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The Vatican plans no more talks with rebel Catholic traditionalists who insist the Church must revoke modernizing reforms launched five decades ago, Pope Benedict’s main doctrinal official has told a German interviewer.
Archbishop Gerhard Mueller, who took up his post as head of the powerful Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) in July, said in an interview to be broadcast on Saturday that the Church could not negotiate away the fundamentals of its faith.
His comments to North German Radio (NDR) were the first from the Vatican on deadlocked talks meant to reintegrate the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) into the Church after a 21-year schism over its implacable opposition to 1960s reforms.
In recent weeks, SSPX leaders have indicated a two-year series of talks with the Vatican had hit an impasse because Rome’s insistence that they accept reforms of the 1962-1965 Second Vatican Council was a deal breaker for them.
“We cannot give away the Catholic faith in negotiations,” Mueller said according to a pre-broadcast report by NDR.
“There will be no compromises here,” he said. “I think there now will be no new discussions.”
The German-born Pope Benedict and the CDF, which the pontiff led for over two decades under Pope John Paul, will now have to decide what to do next with the SSPX, Mueller said.
The Swiss-based SSPX broke away from Rome in 1988 in protest against the 1960s Council reforms that replaced Latin with local languages at Mass, forged reconciliation with Jews and admitted that other religions may also offer a path to salvation. [More]
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Thank God this is over. I new that this would not work out. They want to live in the middle ages. The robes are not long enough. They would have brought much trouble and conflict within the Rome Church. We have enough conflicks between the EWTN-conservative Catholics and the nuns on the bus catholics, the liberals who tolerate each other.
Oh well, this has been the history of the Catholic church for most of its existence — one group reads another group right out of the church. So we have false churches, anti-popes, schisms and heresies . . . and a very dubious witness to Christians as well as non-Christians. When will we ever learn that every coin has two sides, just like every church?!
Here in America Catholics are very free to practice their religion, but if Catholics take public money for their hospital set must allow women to practice their rights. don’t like it? Don’t take the money.
I like to remind my brotherin Christ Tony (10/05/12 That the right wing conservative are fighting very hard against LEFT WING LIBERALS THAT ARE FOR ABORTION, SAME SEX MARRIAGE AND THE DOCTRINE OF JESUS CHRIST. YES I LIKE THE TRIDENTINE LITURGY AND THERE IS NO HARM TO HAVE ONCE OR TWICE A MONTH, IF YOU DON’T LIKE DO US A FAVOR STAY HOME AND PRAY FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
and those whom you Frank call liberals of the CHurch are fighting very hard to uphold the commands of Jesus that tell us to take care of the poor, hungry, homeless, widowed, orphaned and disenfranchised. If you don’t like – answer to Jesus!
It’s about time, the Pope bent over backwards to accomedate these right wing conservatives and he has divided our church even further by reintroducing the Trideitine Liturgy.
Hopefully during this “year of faith we can regain the openness to the Holy Spirit that Blessed John XXIII gave us by opening the windows of the church by calling Vatican II?