quinta-feira, 27 de dezembro de 2012

Christmas is Des Moines, Iowaby. Dom Alcuin Reid on the SSPX Situation

Christmas is Des Moines, Iowaby Shawn Tribe
The following were sent in from St. Anthony Catholic Church in Des Moines, Iowa. The celebrant was Msgr. Frank Chiodo (a very pleasant priest who I had the pleasure of meeting in 2006 at the CIEL conference in Oxford).




 
 

Dom Alcuin Reid on the SSPX Situation

by Shawn Tribe
The following article was published today in the print edition of The Catholic Herald and is reprinted here on NLM with permission of the same.

Let these sheep return freely to the sheepfold


Dom Alcuin Reid

When family members are estranged hardly a day goes by without those separated feeling pain. Pope Benedict XVI feels the rift with the Society of Saint Pius X deeply, and has done since the break of 1988. “Let the Society know that resolving the problem of the Society is at the heart of the priorities of my pontificate,” he is reported as saying. Yet in spite of years of effort they remain in a canonically irregular position.

He has been criticised for wasting time on this small ultra-conservative group. Critics imply that this is a ‘conservative’ pope with a political motivation in a transitional pontificate that is lasting too long. They misunderstand him. Can the Chief Shepherd ignore straying sheep? He asked in 2009: “Can we simply exclude them, as representatives of a radical fringe, from our pursuit of reconciliation and unity? What would then become of them?” No, this is not Church politics―it is the Gospel.read...