Rorate has entitled their most recent article, "Pope explains why he's going to Assisi 3". Katholisches is much more accurate, and frankly, just.
Many of those commenting at Rorate don't seem to understand the article, or believe that the Pope is in earnest. The Pope's words themselves are actually quite shocking and unprecedented.
Of course many "Traditionalists" don't appreciate that the Pope is actually attempting to the address their concerns. Maybe it's just shellshock?
This should be taken in with other statements by various officials and actions in recent years on the part of the Pope himself when he more than met the hopes of the SSPX with respect to Summorum Pontificum, on the part of individual Bishops, even Liberal ones, Conferences and even the Vatican officials themselves indicate that this won't be anything like the previous Assisi events and will be used by the Holy Father to "attack relativism".
Benedict XVI. on Assisi 3: "Everything will be done so that a syncretistic or relativistic interpretation will be impossible".
On the 1st of October the event "Pilgrims of Truth on the Way to Assisi" took place, organized by Catholica Spes, in order to discuss considerations and concerns related to Assisi 3.
"The Holy Father wanted to underline the idea of a Pilgrimage to Truth: not in order to pray in various ways with the danger of mixing the supernatural faith and natural religions, rather a common way back to the one truth." With these words Curial Cardinal Leo Burke explained the sense of the inter-religious meeting in Assisi will be invited by Pope Benedict XVI for the 27th of October 2011.
An excerpt from katholisches...
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Thanks for this, Tancred! It beats all of the "experts" in the peanut gallery.
If I can't trust the Holy Father and the Holy Catholic Church, who can I trust?
Veronica
I'm just flying on instinct and what I read in the German press which is hours, and often days ahead of us in terms of what's going on, and kreuz.net seems to always know the score.
A lot of people don't like +.net but they are almost always right on the money about a lot of stuff.
Okay, but Pope Benedict has not "more than met the hopes of the SSPX with respect to Summorum Pontificum". He met the demands laid out by the SSPX for a showing of good will on the part of the Vatican. He did the minimum, which is fine, but please don't inflate what he did.
Not ok. The SSPX never made demands and I challenge you to show me where they did.
I am pasting a link below from an interview with Bishop Fellay from several years ago, wherein he stated the two well-known preliminaries (or demands or requests) that the SSPX needed Rome to offer as a gesture of good will, namely, the formal lifting of the bogus excommunications of 1988 and a formal statement from the pope that acknowledged that any priest in any diocese could say Mass according to the missal of 1962.
http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/2001Nov/nov5ecc.htm
Thanks for the link. Of course you might understand now why I think your characterization of the SSPX's requests as "demands" would bring your claim that Benedict has only done the "minimum" into disrepute.
I don't know what criterion you're using to evaluate the Holy Father's performance, but it doesn't sound fair.
Too many years of taking pot-shots at priests, bishops, cardinals and popes have taken their toll on me. Whether the accusations made were valid or not, no longer matters. I won't have to answer for what the priests, bishops, cardinals and/or popes did or didn't say or do, and I won't be asked at my particular judgment why I didn't add my "expert opinions" to all of the others.
Pope Benedict XVI is the Vicar of Christ. He is the visible presence of Jesus Christ on earth in this the year 2011. Try to remember that the next time you feel the urge to criticize him. I will too.
Veronica
Veronica
Tancred, this post wasn't directed toward you. It is just a general post.
Veronica
If I can't trust the Holy Father, who can I trust? I'm sure the late Cardinal Mindszenty said the same thing before he was betrayed by Pope Paul VI:
http://www.fatimaondemand.org/en/index.php/archives/86-084
Dolorosa, go ahead, you place all of your trust in Bishop Fellay.
Veronica
With a few minor bumps, I have no reason not to trust either Pope Benedict or Bishop Fellay.
Yeah..., and so, how did Assisi 3 work out? I see that, in the meantime, Ben XVI has resigned and the the Church has been handed over to Her enemies. Nice work, that. "Our hope is in the name of the Lord. Who made Heaven and Earth". Amen. Period,
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