And when I ask about it, you, Adolphus, offer one thing to show what he was perhaps thinking about when he said "things precipitated," and what do you choose but "the lifting of the excommunications!"
Perhaps you didn't notice (or maybe you did!) that the EFFECT comes after the CAUSE, and not before, which is why we say "CAUSE AND EFFECT" (instead of effect and cause). Therefore, according to your answer, Adolphus, the CAUSE would be the publication of +W's Sweedish interview, and the EFFECT was the so-called "Lifting" of the Excoms.
What "things" happened rapidly?
The context is obviously the SSPX and what is (or was) related to it.
What things happened rapidly? Probably Fr. Ceriani refers to the lifting of the excommunications.
Obviously, I was referring to the decree of lifting the excommunications. I never said I was referring to the excommunications being said to be "lifted".
So "obviously," you were "referring to the decree of" so-called Lifting "the
excommunications" as being an EFFECT of the interview. But it was not.
It had nothing to do with the interview. The decree would not
have happened if the interview had been made public in November, when
it was recorded, or in December, or for that matter, in the first week or
two of January. The Interview was published the day AFTER the so-called
"Lifting" was announced. The timing couldn't have been closer, really.
I has been proposed that this was a HUGE EMBARRASSMENT for B16, a
thing that made him look FOOLHARDY in his native Germany, and the
Germans don't take well to a figurehead making them the laughingstock
of the world - again! Been there done that (check your history books -
if you have any good ones!)! In fact, the proposed scenario has been
that this is what perpetrated his SURPRISE abdication the very next
month, in case you've forgotten, Adolphus: So-called "Lifting" January
17th, announced on Jan. 24th, then Interview published January 25th,
then SURPRISE ABDICATION announced Feb. 11th. And in case you've
forgotten AGAIN, most of the audience hearing the announcement
didn't understand it because it was in LATIN. And most of today's so-
called Cardinals don't know any Latin!
Or if they did, they've forgotten it - a lot like you, Adolphus!
I asked "what 'things' precipitated from the Interview?" And apparently
you forgot that you had answered that you think Fr. Ceriani means that
one of the "things" that precipitated from the Interview was the "lifting."
But that's obviously impossible.
I know: it's a difficult concept.
But the Excoms were so-called "Lifted" long before the Sweedish interview was published. IN FACT, it was widely circulated by MANY divergent interest groups that had B16 known about this nefarious Sweedish Interview, he would NEVER have so-called "Lifted" the Excoms. Therefore, for you to say, Adolphus, that Fr. Ceriani hints or implies or cryptically suggests or whatever terms you may prefer (something different than the terms he uses to criticize +W, for sure!) that the so-called "Lifting" of the Excoms "was precipitated by the publication of Bishop Williamson’s statements and the threat of the weekly Der Spiegel" would be utter nonsense, foolishness, drivel, contrived fiction, fantasy, pipe dream or flat out LIE ... Take your pick .... Any or all of the above.
None of them apply. I already answered this in a previous post.
Cause and effect ALWAYS applies. FYI it is
universal. Please don't take this personally, Adolphus. I'm sure it was an honest mistake.
You are sure it was a honest mistake? But few lines above you suggested it could have been a lie!
If you insist, I grant you can have it you like it. I was giving you a
chance but you don't have to accept it.
So be it.
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