The developments over the past 35 years have been demonstrations of great mercy on the part of the Church. There has been no corresponding repentance shown by the leaders of the SSPX.
You certainly cannot mean that the words of Pope St. John Paul II in Ecclesia Dei are irrelevant because they are several decades old? Here they are, from p…
The developments over the past 35 years have been demonstrations of great mercy on the part of the Church. There has been no corresponding repentance shown by the leaders of the SSPX.
You certainly cannot mean that the words of Pope St. John Paul II in Ecclesia Dei are irrelevant because they are several decades old? Here they are, from paragraphs 1-4:
"With great affliction the Church has learned of the unlawful episcopal ordination conferred on 30 June last by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, which has frustrated all the efforts made during the previous years to ensure the full communion with the Church of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X..."
"In itself, this act was one of disobedience to the Roman Pontiff in a very grave matter and of supreme importance for the unity of the church, such as is the ordination of bishops whereby the apostolic succession is sacramentally perpetuated. Hence such disobedience - which implies in practice the rejection of the Roman primacy - constitutes a schismatic act."
"The root of this schismatic act can be discerned in an incomplete and contradictory notion of Tradition."
The developments over the past 35 years have been demonstrations of great mercy on the part of the Church. There has been no corresponding repentance shown by the leaders of the SSPX.
You certainly cannot mean that the words of Pope St. John Paul II in Ecclesia Dei are irrelevant because they are several decades old? Here they are, from paragraphs 1-4:
"With great affliction the Church has learned of the unlawful episcopal ordination conferred on 30 June last by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, which has frustrated all the efforts made during the previous years to ensure the full communion with the Church of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X..."
"In itself, this act was one of disobedience to the Roman Pontiff in a very grave matter and of supreme importance for the unity of the church, such as is the ordination of bishops whereby the apostolic succession is sacramentally perpetuated. Hence such disobedience - which implies in practice the rejection of the Roman primacy - constitutes a schismatic act."
"The root of this schismatic act can be discerned in an incomplete and contradictory notion of Tradition."