Friday, February 03, 2006

Scotsman.com News - International - Pope to let hardline group back in Church
"The SSPX, founded by the late French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, rejects many of the liberal reforms of the 1962-65 Second Vatican Council. It sticks to the old Latin Mass and opposes recognising the validity of other religions."

So here we have a group of people who are adamantly opposed to a rather fundamental collection of teachings of The Catholic Church and B16 is considering letting them back in communion. At the same time, you have the good parishioners of St. Stanislaus parish in St. Louis, who are in total agreement with the fundamental teachings of the faith, yet are at odds with the local archbishop because he wants control of their hard-earned assets. One dispute , which The Church seeks to resolve, is about what constitutes Catholicism. The other dispute is about money and ecclesiastical authority and The Church draws a hard line. Interesting.

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