Pope Benedict meets rebel bishop

[Era Might]

He spit in the sink? I don't think that has anything to do with being in the SSPX. That's just bizarre.

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[quote name='Extra ecclesiam nulla salus' date='Aug 29 2005, 08:59 PM']will he just lift it because they will not accept that their ever was a schism or that Vatican II is infalllbile because they believe some of it contained heresy.
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He should not lift it unless they reconcile themselves.

[picchick]

[quote name='Era Might' date='Aug 29 2005, 09:09 PM']He spit in the sink? I don't think that has anything to do with being in the SSPX. That's just bizarre. 
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That is not my point! The point is he didn't bother cleaning up after himself. He left his wife to do it.

[Era Might]

[quote name='picchick' date='Aug 29 2005, 10:09 PM']He should not lift it unless they reconcile themselves.
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It is not outside of the realm of possibility. Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenogoras, for example, lifted the mutual excommunications of 1054 a few decades ago. It did not heal the breach between East and West, but it was an important gesture for dialogue.

Whether this will happen with the SSPX, I don't know. But it's possible.