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The SSPX has, for many years, been announcing every few months the imminent creation of either a personal prelature, or some equivalent agency allowing SSPX to be vindicated, granted full recognition as an intact **organization **within the Church, yet allowing full independence from local bishops and no interference with the Vatican. This announcement takes the form of an SSPX interview with Bishop Fellay, or press release, which then gets mentioned by other publications.
But why the announcements? I think people attached to the SSPX, who are tempted to drift back to involvement in a parish and diocese, may see these announcements. The intention is to discourage them from making any kind of move just now, because a major breakthrough is imminent.
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Casilda
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They are discussing news issued by Pope Francis
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=1047657
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=1047657
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Estevao
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It seems like this talk has been going on since 2000. Sure I hope it comes to pass, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it falls through.
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PaulfromIowa
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The Church is willing to bend over backwards to bring the SSPX back home. The question is whether they will consent to rejoining the Church, after having been separate for forty years.
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stinkcat_14
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They do seem to have a problem understanding the concept of authority.The Church is willing to bend over backwards to bring the SSPX back home. The question is whether they will consent to rejoining the Church, after having been separate for forty years.
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Each year, some priests and laity attached to SSPX, do in fact consent to rejoining the Church. People come in, when they are ready. It’s not a hypothetical, it’s a current reality. If they aren’t ready yet, individuals and families don’t come in. The priest, and the family, know their own readiness, and their local and personal situation, better than any organizational negotiators.The Church is willing to bend over backwards to bring the SSPX back home. The question is whether they will consent to rejoining the Church, after having been separate for forty years.
I think the announcements that “Personal Prelature is imminent” are designed to discourage people from “swimming the Tiber” on their own.
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Casilda
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Some have swam the Bosphorus, or the Volga, or like me the Orontes, and some have chosen to simply drown.
If the bishops had simply obeyed and not abrogate the Latin Mass, this would be a non-issue. What I find soul wrenching is the millions of Catholics, my parents included, who walked away from the church.
If the bishops had simply obeyed and not abrogate the Latin Mass, this would be a non-issue. What I find soul wrenching is the millions of Catholics, my parents included, who walked away from the church.
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We, as a Forum, should keep in mind the human feelings and human souls that we are concerned with here. We should keep in prayer your parents, and everyone else, who suffered in one way or another because of mistakes made by bishops and others.Some have swam the Bosphorus, or the Volga, or like me the Orontes, and some have chosen to simply drown.
If the bishops had simply obeyed and not abrogate the Latin Mass, this would be a non-issue. What I find soul wrenching is the millions of Catholics, my parents included, who walked away from the church.
I haven’t personally suffered to that extent, but had my own share of battles with liturgical nightmares, vile parochial school sex ed, pro abortion Peace and Justice speakers flattered by the Diocesan newspaper, doctrineless catechesis, etc. One pastor told my wife I was a “reactionary”, the New Age guru at another parish called me a liar and extremist, my relatives call me a “right winger” because I tried to help start a new, orthodox Catholic school, opposed by Attilla the Nun, who heads up the diocesan education department.
Even though I have written posts unsupportive of SSPX (the organization), I do, very much, share many of the same concerns that caused people to join or attach to SSPX.
If I have hurt anyone’s feelings, or minimized their concerns, I apologize.
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Hoosier_Daddy
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I think there is a good chance this happens soon. This year.
There is zero chance. ZERO CHANCE! This happens on may 13th. And anyone who thinks it will has no credibility with me.
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Hoosier_Daddy
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I know your view on the SSPX. And you could be right. Hopefully you are not. I can really see your point. As long as when/IF reunification happens you accept it happily. There is no problem. However there will be many who are as upset as the prodigal son’s brother…We, as a Forum, should keep in mind the human feelings and human souls that we are concerned with here. We should keep in prayer your parents, and everyone else, who suffered in one way or another because of mistakes made by bishops and others.
I haven’t personally suffered to that extent, but had my own share of battles with liturgical nightmares, vile parochial school sex ed, pro abortion Peace and Justice speakers flattered by the Diocesan newspaper, doctrineless catechesis, etc. One pastor told my wife I was a “reactionary”, the New Age guru at another parish called me a liar and extremist, my relatives call me a “right winger” because I tried to help start a new, orthodox Catholic school, opposed by Attilla the Nun, who heads up the diocesan education department.
Even though I have written posts unsupportive of SSPX (the organization), I do, very much, share many of the same concerns that caused people to join or attach to SSPX.
If I have hurt anyone’s feelings, or minimized their concerns, I apologize.
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