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04/02/2011
Assuming that Rome’s and the SSPX’s doctrinal positions are irreconcilable, then the SSPX must simply continue along Archbishop Lefebvre’s lines.
Assuming that Rome’s and the SSPX’s doctrinal positions are irreconcilable, then the SSPX must simply continue along Archbishop Lefebvre’s lines.
Let nobody be disappointed if the Rome-SSPX discussions are going nowhere. What matters is faithfulness to the Truth coming from God.
If the Rome-SSPX discussions go nowhere doctrinally, Rome might try to circumvent them by a political deal dangerous for the Faith.
Bishop de Galarreta was not maintaining (156) that the irreconcilable doctrines of Rome and the SSPX can be reconciled. They cannot.
Benedict XVI says he cannot sleep because of the SSPX. No, your Holiness. Your problem is the Truth you have mislaid.
The Mass is central to the Church because it embodies Catholic Doctrine. The Mass needed saving first. Now for the Doctrine.
And were the Rome-SSPX discussions to arrive at some practical agreement, the crucial question would be, who appoints henceforth the SSPX bishops?
How dare the SSPX discuss infallible Doctrine, and with Rome? Because it is only re-asserting that Doctrine which Rome is abandoning.
At best the Rome-SSPX discussions will give witness to Catholic Truth. At worst some practical agreement would circumvent that Truth.
Bishop Tissier tells us that the way is being prepared for Rome-SSPX discussions.They must run into an irreconcilable doctrinal difference.
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.