Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Sunday, January 25, 2009

I'm not convinced

that doing this is the right thing...

Pope 'to lift SSPX excommunications' just as Bishop Williamson denies Nazi gas chambers

Even though his heart obviously goes out to the conservative and traditionalist catholic fold (and I hope he's not forgetting about the rank-and-file non-traditionalists in his flock), I'm not sure that doing this, while these people still deny the legitimacy of things currently taught in the Church AND high-profile members are saying things like this, is so good.

"Why is it always assumed by traditionalist Catholics that the healing of the Lefebvrist schism would be a great blessing? Williamson may be the Society's most prominent Holocaust revisionist, but he is not the only one. In France, the organisation is riddled with Vichyite anti-Semitism (though I should add say that its ranks also include good and devout people)."

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