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Post by asiatic on May 8, 2013 3:18:50 GMT
The rebel SSPX priest Fr. Joseph Pfeiffer will visit Ireland this week. There is hardly anything to chose between the SSPX-Resistance and the SSPX-Regular. Like his former boss Daniel Couture, Pfeiffer is a great fund raiser. $$PX x 2
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Post by hibernicus on May 16, 2013 22:41:33 GMT
A post by Fr Zuhlsdorf on the question of whether SSPX absolutions are valid. (Note this is a separate issue from whether they are in schism - even if SSPX priests were unquestionably priests in good standing, they would still require faculties from the diocesan bishop to hear confessions within his diocese.) wdtprs.com/blog/2013/05/again-about-validity-of-absolutions-by-sspx-priests/
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Post by asiatic on May 18, 2013 12:37:53 GMT
Fr Pfeiffer who was reportedly in Ireland last Sunday 12th May, is as bold as brass. He is known to have sat in a confessional in a regular church in India and heard confessions, without permission, albeit for members of his own group. As said previously, until their schism with the SSPX, he and Fr Chazal were under Daniel Couture in Singapore and were given carte blanche to do as they pleased.
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Post by hibernicus on May 19, 2013 20:00:43 GMT
The following post on the thread to which you link is interesting - note that it is being posted by a supporter of the official (Fellay) SSPX to rebut "Resistance" claims that the Fellayites are soft on the Novus Ordo/Ordinary Form: EXTRACT Aquila Posted: May 17 2013, 03:19 AM
Aquila Tequila
Group: Members Posts: 861 Member No.: 1782 Joined: 13-April 12
QUOTE (Pioquinto @ May 17 2013, 03:11 AM) Love the idea of "Safety Net". After all, many priests of the neo-SSPX allow their parishioners to assist to novus ordo trad masses, but not to the resistance masses. They are getting there real fast. I wonder when they are going to start with the new mass.
You are a liar.
The latest examination of conscience published by the SSPX in "Christian Warfare", states that attendance at the Novus Ordo is a mortal sin.
You have to realize that these kinds of lies send people to hell. It is deadly serious.
I pray that you have the grace of final repentance, before you die.
"I would not like to be a Resister on Judgment Day, when he is asked, what did you do in the war of the Church militant, and he answers: I vilified those who fought, and waited for the victory to be handed me. "---johnmcfarland END
Yes, you read that correctly - the US SSPX have gone beyond saying that attendance at the Novus Ordo is a sin which must be mentioned in Confession. They're now saying that it's a MORTAL SIN - in other words, that someone who attends a NO Mass and dies without formally repenting and being absolved will go to Hell - that everyone who attends a NO Mass, every priest who says one, commits a mortal sin thereby. Even if we assume that this only refers to SSPXers and the NO faithful are excused through ignorance, it's still an outrageous attitude to a Mass rite formally approved by the Church. How can this possibly be sustained by anyone who is not a sedevacantist? Meanwhile, you can bet your bottom dollar that the same people will be complaining about Catholics/priests saying that SSPX sacraments celebrated without proper faculties from diocesan bishops are illicit/invalid, and demanding their recognition by Church authorities who the SSPX complainers themselves accuse of both promoting and committing mortal sin on a daily basis. If that is so, why would SSPXers want recognition from such authorities? Martin Luther called the Pope Antichrist, and if this latest SSPX raving were correct it would actually be an appropriate description for the Pope, but at least Martin Luther was not simultaneously demanding that Rome should take him back and recognise him and his followers as clerics in good standing.
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Post by hibernicus on May 19, 2013 20:12:25 GMT
Meanwhile, according to this week's CATHOLIC HERALD, Bishop Williamson today addressed a meeting in London of a group calling itself "British Nationalist Friends of Palestine" which includes no Palestinians but plenty of well-known Holocaust deniers and neo-nazis. Sounds like service as usual from Bishop Williamson: cynicritics.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/drstrangelove02.jpg
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on May 21, 2013 7:49:31 GMT
Well, it just shows what Dickie Williamson is really about.
Re the Pixie split: how about the Official and Provisional SSPX?
As far as I can see, they no longer even represent a good prospect for reconciliation. Even if they did miss their best chance.
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Post by hibernicus on May 21, 2013 20:27:08 GMT
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on May 22, 2013 7:41:09 GMT
I wonder which is which ;D
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on May 22, 2013 7:42:52 GMT
BTW, am I the only one who thinks Bishop Fellay is either deluded or playing games when he thinks they have a better chance of a deal with Pope Francis than with Pope Benedict? Especially now as they are fragmenting, as many believed they would do.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on May 22, 2013 7:45:20 GMT
The rebel SSPX priest Fr. Joseph Pfeiffer will visit Ireland this week. There is hardly anything to chose between the SSPX-Resistance and the SSPX-Regular. Like his former boss Daniel Couture, Pfeiffer is a great fund raiser. $$PX x 2 I like the dollar quote. I remember hearing this was a joke in the US: We have the Society of St Pius the Tenth and we have the Society of St Pius the Fifth. Coming soon the Society of St Pius Two and a half. That was before two jokers posted a phoney website entitled the Society of St Pius I.
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Post by Beinidict Ó Niaidh on May 23, 2013 12:40:28 GMT
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Post by asiatic on May 24, 2013 15:39:05 GMT
BTW, am I the only one who thinks Bishop Fellay is either deluded or playing games when he thinks they have a better chance of a deal with Pope Francis than with Pope Benedict? Especially now as they are fragmenting, as many believed they would do. Alaisdir, Fellay is not deluded. He is just playing games with the faithful. Wants to keep bluffing them that his Society will "convert" Rome, when he knows full well that 's just what it is. A bluff. There's no turning back for Fellay, Pfluger, Nely, Schmidberger, Lorans, Laisney, Couture et al. They will go on their knees to the Pope and ask to be admitted into communion with him. And on his terms. They now realise that you cannot say that someone is the Pope and go ahead and disobey him. You cannot say that an entity is the true Church and then go ahead and say it teaches heresy or heresy favoring doctrines. It's just not possible.
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Post by hibernicus on May 25, 2013 19:07:37 GMT
Damian Thompson cites a report by SEARCHLIGHT magazine that Williamson and his supporters are planning a takeover of the SSPX. Methinks the main thing shown by this report is how little Thompson and SEARCHLIGHT understand about the SSPX. Williamson has already been expelled, which he would have avoided if he had a serious prospect of taking over, and the SSPX constitution was structured by Archbishop Lefebvre to make it virtually impossible to depose a superior against his will. The meeting SEARCHLIGHT has picked up on is probably aimed at organising the Resistance faction. SEARCHLIGHT is an useful source of information on neo-fascists (for example, it recently reported that Adrian Davies has joined up with Andrew Brons MEP and other unsavoury defectors from the BNP to form a new British Democratic Party) but it also has a strong leftist and secularist bias and tends to equate any form of cultural conservatism with fascism, so it is not surprising that it should get mixed up about the precise nature of Williamson's relations with the SSPX. blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100218780/neo-nazi-holocaust-deniers-plan-takeover-of-sspx-claim-anti-fascist-campaigners/
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Post by hibernicus on May 26, 2013 16:46:01 GMT
What you say about the ITP and Gerry McGeough surprises me for the following reasons (a) The Italian neo-fascist and neonazi scene from which the ITP emerged was pro-IRA and regarded Pearse and Sands as exemplars of its cult of heroic sacrificial martyrdom (basically Evolist neo-paganism maintains that most people have nondescript souls which dissolve at death, but that by a process of occult and warrior training culminating in a chosen "heroic" death it is possible for a select few to "harden" the soul and achieve immortality - as the late John J Reilly pointed out, this process can also be described as spiritual pride leading to final impenitence and eternal damnation). (b) continental neo-nazis have an obvious tradition of Anglophobia which also makes them sympathetic to the IRA (there were hilarious accounts in the early 1980s of British skinheads turning up at continental neofascist gatherings to find their continental equivalents celebrating the IRA). Remember these people have a strong tradition of anti-americanism for the same reasons - identifying the Anglo-Saxons with finance capitalism, resentment about the outcome of WWII etc. (c) McGeough had to distance himself from Justin Barrett because he had previously been close to him and canvassed for Barrett when he stood for the European Parliament in 2004. Searchlight were probably wrong to claim McGeough was ITP, but he associated closely not only with Barrett but with some of the ITP element in the Athlone SSPX so it was a reasonable mistake to make. It wasn't anything like as egregious as Searchlight's regular claim that all opposition to abortion is fascist, for example.
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Post by asiatic on Jun 13, 2013 5:37:34 GMT
The latest from the Asia District of the SSPX is that Fr Daniel Couture has given the Englis Superior of SSPX In India, Fr Robert Brucciani, the bullet! Why?
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