This is an email I sent to a friend.  The thoughts contained herein may prove useful to others:

When Fr. N_____ (a man who exudes the sensus catholicus) rebuked Bp. N____ to his face, in a newspaper no less, was it "rebellion", "detraction", "anger/pride-induced blindness", etc?

Is it EVER POSSIBLE to call a spade a spade, when a cleric is involved, and be RIGHT to do so?

Even if you answer "yes" to the above question, I realize this is not an admission that I was right to do what I did, how I did it.  I am just sick of the talk about how one cannot call a spade a spade, just because a man is wearing shoes with snazzy buckles and a cassock from Gamarelli!  I MAY have been completely wrong to do what I did, or may have just done it in the wrong way, but to argue, explicitly or implicitly, that such actions CANNOT EVER BE RIGHT is complete nonsense.  The CMRI would've NEVER been set free from Schuckhardt (+RIP); we would all still be sitting in the Novus Ordo, just "making do", singing Kumbayah, would we not?

What am I NOT seeing about this?  People are acting like one may NEVER speak about the corruption of clerics, even when it notably affects the common good.  Is it a sin to tell people a priest is a lousy bowler, has really bad BO, etc., too?  WHERE DOES IT END??? [Btw, I have heard priests say that another priest has really bad BO, not that I agree they should have revealed such a lovely fact.  If you had heard the things I have, from the lips of clerics, you would be rather surprised.]

I DO respect the consciences of others.  Why does no one seem to respect mine???  Such things are a TWO WAY street.  I am NOT trying to be an ass, or pick a fight, but there is an unhealthy thread running through the fabric of "respect for clerics" that I have seen at certain chapels.  Some clerics seem to think WE exist for THEIR GOOD; this is the OPPOSITE of the truth.  The very raison d'etre of their vocation is the good of the sheep.  When this is being thwarted, silence is criminal, not virtuous - or so says my own conscience.  I shall say no more during Holy Week, and maybe not at all.  God speed in JMJ