Sunday, October 25, 2009

CDF -- SSPX talks begin

Tomorrow morning, October 26 -- today for some -- representatives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will begin theological talks on the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) with representatives of the Society of St. Pius X. These talks will center on issues at the heart of controversies concerning the Vatican II that have polarized progressive and traditional Catholics for nearly half-a-century.

For anyone who does not know how to pray for these deliberations, I suggest that you pray for the intentions of the Holy Father. If you don't understand the importance of praying for these deliberations, then I suggest you consult Pope Benedict's declarations on the matter over the course of the past few years, particularly since his July 2007 motu proprio, Summorum Pontificum and his accompanying letter to bishops and revisit the controversy centering on his lifting of the excommunications on Feb. 4, 2009, of the four bishops illicitly consecrated by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre -- and especially his letter to Catholic bishops of March 12, 2009, responding to the hail of criticism that descended upon him over the denial by one of these bishops of the generally-accepted facts concerning the Nazi Holocaust.

Pray we must.

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