The most difficult thing to stomach is that Fellay is making it abundantly clear that he has no idea what a modernist is (or if he does, he refuses to recognize it)! This is the superior general of the world's largest traditional priestly society, named after the hammer of modernists, and he couldn't pick one out if one whispered in his ear.

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He seems to be at the mercy of his own weakness, and his desire to be loved in Rome is unhealthy for the SSPX (as his letter to the Three Bishops made abundantly clear).

This kind of backtracking hurts his credibility amongst his own people.

So.... lemmie guess:  you'd prefer a DIFFERENT KIND of backtracking??

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Your Excellency: How do you expect to maintain the support of those like me, who are trying to give you the benefit of the doubt and a second, third, and fourth chance, in the face of interviews like this?

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The Great One has plenty of lemmings.  They're coming out his ears!  

They're a dime a dozen.  He gets all the support he needs from his lemmings.  And if you don't like it, Sean, they'll just expel you and/or forbid you the sacraments and you can just go home, okay?


Otherwise, certainly you can find it in your bag of tricks to cut him some more slack.  All he needs is another free ride -- I mean, benefit of the doubt from you and swarming masses of others like you, Sean.


There's plenty more where you came from.


Remember:  Make "practical agreement" your WATCHWORD!!


You can DO it!        :wink:

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Neil-

You are the biggest bag of hot air on Cathinfo.

Despite thousands of posts, the only originality you can muster is to change font and font color.

I have yet to see a single contribution you have made to the Church in all your worthless bluster.

Perhaps your time would be better spent parsing the local newspaper to the editor?

You are the most boring person I have ever come across online.

Pascendi offers among other things a world-class philosophical analysis of modernism.

At the time, many modernists claimed that it didn't apply to them, and in a sense they were right.  It was a far more coherent account than many of them had produced, or were capable of producing.

But there were some, like Loisy and Tyrell, who made themselves quite clear.  These were the ones who were excommunicated.

The modernist movement was and is like any other movement.  Some knew exactly what they were about theoretically.  Some had a more limited grasp.  Some hadn't a clue, and never got beyond the buzzwords.

The Holy Father is not dumb, but he's not intellectual.  There are many people like that.  They think and act based on slogans that capture only a part -- and often a mangled part -- of the whole picture.

The Resistance, from the greatest even unto the least, practically to a man, is rather like that.

Effectively, it considers thought and prudence the enemies of true religion.

The only way you can be safe from modernism is to denounce, and denounce, and denounce, from a safe distance.  

Bishop Williamson more than once has talked as if love were also one of the enemies.  Is the thought that if we loved our enemies, we might get too close to them, and be corrupted?

Jesus, meek and humble of heart, does not seem to have a place in the Resistance.

It is hard to see how the Resistance could ever go forth and teach all nations, because that would expose the evangelists to being poisoned by the world of unbelievers which vastly outnumbers it.

For the Resistance, Our Lord in Matthew 28:20 is instructing the disciples to endanger their faith.  

For the Resistance, St. Paul on the Areopagus was endangering his faith.

The only safe thing for a Resistant to do is to denounce Bishop Fellay from a safe distance.  

The Resistance is very much like the man who buried his talent.

Some months ago, my SSPX priest son expressed a real concern that the Resistance was going to lead some people into Hell.

At the time, I thought that this was a bit much.

Now I'm not so sure.

New comprehensive interview by SSPX Superior-General: "I didn't mean to say Pope is a Modernist in theology, but in action".

New interview granted by the Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), Swiss bishop Bernard Fellay, to the organization's own news agency, DICI.

Quote from: SeanJohnson

Quote from: Neil Obstat

Quote from: SeanJohnson

...

He seems to be at the mercy of his own weakness, and his desire to be loved in Rome is unhealthy for the SSPX (as his letter to the Three Bishops made abundantly clear).

This kind of backtracking hurts his credibility amongst his own people.

So.... lemmie guess:  you'd prefer a DIFFERENT KIND of backtracking??

Quote

Your Excellency: How do you expect to maintain the support of those like me, who are trying to give you the benefit of the doubt and a second, third, and fourth chance, in the face of interviews like this?

...

The Great One has plenty of lemmings.  They're coming out his ears!  

They're a dime a dozen.  He gets all the support he needs from his lemmings.  And if you don't like it, Sean, they'll just expel you and/or forbid you the sacraments and you can just go home, okay?


Otherwise, certainly you can find it in your bag of tricks to cut him some more slack.  All he needs is another free ride -- I mean, benefit of the doubt from you and swarming masses of others like you, Sean.


There's plenty more where you came from.


Remember:  Make "practical agreement" your WATCHWORD!!


You can DO it!        :wink:

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Neil-

You are the biggest bag of hot air on Cathinfo.

Despite thousands of posts, the only originality you can muster is to change font and font color.

I have yet to see a single contribution you have made to the Church in all your worthless bluster.

Perhaps your time would be better spent parsing the local newspaper to the editor?

You are the most boring person I have ever come across online.

Wow Sean... you emotional, uncharitable a-hole.