The pope has addressed the breakaway society only twice, handing the talks to Cardinal Víctor Fernández rather than meeting its leaders. The morning he begged them to “turn back,” he named his second woman in a month to lead a Vatican office.
Thank you for the newsletter, Chris. I am glad Pope Leo is modernizing the Catholic Church. It’s good to see changes that are for these times. I will continue to pray for Pope Leo, and this nation.
Thank you, Christopher, for offering clarification around this issue. I, as do many others, I presume, trust your word in this forum, which I am particularly moved to repeat from today's Letters:
"At Letters from Leo, we stand with a pope who refuses to mistake nostalgia for fidelity — who understands that the Church is not a museum of 1962 but a living body called to walk toward the poor, the migrant, and the forgotten in every age."
SSPX has chosen its own path. They need to break with the Church and acknowledge their differences that make continuing communion with Rome no longer possible. They cannot have it both ways.
You might find the column in today’s “Where Peter Is” rather interesting. Today’s article is from a guest columnist, a woman who was raised in the SSPX and left it to find healing in our church which Pope Leo heads. I thought her article was interesting and gave a perspective we don’t usually see. There is another article from a man who was formerly an SSPX priest and left for our church as well.
I fear SSPX will never admit they’re wrong. They won’t change at all. There may be individual members who wake up and realize the SSPX wrongly thinks it can defy the Pope and get away with it, but as for the SSPX and the sedevacantists, it’s unlikely to happen.
Thank you for sharing news about Pope Leo who is moving the church towards the poor and the marginalized people in the world. I think Pope Leo is very humble and devoted to Our Lady mother of Jesus Christ
Not a Catholic, but follow you with great interest and warm support. You have a great phrase — "What he [Pope Leo] will have refused is to confuse unity with surrender" — could also apply to some politicians who in a wishy-washy way just want to split the difference between two points of view rather than standing for something.
Thank you for the newsletter, Chris. I am glad Pope Leo is modernizing the Catholic Church. It’s good to see changes that are for these times. I will continue to pray for Pope Leo, and this nation.
Thank you, Christopher, for offering clarification around this issue. I, as do many others, I presume, trust your word in this forum, which I am particularly moved to repeat from today's Letters:
"At Letters from Leo, we stand with a pope who refuses to mistake nostalgia for fidelity — who understands that the Church is not a museum of 1962 but a living body called to walk toward the poor, the migrant, and the forgotten in every age."
Thank you. Sums it up beautifully.
SSPX has chosen its own path. They need to break with the Church and acknowledge their differences that make continuing communion with Rome no longer possible. They cannot have it both ways.
You might find the column in today’s “Where Peter Is” rather interesting. Today’s article is from a guest columnist, a woman who was raised in the SSPX and left it to find healing in our church which Pope Leo heads. I thought her article was interesting and gave a perspective we don’t usually see. There is another article from a man who was formerly an SSPX priest and left for our church as well.
I fear SSPX will never admit they’re wrong. They won’t change at all. There may be individual members who wake up and realize the SSPX wrongly thinks it can defy the Pope and get away with it, but as for the SSPX and the sedevacantists, it’s unlikely to happen.
Thank you for sharing news about Pope Leo who is moving the church towards the poor and the marginalized people in the world. I think Pope Leo is very humble and devoted to Our Lady mother of Jesus Christ
Not a Catholic, but follow you with great interest and warm support. You have a great phrase — "What he [Pope Leo] will have refused is to confuse unity with surrender" — could also apply to some politicians who in a wishy-washy way just want to split the difference between two points of view rather than standing for something.
We can keep praying for them. It is hard that they do not bend. It is painful that they do not see the unity in the Body of Christ as a primary good.
Has anyone warned Prevost about his schism?