I also think it is wise at this point in time to keep your land and pray God for a priest who will minister to you without having to own your property. I think it would be a very good first sign of their dedication to souls over riches.

Exactly.

Why can't the priests trust in a God a bit, instead of pre-emptively assuming there will be trouble down the line if they don't own the building? Can't they ever assume the layman (or laymen) will be virtuous enough to keep their place?

It reminds me of the recent moves in the SSPX to standardize all the accounting procedures, for example now 2-3 laymen (unrelated) have to count the money immediately and place it in a tamper-proof bag and put it in a safe right after the collection.

Before, it was placed in a lock box and we (my wife and I) would take it home, and it would sit there for 2-3 weeks and eventually she'd get around to counting and depositing it. Long story short, they TRUSTED US.

Now, they trust absolutely no one. Isn't that sad, to not be able to trust anyone? Is that what the Catholic Church has come to? To treat each and every person, even devout Catholic parishioners, as a thief?

Even volunteers, members of the Legion of Mary, those who donate every month to the collection, those who help out the chapel in every conceivable way, even ex-Seminarians and other devout Catholics who live virtuous and spiritual lives apart from the World?

If the SSPX was a person, he would never get married because there was a SCIENTIFIC POSSIBILITY that the wife he married would be unfaithful. She's a daughter of Eve, right? She could betray him. Better not trust, better not love, better not commit.

I think that's sad and tragic, for a person OR an organization. To completely give up on trusting or loving, just because there is a possibility of getting hurt. Why not just roll over and die now, and get it over with?