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[Archbishop Lefebvre's excommunication] may be compared with the excommunications that popes in former times pronounced on their political enemies, sentences which were formally valid but which nobody today would regard as having moral force. In fact its weight is less, for the excommunication came not from a merely secular policy but from one aimed at excluding tradition from the Church or obliging it to compromise with false principles.
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― Phoenix from the Ashes: The Making, Unmaking, and Restoration of Catholic Tradition
― Phoenix from the Ashes: The Making, Unmaking, and Restoration of Catholic Tradition
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The consecration ceremony usually begins with the "mandate", the commission from Rome approving the event. Msgr. Fischer explained that in the absence of a mandate from Pope John Paul II, whose vision of the Church is a vision of the "new Church" under which the faithful have suffered at the hands of Bishops Navarro and Corso, a mandate clearly exists from the popes of Tradition, the Rome of All Time, to insure the salvation of souls. In this clear wish of the Eternal Church, the mandate is give
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― The Mouth of the Lion: Bishop Antonio De Castro Mayer & the Last Catholic Diocese
― The Mouth of the Lion: Bishop Antonio De Castro Mayer & the Last Catholic Diocese
