I don't know where my former parishioner and frequent commenter Marc has gone. I hope all is well. But I post this exquisite video that tells us about the "Way We Were" and how the SSPX still is. Since Marc, a lawyer, has intimate experiences with the SSPX, I hope he can shed some light on the issues I raise below.
Many in today's Ordinary Form Church would say that this video shows forth the clericalism of the pre-Vatican II Church which is now through the Extraordinary Form of the Church and its mentor, the SSPX fraternity, today's form of the Church too.
Since this form of the Church is accused by progressives as the font of clericalism, how do they deal with the sex abuse scandal in all its forms and unfortunately all lumped together by puritanical progressives or is it Jansenistic progressives?
How do they screen their candidates for the priesthood? How do they supervise them? What percentage of their priests have had proven accusations against them? How do they handle these priests? Are they a smaller and purer Church or not?
Perhaps the clericalism as progressives love to label them can teach us if what the progressives say is true or is it the liberalization of the post-Vatican II Church symbolized by the Ordinary Form of the Mass the culprit?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Many in today's Ordinary Form Church would say that this video shows forth the clericalism of the pre-Vatican II Church which is now through the Extraordinary Form of the Church and its mentor, the SSPX fraternity, today's form of the Church too.
Since this form of the Church is accused by progressives as the font of clericalism, how do they deal with the sex abuse scandal in all its forms and unfortunately all lumped together by puritanical progressives or is it Jansenistic progressives?
How do they screen their candidates for the priesthood? How do they supervise them? What percentage of their priests have had proven accusations against them? How do they handle these priests? Are they a smaller and purer Church or not?
Perhaps the clericalism as progressives love to label them can teach us if what the progressives say is true or is it the liberalization of the post-Vatican II Church symbolized by the Ordinary Form of the Mass the culprit?
Inquiring minds want to know!
1 comment:
Could it be that we had it backwards? The suppression of the perennial Mass in favor of what ended up being several versions of an innovation was not really supposed to happen, we are told. So now we have the situation that the actual root, even of the innovated Mass, is considered an extraordinary event. I recall guitar Masses and such being offered to entice the youth and gather us in. Why didn’t the innovators simply satisfy themselves with the Sunday evening tye-dyes and guitars without misrepresenting Vatican II? We could have had a good comparison of the effectiveness of the two approaches side by side in the same population.
What is easy for me to forget is the previous 70+ years of social conflict and weariness that weighed on the hearts of the older Catholics. Coupled with the corruption of the heirarchy with Political operatives Catholics were led away from their Faith. If there is any silver lining here it is that we can see what we left more clearly than if remaind in the ruin. By the waters we sit and weep, remembering.
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