithful, not with those who merely defend the faith from destruction.


57 posted on 11/21/2004 12:49:32 PM PST by ultima ratio
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