Posted on 08/19/2010 8:44:36 PM PDT by murphE
Disgruntled priests are what gave us the Protestant churches.
I’ll drop it here- I’ve found FR isn’t the place for continuing this. I’d point you to Traditional Catholics Club yahoo group for a start...tons of old files u can go through.
Wojtyla was a manifest public heretic to my mind. Ut Unum Sint (alone) is so UN-Catholic it can’t be from a valid prelate. He was at the very least undeniably a material heretic of the first order. Same with Montini. I’m going no further here. This other forum has fuller discussions from a few years ago anyways.
And that is your most glaring mistake. You must then be in disagreement with Jesus Christ himself when he promised to protect his representative on earth from moral error.
I have no need to visit a website filled with disgruntled so-called Traditional Catholics. I know my faith. Your problem is that you are expecting a man to take care of the problem when the problem is bigger than the man. We are called to look on high, for there is where we will find our salvation.
And you are making the same mistake Luther made. Instead of praying for the Pope and asking God to help him with his momentous decisions, he threw mud.
While John Paul II was Pope, I read every one of his Wednesday audiences. Because I read his words and pondered them carefully, I know he was not the man you think he was.
You really should spend a more time reading your Bible with an open heart.
John Paul II was not above reproach. St. Peter was not, and St. Paul called him on it. The difference is, St. Peter could admit when he was wrong.
He did admit, like a man, that he was weak on discipline if I recall correctly. But it still doesn’t mean we should that failing.
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He was wrong about the SSPX. Funny he was able to discipline Archbishop Lefebvre and not Cardinal Mahony etc.. Just sayin’.
I know, I know murph. I can’t explain it.
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Fair enough, but it didn't end there either.
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