For a while he was AWOL, I thought maybe he was becoming sede secretly. But then he came back and showed an almost defiant SSPX-y second wind.
Matthew has a family for whom to provide, entailing hours of work: he's a busy man, that's all. The scarcity of his posts did not necessarily mean that he has been convinced of anything that the sedevacantists have presented here or elsewhere, especially since he has entertained his convictions all his life, and they have not changed after decades of adult life as a traditionalist and after Seminary education and extensive exchanges with educated clergy and laity. I doubt internet posts alone would sway him.
I think Matthew would have had to at least been slightly sympathetic to sedevacantism the whole time, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to endure the merciless pounding that SSPX sometimes receives here.
Indeed, he is
not sympathetic to the notion of
sedevacantism, rather, he sympathizes with
Catholics of the sedevacantist persuasion who endeavor to practice and profess the holy faith, eschewing extremism and fanaticism (such as that of he Dimond Brothers and the various hooligans he has permanently banned in the past) and who try to contribute good things to the forum discussions.
Strictly speaking, if he at some point in the future decides to get rid of the sedevacantists, that is
his business because this is
his forum after all. I would understand.
I just hope some non-sedevacantist has Cardinal Schuster's
The Sacramentary (Liber Sacramentorum): Historical and Liturgical Notes on the Roman Missal or the Byzantine Missal, so that the forum members can still read the pages therefrom...
:thinking: