Lively Debate
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.
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.
Four arguments in favour of the “Resistance” being organized are given answers. God may want of us doctrine rather than organization.
Is horror too strong a word for the fall of the SSPX? No, because souls are being gravely endangered by its infidelity to its Founder.
A still more detailed analysis of paragraph #7 of the Doctrinal Declaration of one year ago uncovers a terrible cunning with words.
A reader complains of the “Comments” on GREC, but the problem remains – SSPX priests should have known better than to take part.
The seventh paragraph of the Newsociety’s Doctrinal Declaration of last April equals the “hermeneutic of continuity,” which is balderdash!
A reader’s multiple arguments defending Vatican II’s religious liberty are refuted. Its liberating man from God is insanity.
The Parisian group wants everybody to be nice to one another. But where is the God of Truth amidst the human niceness?
A Parisian group of priests and laity, formed to reconcile Rome and the SSPX, is by-passing doctrine. It cannot achieve its aims.
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.
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