Un intervenant rédige un pastiche de l’ultimatum à Mgr Fellay en l’appliquant comme un ultimatum du Patriarche de Constantinople, Bartholomé Ier, à Benoît XVI-Ratzinger
Le résultant est désopilant et fait ressortir tout le ridicule du Vatican dans ces 5 conditions imposées par Rome à la FSSPX :
Patriarch Bartholomew I has asked Benedict XVI to meet the following conditions in order to avoid unspecified unpleasantries.
Conditions resulting from the 29 June 2008 meeting between Bartholomew I and Benedict XVI:
1) The commitment to continue to celebrate liturgical events with Bartholomew I in rites modified especially to suit his preferences.
2) The commitment to continue to avoid any public intervention that does not respect the person of Bartholomew I.
3) The commitment to continue to avoid the claim of a magisterium superior to that of Bartholomew I and not to present the Roman church as opposed to or superior to the various Greek sects.
4) The commitment to continue to demonstrate the will to act humbly in full ecclesial charity and respect for Patriarch Bartholomew I.
5) Don’t even think about mentioning the Filioque, buster.
Dans un autre fil, un autre intervenant annonce la reformulation du point 3) des 5 conditions (en réalité la condition essentielle, car destinée à faire accepter implicitement Vatican II) en une phrase qui montre tout le ridicule de cette invention de la diplomatie vaticane envers la FSSPX :
« L’engagement d’éviter de proclamer que les chiots et les chatons devraient être battus en silence les mercredi et samedi »
Rome Revises the Ultimatum
By John Grasmeier
Angelqueen.org
June 28, 2008Although maintaining a site like AQ can be quite taxing at times, there are certain fringe benefits that make it all worthwhile. One of those benefits is that I often get first-dibs on info that I otherwise wouldn’t.
As everyone is now aware, the SSPX was handed an ultimatum which threatened to hold the excommunications hostage unless the fraternity, immediately and in writing, ceded to 5 perplexing and ambiguous demands. In the notably terse “Roman Ultimatum,” (yes, that’s being capitalized now, like a title), the original third demand read as follows:
3) The commitment to avoid the claim of a magisterium superior to the Holy Father and not to propose the fraternity as opposed to the Church.
It’s rather safe to assume that this clause is most impossible for the SSPX to submit to. The author(s) of the letter are demanding that the fraternity agree not to become (as if they might) poorly catechized heretics. Or worse, the author(s) are tacitly implying that the SSPX has in the past behaved as poorly catechized heretics.
Well hold the presses. Realizing their mistake, the letter writer(s) have listened to better angels and revised the demand. I can’t reveal the source, but I have, in my hot little hands, the new version of the Roman Ultimatum (yes, that’s being capitalized now, like a title). The other four demands remain unchanged, but the third has now been edited to read:
3) The commitment to avoid the claim that puppies and kittens should be soundly beaten on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Wow. Although I came out against the original document, I fully support the new and improved version. This changes everything. Here’s why:
- Of course the SSPX will say that they never have made the claim that puppies and kittens should be soundly beaten on Wednesdays and Saturdays, but that’s not important. What’s important is that they agree to this whether they have or not. It will be for the greater good.
- Agreeing to avoid the claim that puppies and kittens should be soundly beaten on Wednesdays and Saturdays seems a small price to pay for “full communion”. It’s a no-brainer.
- I see no reason why the SSPX should have any problem avoiding the claim that puppies and kittens should be soundly beaten on Wednesdays and Saturdays. All that Rome is asking is that the fraternity show a little bit of Christian charity.
- This is obviously a gesture of good will by Rome toward the society. Rome is reaching out to them.
- This is a simple and easily complied with request. No good Catholic should have any problem agreeing to it.
- If the fraternity refuses this simple and easily complied with Catholic request, they will then prove their disobedience to the magisterium, which many have suspected has been the case all along.
- If the fraternity refuses this simple and easily complied with Catholic request, they will show a lack of humility.
- If the fraternity refuses this simple and easily complied with Catholic request, they will then be seen as advocating soundly beating puppies and kittens and Wednesdays and Saturdays.
- If the SSPX has not in the past and is not now claiming that puppies and kittens should be soundly beaten on Wednesdays and Saturdays, then they have nothing to worry about, as this demand will impose nothing new on them. Everything will continue on as normal.
- The demand is not necessarily accusing the fraternity has of claiming that puppies and kittens should be soundly beaten on Wednesdays and Saturdays. To directly accuse them of doing so when they haven’t would be a terrible insult and a sin. All the demand is stating is that, in the future, the SSPX should avoid the claim that puppies and kittens be soundly beaten on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
- Ambiguous documents that leave great room for interpretation come with certain advantages. The letter is not asking the SSPX to altogether avoid the claim that that puppies and kitten be soundly beaten. It only asks that the SSPX avoid the claim that puppies and kittens be soundly beaten on Wednesdays and Saturdays. If the SSPX should ever want to claim that puppies and kittens should be soundly beaten during the rest of the week, there’s absolutely nothing stopping them. The SSPX will still have all the freedom in the world to see that puppies and kittens are soundly beaten.
I know that I’ve always supported the SSPX in the past, but I have to get tough here. If they reject this very charitable, easily complied with, extremly Catholic and extraordinarily generous offer from Rome, I will have no choice but to log onto internet forums with an anonymous screen-name and tell everyone that I will no longer be attending SSPX Masses.
