This Catholic college links to the anti-Catholic, anti-Vatican “Remnant” from its own homepage. Sad but true. A site whose readers want Paul VI in hell deserves a damnatio memoriae.
Sadly, it’s worse: Fisher More College posts links to this trash on their official website.
(A friend just brought this to my notice.) I can imagine how it would go down if I’d post, say, “Let India be given back to the British” stuff on my hospital’s website. Private opinions are one thing, but public endorsement in this case amounts to scandal. Link below:
fishermore.edu/welcome/
Wow, that is very troubling and could very well explain the decision of the Bishop. It is so sad that many who call themselves “traditionalists” have actually become trojan horses in the Catholic Church, bringing heresy and rebellion among many who may otherwise be very faithful Catholics.
Or rather, they claim to be. The real traditionalists are people like Pope Benedict XVI, the FSSP, etc. These “resistance” groups are Protestants in Catholic garb. (Note the semantic similarity between “resist” and “protest”.) And as far as making immoral allegations about the Papacy is concerned, they rival Luther.
It’s interesting that Canon Law Centre, which is defending the college against the bishop, says basically the same thing on their website, which you can see HERE:
But Fisher More is stifling the Ordinary Form of the Mass. How can that be a good thing?Quattuor Abinc Annos, Ecclesia Dei, Summorum Pontificum, and Universae Ecclesiae say otherwise.
Oh, and let’s not forget the “spirit” behind those documents.
But one would think that colleges weren’t set up to stifle learning of any kind. Wouldn’t you transfer to a different school if they suddenly prohibited the teaching of the history of the Church or parts of the Bible, for example?
The question IS, what is the charism of the college? Each spirituality has it’s own calling by which souls are to be formed.
My point is that there is more to this than meets the eye. The Chancellor resigned two years ago over statements about the validity of the Second Vatican Council. The school clearly has issues.Quattuor Abinc Annos, Ecclesia Dei, Summorum Pontificum, and Universae Ecclesiae say otherwise.
Oh, and let’s not forget the “spirit” behind those documents.
I’ll definitely agree it’s troubling. Probably more so that this story (or its release and/or spin) appears to have only widened the gap between the two camps, if you will. There’s enough division in the Church between people of different cultures already.
Has it widened the gap or only exposed it?
Of course you say that I am in error, because you disagree with me.
I’ll definitely agree it’s troubling. Probably more so that this story (or its release and/or spin) appears to have only widened the gap between the two camps, if you will. Or exposed it, as you say. There’s enough division in the Church between people of different cultures already. Hispanics vs Anglophones, for example, in my local community. I see this more of a problem, quite frankly.
There was a time when I would have disagreed with you. I love the Latin Mass, and I appreciate very much what Pope Benedict XVI was trying to do when he gave us Summorum Pontificum. But as you point out, it only seems to have made things worse. In trying to show compassion and kindness to those who want the older form of the Mass, it seems to have empowered them to rebellion against the hierarchy.
The problem with your statement is you are comparing apples and oranges. A private order such as FSSP has identified Traditional Liturgy as their charism, and there is nothing wrong with that. But a college is a public institution, and to exclude any part of the Catholic Church shows a definite prejudice on their part and can be very harmful to the students because it will prejudice them against those who do not think like they do.
That I believe shows contempt for Church policy. And we won’t have one Mass for everyone because the Church employs 23 or 24 valid rites, all equally valid and legitimate and excludes no one.
I don’t think the essentiality of the EF is the issue at hand. It’s the open endorsement of The Remnant, and of Attila and his gang, which must be bothering the good Bishop.
Not as long as they link to anti-Catholic garbage like The Remnant.
Your intent to smear Fisher More by linking them to the Remnant (calling them anti-Catholic…really?) is telling; you are perfectly willing to smear Catholics, throw them under the bus, so to speak, to defend bad decisions by bishops.
Whoa, you need to take a breath. Fisher More, as RPRPsych has shown, links to both The Remant and Catholic Family News on their website. There is no smearing here, just a showing of the facts. No one is throwing anyone under the bus.
Well, it’s a convenient explanation but the whole internet is “linked” so what’s your point?