Thursday 17 May 2012

Reality gap

Does Cardinal Ranjith really think that French integrism is an appropriate contibution to the formation of the clergy of an archdiocese in Sri Lanka?

The most recent development in the discussions between the Sacred Congregation for Doctrine and the Society of St Pius X, or, as it now appears, between the Sacred Congregation for Doctrine and the separate and individual bishops of said society, indicates a need for a certain caution.

It really does not seem wise for those with a hankering after the positions that the Society of St Pius X has held over the years to assume that reconciliation will be in effect a legitimisation for the rest of the Church of the positions, or perhaps just some of the positions, held by that Society to date.

And, as a priestly society, would it in any situation be the best Society to use for training priests for diocesan ministry?

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