With Friends Like These....
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What is the key difference between the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) and the SSPX? The LCWR is in “full communion” and holds a canonical status while the SSPX does not. This despite the fact that the SSPX holds fast to everything the Roman Catholic Church has taught and practiced for 2,000 years while, according to the National Catholic Register, the LCWR holds “‘radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith’ and dissent from Church teaching on topics including the sacramental male priesthood and homosexuality.” So what gives, NCR?
...it is apparently important to remind Catholic readers, frequently lest they forget, of the only tidbit of information they need to know about the Society; namely that they “hold no canonical status in the Church.” Of course the Protestants and the Orthodox aren’t even members of the Church, yet we never see a reminder stapled to the end of their comments in Catholic media. Can you imagine a Catholic newspaper printing the following, “…said Metropolitan Vladimir, spokesman for the schismatic Orthodox, who are outside of the Catholic Church.” It seems that ecumenical courtesy applies to every group except the SSPX.
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