I believe that the reason for the scarcity of decent careers and marriage candidates is that God is willing more people enter religious life. Especially young men.
You could be right, but again,
which religious societies do you have in mind? No matter how wide or narrowly you define “Resistance,” there are very few from which to choose! Excluding those who are fully attached to Rome, ie, Indult, FSSP, ICK, etc. Who is left? In the US, you have SSPX, SSPV, CMRI, MHT/RCI, SGG? Then there are
Frs. Hewko, (Bp.?) Pfeiffer, the Dimond bros, “pope” Michael’s brother, don’t know his name!, Does anyone know of others that are reasonably stable, like have a structured course of study, a bishop, a rule of life that’s followed?
Outside the US I only know of a few, like SAJM in Avrille, -need to be fluent in French, Is Bp. Zendejas connected to it?, There are independent priests here and there, Fr. Ringrose and Fr. Libietis, Fr. Isaac Relyea, (not sure of his ordination status), Fr. Dardis, Fr. Voigt, latter two may not be in public due to health and other issues, but do not have any type of religious institution. In Canada, there’s Fr. Girouard whom I believe is independent, He does speak English but preferred language is French. In Mexico, Fr. Ruiz who works with Fr. Hewko. I do not believe he has seminarians or potential religious. If he does, one must be fluent in Spanish. There is Bp. Tomas Aquino in Brazil or S. America. These are monks, Spanish speaking, Fr. Chazal’s “micro seminary” in the Philippines. There’s a Fr. McDonald in either EnglandIreland or Australia/New Zealand, no idea if he has religious, also there are some traditional priests in Nigeria about whom I know nothing other than they are up against early Church style persecution as in getting beheaded, burned alive, shot, tortured. There is some kind of resistance in Poland. They have a bishop and were visited by Bp. Williamson, RIP. Again, if there’s a place for vowed religious, I don’t know. I do know from Bp. W. you’d have to be fluent in Polish to assist there. If I left out any stable institutes, please list them.
This is just my opinion on the matter, but at present, there are very few places for single, Traditional Catholic men and women not pursue a religious vocation. Add the word “Resistance” to the description, it’s limited more, perhaps even more limited than finding a suitable spouse. Paucity of o both spouses and religious vocations may indicate God wills more people remain single in the world. Properly speaking, such status has never been a “vocation” or a “state of life” recognized by the Church. Those who who find themselves in such a position have been viewed by the Church and her members, as unfortunates, deprived by others, self, or life circuмstances to the sidelines. They’ve been made to feel like the Little League child left on the bench, game after game. For reasons known or, worse, unknown, whom the coach never calls to bat or to play any position, not even to be a bat boy. There he sits year after year until he ages out of eligibility. He gets no explanation from his coaches and after awhile, goes unnoticed or is the subject of rude jokes and cruel comments of his teammates. When he reaches the maximum age, he quits coming and few, if any notice his absence. The few who do notice do not inquire after him. He correctly concludes nobody known to him cares. He’s quickly forgotten as if he never existed.
Life goes on in much the same way. He graduates high school with a 2.8 GPA. Works at various jobs, retires, moves in with his mother, cares for her until her death, lives another 14 years and is found dead by police after a call from neighbors who noticed his overflowing mailbox. He never married, left no kin, but a will was found. Everything was left to a law firm. According to instructions, sale of the house covered a Christian burial, the furnishings paid the lawyer, sale of his mother’s jewelry went to a small number of worthy charities, and his remaining assets for a dozen boys to play Little League.
When his soul appea