Wednesday, 14 January 2009  On schism, South Brisbane and
traditionalists  Son of Trypho (with whom and about whose
reconciliation to the Church we should all be rejoicing, see the
comment on the previous post!) alerted us all to yet another
traddie bashing comment on Cath News, comparing the situation of
South Brisbane with some traddie communities. It attempts to
perpetuate the myth that traddies are or were in some sense in
the same place as the liberals in the Church are now. And that
is utter rubbish!  The claim  The comment was:  "Sadly, no one
deceives themselves more than the deceiver. How gracious Fr
Kennedy and the Sth Brisbane community will be towards
Archbishop Bathersby and Brisbane Catholics who won't be able to
understand their decision to break with the Church will be the
test of their sincerity. There have been other communities who
have left the Church and now are back within it - the Tridentine
communities. So, we hope and pray for Fr Kennedy, for his
parishioners and for ourselves, that w