FellayOFish...



Best Screen Name so far this year.

Could you be more specific -- give some concrete examples?  You don't seem very sure about it.

I hate to say it, but if any clergy or laity are getting DOGMATIC about the Crisis in the Church (and the SSPX crisis is just a continuation, another battle, in the wider Crisis in the Church), then these clerics and laymen are simply wrong.

There are 2 distinct realms: dogma (or the realm of ideas, principles) and individuals. You can use other terms too: Ideas/practice, form/matter, etc.

Dogmatically, you have to be merciless against other positions or else you aren't very serious about your position!

Of course I believe in the Resistance. But unless I make "Thou Shalt Attend Only Resistance Masses" as a new Commandment or Dogma of the Church, I can't condemn others, or bind their consciences. It's a prudential decision for each person. I can advise them to choose wisely; I can give them excellent reasons to go with the position I have chosen. But in the end, I can't force them. And when I fail to convince someone, I can't write them off as hell-bound.

Any Resistance-affiliated priest the least bit serious is going to promote the Resistance, saying it's the best or safest option. I do this constantly! But you can't bind this upon the conscience of others. You can't condemn others who disagree with you. You can and must part ways of course, and you can oppose any errors or foolishness. But you can't say that any specific person attending SSPX, FSSP, or even the Novus Ordo is actually on the path to Hell.

Well you have to be *very* careful about forming a vague feeling over many years, without paying attention to any specifics.

I'll give you a hint: The Resistance has been around since 2012, and the Pfeifferites haven't *always* been banned from the forum. Pablo himself used to be a member in the early days, before the truth came out about him and his past. Other venom-spewing, bitter opponents of +Williamson today used to be members of CathInfo back in the day. But they haven't changed *that* much.

For example, there used to be big debates on Red Light vs. Yellow Light. But today, the Red Light camp would be pretty sparse because most of those people were of the Pfeifferite persuasion, and didn't last long. They soaked up Fr. Pfeiffer's schismatic Red Light position, but they also soaked up all his other errors, which caused them to be banned from this forum.

So you have to be careful what ingredients you include in your dough, when making a loaf of "general impressions".