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What these areas have in common that could be the source of this
destructive polarization
1. Setting continuity and change against each other.
2. Defining tradition as a completed event requiring adherence or rejection.
3. Pre-Vatican and Post-Vatican II models of God are diametrically opposed.
2. Vatican II Bishops REQUIRING liturgical and other changes for sake of continuity created
an aura of force against traditional Roman Catholicism.
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2. Open access to information has revolutionized the world taking it into a place where
hope can rise again among those kept out of the know and in a place of
powerlessness for too long. Social networking has opened up the potential for virtual
protest and other gatherings where time and geography would once have prevented such
connections.
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A VATICAN II RITE, the most viable option for reform in the Church today
1. Since Catholics cannot reject the council, the only valid option to date is a watered-down
version of Vatican II in hope that progressive, moderate and ultra-conservative groups might
remain within the ONE Roman Catholic Rite. Church affiliation has only declined since this
strategy was initiated.
2. In the past few decades, a number of conservative Catholic groups have repeatedly
vilified Vatican II as a heretical council. At the same time, the Roman Curia has censored/silenced
well over 100 Vatican II proponents including bishops, theologians and others with no recognition
of their contributions to the Vatican II vision of Church to this day.
3.
Pope Benedict and Pope Francis have reached out to these conservative groups. Vatican
official Archbishop Pozzos recent statement that the difficulties raised by the SSPX concerning
religious freedom, ecumenism and dialogue, and liturgical reform remain subject to discussion and
clarification but do not constitute an obstacle to a canonical and juridical recognition of the SSPX.
WHAT IF WE MOVE THE MARGINS AGAIN, AS THE CHURCH DID LONG AGO WITH THE
EASTERN RITES*, as the Church has done more recently with Opus Dei and SSPX? Then there
will room for a Vatican II Rite/Church in union with Rome. Then we can All be One
againDIFFERENT BUT ONE, IN UNION WITH ROMEeach able to share its wisdom and
experience with the other, each able to call the other to faithful proclamation of the Gospel.
*Eastern Catholic Churches in union with Rome have 23 different ways of expressing Catholic
perspectives on theology, governance and liturgy, whereas the Western/Latin Church has only
one Rite to date.
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