It's strange how tempting it is to pick fights with them, isn't it gladius?
It becomes almost addictive. The way a sadomasochistic unhealthy relationship is addictive.
I just realized you were Eamon Shea, by the way. I remember your posts from Bellarmine Forums when I was an unbaptized pagan lurker, on the way to becoming Catholic and still trying to decide where I stood on all of this. ( The light has since struck and in a big way ). I must have read every post on that board three or four times over.
You actually cleared up a lot of my fears on the jurisdiction issue when you came on and quoted Bishop Pivarunas, who cited the Great Western Schism and another three-year vacancy of the Holy See previous to that. I remember you would often come on and talk clear, concise sense. But as was the tendency on that board, John Lane then went on the attack and obfuscated everything with his "back to the books" mantra. I like him, but every thread on that board ended the same way, in dissipated, sullen confusion.
I've been meaning to ask, what was the source of the contention between you and Father Cekada? Father Cekada was one of my heroes but that letter where he calls you "mentally ill," whether true or not -- I've seen no evidence of it -- struck me as un-priestlike. He seems to relish trash-talk and invective more than is seemly for a man of the cloth.