The Inquisitors discuss the Traditional Movement, specifically its history, how it has changed over the years, and how fundamental human flaws such as Pride have caused various drama in the Traditional communities.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/tsq2ISOLFYKY

"All were given is that we are supposed to keep our faith during this crisis, and to make sure we're Catholic when it's all over"

That's a quote!

Great idea about compiling chapel histories, that is hard info to find..generally you'll read something like "___ Chapel was founded in 19xx by Fr. ____" ...Let's hear the good stuff, people! How did the local NOers react? Any confrontations with NO priests/bishops? What was the chapel community like? Any notable debates/arguments? Funny stories? Splits/divisions? So much will be lost to time

The old Angelus magazines should contain the startup story of at least a few chapels.

Tom asked the Rev. Brian Bovee, Institute of Christ the King (who was serving at St. Marys in Rockford, IL at the time) to review the manuscript of the book you see below and then had that priest pose for the cover shot which I am not mistaken was taken in said chapel.  The year was 1997 or '98.  The current TAN Books still sells that same book, but they have changed the cover.

Yup, that's all true. That was in the TAN Books chapel though, not Tom's independent chapel started in the mid 1970s. Tom only set up a chapel in his massive warehouse on the East Side of town after he moved the business there (I was an employee at the time of the move).

Yeah -- the Institute of Christ the King is a whole other topic. They came to town in the 1990s, eventually getting control of an old church, St. Mary's which was located downtown. About 80% of the chapel left and started going to that Indult chapel. I was a teenager at the time; I kind of went to both of them. My cousin and I jokingly called the place "mega Mass" because everything was bigger & better *materially speaking*, including donuts after Mass which we never had experienced at our old chapel.

Talk about playing 1950s Catholic parish. It was a complete LARP. They sold "pizza kits" and raised money to buy stained glass windows. Crisis? What Crisis? Modernism? Doctrine? We're just a 1950's parish here, kid.

Fr. Bovee liked to joke a bit during his sermons. The other priest, Fr. Timothy Svea, was the one with the more "devout" or "holy" bearing. I attended a "vocational awareness" day at some rural location under the auspices of the Institute. Actually it might have been more than one day; I don't remember. Anyhow, at some point each of the boys (I was one of the oldest, about 23) got one-on-one time to talk with Fr. Svea. I remember how naive I was; I thought he was traditional! So I spoke of the New Mass as being the "abomination of desolation" as if that was as given (I have never read "The Great Sacrilege", but I'm sure I got much of its doctrine, as Tom Nelson was my catechism teacher). I'll never forget Fr. Svea's response: "Baloney!" and it totally took me off-guard. I thought he was "one of us" and was shocked to find out he was not. I also remember during this Vocational Awareness event watching the men convert a church from Novus Ordo to Trad mode. It was a bit disturbing.

Fr. Svea later was involved in a scandal. Yes, that kind of scandal. Ugh. It is all in the public record, so no, it's not detraction...
https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/03/27/former-wausau-priest-sentenced-to-prison-with-lifetime-supervision-for-serious-offenders/

I know Fr Wathen set up a permanent traditional chapel here in Louisville, Ky, circa 1971.  At the time he was a sacerdos non grata because he was a supporter of Fr. Feeney and said that the New Mass is the Great Sacrilege, which it is.  Early on very few of the priests were willing to say that the New Mass was sacrilegious, and even fewer priests maintained that if you die a non-Catholic you go to hell.  Modernism has done its work and even many of the "traditionalists" are not exempt from what they perceive thy have triumphed over.