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Entry: Better to Blow Out One Candle than Curse the Light Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/better_to_blow_out_one_candle_than_curse_the_light#16053 Post contents: <I>So I ask again, why shouldn’t today’s Church adapt, and convert and “baptise” some symbols and old wisdom of Far Eastern religions, in order to evangelise the Far East? Not to mention bringing back many Western Christians who have gotten lost in Far Eastern religions, to make it clear to them that all AUTHENTIC wisdom and truths of the Far East come ultimately from Christ?</I> Mr. Ball. In fact, that is what H.M. Church has always done. However, don't expect the More-Catholic-Than-The-Pope'rs to admit it - or even know it. (If they were alive back in the day they'd have been the first to denounce it) Pope Alexander VII, for instance, ordered Propaganda Fide, in 1659, to issue <I>Instruction to the Vicars Apostolic of Tonkin and Cochina</I> ("The Christian Faith" Neuner and Dupuis, P. 342) "The S, (Sacred) Congregation was also anxious to respect the traditions and customs of those countries, thus carrying on the early tradition of the Church to assume into Christianity whatever was good in the ways of the people and gradually to eradicate what was not compatible with it." I won't post the entire directive but I will note it instructed - <I>If,in carrying out the orders of the S. Congregation, you met or fprsee difficulties to the extent these orders will not be accepted without revolt, avoid at all costs imposing them on the pwersons concerned against their will...Do not in any way attempt, and do not on any pretext persuade these peole to change their rites, habits, and customs, unless they are openly opposed to religion and good morals. For what could be more absurd than to bring to France, Spain, Italy or any other European country over to China? It is not your country but the faith you must bring...</I> I could add more but I must be off to work. Mr. Cundiff. Let the SSPX shut-up first. They never do. The fact is that for far too many soi disant tradationalists, it is still a matter of Us (trads) vs Them (the rest of the Catholic Church) Sent at: 2008 07 08