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To: sinkspur

"The Holy Father has bent over backwards, with olive branch after olive branch offered to the SSPX to regularize them."

He has certainly made some major moves considering the forces within the Vatican and the liberal European and American bishops' conferences which oppose him. All the more reason for not stirring the s**t any further!

"They want to suppress the Novus Ordo (just read their posts on this forum) and force the Church to disavow Vatican II's Decrees on Ecumenism and Religious Liberty."

There are many in the N.O. clergy - including Cardinals and Archbishops - who want exactly the same. Heck, Archbishop John Foley and Cardinal Pell are even spearheading a counter attack against Gaudium et Spes.

"Many seeking people are being led into schism and sedevacantism by the integrists"

Far many more are being led into de facto schism and heresy by bishops like my own and the majority of the US hierarchy. Madrid would help far more souls if he turned his guns on them.

As for sedevacantism, the See might as well be vacant for all the obedience that most bishops give it these days - not that the SSPX supports sedevacantism anyway.


35 posted on 07/31/2004 6:41:36 PM PDT by Tantumergo
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To: Tantumergo

Re: "They want to suppress the Novus Ordo (just read their posts on this forum) and force the Church to disavow Vatican II's Decrees on Ecumenism and Religious Liberty."
There are many in the N.O. clergy - including Cardinals and Archbishops - who want exactly the same. Heck, Archbishop John Foley and Cardinal Pell are even spearheading a counter attack against Gaudium et Spes.¡¨

Well I don¡¦t know about suppress. Let us just say we want to give the NOM as much freedom of practice as the Latin Mass has been granted for the last 40 years. Does that strike you as fair? :-)

The news about the NO clergy including Cardinals and Archbishops is good news. I pray you are right.


205 posted on 08/01/2004 9:01:48 AM PDT by Mark in the Old South
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