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SpanishFalling SSPX
10/26/2013
One reader attributes the SSPX’s fall to unrealistic dreaming. Another reader thinks that the problem has been an undervaluing of the laity.
One reader attributes the SSPX’s fall to unrealistic dreaming. Another reader thinks that the problem has been an undervaluing of the laity.
Insofar as the SSPX is a lifeboat being turned into a deathboat, souls must prepare to abandon it, and be ready not to attend its Masses.
When, as today, the Shepherd (Pope) is struck and the sheep are scattered, there are strict limits to how far the sheep can be organized.
Nor does the three bishops’ Declaration of June 27 of this year clear up the problem. It remains wide open to a false agreement with Rome.
Bishop Fellay may have politically withdrawn his infamous Doctrinal Declaration of a year ago, but he is not retracting it doctrinally.
The Episcopal consecrations’ 25th Anniversary was commemorated equally by the “Resistance” in the USA, by the SSPX in Écône.
Since the SSPX leadership seems intent on selling out the SSPX, then there is plenty of work to keep a bishop busy all over the world.
The seventh paragraph of the Newsociety’s Doctrinal Declaration of last April equals the “hermeneutic of continuity,” which is balderdash!
Newsociety priests closely involved in GREC’s non-doctrinal attempt to solve a huge problem of doctrine are still pursuing their fantasy.
One may suspect that Newsociety headquarters are conspiring with Newrome to achieve an agreement. Priests disagreeing should protest.
To a doubting French journalist the author of “Eleison Comments” expresses confidence that the imminent Motu Proprio will do much good.
Indeed, it both declares that the Tridentine Mass was never banned, and permits Latin rite priests to use it, whenever and wherever.
By overloading our eyes and ears, said Kafka, the cinema overwhelms our minds. Minds being overwhelmed means that lies triumph.
In his outstanding Encyclical of 100 years ago, Pius X nailed the deadly error of modern times: minds’ independence from their object.
Despite many Catholics’ reservations as to the content and motivation of the Motu Proprio, one may still believe it will do good.