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rug

(82,333 posts)
Sun Sep 30, 2012, 10:31 AM Sep 2012

Pope's bid to win over Catholic rebels seems at dead end

Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor
Reuters
7:59 a.m. CDT, September 30, 2012

PARIS (Reuters)- Pope Benedict's bid to draw rebel Catholic traditionalists back to the Roman fold, a major effort that has divided Catholics and sometimes embarrassed him, seems to have hit a dead end with little apparent hope of a solution.

Two leaders of the Society of St Pius X (SSPX), which broke away over reforms of the 1962-1965 Second Vatican Council, have recently rejected his conditions for their rehabilitation after a series of contacts following his 2005 election as pope.

SSPX head Bishop Bernard Fellay, who Church officials expect will send a formal reply to Rome soon, has not yet indicated the group's final position but it is not expected to be positive.

A formal or de facto SSPX rejection would be a setback for Benedict, whose decision to lift excommunications on its four bishops in 2009 backfired when it emerged one was a notorious Holocaust denier and the Vatican did not even know it.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-pope-traditionalistsbre88t08s-20120930,0,7544763.story

Good riddance.

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Pope's bid to win over Catholic rebels seems at dead end (Original Post) rug Sep 2012 OP
Why this Pope is bending over backwards for the SSPX is beyond me meow2u3 Sep 2012 #1
I think he's sympathetic towards them but they're pissing on his shoes. rug Sep 2012 #2

meow2u3

(24,745 posts)
1. Why this Pope is bending over backwards for the SSPX is beyond me
Sun Sep 30, 2012, 01:40 PM
Sep 2012

They want the church run their way or the highway.

 

rug

(82,333 posts)
2. I think he's sympathetic towards them but they're pissing on his shoes.
Sun Sep 30, 2012, 05:39 PM
Sep 2012

He should be more sympathetic to those who are trying to carry out the Word rather than pouting over Latin Masses.

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