The Pope revokes the sentence of excommunication upon the Lefebvrists

[fpb]

I am horrified. Of all the unwelcome, untimely, ill-conceived, unnecessary, insulting and disastrous measures Pope Benedict could have taken, this is the worst. On the very week that the most anti-Catholic and pro-abortion President has taken office in Washington DC, the Pope seems to indicate that open flirtations with Le Pen and Pinochet,

Comments

[dustthouart]

Sadly, I have to agree. The Holy Father has let his desire for unity overcome all other considerations.

I have prayed for reconciliation of the SSPX, but not like this, without the slightest hint of repentance on their side. Instead I have already seen many SSPX supporters crowing that this proves the excommunications were invalid all along.

[fpb]

You are exactly right, and I should have mentioned this feature of it. It will reinforce their vanity, their sense of superiority to all other Christians, and all their wandering and extreme views. As if the Church did not have the Devil's own plenty of arrogant, self-serving, obsessive fanatics as it is. It will make them more rather than less likely to stick to their condemned attitudes, and it will bring them closer to rather than further from Hell when they die. Misguided forgiveness can be as deadly as the worst injustice - even if you did not argue that it was itself injustice - and Jesus never commanded it.

[dustthouart]

PS I would put some line breaks in your post, to make it easier to read. Right now it's a bit hard on the eyes.

[kishiriadgr]

Came over to read the comments, from which I'm learning a lot.

Unrelated, YOUR ICON IS SO CUTE IT MAKES ME SQUEEEEEE!

[dustthouart]

Hee, thanks.
I have a thing for cute icons.

[dustthouart]

PPS I would add that the timing of the announcement is doubtless due to this being the Week of Christian Unity.

The timing of Williamson's remarks, someone on catholicism said, are probably due to the devil. I agree with that.