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,

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[goreism]

Yeah, apparently now you can reject the ecumenical councils you don't like and not be excommunicated! Welcome back, Arians, Nestorians, Monothelites, all.

At least this only shifts their status to that of the SSPX priests; that one-man train wreck Williamson is still suspended a divinis.

[fpb]

I'd sooner have the Monophysites back in, even though that would lead to the curious situation of having to call a second ecclesiastic "Pope"!