Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Vatican newspaper: Lifting excommunications is example of Vatican II’s ‘medicine of mercy’

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January 27, 2009

Far from representing a rejection of the Second Vatican Council, the lifting of the excommunications of four SSPX bishops last week is an example of the council’s spirit. Carlo Di Cicco, the newspaper’s subdirector, writes in the January 26-27 edition, “The reform of the council has not been totally applied, but it is already so consolidated in the Catholic Church that it cannot go into crisis with a magnanimous gesture of mercy-- inspired, moreover, in the new style of Church promoted by the council that prefers the medicine of mercy to that of condemnation.”

Source(s): these links will take you to other sites, in a new window.

Quando un gesto di riconciliazione diventa caso mediatico: Un copione sbagliato (L’Osservatore Romano)
Gesture With Lefebvrists Is No Change for Church (Zenit)

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