Friday, February 03, 2006

Dr Ed Peters on Reconciling "Traditionalists"

Reports are circulating that Pope Benedict XVI is exploring ways to bring the followers of Abp. Marcel Lefebvre (d. 1991) back into full communion with the Catholic Church; in other words, that the pope is doing one of the main things that popes are supposed to do, trying to heal divisions in the Mystical Body of Christ. But this process and its outcome are not completely under the control of Pope Benedict.
What?, you might be asking? What does he mean? His answer is here.

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