You were with the Society of Saint Pius X as a seminarian and as a priest for sixteen years, from 1992 to 2008. You were in the Society long enough to have been an eyewitness to some of the changes in the mentality of its bishops and your brother priests that have taken place since Bishop Bernard Fellay met with Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI on August 29, 2005. Could you describe some of these changes (refusal to criticize the Novus Ordo, the outrages that take place at "papal" Masses, such as the one in Australia during "World Youth Day" in 2008),
WYD's 'happy' party is not heavenly, say conservative Catholics
Herald Sun (Australia)
July 16, 2008
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WORLD Youth Day is just a "happy party" that will not help pilgrims prepare for heaven, a group of traditionalist Catholics say.
Members of the Society of St Pius X argue the week-long event lacks anything truly holy or sacred - despite the attendance of Pope Benedict XVI.
The Reverend Father Peter Scott, rector of the Holy Cross Seminary near Goulburn, says the celebrations are too secular.
"The reason I'm not in favour of World Youth Day is because of what happens and what has consistently happened since this was initiated by Pope John Paul II," Fr Scott told ABC Radio.
"It's become an occasion for a very secular approach to religion.
"It's become just a happy party ... a week of parties and concerts and worldly activities with very little of anything that's truly holy and sacred and prayerful or that's profoundly Catholic for that matter."
The Society of St Pius X grew out of opposition to Vatican II and remains in dispute with Rome over the church's modernisation.
"We consider we are the mainstream, we are the true Catholics doing what the church has always done," Fr Scott said.
The rector says the society's traditional masses prepare members for heaven but the World Youth Day masses are a "very liberal, easy-going, secular, un-sacred kind of thing" which won't.
The society has about 20 churches in Australia and an estimated 3,000 adherents.
In a Holy Cross Seminary newsletter, Fr Scott has written the "hidden life of the seminary ... is sanctified by humility, regularity, prayer and work".