to ipso facto excommunicate, who in high places presently could stand? Such are our times. But if Sacred Tradition is the criterion nothing is so simple. I am not and have never been SSPX, but I will ever prefer their refusal to move from the sacred Creeds (which will never be passé) to those who confuse centuries of slow and careful organic doctrinal development with the mutating “Evolution of dogmas“. — SH*
______
* If I understand correctly, the SSPX has not been accused of any heresy per se in this time when heresies fly about throughout the Church as in a locust storm**; the SSPX leadership have supposedly excommunicated themselves by acting they believe exceptionally and out of necessity against canon law in order to preserve the Deposit of Faith and the salvific integrity of the Mass into the future.
Updated
** Canon 2314, 1917 Code of Canon Law: “All apostates from the Christian faith and each and every heretic or schismatic: 1) Incur ipso facto [by definition] excommunication…” — The 1917 Pio-Benedictine Code of Canon Law, translated by Dr. Edward Von Peters, San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 2001, canon 2314, p. 735.
Would someone please ask Raymond Arroyo to drop the silly term “posse’? It is embarrassing.
