(November 19, 2017 at 4:32 am)KiwiNFLFan Wrote: The splinter group mentioned in the article is the Society of St Pius X, with whom I have been involved. I used to attend their chapel when I lived in Wellington. They practice and teach the Catholic faith the way it was (at least in some places) before Vatican II in the 1960s. They celebrate only the Traditional Latin Mass and their priests still wear cassocks. They are not sedevacantists, but are very critical of the current pope and hierarchy, sometimes using the term "Conciliar Church" to describe them. They will tell you not to go to the New Mass and are opposed to television.
wow KiwiNFLFan that is actually very interesting. I heard very little about Vatican 1 Catholics, mostly in Joe Eszterhas' ebook "Heaven and Mel" in which he recounts a year he spent with Mel Gibson. So Gibsons are also V1 family and they see Vatican as being infiltrated by communist Jews. Like before the mass on Sunday Mel's dad was explaining Eszterhas how Cardinal Ottaviani sat on Pope John Paul I's face and suffocated him so they could get the Pope they wanted, John Paul II. And indeed Vatican 2 did bring in 1964 document Nostra Aetate that toned down hate toward Jews, which pissed off many Catholics. So did you also have encounters with anti Semitic talks in your Vatican 1 church?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
