Any priest who doesn't begin to worry about, consider, or study the Pope question until after Ordination isn't very impressive as a priest. On the contrary, I would say that such a priest is shirking his essential duties, and is probably doing more harm than good for souls by having himself ordained.

Oh, it's not necessarily the case that he never considered the question during his time at the seminary.  Perhaps something happened (or he encountered some reading material) that simply caused him to change his mind.  That happens.

Centro,

If you can show me a forum that permits slurs against the moderator(s), the forum itself, the forum's position, or the forum rules, then maybe I'll consider letting such posts stand in the future.

But as a matter of fact, no forum tolerates such behavior. At least not any forum with more than 100 members. So I am not remarkable in my intolerance for people slamming the forum, my position, or my person.

Go on a sedevacantist forum and call the members and moderators "schismatic" or "non-Catholic" and see what happens. Or go join any secular forum and call the moderator a nαzι and/or a string of cuss words. They won't just delete the offending posts; they would ban you without a second thought.

If the Resistance position disgusts you, you are always welcome to leave this Resistance forum. No one is holding you here.

Matthew

Jack is a 26 year old man who graduated a secular college with a Liberal Arts degree.

For the first month, he did accounting.
For the second month, he worked as a plumber.
For the third month, he worked in a bank.
For the fourth month, he worked at a retail store.
For months 5-7 he started grad school to become a lawyer, then quit.
For months 8-12, he studied graphic design, then gave it up.

One year after he graduated college, he shows up at your door at age 27, because he's interested in courting (you, your sister, your daughter, your niece, your granddaughter, take your pick...)

What do you think of Jack? As a man, I mean?

I, for one, am not impressed. It sounds like Jack doesn't know who he is. He's already wasted a good portion of his youth, not having figured out his basic talents or given any thought to "what he wants to be when he grows up". But he's not 15, he's 27. He should know this by now.

Moral of the story: Making small course corrections, or even major changes to one's career once in a while is one thing. But failing to establish basic foundations of your career, when you are not a teenager anymore, says a lot about one's maturity.


Deciding what milieu you will exist in (Conciliar Church? FSSP? SSPX? Sedevacantism?), is much more fundamental than deciding WHAT ROLE YOU WILL PLAY in that milieu.

At least that's how sanity used to work. You'd pick where you live, THEN worry about your career or job. Nowadays though, I guess people have no roots, and will move anywhere they need to, depending on what career they choose. Sad. But look at how messed up the modern world is as a result! Few family ties, rarely any extended family closeness (among Whites at least), no roots, families spread out all over the country.

A bishop has a serious responsibility to only ordain men whom he deems worthy of the priesthood. That bishop does not take his own positions lightly and only chooses to ordain those who share those positions. 

While I agree with you, in the main, it would seem that the Archbishop fell a bit short when choosing the men whom he not only ordained but also consecrated.  This seems to be an effort to undo an ordination rather than to take the responsibility for a possible failure of judgment.

The Archbishop made his judgments and now we are all suffering the consequences. These are the things that can happen when the Church is prevented from entering into deliberations where it is canonically required that it does so.

But sedevacantism is not the end of the world, or even and unexpected state of mind, given the reality of the situation in the Church today.

I dare say MOST Americans are born into rootlessness, so why not move?  

I was born of a thief,  henceforth, I am to be a thief? 

"Fr. Ribeiro Da Silva has publicly stated now that he is connected to Bishop Daniel Dolan"

Sean,
Where are you taking this statement from?
St. Patrick

So, if a priest ordained by a sede bishop suddenly changed his position and became a member of the Resistance, the concern would be the same, right?  

For those on this thread who are rabid, anti-sede (and they know who they are), we all know it would not.  The response would be "Thank God, Father has seen the light!"

Even if he hadn't, I don't understand why 7 months is considered a sudden change in position...unless I am missing something about the timeline here.  

Centroamerica said that a few weeks ago he was making severe anti-sede videos, but now has attached himself to Bishop Sanborn.