Again, if you know a trad priest who thinks the SSPX faithful have been excommunicated, please share this clip from canon lawyer, Father Gerald Murray who, though NOT SSPX, has called the Vatican's declaration a "canonical mess!" Father Murray could not be clearer: "The SSPX faithful and priests are not – ACCORDING TO THE VATICAN DECREE -- excommunicated."
It is, therefore, a gross violation of Christian charity to suggest that they are and to require of them some sort of formal declaration of faith before they can “reenter the Church.”
The Revolution already has plenty of useful idiotic water carriers without traditional Catholic priests volunteering to drive the water truck. Enough, already!
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@MarkTezak Beautiful! “And now, therefore, I say to you, refrain from these men, and let them alone; for if this council or this work be of men, it will come to nought; But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest perhaps you be found even to fight against God.” Acts 5:38
@ProtecttheFaith@SSPXEN@sspx True. Would have expected something more sympathetic from Damian Thompson, but he disappoints lately. Maybe compare the situation to Fr (full communion) Rupnik and see if that winds him up
Those of the Ecclesia Dei communities expressing unrepressed joy over the SSPX excommunications clearly do not understand that they are now in the crosshairs of some very powerful prelates who have dedicated themselves to the elimination of the TLM. They hate the Mass because as long as it exists it unmasks the poverty of the VII reforms to anyone who attends.
@holysmoke Whataboutery is unfairly criticized. Its important. It is concrete proof of the injustice of arbitrary and capricious enforcement and discredits the law and the lawgiver.
That’s not what he’s saying, he’s saying modernists lack the ability to even speak using language that means anything. I see they botched the legal effectiveness of the excommunications. More evidence that an abuse of language leads to defects in reasoning with significant legal impacts
Don’t hold your breath. This whataboutism or observance of a disparity of how the discipline of the Church is applied is actually valuable! It shows its injustice and arbitrariness—how the rules are applied to one group and not another undermines authority and fairness. It discredits Rome, which is very sad.