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Fr. Alcuin Reid has a great piece over at NLM where he points out:
“…And the SSPX has continued this reaction – at times intemperately, without making the necessary distinctions between the Council’s pastoral policies and its articulation of Catholic doctrine.
Now Bishop Fellay speaks of “reservations” about Vatican II. Reservations are not denials of doctrine, and anyone may have reservations about even an Ecumenical Council’s pastoral policies and be a Catholic in good standing.”
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/#8019231257457040478
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This is right on target. I have always thought that the primary difficulty was over “pastoral policies” — not doctrine, per se. Pastoral policies have to do with the practical prudential order — not Faith and Morals, per se — and Catholics in good faith/standing can agree to disagree — with patience, charity, humility…and obedience to the Magisterium.
I know I shouldn’t say this, but…
One of the best things about the last few months is that now Fr. Bourgeois is excommunicated, and Bishop Fellay isn’t.
Those two were dealt with by The Church? I must have been asleep. I don’t get it. I went to the choir director’s page and didn’t get it even more. Will someone explain please what is trying to be said here?
At the risk of sounding uncharitable, hasn’t Fr. McBrien publicly repudiated doctrine? Is that comparison valid without some kind of attempt on his part of reconciling that?
While the Catholic Church has always allowed for variety of opinions on unsettled or purely accidental issues, I think that in the present postmodern context this statment is misleading and dangerous. For example, comparing the Church’s left and the right is like comparing apples to oranges. It is like saying, “if this city can handle STD-infected libertines, it can certainly handle mysophobic hypochondriacs.” Or “if this country can handle terrorists and foreign invaders, it can certainly handle anarchists and self-interested politicians.” McBrien and his ilk fundamentally attack the foundations of the Church; they go after the Church’s teachings, its authority, and its claims to truth. The Williamsons of the world don’t attack the Church directly; they attack its goverance, its practices, huamn interprestations, etc. In other words, they attack the Church, however misguidedly, on its own terms. The former are like secular skeptics, the latter like early Protestants. So while is room for Fransciscans AND Dominicans, there is not room for Calvinsts or Mormons. While there may be room for parts of Aristotilean philosophy, there is not room for Nietzchean nihlism just because it is also philosophy.
A fried posted this in another forum and I think it puts to rest the idea that Archbishop Lefebvre and the bishops of the SSPX do not accept Vatican II:
I think the SSPX will grant — as ABL has already conceeded — that the council texts are “official statements of the Magisterium”.
Therefore, the work to be done is to ensure a proper interpretation (hermeneutic) “in light of Tradition”.
There is no question of error in the order of Faith or Morals, per se. We know this on Faith — because the Magisterium, as such, can’t defect in Faith or Morals. On the other hand, good Catholics can agree to disagree on “pastoral policy” insofar as this relates to the practical prudential order rather than Faith and Morals, per se.