St. Cyprian, on Fidelity to Rome - The Fathers Know Best

Wisdom of a Church Father, and a juicy story from Church History, tied into something we’re seeing in Catholic News right now! (SSPX and Vatican Tension)

The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) have resurfaced. They plan to consecrate bishops without papal mandate — an act that would carry serious canonical consequences and risk deepening the rupture that has existed since 1988.

Whatever one thinks of the theological disputes involved — Vatican II, the liturgy, religious liberty, ecumenism — the deeper question …