The SSPX Is Not in SchismEXCERPTS from cited articles and Interviews linked below at the bottom of this Post:Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos – during the time he was President of the Pontifical Commission …Mer
The SSPX Is Not in Schism EXCERPTS from cited articles and Interviews linked below at the bottom of this Post: Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos – during the time he was President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei (2000–2009) clarified this [SSPX not in schism] three times: 1) In 2005, regarding the 1988 consecrations done without pontifical mandate, [Cardinal Hoyos] stated that it created a “situation of separation … even if it [the SSPX] was not a formal schism.” (“Rapprochement by unhasty stages, but not too slow either”) 2) Again in 2005, that in a 2004 meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and Bishop Fellay (then Superior General of thea SSPX), it was stated, in Castrillón Hoyos words: “It cannot be said in correct, exact, and precise terms that there is a schism. … They are within the Church…” (“They are within the Church”) 3) Then, in 2007, Castrillón Hoyos stated that the SSPX priests and adherents “are not schismatics” (“The President of the Ecclesia Dei Commission, Cardinal …Mer
@Just me I will only say this much more....You can see from our journey through Traditionalism and the spiritual miracles God granted us and the …Mer
@Just me I will only say this much more....You can see from our journey through Traditionalism and the spiritual miracles God granted us and the conversions we have witnessed, why I have absolutely no patience for the Pharisaical legalists who keep trying to convince everyone that the wonderful Priests of SSPX, and the Priests who dissented and still will dissent from the destruction of the Catholic Faith to preserve Tradition are "disobedient" and in "schism". We lived it.....we know what these Priests did for souls -- ours included -- while the fattened "shepherds" fed themselves and abandoned all of us to the wolves. These "Pharisees" and self-appointed directors of everyone else's consciences care more about the letter than the spirit and purpose of the law, as though the law can ever be used as a weapon to destroy, wound and harm the Church -- while it exists only to protect the Church from God's enemies and to advance the Salvation of Souls, which even the Catechism of the …Mer
@Just me As for other accounts of conversion springing from Tradition, I could start with my own family. While my siblings and I were teenagers, my …Mer
@Just me As for other accounts of conversion springing from Tradition, I could start with my own family. While my siblings and I were teenagers, my family was among those scattered by the great "diaspora" of Catholics caused by the Modernist destruction of the Mass and Traditions of our Faith. Then some devout Traditionalist friends of my parents told them about Traditional Masses being offered in hotels by the so-called Traditional Independent Priests, and urged them to go....! These "Hotel" Masses were held in banquet halls set up with beautiful altars, etc. -- because we had no churches for the Traditional Mass!! -- and they became magnets for the most concerned, devout and activist Catholics in the Church at that time. Families who attended these Masses later founded what became an Independent Chapel and Catholic school for their children (and it was never censured by the local Ordinary!). My parents started attending the "Hotel" Masses and were deeply impressed by the tangible …Mer
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