Full communion with Rome? Is partial communion sort of like being half pregnant? Up until the ambiguous doublespeak of Conciliarism became the dominant mode of ecclesiastical expression, the concepts of partial communion and full communion never existed. One was in communion, or one wasn't.
Then there is the question of what exactly one is in communion with. Bear in mind always what St. Paul told us: "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema." There are traditional communities such as the SSPX who are in full communion with eternal Rome, who have distanced themselves from the insanity in contemporary Rome. Not to say that the visible Church has defected (which is impossible), but rather that it has become so disfigured as to barely be recognizable any longer.
I just hope that this "formerly traditionalist monastery" (great choice of words, that) does not now start promulgating the same novelties that have brought such damage to the Novus Ordo Church. |
