Author Topic: CONTRADICTORY ROMANS? (Read 5187 times)

JPaul · « **Reply #10 on:** August 23, 2015, 07:54:38 PM »

Yes, Divine Truth having been supplanted by prudential truth and hard principle by visionaries and speculations of good will.

hollingsworth · « **Reply #11 on:** August 23, 2015, 09:04:27 PM »

Wessex:

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It seems mankind is vulnerable to the use of psychological techniques even in the area of religion where the word is supposed to rule. And to be Catholic today has become an application of psychology rather than the exercise of divine truth.

I am afraid there is a note of truth to this.

Meg · « **Reply #12 on:** August 25, 2015, 12:04:05 PM »

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So who represents the real Rome? Cardinal Müller or Bishop Schneider? Certainly both. If the “good cop, bad cop” routine is not conscious, it is certainly instinctive. Rome, by keeping its options open, can continue to play the SSPX like a fish, reeling it in, letting it out, raising hopes and then dashing them, bending the wire and straightening it out again, and again, until finally it snaps. Alas, one may suspect that by “encounters” the leaders of the SSPX are complicit in this game of Rome.

Kyrie eleison.

The "good cop, bad cop" analogy makes a lot of sense. Bp. Williamson says above that it may not be conscious by Rome, but certainly instinctive.

I sometimes wonder if Pope Benedict was told that he had to bring in the SSPX into "full communion," or else. Maybe he was threatened with something if he didn't deliver them up (to eventually be eliminated if they reconciled, perhaps). I think that this might have something to do with his retiring from the papacy, since he retired shortly after the SSPX decided that they would not reconcile. It seems far-fetched, I know. The hatred of traditionalism by the liberals in the Church can never be underestimated.

JPaul · « **Reply #13 on:** August 25, 2015, 12:52:44 PM »

Bendedict was never de-nαzιfied enough for the powers in Rome, and his removal became imminent when he lifted the excommunications bringing about the worldwide explosion and media prosecutions of of the ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ scandals.

Now they have their man in Rome with his everpresent companion Rabbi.