Letters

Basic differences to overcome

Dr Arnold Jago

Contents - Nov 2005 - Buy a copy now Editorial: A remarkable Catholic parish National Press Club: Cardinal George Pell on the dictatorship of relativism - Cardinal George Pell News: The Church Around the World Sister Miriam Duggan: the Church's response to AIDS - Anh Nguyen Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist: areas for remedial action identified - Peter Westmore Thomas More Centre: Fifty years from Shadowlands: Childhood memories of the world of C. S. Lewis - Msgr Peter J. Elliott Call to Holiness: Contemplating the Eucharistic Face of Christ - Christine McCarthy Letters: Myths exploded - Nola Viney Letters: Church Music - Chris Wilson Letters: New Zealand visitor to Brisbane - Leo Leitch Letters: Gnostic gospels and the Da Vinci Code - Fr G.H. Duggan SM Letters: Example needed - Betty Griffin Letters: Basic differences to overcome - Dr Arnold Jago Letters: SSPX response - Timothy Hungerford Letters: Vatican II and Benedict XVI - Jim Howe Books: The Incredible Da Vinci Code, by Frank Mobbs - Michael Gilchrist (reviewer) Books: Philosophy 101 Meets Socrates, by Peter Kreeft - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer) Books: Stem Cells, by Norman M. Ford and Michael Herbert - Kerrie Allen Books: More good reading from AD Books Reflection: The concrete character of Christianity - John Young

After the Pope and Bishop Fellay of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) met on 29 August 2005, Father Schmidberger, who accompanied Bishop Fellay, issued a statement.

Reconciliation between Rome and the SSPX will, he said, take "years rather than months", and will depend on agreement concerning the Second Vatican Council.

* Traditional Catholics cannot accept the Council's teaching that the Holy Ghost uses other denominations as means of salvation;

* or its teachings about non-Christian religions and "religious liberty";

* or, worse even, the Council document Gaudium et Spes, which says "all things on earth should be ordained to man as to their centre and summit" (para 12).

But the centre and summit of all things is God.

The SSPX opposes these teachings because they believe they contradict what the Church, through earlier Popes, always taught.

These differences are basic - not just a few minor things that need working out.

ARNOLD JAGO (DR)
Mildura, Vic

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 18 No 10 (November 2005), p. 15