Incredible arrogance

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I hope the Pope does not bother to receive any Lefebvrite representative until they have learned some manners, let alone common sense (http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=4761). Even apart from the outrageous notion of making demands of the Successor of Peter;

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Interesting situation. I have only just now looked for information on the Society. Wow. Might they be regarded, in the modern vulgar, as "fundamentalist Catholics"? I ask because their views, as I have seen them reported, seem to hinge upon the notions that the Catholic Church has been essentially hijacked by dark forces, that Catholics since Vatican II have been willfully led astray, that popes since Vatican II have been heretics, and the like. It sounds quite familiar to me, since I live in the buckle of the Bible Belt here in the states, an area overrun by 'fundamentalists' (i.e. Southern Baptists, Pentacostals, etc.), and what I've seen reported of the Society reads very much like local opinions of, well, every other non-Southern Baptist church. (I am, of course, overgeneralising for the sake of some levity, but the fact remains that the sentiment *is* quite prevalent.)

Is what I have read, in its limited scope, on the right track? If not, please elucidate.

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Well, pretty much so, yeah. The Lefebvrite movement also has a nasty kinship with the old Action Francaise semi-fascist, anti-Jewish, racist French right. Part of Lefebvre's original reason for separating himself from the Church was the appointment of African bishops and archbishops. You will not find this in their literature, of course.

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And foul-smelling St.Athanasius!