One cannot be too strong in the area of doctrine, period! That does not in any way preclude such individuals from having a deep piety or great charity.
The Saints and Martyrs of the old Church did not lack in any of these virtues, and it is only with the advent of modern subjective thinking that diminishing one in favor of the other is a workable solution. We are to excel in all virtue, never sacrificing one for the other, rather we are to correct the area in which we are failing.
The imbalance of some men is not caused by to strong an adherence to doctrine. A deficient understanding and misapplication of doctrine is where problems arise with some who are mentioned above.
Matthew,
.Now this young man SHOULD have known better. What, did he not believe in the necessity of baptism for salvation?
Indeed he should know and is obligated before God to know. He damns Himself by his negligence or culpable ignorance and any one who encourages this in another by silence or consent shares in the sin and failure before God.
In a similar fashion, the average conciliar Catholic ought to know that his religion is not Catholic and do something about it.
That grace which God bequeaths to each man to use of his reason and mental faculties in seeking the Truth, will be the instrument of his destruction when not applied and used with due diligence. Ignorance will not save them.
As for Mr. McFarland, he has a dog in the fight, his son in the SSPX and his arm will be seen waving the SSPX banner as his hand and that sect sinks beneath the waves of the conciliar tide which they have foolishly dared to wade into.
Topic: Changes in the SSPX - present tense (Read 3929 times)