03-29-2013, 09:31 PM
1) A Catholic Priest anywhere in the Middle East. Rapes, murders, martyrs everywhere. Church bombings, hostage takings - you name it. Think THAT will get any help or attention or press from the Holy See? Think Francis will speak out about it, or ask for support? Ha. You are "off message" my friend. Screwed. Totally. Muslims are our friends, people of the book, and their religion is not false...it has truth. Rainbows and puppy dogs and lolly pops! The appropriate response to any alleged "Islamic" violence is to reflect on our own poor treatment and oppression of them. And don't forget...do not convert them. We need them to stay Muslims. Like Anglicans. And all other equally valid religions. SCREWED.
2) An FSSP Priest or seminarian. No bishops and a hostile Pope with no one willing to step up for you. Bishops wanting to invite you in now probably won't. See, some Bishops are liberal, some conservative and traditional but many are simply...career men. They go whichever way the wind was blowing. This was fine too under B16. But now? Cardinal Burke only has so many parishes. Now, your seminary will continue to pump our priests as one of the few attracting them...but to go where? And do what?
I will say it again: Francis is God's answer to Benedict's "abdication". And we're going to get it good and hard.
Right about now I think Bishop Fellay is one of the smartest men alive. He played his cards flawlessly, and may be the last Catholic Bishop standing when this all ends.
2) An FSSP Priest or seminarian. No bishops and a hostile Pope with no one willing to step up for you. Bishops wanting to invite you in now probably won't. See, some Bishops are liberal, some conservative and traditional but many are simply...career men. They go whichever way the wind was blowing. This was fine too under B16. But now? Cardinal Burke only has so many parishes. Now, your seminary will continue to pump our priests as one of the few attracting them...but to go where? And do what?
I will say it again: Francis is God's answer to Benedict's "abdication". And we're going to get it good and hard.
Right about now I think Bishop Fellay is one of the smartest men alive. He played his cards flawlessly, and may be the last Catholic Bishop standing when this all ends.