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To: cmj328
or else be completely subsumed under an English Catholic hierarchy largely overrun with modernism, the priest separated from his flock and told to report to a homosexual pastor perhaps dozens of miles away, and the people sent to the local parish mambo Mass

Not possible, at least insofar as the press release describes the structures that will be created.

The converts will have their own "Ordinature," a structure akin to a diocese, but without strict geographical borders. In other words, it "overlaps" the English (or Australian, Indian, or whatever) diocese, and has its own Ordinary (either a bishop or a priest). That Ordinary would not be under the current Latin Rite bishops, but would instead have authority within his Ordinature identical to what they would have in their own dioceses.

These converts would "raise the bar" for the current Catholic dioceses, as the laity could freely attend these churches if they desire (just as they could attend an Eastern Catholic parish) - this is a medicine for the modernism.

18 posted on 10/22/2009 8:59:00 AM PDT by GCC Catholic (0bama, what are you hiding? Just show us the birth certificate...)
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To: GCC Catholic

The pope has decided to flank the modernists. I’ll bet they are pissed. They hate this pope.


19 posted on 10/22/2009 9:16:01 AM PDT by RobbyS (ECCE HOMO!)
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To: GCC Catholic
These converts would "raise the bar" for the current Catholic dioceses, as the laity could freely attend these churches if they desire (just as they could attend an Eastern Catholic parish) - this is a medicine for the modernism.

You are absolutely correct. I have a feeling that, at least in America, Catholics who are fed-up with modernism will be far more inclined to consider the Anglican Use Rite than they would with one of the Eastern Rites.

22 posted on 10/22/2009 10:26:57 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: GCC Catholic

Absolutely true.

And if you had read my comment in context, you would have seen that I was responding to the question, “why haven’t they converted before?”


24 posted on 10/22/2009 12:28:46 PM PDT by cmj328 (Filibuster FOCA--a/k/a ObamaCare--or lose reelection)
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