"other compromising clerics (even those who are unfaithful in "small matters") who can lead the faithful, even the traditional faithful little by little away from the faith."
And who's to say when a cleric has "compromised"?
I'll tell you one red flag: when you've left yourself with NO options for Mass. That's a dogmatic home-aloner. Accidental home-aloners (i.e., "there doesn't happen to be a good Tridentine Mass option within driving distance for me") have Masses they WOULD happily attend if they owned a Star Trek-style transporter device, and could beam anywhere on Earth on Sunday morning with their whole family.
For dogmatic Home Aloners, even a Star Trek transporter ("beam me up") wouldn't be of any help -- because they've eliminated all Trad groups as possibilities. They consider them all to be "compromised".
Either that is an error, or it isn't. I hold that such is an error, on the grounds that A) the end of the world isn't yet -- it's not THAT BAD yet, and B) the Church is supposed to exist, in visible form, until the End of the World. These dogmatic home aloners, and yes, that includes Mr. Pfeiffer (If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, and smells like a duck, IT IS A DUCK) are basically DENYING this dogma of the Faith -- which makes them heretics.
Allowing Trads latitude in reacting to the Crisis in the Church is one thing. But there are paths which are NOT VALID OPTIONS: starting a new religion, declaring yourself Pope, denying the Catholic Church, going into heresy, etc. Sorry, these erroneous paths are not the same as choosing which Trad group you prefer, as the safest option to park your soul during this Crisis in the Church.
It's not "anything goes". There are limits to what a Catholic can PRUDENTLY, MORALLY do to react to this Crisis.Dogmatic home aloners are dangerous to Trads, and heretics in my opinion. And as I'm convinced of that truth, I can't in conscience allow such dangerous (potentially convincing to Trads) errors to be promoted on my forum.You speak quite highly of Mr. Pfeiffer. You are convinced he is a good man. Well, I'm sure Pope Michael has a lot to recommend him as well -- he probably has some strong Catholic beliefs, and he seems willing to suffer embarrassment for the Faith, right? I'm sure his "encyclicals" are quite solid doctrinally, and don't have any Modernism in them. Nevertheless, I wouldn't want him sowing confusion and division on a site like CathInfo, since he has obviously -- objectively speaking -- gone off the deep end. The same for Mr. Pfeiffer. His position ("there are no valid or legitimate options for a Catholic to attend Mass in 2020") is NOT legitimate or good for Traditional Catholics. I can't in conscience allow such evils to be spread on my forum.
I let you say your piece, and so now it's time to lock this thread.