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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Mind your own business

The Holy Father lifted the excommunications of the four SSPX bishops last week. One of them, Bishop Williamson, made some idiotic comments denying the Holocaust just a day before the lifting of the excommunications. Apparently the Vatican was not even aware of these comments when the decree was issued.

Now the Holy Father is facing uproar about the decision to life the excommunication of a Holocaust-denier.
Israel's chief rabbinate severed tied to protest the Holy Father's decision.

What kind of nonsense is this?
The two issues are not at all connected.
The Vatican has been in dialogue with the SSPX for quite a while now. The matters in question have nothing to do with the Jews: the liturgy, Vatican II, Papal authority.
Excommunication is a very severe punishment and it's a great act of mercy that the Pope has performed. Why do people (who clearly don't understand the Church very well) grudge this and create such an uncomfortable scene out of it?

Can't they just mind their own business? Stop making a mountain out of a molehill. And stop using (extremely sorrowful of course) events of the past to bully the rest of the world.

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