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1. Isn't it time the Vatican admitted it has made a serious error in de-excommunicating the SSPX bishops without,as far as I can tell,receiving any indication as to their recanting on their views regarding Vatican 2? The holocaust denying fiasco is,in a sense, a bizarre sideshow,highlighting the lack of discernment involved in the overturning of the excommunications.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

   Posted By: Pau Gleeson

2. Perhaps the good Archbishop could explain exactly how belief in a secular historical event became an article of faith of the Catholic Church.
   
   I would have thought that belief that Christ was the Son of God might have been more appropriate. Apparently Fr. Kennedy is able to deny THIS article of faith without punishment.

   Posted By: Invictus Maneo

3. I cannot understand how Archbishop Franco could ever state that one could not be considered Catholic if he did not believe in the holocaust. At my last look at the catechism, I could not find this doctrine. It seems that someone could not believe in the holocaust and still be a Catholic and perhaps even a saint. What utter nonsense.

   Posted By: Paul Rodriguez

4. PLEASE posters go and read some facts about the excommunications. These were in relation to a specific offence, not some "I don't like your views" carte blanche.
   
   The fruity and reprehensible views propounded by Bp Williamson are not related to those excommunications.
   
   But perhaps the new, tolerant, community-based Catholic church of Australia wouldn't bother with mere details of fact, law, or justice.
   
   I still believe in the rule of law, ecclesiastical and civil.
   
   And I would also observe, as did Invictus Maneo, that it seems perfectly acceptable in the eyes of many for clerics, and some 'theologians' to propound denial of the basic tenets of the faith and incredibly be lauded as great spiritual innovators.

   Posted By: Peter

5. Last time I checked the list of excommunicable offenses, I did not see "deny the holocaust" as being on that list. Denying any human historical reality may be dumb, but it is not of itself a sin. The only history that can fall under such a catagory is denying the DIVINE realities in history such as the life, death and resurrection of Our Blessed Lord.
   
   Wanting to distance oneself from ignorance such as this is to a degree understandable, but demonizing people and declaring them uncatholic is uncalled for. It simply isn't true.
   
   This Archbishop is in the wrong to worship at this false altar of "dialogue". He seems willing to damn someone else in the eyes of others to get brownie points from the jewish leadership. Williamson's excommunication has been lifted. I wonder if this Archbishop would dare to refuse communion to Williamson on the grounds that he doesn't believe him to be catholic because he denies certain realities of the holocaust.
   
   There are saintly catholics, there are good catholics, there are bad catholics, there are evil catholics, and yes, there are ignorant catholics. They are all still catholic until a real excommunicable offense is committed.
   
   I believe that the pope's recent letter concerning this whole hoopla points out where this particular archbishop stands on the matter, and it isn't pretty.
   
   Fiat Voluntas Tua

   Posted By: Barb

6. Will someone please send Archbishop Franco a bible so that he can look up Luke 15 1-10, the parable of the lost sheep. It seems he is suffering from a lapse of memory or doesn't know his Catechism very well.

   Posted By: alfred Lorona

7. Archbishop Antonio Franco is pointing to the lack of Christian Charity, in the type of offensive comment, by any-one, compounded by believing it to be a fact.
   
   Surely charity also means one must compassion those who are wounded. Opposition to this is the context of ‘not be considered Catholic’ and Archbishop Antonio Franco is correct. Without charity we are not Catholic. There is heart, soul and truth in his defence of Charity in Truth.
   
   There is little fruit where there are thorns and thistles. And examining SSPX comments, one can easily detect the ‘lack of nourishment’ these poor souls receive from their ‘leaders’.
   
   God Bless Archbishop Antonio Franco.
   

   Posted By: Eamon Hatley-Smith

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