User talk:Seminarian Matt

I just came across your contributions, and was surprised that you were editing for a while and noone ever posted on your talk page. Officially Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you are able to keep editing and improving our coverage of the Catholic Church. Academic Challenger (talk) 00:20, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Lefebrve
Why deny that the man was excommunicated while he was alive and remained so until death? From what I've read, the archbishop was proud of this fact and wore it like a badge of honor. Or is denial and cover-up what they teach in your seminary these days?--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 20:07, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Marcel Lefebvre was a holy man and his name should not be discredited when there is legitimate concern that he was not automatically excommunicated. His offense caused an automatic excommunication only if an exception did not apply, and arguably an exception did apply, since the Church was and is still in a state of general apostasy. It is biased and unfair to call him excommunicated when he in fact may not have been automatically excommunicated. You compare him with apostates and heretics. He committed no heresy. Look up heresy for a definition of it, and you will see that Marcel Lefebvre never changed doctrine. What was his supposed crime other than continuing to preach the Faith and live a Catholic life as people had done for centuries. And for that you claim he is as guilty as Henry VIII, who murdered countless people and asserted himself as Head of a Church?? Seminarian Matt (talk) 21:03, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
 * He was excommunicated for illicitly consecrating bishops against express papal authority. I don't claim guilt just the fact that the man was excommunicated.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 21:11, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Once again you overlook the fact that this is an alleged automatic excommunication and there is reason to doubt that it was not automatically triggered. How do you assert so strongly that he was excommunicated? Are you a canon lawyer?  Have you studied this topic? Seminarian Matt (talk) 21:16, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Category:People excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church
Category:People excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church specifically applies to those who have had their excommunication rescinded. Therefore I'm restoring the category to several article from which you deleted it.  Will Beback   talk    23:42, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Blogs and minor edits
With few exceptions, we cannot use self-published blogs as sources for Wikipedia articles, especially those about living people. See WP:V and WP:BLP. Separately, I see that you are marking many of your edits as "minor". Minor edits are those that make no significant change to the meaning of he text, such as correcting a spelling mistake or changing the formatting. See WP:Minor.  Will Beback   talk    23:47, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Fellay
Please see the talk page: Talk:Bernard Fellay. thank you.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 18:32, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm ok with the term "declared automatic" or "declared" in place of "alleged" if you are. Let me know if we are in agreement on this.  Thanks.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 22:57, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, I agree that the excommunications were "declared" and it does better present the complexity in this area. I think this improves the article.Seminarian Matt (talk) 22:58, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
 * OK, do you want to make the change?--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 23:02, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Alleged schism
You will probably be interested in this. Esoglou (talk) 20:56, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

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