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Number CCLVI (256) 9 June 2012 Until Archbishop Lefebvre finally decided to consecrate bishops for the Society of St Pius X in June of 1988, he was, like all Catholics since Vatican II, torn between the Catholic Truth and Catholic Authority that that Council, following the modern world, had split from one another. However, once he had taken that decision, which proved clearly to have been the saving of Catholic Tradition, it was as though everything in his mind dropped back into place, and Read more [...]

French original: www.la-croix.com/Religion/Urbi-Orbi/France/Rome-demande-a-l-institut-du-Bon-Pasteur-de-mieux-integrer-Vatican-II-_NP_-2012-04-17-795546 Letter from the Secretary of the Ecclesia Dei Commission To the Institute of the Good Shepherd in France March 23, 2012 Conclusions of the Canonical Visit To the Institute of the Good Shepherd Generally speaking, it is necessary to develop the founding charisma of the Institute by thinking more on the future than on the past. Read more [...]

www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1202076.htm May-21-2012 (600 words) xxxi By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The documents of the Second Vatican Council possess different levels of authority and thus command different levels of acceptance by Catholics, including those who hope to restore their unity with the church, said two retired Vatican officials. German Cardinal Walter Brandmuller and Italian Archbishop Agostino Marchetto spoke to reporters May 21 Read more [...]

David Kerr Rome, Italy, May 18, 2012 / 06:33 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A leading American rabbi and Holocaust refugee says people should trust Pope Benedict’s judgment when it comes to the Church possibly readmitting the Society of St. Pius X, which has a bishop who denied the scale of the Holocaust. “Let me tell you this, I think that Pope Benedict XVI in many ways really understood the Holocaust because he was in the German Army. He deserted (the army), his family was anti-Nazi, I mean he Read more [...]

Number CCLIII (253) 19 May 2012 Because of the need to break a long argument into several pieces, readers may have lost the thread of the several EC’s on “Benedict’s Ecumenism”. Let us sum up the argument so far:– EC 241 established a few basics: the Catholic Church is an organic whole, amongst the beliefs of which if anyone picks and chooses, he is a “chooser”, or heretic. Moreover, if he takes with him a Catholic belief outside the Church, it will not remain the same, just as Read more [...]