You people are such losers.
My goodness how the sedevacantist mind is utterly perverted.
The story is completely the other way around.
The vietnam vet pressured hoopes into being hardcore sede and when Fr. Hoopes refused he went and had Mass elsewhere.
The vet wanted Hoopes to join in the imperfect council nonsense.
It is abundantly clear that this whole nonsense is a premptive move to tar Fr. Hoopes, because that old geezer (who by the way is totally unstable) is basically on his own in that Church with not even his family supporting him. They all saw how reasonable Fr. Hoopes was.
By the way our vet in question HAD ALREADY agreed to hand over the Church, and then changed his mind. The mental gymnastics of him to try to paint it this way in the article. What low life scuм.
Now as for our good gracious Bishop Z, who never would ever EVER find bad words falling from his lips about fellow clergy men. What can I say? Not much since Matthew has weighed in on his side. I will just charitably point out that Fr. Hoopes has had no contact with him whatsoever since he got back stateside. In fact he has only ever briefly met him once.Bishop Z has never reached out to him either, and never brought up any of his concerns. So either Bishop Z is being totally misrepresented here (something I don't doubt due the insanity of this article) or he has some questions to answer.
The astrology book thing is thrown in there obviously for real effect.
Step back and read the whole article now like a normal mentally balanced person.
You should see the crazy.