Well, part of the reason why I write on line is so that I can be called on any misleading rhetorical excesses.

I just wanted to honor as far as possible a certain gut level reaction against Conciliar iniquity which in some way honors God. The Viennese scandal I keep harping on. The cardinal finds his defenders even in some Traditional circles. The worst pagans I know would be only outraged and disgusted by the whole affair. Showing that kind of cruddy mockery of Jesus Christ to Catholic KIDS!

A certain door to Hellish deceit was opened only in CATHOLIC circles in the 1960s. There are of course pagan liberals who defend such sacrilege and scandal, but they don't do it in the Name of obedience and docility.

In regard to the above attachment, Traditional priests are not "sent" by anyone to preach the peculiar and ever mutating ideas they have about the Vatican II situation.

Their particular groups and societies with their peculiar cranky bugaboos and politics and policies are not "sent" by any true higher authority.

No one sent a one of them, for example, to preach against lay Bible reading in a way that may seem to be in line with an early 18th century papal monitum about the subject but clearly flies in the face of Pope Pius XII's exhortations about the great value of lay Bible reading under proper conditions, and willy-nilly obliterates the practice of the Church Universal on the eve of Vatican II.

They have valid Sacraments. That's what they can reasonably claim to have been sent with to the faithful.  

...They have valid Sacraments. That's what they can reasonably claim to have been sent with to the faithful...

And far too often such men wield the Sacraments as if they were weapons, holding the oft-bamboozled faithful hostage.  I am pretty sure that does not please the One who instituted them.

I am sure that Father Cekada knows very well that all sorts of language that seems to preclude his sedevacantist theories is to be found in the corpus of Catholic Doctrine.

"Peter will always have successors, until the end of time."

I am also sure that every day of his life twenty times before breakfast he invokes the notion of "extraordinary circuмstances" to justify his recent or imminent doings.

Jesus Christ seems to have had a predilection for what is surely the most unattractive and unpleasant of His parables. The parable of the wicked steward, set over His house to manage it, who manages to make it disorderly beyond all hope except the personal return of the Master. It shows up in three different forms in the Gospels.

Pastors such as whom? Teachers such as whom? This ivory tower theologizing is as hypocritical as it is irresponsible and callous. Father Cekada would dismiss as utterly unsuitable as pastors and teachers the vast majority of those who seem to be such in the eyes of the hapless laity whom he paralyzes into uncertainty as to their next move with his arrogant sarcasm.

We need no Tridentine decrees, we need no angels from heaven, to ratify our rejection of so-called pastors and teachers who make a part of Official Catechesis the idea that the dealings of Jesus Christ with Mary Magdalene may not have been what they ought to have been.

Vatican Radio played JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR in the early 70s. That year it became part of the program in Catholic schools all over this country. Complaining parents were dismissed as arrogant and disobedient enemies of the Spirit and of the Lawful Decrees of the Council mandating Even Risky Openness to Comtemporary Culture.

Yet Father Cekada has precisely nothing to say about the Canonical ins and outs about the ways in which the grossly deficient Latinists whose presence he must somehow suffer make their way out of subjection to their apparently lawful superiors in the New Church and over to his offices to begin with. He knows very well that the separatist chapel goers who put the butter on his bread are operating on sheer Catholic (and merely decent) instinct for the most part. But when those instincts fly in his own face he arbitrarily finds fault with the previously taken-for-granted mechanics of lay independence in the search for spiritual safety.

This kind of absurdist clericalism is the very devil of 60s-style Tradtionalism.

As an aside - one that already I know will never be dealt with straightforwardly on this forum - the SSPX have not been sent by anyone any more than sedes, etc.; not in the sense in which it has always been meant, anyway.  They are no more pastors and teachers, in the canonical sense, than sedes; despite the fact that they like to give themselves such titles when printing their bulletins.

[Please spare me the 'supplied jurisdiction' nonsense, for it is embarrassingly simple to refute.]

I just wanted to add that I tried the home alone method for about a month . "Pope" Ratzinger's visit to the USA made me want to barf. It took a non Catholic from India to convince me that a flawed institution like the SSPX is better than nothing at all. I just have to wise up and keep my mouth so that some semblance of unity can be preserved.
      Like I said before, you would be put in jail if you sold a car without brakes or warning lights. The anti church of today is too risky for anyone's soul.  This is a special time where you have to use the critical thinking and spiritual discernment God has given you.  If the bus driver gets drunk, its ok to push him on the floor and take the wheel. Today's traditionalists would rather let the bus crash rather than make an original move. People like to beat you over the head with the "infallible" stick, or say that your spirit of disunity can only be diabolical.  I say unity with diabolical beliefs is not a good thing. Where was the spirit of unity when the money changers were driven out of the temple.?  Certain behavior fits certain situations. A Good soldier will do what is necessary. A mutiny is the correct answer after finding out the captain is an enemy agent. You make a bad call, you pay the price.

    As far as the sheep and shepherd symbolism goes, if you can understand that the sheep are being led astray, that qualifies you as a potential shepherd. If the sheep follow your voice, than there is a good chance that Jesus Christ has influenced your voice to say the correct words. Maybe that is final lesson for Catholics. Instead of some sort of sociology course, Christianity needs the Spirit of God rather than just blind following of a catechism. no matter how good the catechism may be.

   SO be of good cheer. We have a shipwreck on our hands, but there will be a few survivors. Don't make the swim to shore any harder than need be. (quit hitting me with that infallible oar!)