Sorry, Gladius. I apologize for the personal attacks I have written against you just now.

Please be assured of my prayers and please pray for me.

I know your prayers are potent and I am grateful.  To be frank, I did not even read whatever you said...lol :)

I thought it best to let it be.  I was a bit brusque with you, too, so it is I who should apologize.  You are a good man.  I have only ever had love and respect for you.  As for the main...i.e, ONLY thrust of this thread, a priest has signed on with his own name and manfully apologized for his errors.  Despite whatever little imperfections his apology did or did not contain, he is to be supported in his effort to set right a previous wrong.  What we think about it, in the end, matters little.  

God bless and keep all who read these words and, if my own words or the spirit with which I conveyed them were amiss, I beg your pardon.  We need more peace, not more animosity. Godspeed :)

The meaningless minutia is actually quite important in this current crisis.

No argument, but to ignore the objective merit of the public apology and focus on the incorrect use of one term is, on the face of it, missing the forest for the trees.  That, right or wrong, was my main point with Hobbles.  Still, we shall, as has been made clear, have to wait and see what fruit, rotten or good, comes of it all.  To see a young man, one whose priestly formation was influenced by some of the most nefarious and externals-loving 'men' ever known, make a public apology is, for me, a great thing to be encouraged.  Such an action is so antithetical to those who played a part in his formation that I hold out hope for him, even if only a little.  It is hard to act contrary to previous influences, even those we don't proportionately grasp.

Is apostolicity paramount, E____?  Oui.  Is mission paramount?  Oui.  Who among all in Traddieland can make a solid case for both?  No one I have come across, and I have spent more personal time amongst these wanna-be shepherds than many ever will.  This crisis will be solved, but not in a way any of us presently foresee or could even imagine.  

Pope Francis?  There's a curveball to all Traddies, if ever there was one...

Hold fast, pray the Rosary, and know that no help will come from mere men...

Another piece for consideration: http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2013/03/revisiting-doctor-droleskeys-diatribe.html

Is apostolicity paramount, Hobbles?  Oui.  Is mission paramount?  Oui.  Who among all in Traddieland can make a solid case for both?  No one.

This is precisely what we should all keep in mind, whatever our politico-religious positions may be notwithstanding.

Regarding the other stuff...