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The Angelus June 2008
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Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 11:55 AM CST |
A transcription of the public conference given by Bishop Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X, at the St. Ignatius Retreat House, Ridgefield, Connecticut (February 17, 2008), updating traditional Catholics on the state of the Church and the SSPX. "I am sure that you are interested in many questions and topics, and among them the situation of the Church and our relations with Rome. I will try to address these issues. I say that I will try, because the situation is not simple. The situation and state of the Church are becoming more complex and diversified. Before the Motu Proprio, we were fighting to defend a number of principles—and in this respect, the fight remains the same; nothing has changed. But the Motu Proprio definitely caused a number of people to think that things are different now. So, let us try to consider what may or may not have changed."
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Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 11:50 AM CST |
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Readers of The Angelus might like to know something of the seminary in La Reja, some 40 miles outside of Argentina’s capital city, Buenos Aires. The foundation stone was laid in August of 1981 by Archbishop Lefebvre on one of his early visits to Argentina as Superior of the SSPX. It was as Superior General of the Holy Ghost Fathers between 1962 and 1968 that his missionary visits to the South American continent gave him to see that Argentina might be the most suitable country in Latin America from which to launch the Society’s mission of forming priests for this once huge part of the Catholic world.
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Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 11:45 AM CST |
It is not gracious to speak ill of the dead. "De mortuis nil nisi bonum," said the Latins. But where the Faith is at stake, and where a man, apparently until his death, took a stand on the Faith which can gravely mislead the faithful, it is not exactly speaking ill of him to remind the faithful of his mistake. If his soul is now in Purgatory or Heaven, he cannot mind the faithful being told the truth on the occasion of his death. Certainly I will not mind if over my grave a wiser man than I re-directs souls towards the Truth. Therefore Dom Gérard's peace should hardly be disturbed if, in a Society of St. Pius X publication like The Angelus, we go back on why he and Archbishop Lefebvre parted company in 1988 on the occasion of the episcopal consecrations. With those consecrations Dom Gérard frankly disagreed, and a few weeks later he came to a separate agreement of his own with Rome. On at least one occasion soon afterwards the Archbishop was observed to be weeping over Dom Gérard's decision.
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Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 11:40 AM CST |
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Father was born in a Jewish family which had settled in Panama. His mother was born in Jerusalem when it was still part of the Ottoman Empire, his father was from Russian Poland. He thus had that style of expressing himself which was intense, dramatic, heartfelt, at once sunny and brooding, Levantine and Osteuropäisch, with a strong dose of Hispanidad and francophilia in the mix. Only the best possessions of the heart were good enough for Harry. Off he went to Chicago as a young man to study business and accounting. There he ran into the newly burgeoning “Great Books” movement out of the University of Chicago. This led to a conversion to philosophy, and especially to the philosophy of Aristotle, and most consequentially to his conversion to the Catholic Faith
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Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 11:35 AM CST |
Throughout my teaching career, I have encountered little resistance to the theoretical concept of music’s importance. Parents—most of whom emerged from the same flawed educational system that I did—realize that they lack foundational knowledge of music, and recognize the significance of establishing an appreciation for music in their children through exposure at home and in the concert hall. Children understand innately—though they may not appreciate intellectually—the deficiencies of the vernacular music of the folk, country, pop and rock traditions: much like junk food, they naturally suspect that something so accessible and pleasing to their palate must not be “good for them,” though they remain content with its accessibility, and in no particular hurry to take on the sophistication of their palates voluntarily.
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Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 11:30 AM CST |
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Fortitude is a condition of every virtue, helping us to act virtuously with strength. It is also itself a virtue which makes us face down dangers and trials. Two things, however, deny Fortitude: pursuit of pleasure unhinged from rightness of reason, and shrinking from what right reason presents as the path of action because of anticipated (often imaginary) difficulties of mind or body. Fear of difficult things weakens the will and causes it to back off from following right reason. Sometimes we are called to withstand fear over time in order that we might overcome it entirely; this is called daring. Therefore, Fortitude is about curbing fear and moderating daring. Fortitude overcomes fear yet restrains us from becoming foolhardy. The principal act of Fortitude is endurance, that is, to stand immovable amidst dangers.
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Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 11:25 AM CST |
Danger is not something you learn with "methods"; it is something you live in the day-by-day of immolated existence, bound by no other vow than that of your Catholic baptism, carried all the way to the danger of dying for it out of faithfulness and hidden heroism. Danger is the commerce between God and the ones made in His image. It is a perpetual engagement of honor to stand and deliver every time we are called upon to prove the love of a dangerous Law–the Law to maintain and preserve the Catholic Faith.
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Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 11:20 AM CST |
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Following the Episcopal Consecrations of 1988 performed by Archbishop Lefebvre at Ecône, a number of Sisters left the convent of Schellenberg (Liechtenstein) because they wished to continue their close ties with the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX). This group now heads the Benedictine convent of Marienberg.
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Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 11:15 AM CST |
The Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, which acknowledged that the Tridentine Mass was never abrogated, raises a certain number of questions concerning the future of the relations of the Society of St. Pius X with Rome. Several persons in conservative circles and in Rome itself have made themselves heard, arguing that, since the Sovereign Pontiff had acted so generously and thus given a clear sign of his good will towards us, there would be nothing left for the Society to do but to “sign an agreement with Rome.” Unfortunately, a few of our friends were deceived by such an illusion. We would like to take the opportunity of this Eastertide letter to review once again the principles governing our actions in these troubled times and point out a few recent events which clearly indicate that, basically, nothing has really changed except for the Motu Proprio’s liturgical overture, so as to draw from all this the necessary conclusions.
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Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 11:11 AM CST |
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What should we think of the “anonymous Christians” theory? Are all men automatically saved by Christ?
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