Our family has been members of an SSPX chapel in northern Texas for 10 years now in good standing.
It started with a simple conversation between the coordinator and my husband and me on the anticipation of the arrival of our newly assigned parish priest, newly ordained and very young. The coordinator was staring into thin air as if he were in a trance, and holding up his two fingers and thumb he motioned as if he were turning them and exclaimed, "Ah, yes, someone that I will be able to mold".
This is very unCatholic. Could he possibly be a narcissist I thought to myself? The following weeks he started accosting a couple of the parishioners, including my husband and myself. He is a charmer with both the men and women of the parish, a schmoozer.
I told the priest about the accosting, he never got back with me. That was months ago.
So, I wrote to the prior about the accosting, that was 3 weeks ago and haven't heard from him either.
Had I mentioned the coordinator trying to mold the priest they for sure would think I have gone bonkers.
I will never forget those frightening words that came out of his mouth.