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10/05/2013
Perhaps the SSPX’s fate was sealed when at its General Chapter last July it put protecting the Superior General in front of seeking truth.
Perhaps the SSPX’s fate was sealed when at its General Chapter last July it put protecting the Superior General in front of seeking truth.
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.
A closer look at the three SSPX bishops’ Declaration of June 27 shows that it is not as strong as it might at first have seemed.
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.
A French Dominican who died in 1975 foresaw the Church crisis necessitating a loose network of pockets of resistant Catholics.
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Bishop Fellay may have politically withdrawn his infamous Doctrinal Declaration of a year ago, but he is not retracting it doctrinally.
In 1994 one of the four SSPX bishops foresaw the possibility of the SSPX not holding strong but going over to Conciliar Rome.
The Episcopal consecrations’ 25th Anniversary was commemorated equally by the “Resistance” in the USA, by the SSPX in Écône.
When normal authority or jurisdiction fails in the Church, supplied jurisdiction can take its place, but it is less clear and so not as strong.
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.