Monday, February 13, 2006
Yeah, the SSPX reconciliation stuff was all rumor
Apparently SSPX is still having trouble reconciling the ideas of "Catholic" and "Pope", prefering to keep to their own strange doctrines while still professing loyalty to the Pope, those who don't think he's the Antichrist that is.
I don't see how they think they're particularly different than, say, Luther, really. He didn't think he was starting a "new" Church. Henry VIII certainly didn't think he was starting a new Church, just taking control of the part of the Church in his country. These guys aren't saying there shouldn't be a Pope, or that the Catholic Church isn't one. They're just saying everyone's Catholics, but some are more Catholic than others. The Pope, apparently, is on the lesser side of the equation.
I don't see how they think they're particularly different than, say, Luther, really. He didn't think he was starting a "new" Church. Henry VIII certainly didn't think he was starting a new Church, just taking control of the part of the Church in his country. These guys aren't saying there shouldn't be a Pope, or that the Catholic Church isn't one. They're just saying everyone's Catholics, but some are more Catholic than others. The Pope, apparently, is on the lesser side of the equation.
