"There’s a reason the laity’s trust in their clergy and especially their bishops is at an all-time low. After waves of sex-abuse coverup (McCarrick, anyone?), then COVID insanity, and finally Traditiones Custodes, we are just fed up with the gaslighting, with being told “shut up and obey, it’s for your own good,” when all the evidence screams the contrary."
1000% I went from a Diocese that is bankrupt from abuse cases and was closed for over a year from COVID restrictions to a Diocese that just ended all of their TLM. While I've met some wonderful individual priests, the idea of "the clergy" as a body of leadership with moral authority is forever lost on me. That's for me to work through, but at least I'm still in the pews. How many have left?
Yes. I would put it this way: the truly orthodox clergy are generally under the thumb of the heterodox/gay/compromised/careerist clergy, and when they step forth boldly, they get crushed like bugs. Laity fortunately have more freedom about where they go and what they say, but it's still by no means easy for us.
Our current stock of bishops have lost their way and like bought off American politicians they do not listen to our needs. Things are changing and paradigms shift in 80 year cycles. SSPX isn’t going to wait around and watch the Church lose its stature as keepers of tradition and truth.
"The great good is full and regular communion with the hierarchy of the Church. The Ecclesia Dei institutes have chosen this good as a first principle..."
I wonder about such a choice, whether it isn't indicative in itself of real corruption. When you look at all of the blatantly and grossly corrupt individuals who enjoy the allegedly "great good" which is "full and regular communion of the Church," how is it possible to see this formal condition as being of such great value? I suppose I myself enjoy this formal condition, but I don't esteem it as a great good, as if in virtue of it I am justified in the eyes of God. To paraphrase our Lord, you can compass land and sea to maintain 'full and regular communion,' and make your converts -- those belonging to the spirit of your communion -- twice the sons of hell you yourselves are. On that day many will say to him, "Lord, Lord, were we not in full and regular communion with the Church?" And what will he say?
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"There’s a reason the laity’s trust in their clergy and especially their bishops is at an all-time low. After waves of sex-abuse coverup (McCarrick, anyone?), then COVID insanity, and finally Traditiones Custodes, we are just fed up with the gaslighting, with being told “shut up and obey, it’s for your own good,” when all the evidence screams the contrary."
1000% I went from a Diocese that is bankrupt from abuse cases and was closed for over a year from COVID restrictions to a Diocese that just ended all of their TLM. While I've met some wonderful individual priests, the idea of "the clergy" as a body of leadership with moral authority is forever lost on me. That's for me to work through, but at least I'm still in the pews. How many have left?
Yes. I would put it this way: the truly orthodox clergy are generally under the thumb of the heterodox/gay/compromised/careerist clergy, and when they step forth boldly, they get crushed like bugs. Laity fortunately have more freedom about where they go and what they say, but it's still by no means easy for us.
Our current stock of bishops have lost their way and like bought off American politicians they do not listen to our needs. Things are changing and paradigms shift in 80 year cycles. SSPX isn’t going to wait around and watch the Church lose its stature as keepers of tradition and truth.
"The great good is full and regular communion with the hierarchy of the Church. The Ecclesia Dei institutes have chosen this good as a first principle..."
I wonder about such a choice, whether it isn't indicative in itself of real corruption. When you look at all of the blatantly and grossly corrupt individuals who enjoy the allegedly "great good" which is "full and regular communion of the Church," how is it possible to see this formal condition as being of such great value? I suppose I myself enjoy this formal condition, but I don't esteem it as a great good, as if in virtue of it I am justified in the eyes of God. To paraphrase our Lord, you can compass land and sea to maintain 'full and regular communion,' and make your converts -- those belonging to the spirit of your communion -- twice the sons of hell you yourselves are. On that day many will say to him, "Lord, Lord, were we not in full and regular communion with the Church?" And what will he say?
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