Author Topic: Fisher More College banned by bishop from saying Latin Mass (Read 13207 times)

poche · « **Reply #45 on:** April 20, 2014, 11:48:05 PM »

What has been the reactin of the students? :really-mad2:? :nunchaku:? :cheers:?

? :cry:?
If the students are apathetic then all our complaining won't do much good. The students have to want this. They have to fight for it. If they don't push for it then it will be gone forever.

Pete Vere · « **Reply #46 on:** April 21, 2014, 06:03:41 AM »

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What has been the reactin of the students? :really-mad2:? :nunchaku:? :cheers:? ? :cry:?
If the students are apathetic then all our complaining won't do much good. The students have to want this. They have to fight for it. If they don't push for it then it will be gone forever.

From what I have observed and been told, student reaction has been mixed. Some are fighting to keep the college open. Others have already planned or executed an exit strategy from the college.

One of the issues, I have seen, is that a portion of the college's base is concerned with the perceived R&R direction taken by the college over the past year. Thus some of the backlash has come from parents who are traditionalist but averse to R&R. The combination of Dr Dudley's lecture and Fr Gruner's appearance has led parents to take another look at trad-friendly conservative alternatives such as Christendom, TAC or Our Lady Seat of Wisdom. Thus to some degree I suspect R&R efforts to publicly brand Bishop Olsen anti-TLM may have backfired.

Is there sufficient interest among R&R to replace the non-R&R departures?

The largest R&R group in the United States is the SSPX, who already have a college at St Mary, Kansas. FMC is regionally accredited, but St Mary College is better established and supported among the SSPX.

As for the Resistance, Mgr Williamson has for the past how many years discouraged young women from pursuing higher education. So the R&R market is somewhat limited in the U.S., as far as I can tell.

poche · « **Reply #47 on:** April 21, 2014, 10:32:18 PM »

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Quote from: poche
What has been the reactin of the students? :really-mad2:? :nunchaku:? :cheers:? ? :cry:?
If the students are apathetic then all our complaining won't do much good. The students have to want this. They have to fight for it. If they don't push for it then it will be gone forever.

From what I have observed and been told, student reaction has been mixed. Some are fighting to keep the college open. Others have already planned or executed an exit strategy from the college.

One of the issues, I have seen, is that a portion of the college's base is concerned with the perceived R&R direction taken by the college over the past year. Thus some of the backlash has come from parents who are traditionalist but averse to R&R. The combination of Dr Dudley's lecture and Fr Gruner's appearance has led parents to take another look at trad-friendly conservative alternatives such as Christendom, TAC or Our Lady Seat of Wisdom. Thus to some degree I suspect R&R efforts to publicly brand Bishop Olsen anti-TLM may have backfired.

Is there sufficient interest among R&R to replace the non-R&R departures?

The largest R&R group in the United States is the SSPX, who already have a college at St Mary, Kansas. FMC is regionally accredited, but St Mary College is better established and supported among the SSPX.

As for the Resistance, Mgr Williamson has for the past how many years discouraged young women from pursuing higher education. So the R&R market is somewhat limited in the U.S., as far as I can tell.

Are the students doing anything to bring back the TLM? Protests? Demonstrations? Letters and petitions?

Pete Vere · « **Reply #48 on:** April 21, 2014, 11:50:22 PM »

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Are the students doing anything to bring back the TLM? Protests? Demonstrations? Letters and petitions?

That I do not know.

None of the students with whom I am connected are R&R sympathizers. Therefore they have either left or intend to leave at the end of this semester, regardless of whether or not FMC keeps going next year.

poche · « **Reply #49 on:** April 22, 2014, 12:06:55 AM »

We could sit here and complain but it is the students who have to act. If teh students dont do anything then it may be because they don't care. What a shame.
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