Radioblogger has the transcript from when Jimmy Akin appeared on the Hugh Hewitt show debating SSPX member Professor David Alan White from the Naval Academy. Jimmy unfortunately was not on all that long, but another person named Dwight Rabuse (who I guess has his own weekend talk show) also debated the professor on the fact that SSPX is in schism.
Hugh had also read an excellent email from a priest currently in Rome. The email was written by Fr. Mitchell who is part of Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz’s diocese. CatholicNewsGeek has an introduction to Fr. Mitchell and posts the letter in full, which is well worth reading.
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Way off topic here, but I just noticed the “wish you were here” pic. lol That’s just too cool.
If I have to comment on the topic to justify the bandwidth I am using, I’ll just say that as a former SSPXer…yeah, the SSPX is no doubt schismatic. 😉
This is a tangent…
Has Hugh ever given his story about how he came to leave the church? I’m sad he left. I pray he returns.
I don’t understand the apologists of Archbishop Lefebvre. Canon Law says that what he did, ordaining bishops without the Pope’s permission, constitutes a schism. But it will be interesting to see what happens with the Traditionalists and the next Pope. Didn’t White write a book about the schismatic group in Brazil about ten or so years ago? The community is now back in union with Rome.
Dwight Rabuse?! He used to be one of my colleagues and the Justice Department, 19 years ago! Back then he was a sunny young lawyer/speechwriter, solidly and proudly Catholic, who attributed his retention of the Faith to the fact that he didn’t go to Catholic schools.