He wrote back and called me emotional. 

Here are the relevant excerpts (this guy has been reading too much Traditio. Just listen to him!)

I didn't owe you a reason and you retort with the typical, womanish, irrational flaming.

Regardless, if it "makes no difference" then what makes you so special? Do you get royalties? What is it? Is chant now only available via you?

If you would like to proceed as adults, then fine. You can thumb suck on your own.

Now, what's it to be?

Please surprise me in taking the "let's try this again rationally option" v "womanish wailing" option.

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Here is my 2nd response.

I honestly would like to know how Chant can be sedevacantist or non-sedevacantist?
 
 As I see it, it's either true, pre-Vatican II Gregorian chant or it isn't.
 
 I could listen to chant (say, an hour a day for 5 years) from the biggest compromisers (or the most liberal group) in the world of Tradition, and it wouldn't make the first dent in my Faith or my Traditional Catholic position/beliefs.
 
 That's because the various distinctions, positions, etc. within the broader Traditional Movement are irrelevant for things like statues, rosaries, chapel veils, or Gregorian chant.
 
 It's like saying a chair has to be Republican or Democrat.
 
 Where am I wrong in all this? I'm giving reasons and asking rational questions here.
 
 By the way, I'm not saying you have to buy "my chant", but the idea that a sedevacantist has to restrict himself to "sedevacantist chant" is ludicrous. That is the only reason I wrote to you in the first place.
 
 Matthew

Do you realize that there are some R&R folks here on this forum who consider all sedevacantists to be non-Catholic?

Of course you have noted that some sedevacantists are schismatic and refuse communion with others though (in my experience) usually it is because they are affiliated with a particular group that has become a cult.  Those sedevacantists wouldn't consider me a Catholic either since I don't attend their list of "approved chapels".  But we should all remember, schism is schism whether the schismatic is a sedevacantist or an R&R aficionado.

(By the way, I was told that when a Resistance priest--I don't remember the name--was invited to come to central Indiana to give Catechism classes near the new SSPX chapel, the priest at the SSPX chapel told the congregation that it would be sinful for them to attend his classes because he is not in communion with Bishop Fellay.  I was also told that several people who were going to go never showed up.  I never did hear how many classes the priest ended up holding.  Would you think this was schismatic?  I would.  Perhaps we should have a topic about the SSPX setting up their own religion.)

TKGS,

It applies to all cults, including the SSPX. Sectarianism is sectarianism, and schism is schism. Both sectarianism and schism are my mortal enemy, and the fight against them is my personal crusade. But in this particular thread, for the sake of focus, I'm in the mood to discuss sedevacantists who act like this, inspired by an e-mail I received from a sedevacantist.

Next week or next month, we can discuss how this applies to the SSPX, and maybe after that we can talk about Fr. Pfeiffer's group.

It's equally ridiculous and un-Catholic regardless of the group that is guilty of this.

I'll never understand those with the personality that thinks it is constructive to bicker and argue constantly, cause divisions and control people.  I guess there are those leaders who want to be the 'big fish in a small pond' and there are followers who want to be part of a group that's 'special'.  

Bosco, it's sad that most of your posts are spent on making snide remarks and clever comebacks instead of adding to the conversation...

Bosco, it's sad that most of your posts are spent on making snide remarks and clever comebacks instead of adding to the conversation...

I don't see anything snide about what Bosco said in this thread. What are you talking about?

That's an equal opportunity statement.