…Actually, the discussion was triggered by Bishop Fellay’s latest comment which triggered an strong response from the Holy See.
Br. JR, FFV
Interesting. I had not seen that. This is at least a good thing. Well, as good as we can expect from the SSPX lately. That they would clarify and back away from the statements is a good thing!
Moore, agreed that the “clarification” was a good thing, and agree that it was “as good as we can expect.” However, did it go far enough? It seems to me that it’s as if someone bashed the Church but then a few days later said, “oh, the remarks weren’t about those in the pews, only about the Pope and his bishops.”
Yes, and rather than complaining, someone who is new to this ongoing discussion might endeavor to sleuth out some startling new development in the ongoing saga of SSPX versus the universe! We need more cub reporters on the Daily Redux! Who’da thunk, for example, that the very latest bulletin- as of Jan. 5th anyway- would come via a drop-in poster who is a self-styled atheist! You just never know…but even Jimmy Olson had to start somewhere!
Too funny and well said.
Question: what does a study of Judaism show up as regards an anti-Catholic attitude? This, of course, making complete and utter abstraction of any Jew. There is perhaps a parallel with Islam. I know some Moslems (there is one at the place where I work) and I get along fine with them. I even managed a discussion on the nature of the Trinity with one, at the end of which he told me: “If you tried talking like that in Saudi Arabia you’d be dead, you know that?” A Moslem can be one thing, Islam another.
I haven’t been- using redux in everyday conversation that is- but I’m definitely going to start. Are there adjectival and adverbial forms of the word? Would juvenile anatidaeans in the plural be redux?
They know that the SSPX priests do not have faculties. Very few people start attending the SSPX on a regular basis without checking them out.Not disagreeing with you Justin, but I wonder, if those in the pews at the SSPX chapel are fully aware that their priests do not have faculties, how they came to know this? On the two occasions I have assisted at an SSPX Mass I haven’t had occasion to hold a conversation with anyone, but if the SSPX faithful aren’t in regular contact with anyone from the diocese, how could they be convinced that the priests lack faculties? There were a couple of SSPX-goers on the old thread, perhaps they will show up here and expound.
I was particularly fascinated by your suggestion that the SSPX faithful might be convinced that their priests have “extraordinary jurisdiction supplied directly by the Church.” This begs the question, the Church in what era? Perhaps this extraordinary jurisdiction is supplied by St. Pius X himself…after all, as a saint he is most definitely part of the Church.
Again, you raise fascinating points!
Hopefully this gets Mr. Perry White’s attention and I get off this beat, maybe get a desk closer to Lois and Clark.
If I remember correctly, Brother Jay converted from Judaism.
EOTT makes my day, and the follow up comments are often funnier than the original posts…especially the comments from those who don’t get it.That is funny!
The original comments and the backpeddaling press release both say Jews, not Judaism but J-e-w-s, Jews.
And even if it said Judaism, it would still be reckless, irresponsible and disgusting.
Did you ask her if she hates all Romans as well, since technically it was Roman soldiers who crucified Christ?
I know. I was thinking of the past. There has been a strange hostility between Jewry and Catholicism from virtually the time of Christ until the present - in fact antisemitism extends well beyond Catholic circles. I’m wondering where it comes from (no good saying Hitler - *he *got it from somewhere).
