Schism? Schism today?
Wow, I didn't have "catholic schism" on my 2026 bingo card
Schism today
I... Didn't realize that when there is a schism they actually issue a legal document that says "hey guys, there's a schism." Absolutely incredible
Oh you don’t know about Canon Law???!!!??? You of all people would go absolutely nuts over the centuries of these types of documents. Most are available online freely. You’re a lucky number of the 10,000 today
Holy shit I used to live very close to Evans Mills NY. It’s in the middle of nowhere in Upstate NY. There are more cows than people in Evans Mills.
I want to point out this line in paragraph 4:
SSPX repudiates and denounces the teaching of Second Vatican Counsel, in particular... The Church's understanding of, and relationship to Judaism.
The Second Vatican Counsel is when the Church decided to abandon its belief that Jews killed Jesus and were constantly at odds with the Church. What SSPX is saying is, in essence, Jews did kill Jesus and should not be considered a regular group of people with a different belief. They are trying to bring back the deicide libel, which has led to so many mass murders of Jews.
As someone who was raised Episcopalian, this sort of belief feels weird and strange to me.
Jesus was killed because God/destiny/whatever made it so for divine plan reasons. Trying to use that as a reason to persecute an actual real-life group of people is insane.
I know Judas was probably a later addition to the story to try and further justify the persecution, but it still feels nuts to me.
I'm not sure about Judas being a later addition, but I think it's pretty obvious from the story that it was Pontius Pilate who killed Jesus.
But saying the Romans killed him wasn't helping early Christians convince Romans to convert.
I mean, my read on the story is that God killed Jesus by suborning the free will of people to make them do it. And that God did this act of semi-quasi-suicide so that Jesus could absolve mankind of sin.
And also to close the time loop so Jesus achieves godhood and can travel back in time to create the universe and become God, and eventually lose the remainder of his sense of self and become the Holy Spirit.
But that last bit was just the fanfiction I made up during the lecture on the Holy Trinity in the class on catholicism that I was required to take in college.
