re: #447 littleoldlady

He IS “fired.” He’s not a “legal” bishop. That was the initial problem. I should look this up to be precise, but basically…. a guy named Levebre wanted to split from the Church over the traditional Latin mass and other Vatican II changes. He was a rogue, whether just a priest or a bishop, I don’t know.

He ordained some priests who agreed with him and eventually made some of them bishops. They were all of them unofficial and self-appointed and not part of the Church hierarchy. They were “sinning” and their followers were “sinning” by attending their masses.

I used the quote marks because I do not attempt to speak for God — I don’t know WHAT his opinion of this was. I tend to feel that God is cool with anyone, anywhere, anytime who
follows the two rules Jesus laid out, love God and be good to other people.. But, whatever……..

That’s my problem about excommunication. It attempts to act for God, in his place. What is that called? Chutpsa?

It’s my understanding that Benedict is trying to……… circle the wagons, as it were. Bring true believers back together. There are on-going attempts to bring the Russian and Greek Churchs back into the fold, also the Anglicans, and the Lefebre schismatics, too.

Especially with Christianity and Catholicism growing so hugely and rapidly in Africa and Asia and facing the islamic threat, unity — or at least comity and cooperation — are more important than ever.

Anyway. Benedict lifted the excommunication, which is nothing more than allowing this one individual to receive the sacrament. It’s the media and the trouble makers who are trying to BAIT the Jewish community and discredit the Church with false claims that Benedict is embracing a Holocaust denier.

My tolerance of BS, in the middle of all this Obama knee-deep crap, is very strained, and this latest baiting and attacking both Jews and the Pope is raising my blood pressure.