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To: Fifthmark
Transcribed from the talk given by Bishop Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X, at Saint Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, Kansas City, Missouri (March 5, 2002)....

The Cardinal’s position is evident from his interviews such as in 30 Days: "It’s fine to celebrate either Mass, but please don’t pit one against the other. Don’t make use of one against the other." Well, the Society is definitely against the New Mass. We even say that it is "intrinsically evil." That’s a delicate label that needs a little explanation. By this we mean that the New Mass in itself —the New Mass as the New Mass, as it is written —is evil, because as such you find in it the definition of evil. The definition of evil is "the privation of a due good." Something that should be in the New Mass is not there and that’s evil. What is really Catholic has been taken out of the New Mass. The Catholic specification of the Mass has been taken away. That’s enough to say that it is evil.

Trent

Canon 7. If anyone says that the ceremonies, vestments, and outward signs which the Catholic Church uses in the celebration of masses, are incentives to impiety rather than stimulants to piety,[26] let him be anathema

237 posted on 09/21/2004 12:00:52 PM PDT by bornacatholic
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To: bornacatholic

You've got to be kidding me - did you just quote a COT canon that defended the Traditional Mass against Protestant arguments in order to defend the Novus Ordo Mass from the criticisms of the Society? Do you realize that the Protestants at the time were altering the Traditional Mass to look like the Novus Ordo?


241 posted on 09/21/2004 12:12:19 PM PDT by Fifthmark
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To: bornacatholic

Dumb argument. Because the Council of Trent was speaking of the ancient Mass--not Bugnini's concoction which is a denial of Trent.


250 posted on 09/21/2004 12:38:55 PM PDT by ultima ratio
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