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Post by mcallister on Feb 9, 2014 12:26:40 GMT
Sorry Young Ireland - that link does not seem to be working!
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Post by Young Ireland on Feb 9, 2014 13:42:23 GMT
Sorry Young Ireland - that link does not seem to be working! Should work now.
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Post by Young Ireland on Feb 9, 2014 13:57:38 GMT
To be honest I agree with the policy of downplaying religious posters etc but I can see how it comes across as authoritarian. The new issue of CATHOLIC VOICE has a piece by Bernie Smyth expressing a view similar to yours. I would be interested in getting other opinions on it. (I think the CV has lifted it from Lifesite NEws, - link below) www.lifesitenews.com/news/we-left-god-out-of-the-battle-irish-pro-life-leader-on-how-abortion-was-legI think that avoiding public displays of piety does not amount to "leaving God out of it"- But thou when thou shalt pray, enter into thy chamber, and having shut the door, pray to thy Father in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret will repay thee. I will respond in the pro-life thread, Hibernicus.
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Post by hibernicus on Jun 9, 2014 18:13:57 GMT
This post on Fr Ray Blake's blog deals with a professed hermit who seems to have become a SSPX Athlone fellow-traveller, not a full supporter marymagdalen.blogspot.ie/2014/06/an-irish-hermitess.htmlEXTRACT viterbo said... Since she has an email address I asked her how things are going: Sr. Irene wrote: "Having no hierarchal or clerical support as a canonically professed hermit is perhaps the aspect of solitude I never dreamed or imagined I would have to endure. It has and continues to be a real test of Faith...May I take this opportunity to ask you to ask Fr. Blake and others to offer prayers for my dying brother at this time. His name is Frank Gibson, age 54. He is in the ICU in a South Dublin Hospital. As he was a non practicing Catholic all his life, I ask much prayers that God will show him mercy for the sake of His Son's bitter Passion and the prayers of the faithful...P.S. If you happen to be talking to Fr. Blake, please be so kind as to ask him to honour us with a visit and offer Holy Mass in our tiny Oratory if by chance he is visiting Ireland this year. Only one priest has visited the house since I moved here in April '13.The Most Blessed Sacrament needs to be renewed. I have asked Fr. Paul Kramer in Cork but he gave no reply, and the English Superior of the SSPX for Ireland will not allow the local resident priests to support me." srireneg3@gmail.com 5/6/14 3:59 am END
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Post by hibernicus on Sept 23, 2014 18:59:40 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Oct 25, 2014 18:46:20 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Feb 14, 2015 19:07:55 GMT
Every few weeks I pass the SSPX church in Mounttown on a bus. I always bless myself when I pass it (because they have the Real Presence; for the same reason I would bless myself passing an Eastern Orthodox church - if the Orthodox practice Reservation, that is; I always assumed they do, but it has struck me that I just don't know.) I passed it today, and for the first time ever it occurred to me that I ought to say a prayer for their reconciliation with the Church. Shame on me that I didn't think of it before.
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Post by hibernicus on Mar 11, 2015 22:24:02 GMT
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Post by Young Ireland on Mar 18, 2015 11:21:30 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Mar 18, 2015 20:30:00 GMT
I see the new schismatic bishop is another former director of the Argentine seminary where Williamson used to be director. This is another piece of evidence for the theory that Pope Francis was soured on traditionalism by the specimens he encountered in Argentina. Interesting that this candidate is 73 years old. I would have expected Williamson to go for a younger candidate who would be around for some time. Is he short of credible candidates, or is he afraid that a younger bishop might be a rival?
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Post by hibernicus on Mar 27, 2015 23:37:13 GMT
The new issue of the CATHOLIC HERALD has a piece on Pope Francis and traditionalists, which mentions that he was regularly denounced by trads while Archbishop of Buenos Aires (for example, after he was photographed receiving a blessing from a Protestant pastor one trad magazine published the photo with a caption stating that the see of Buenos Aires was now vacant as the archbishop had committed the sin of apostasy) and that he frequently makes disparaging remarks about traditionalists. The author thought, however, that Francis may be better placed than Pope Benedict to reconcile the SSPX since no-one could accuse him of wanting to "roll back the Council" and therefore he is better able to compromise with them. Myself, I think this is too optimistic and the fate of the Franciscans of the Immaculate has deeply antagonised the SSPX, since it seems to support their fears that Rome might impose unsympathetic superiors and dismantle them. Furthermore, they would want to operate where the bishop is hostile to them (including dioceses where they already have major institutions) and I really don't see how this would be allowed, given the increased emphasis on the role of the bishop and of episcopal conferences in the last few decades.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Aug 17, 2015 7:34:43 GMT
Not good news: www.therecusant.com/apps/blog/show/43358560-news-from-irelandI'm tempted to write, "while we've been sleeping", trouble is that there was always a marked tendency for this to happen within the pixies. But there are a few very tragic stories about people and places in this short piece. Also about failures
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Post by Young Ireland on Aug 17, 2015 9:02:52 GMT
Not good news: www.therecusant.com/apps/blog/show/43358560-news-from-irelandI'm tempted to write, "while we've been sleeping", trouble is that there was always a marked tendency for this to happen within the pixies. But there are a few very tragic stories about people and places in this short piece. Also about failures Indeed. I must say that I didn't think the Resistance had that much support within the Irish SSPX. The defection of Cashel, Tralee, Wexford and Kesh, the chapel in Longford and the rival Mass in Dublin means that there now are more Williamsonite Mass locations than there are Fellayite. Whoever is behind these defections must be very influential and presuasive indeed. Another implication of this is that wherever the Resistance is, neo-fascism usually isn't far behind. There are links between the Irish Resistance and Counter Culture Ireland, and this means that they will be a much more dangerous force than previously thought. Seeming as the Williamsonites are becoming increasingly vocal, this could also have a negative effect on the growth of the EF within the Church as well, as the diocesan bureaucracy can simply point to the Resistance and use them to discredit the EF per se. Something clearly needs to be done, but what I don't know.
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Post by Ranger on Aug 17, 2015 11:45:10 GMT
Very indicative of where the Irish Church is at compared to elsewhere, I should think. Just like in politics there's a move towards the extreme when nothing is being done by those in the centre (not tarring everyone with the same brush here, obviously, but rather pointing out our lack of leadership). There needs to be real catechesis and understanding of the faith too; I think one large element of this shift towards the extremes actually comes from fundamentalist Christian sources like Evangelicals who reject the possibility of interpreting Genesis etc. metaphorically influencing us on this side of the Atlantic. Rejecting one aspect of the Faith can easily lead to rejecting others.
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Post by hibernicus on Aug 17, 2015 21:48:13 GMT
I didn't realise that Edermine was now being used by the SSPX, let alone the Resistance - I thought it was indult. The news about the Cork-based priest defecting to them is quite startling in that it shows that defections from the SSPX to the Resistance are still continuing; I thought they had stabilised by now. Possibly some of the recent items which have been seen as marking a conciliatory attitude of Rome towards the SSPX (the authority given to Bishop Fellay to act as a court of first instance in certain circumstances, the assistance given to the SSPX in Argentina to register with the State as a Catholic body) have stirred up some more hardliners whose attitude is so anti-Roman that they see any move towards reconciliation with Rome as by definition a betrayal. IReland has ALWAYS had more ultra-trads than moderate trads compared to Britain, I suspect because (a) there was already a core of disaffected integrists associated with the Fr Fahy tradition (b) Irish Catholicism valued obedience over debate, so the natural moderates would tend to submit and the radicals would go off the deep end. Note BTW the advice on their blog that the OF Mass is positively displeasing to God, should be avoided wherever necessary, and Communion should never be received at it. I really find it hard to understand how anyone could hold to this without formally declaring themselves a sedevacantist, but then the SSPX, let alone the Resistance, mindset is a mystery to me.
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