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DavidJoseph
Guest
In traditional Catholic circles, there are those (even those who attend indult Masses) who think the Church is wrong to promote, for example, ecumenism and religious liberty (despite what Vatican II said about them), claiming the Church condemns them. But what they don’t realize is that as for ecumenism, there’s true ecumenism and false ecumenism, the latter which the Church has always condemned. And they also don’t realize that the type of religious liberty Vatican II promoted is NOT the same kind that the Church had condemned (and still does). The latter type concerned moral religious freedom, while the former concerned POLITICAL religious freedom (at the time a lot of Catholic countries such as Poland were Communist, and the Church didn’t want the government imposing atheism). Essentially, these people disagree not with what the Church teaches but rather what they wrongly think the Church has started teaching.
And then there are those who think Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre did nothing wrong and that the SSPX isn’t schismatic. Of course, praising or condoning the wrong thing someone did is to become an accessory to their sin, but then again, there’s been a lot of articles and stuff written on the subject that claim (albeit falsely) that the SSPX isn’t in schism, and surely those who don’t know any better are falling for it.
So this brings me to a question I want to ask … since there’s been lots of confusion among many traditional-minded Catholics regarding the above topics and others (e. g. there are those who have been told and wrongly believe that the Novus Ordo Mass was composed with the help of Protestants), and probably those who believe such things don’t know any better (as they’ve probably heard them from sources whom they don’t realize are bad news), wouldn’t that drastically reduce people’s culpability? I don’t claim to know the state of their souls, but at the same time I don’t want people to lose their souls either.
And then there are those who think Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre did nothing wrong and that the SSPX isn’t schismatic. Of course, praising or condoning the wrong thing someone did is to become an accessory to their sin, but then again, there’s been a lot of articles and stuff written on the subject that claim (albeit falsely) that the SSPX isn’t in schism, and surely those who don’t know any better are falling for it.
So this brings me to a question I want to ask … since there’s been lots of confusion among many traditional-minded Catholics regarding the above topics and others (e. g. there are those who have been told and wrongly believe that the Novus Ordo Mass was composed with the help of Protestants), and probably those who believe such things don’t know any better (as they’ve probably heard them from sources whom they don’t realize are bad news), wouldn’t that drastically reduce people’s culpability? I don’t claim to know the state of their souls, but at the same time I don’t want people to lose their souls either.
