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To: Catholicguy
I was surprised that you overlooked this:

It is one of the fears I have about traditional Catholics. Some flirt with fanaticism. A fanatic is one who considers truth to be his personal possession instead of God’s gift. We are servants of the truth, and it is as servants that we seek to share it.

I am very concerned that there are “fanatical” Catholics who use the Faith and the truth it proclaims as an intellectual toy. An authentic appropriation of the truth always leads to a striving for holiness. The Faith, in this present crisis, is not an intellectual chess game. For anyone not striving for holiness, that’s all it will ever be. Such people do more harm to the Faith, particularly if they are proponents of the traditional Mass.

33 posted on 12/11/2002 5:04:03 PM PST by RobbyS
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To: RobbyS
<> LOL, I didn't. I was just focusing on another aspect of the piece<>
36 posted on 12/12/2002 4:58:27 AM PST by Catholicguy
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