3 Named (by pope) to Work With Lefebvre Group

Zenit News Agency ^ | April 9, 2006

[Cheverus]

Their editorials are excellent.

[stop_fascism]

Why is it up to the vatican to ease the mistrust of SSPX? Seems to me it's up to SSPX to prove that they are catholics.

[pravknight]

You mean vice-versa.

[stop_fascism]

Huh, me no unnerstan.

I mean that the essence of being Catholic is obedience to the Pope, SSPX has failed in that. You might as well ask what the vatican can do to salve the fears of Lutherans.

[pravknight]

I think it is rather insulting to compare the SSPX with the Lutherans because Lutherans have another faith.

Innumerable saints have taught in the past that it is not only permissable, but neccessary to resist the Pope if his policies and teachings threaten the integrity of faith and morals.

I only need point out the post-Vatican II popes' irenicism when it comes to Ecumenism. The Assisi conferences; the Novus Ordo rites,not just the Mass, which in a way represent the watering down of the liturgy; tolerance of erring bishops; and the charismatic heresy. The SSPX's current status is a bullwark of traditional Catholicism in the face of the Neo-Lutheranism of contemporary Western-rite Catholicism, from the Curia on down.

If it wasn't for Abp. Lefebvre's courage, Benedict XVI wouldn't be doing what he is doing now.

[pravknight]

However, the Jansenistic tendencies of many in the SSPX are unwelcome though.

[stop_fascism]

Lutheran's still refer to themselves as "reformed" Catholics. Could you give a couple of examples of the Saints who taught it was necessary to resist the Pope? I think the Fraternity of St. Joseph was spot on with its reaction to Lefebre's act of schism.