tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770248786883931686.post5986104540088230390..comments2024-03-25T22:45:57.560+00:00Comments on Transalpine Redemptorists at home: Ordinations Make the NewsAgapitushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13605989610215366446noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770248786883931686.post-86949057866324956712013-07-07T12:08:15.482+01:002013-07-07T12:08:15.482+01:00This article says Fr Magdala Maria is a New Zealan...This article says Fr Magdala Maria is a New Zealander. Sorry, I thought I read he was an Australian. And I somehow had the notion that Fr Yousef Marie was a Lebanese Australian! Wanting to claim them all!!!Anne Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01793036804445324901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770248786883931686.post-66393130961508817022013-07-02T21:13:10.746+01:002013-07-02T21:13:10.746+01:00Dear Postmodernist
I think the article was worth ...Dear Postmodernist<br /><br />I think the article was worth posting because it was on the international level of the Catholic News Agency. Not everything was perfectly reported but that is pretty normal. For example what you quoted gave the wrong date; it should not have been June 26 but June 18. <br /><br />Now you want to know my belief about the status of the SSPX because the article described the SSPX as "schismatic".<br /><br />My first response is: You are focused on a detail not the substance of the article. The article was not about the SSPX. It is about the FSSP and FSSR ordinations. <br /><br />Next, I should say that my belief about the status of the SSPX is worthless. All that matters is where they really are in relation to the Church and where the Church's judgment fixes them. Do you notice that many traditionalists do not want to follow a TRADITIONAL line when it comes to judging the status of the SSPX? Ask yourself how Pope Pius IX would judge a priest who had no recognised bishop or religious ordinary in the Catholic Church? That would be the traditional no fudging position.<br /><br />Why do those traditionalists hold traditional judgments on non-Catholics and yet judge their own canonical position with a mercy and "understanding" they would not give to any others but themselves?<br /><br />My private opinion, worthless as it is, is that bishops and priests who do not obey the call of the Church and return to hierarchical union with Her are schismatic; and that members of the faithful who go to SSPX chapels because they cannot attend a traditional Mass anywhere else may do so without necessarily falling into schism.<br /><br />When I returned to Communion with the Holy See in 2008 I was surprised to note that I was absolved from schism. I was not subjectively aware of schism but I accept the Church's judgment well above my own. <br /><br />"Schismatic" is a difficult word to apply to oneself but the application gives clarity and clarity gives the holy direction to take. I am not afraid to use the word if it helps shed some light. I sincerely hope every priest and bishop of the SSPX, led by kindly light seeks and finds his way to true union with the Holy See; a manly unity that would stand up to the scrutiny of Blessed Pope Pius IX, St Pius X and the canonical clarity of past years.Transalpine Redemptoristshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17394447129800154630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770248786883931686.post-5688699165772669512013-07-01T11:22:14.729+01:002013-07-01T11:22:14.729+01:00"On June 26, 2008, their petition was granted..."On June 26, 2008, their petition was granted and they were no longer associated with the schismatic Society of St. Pius X."<br /><br />Dear Father do you truly believe this statement viz. the SSPX is schismatic?The Postmodernisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17929532909934116268noreply@blogger.com