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If we are driving the excommunicated schismatics away from pretending to be Catholics, then we perform a worthwhile service. We aren't allowed to burn them at the stake any more in this wimpy world but at least we get the satisfaction of having schism recognized as schism and excommunication recognized as excommunication. You are welcome, dearie.

Then again 'dearie' you are not the Holy Father, you cannot decide the state of the soul of those you claim to be "pretending to be Catholics" and your job is NOT to 'drive away' anyone from the One True Church. That you think it is shows your problem. I will pray for you and the many who will attack the Holy Father for these courageous steps to fight Modernism and heresy. + If you want on (or off) this Catholic and Pro-Life ping list, let me know!

+ If you want on (or off) this Catholic and Pro-Life ping list, let me know! Le Figaro - "Lefebvrists: Rome on the verge of lifting the sanctions"

The most credible French national newspaper, Le Figaro, publishes today an article on the possible removal of the excommunications that followed the events of 1988, which led to the consecration by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (with Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer as co-consecrator) of four bishops for the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (FSSPX/SSPX).

Hear! Hear! Understand that the charity BE has, he reserves strictly for law breaking Mexicans. Precious little left for nostalgic misguided traditionalists.

Did the Holy Father lift the excommunications and declare SSPX Catholic when we weren't looking????? I did not think so. If he planned on accepting SSPX back, why did he erect another FSSP organization to receive those fleeing the schism? Also, that was driving excommunicated schismatics away from PRETENDING to be Catholic which they (Eccesia Dei) are not. Making believe they are Catholic ill serves the truth, the Truth or the Church.

Since you are slinging accusations of heresy, identify the heresy of my bishop, Bishop Thomas Doran, or of Fr. Geary, pastor of St. Patrick's in Rockford, or of Fr. Bovee of St. Mary's Oratory (Institute of Christ the King, Sovereign Priest) or of that institute.

If the excommunicated schismatics want to be regarded as Catholics, they will just have to be Catholics which they are not. The lies of the SSPX cult are not the truth of Roman Catholicism. The reputation of the Roman Catholic Church is worth defending from false claims of "Catholicism" from the excommunicated schismatics. False advertising by the cult is no virtue.

I don't remember you wanting mercy for Cardinal Law or Archbishop Hunthausen. Neither did I want them to have mercy. Nor do I want unearned mercy for SSPX. Why do you favor one group of enemies of the Church (excommunicated and schismatic) over mere sinners. You are not the Holy Father and neither are Fellay or de Mallerais or Williamson and they never will be. I will await the Holy Father's actual decisions and refuse to drink the koolaid.