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ABS vs The SSPX

As an implacable and strident enemy of the SSPX, Amateur Brain Surgeon realises that he keeps "losing" in that the SPX has had its excommunications lifted and, now, Franciscus has said that the adepts of the SSPX will validly and licitly receive the absolution of their sins.

All of that is very good news but the response of ABS has caused the Bride to be taken aback a bit because, Charlie Sheen.

Honey, the Popes have lifted the excommunications and taken the decision that the penitents of the SSPX are validly and licitly forgiven of their sins, so, what do you have to say for yourself, Mr. Know-it-all?

And for all of your talk about "it'll-never-happen" this and "they do not understand Romanita * " that, this reconciliation is roaring down the tracks directly towards Rome, so, what do you have to say for your own self, Mr. Know-it-all?

O, and isn't it a bit early in the day for you to be applying the balm of Chartreuse to your so-called "emotional war wounds?"




Says, Malachi Martin; Romanita rests upon one basic principle: Cunctando regitur mundus. If you can outwait all, you can rule all. The hallmark of romanita is understatement in action and in all forms of expression. It is, in a way, a power in whispers. Essenntial to it are a sense of timing reamed with patience, a ruthlessness that excludes the hesitation of emotions, and an almost messianic conviction of ultimate success. Few are born with it. Most genuine 'Romans' who flourish must learn it over time.