The building of brick/mortar chapels would solve this problem: Nobody would be able to get a venue cancelled in such places. This would also remove reluctance among the various chapel coordinators to have their homes (i.e., chapels) broadcast over the internet as targets for troublemakers. And obviously, as an edifice (i.e., consecrated space) is essential to render proper glory to God, newbies or the less principled would not be deterred from attending Resistance venues because they are "weirded out" by attending Masses located in private homes. Therefore, I suggest this goal could be a logical first step. But which locales have sufficient numbers/finances for this? And even if they did/could build something, there are no priests to staff such chapels. If we build it, will they come? Not so sure. Perhaps Bishop Fellay will help us out in that regard next week. Meanwhile, perhaps a "via media" would be for the the bishops, priests, and chapel coordinators to build a master email notification list. This would have the benefit of broadening notifications to people outside our own immediate chapels, without drawing the unwanted internet scrutiny? It does not remove all danger of indiscretion or treason of course, but since when was 100% security a prerequisite for the apostolate?
In any case, the response quoted above might provide a reasonable response for the secrecy surrounding Bishop Williamson's travellings, but what about the other three bishops? Surely they are not as despised and targeted as Bishop Williamson, but unless I happened to have Bishop Zendejas' personal email address or phone number, or happened to know someone at the Resistance chapel in St. Mary's, how would I ever know where or when Mass was?
An email recently came from Santa Cruz which contained the names/email addresses of approximately 250 persons, to notify them about a building project in Brazil. I propose the American Resistance compile a similar list of known collaborators in the USA for notification purposes. Santa Cruz demonstrates such a task is simple, and even though there were many names of known critics and enemies of the bishops on that list, still, to date there have been no deleterious consequences despite the fact. I think this would be a reasonable interim solution, until such a time as we can build brick/mortar chapels, and be done with these covert ops.
This is just my idea; there may be problems and issues which I have not considered; I am just brainstorming for ways to improve this bad situation. I suppose if you live near a chapel which has frequent/regular Masses, you think this is no problem at all (i.e., You are always in the know). But if 25% of this event's attendance (a not so insignificant percentage) came from out of state, it shows some people would travel when and if able (and of course, there are business trips, vacations, etc. where it would be nice for people to be aware of Mass venues wherever life may take them).
I reiterate: This post should in no way be seen as any kind of criticism of the bishops. It is only a brainstorm trying to help the Resistance grow, and improve a less than ideal situation. The bishops are our leaders, and what they say goes. Would they be opposed to these ideas?
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This is interesting, however, I'm sure +W is much more aware of the numerous details of the history of TLM Mass centers in America.
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For example, are you familiar with Fr. Hector Bolduc and how he assisted acquiring vast amounts of real estate for ABL in the USA?
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+W was welcome in Burbank, CA, in 1997 as I recall, for Confirmations, as was +TdM a few years later. Those were at the private chapel run by Fr. Joseph Melito (RIP). In subsequent years, however, +TdM came to the Arcadia SSPX Church (which originally had belonged to Fr. Donahue, who was BTW very unkind to Fr. Frederick Schell and all those who assisted at his Masses -- this is a sordid past we have endured in Los Angeles).
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Once a property is secured, many forces come out of the woodwork to confiscate it, and this has happened again and again all over the country. Fr. Paul Wickens' chapel comes to mind, St. Anthony's as I recall.
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The SSPX has been especially culpable in this intrigue for they have consistently refused to supply a Society priest to help out saying Mass in a private chapel where their priest has passed away or is sick, unless the owners agree to sign over ownership of the chapel to the SSPX first, and THEN they'll send a priest! It is one of their most well-known trademark features.
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Fr. Melito somehow got around this problem when he was sick or out of town, but he did not have a real chapel owned by the Catholics, but the building was co-owned by Mike Arpaia, an electrical contractor, whose business had been operating next door. Mike had Fr. Shell over to his own house in Granada Hills most mornings for daily Mass, when Fr. Schell lived nearby. But Mike's assets were also shared by his family and when Mike died, Fr. Melito was summarily booted out by the surviving owners who had no regard for the TLM or the faithful who attended there. Fr. Melito had to go offer Mass in a Protestant church building nearby, which he somehow got permission to use, perhaps having to pay rent. When he passed away, his flock was scattered, some going to Fr. Schell's Mass locations, now operated by OLHC in Garden Grove (Msgr. Perez - who had also been an associate of Fr. Melito), the Northridge St. Patrick Mission being the closest venue. Others went to CMRI in Newhall, Fr. Dominic Radecki, still others went to Arcadia (SSPX), where they have not had the most warm welcome. Now an FSSP chapel has opened in San Fernando (so-called moved from West Hollywood, a move which is right in between Arcadia, Northridge and Newhall, but closest to Northridge), where a whole new set of tensions emerge since their pattern nationwide has been to interfere with TLM communities by setting up Mass so as to compete with independent chapels, effectively stealing away the faithful, by claiming to be "authentic" or "approved by the local bishop," since their status is under "the Indult." So what's going to become of those Catholics is anyone's guess.