Vatican commission to draw red lines for ultra-traditionalists
Sat, 12 Sep 2009
Earth Times
Vienna - The Vatican is set to tell a rebel ultra- traditional Catholic group that the Church's core values and its relations with Judaism are not negotiable, Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn said in an interview published on Saturday. Earlier this year, the Catholic leadership in Rome drew criticism from within and outside the Church for lifting excommunication orders against bishops of the controversial Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), including British-born Richard Williamson who has denied the scale of the Nazi mass murder of Jews.
In the coming days, a recently restructured church commission would meet the renegades, the cardinal and Vienna archbishop told the Passauer Neue Presse.
Rome would not give the group a "free pass," and Pope Benedict XVI was striving to "get a group of Catholics which has parted from the Church back into the boat," said Schoenborn, who is a member of several Vatican bodies.
The non-negotiable positions to be set out to the Pius Society include the Church's positions towards the Jewish faith, other non- Christian religions as well as Christian faiths, and towards religious freedom as a fundamental human right, according to Schoenborn.
In June, the pope placed the commission under the authority of the Holy See's main disciplinary watchdog body, after it had drawn criticism for its handling of the SSPX.
SSPX members are currently barred from official roles within the church unless they agree to fully abide with its teachings.
Such teachings include the so-called Second Vatican Council reforms of the 1960s, which sought to modernize the Church.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/285322,vatican-commission-to-draw-red-lines-for-ultra-traditionalists.html
also see:
Schönborn Upstages Falwell
Benedict XVI: Dialogue With the People of the Talmud a "Sacred Duty"
Compare Schönborn's worship with the worship of the SSPX:
Cardinal Schönborn Mocks Mass
On The Contrary: What worship was like before the come-as-you-are-hootenanies of today
Thanks to an anonymous commenter at "Rorate Caeli" for the Schönborn video.
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