The Resistance bishops have their R&R position, which does not allow them the freedom to say what they really believe in their hearts.

Who are you to know "what they really believe in their hearts", o holy omniscient being? 
What an idiotic comment!
Many of you sedevacantists seem to really think that you know what's going on in everyone's head. Ridiculous.

It's difficult to argue that you're wrong.  If the sspx has had any real impact upon reversing the post-conciliar "Revolution," I for one fail to see it.  Fellay & Co. may argue that the "extraordinary" mass and the so-called "lifting" of the excommunications has at least interrupted the onslaught of V2 modernism.  I feel, however, that facts on the ground belie any such claim.  It's Lefebvrism and most of the independent traditional offshoots, which have basically fallen short, IMO.  New Church, headed by one of history's worst popes, seems to be carrying out its agenda, without too much significant push back.

I pretty much agree with you, but the lifting of the excomunications and the declaration recognizing the "mass" did not really affect the bulk of Tradition. It was more of an internal non-victory for SSPXism.
The Revolution has not been seriously impeded at all by the neo-Traditionalists.
Both of the SSPX groups are constrained by their own theology from saying or doing anything beyond a low level of indirect criticism.  Here they are at Fatima which has become a worldwide center for ecuмenism and the wickedness of conciliarism, things which deserve the heartiest of condemnation, but a smiling photo-op is the best that they have to offer. Meanwhile layfolk in Belgium are confronting the heretics and their love fest with the Lutheran heretics, quoting Catholic doctrine and with the Rosary, and thier bodies, and being carried away for doing so.
Even some Novus Ordoites are shaming the Traditional movement and its clergy.
One might think that the sad state of the Church in Portugal might at least prod a passing comment when standing upon the desecrated ground where blasphemy roams free.
I have said it many times over, the Church desparately needs a true counter-revolutionary movement. Pray to God that he will raise a pious soul who will begin it. Quoting the Psalm, "it is time to do, O Lord."

A minor point, but why are the bishops wearing black cassocks for the Mass? Also, I thought traditionalist bishops refrained from wearing the mozetta because they lack jurisdiction and the garment was restricted to bishops with jurisdiction before VC II.  Is this incorrect?

Without prejudice to Fatima or its message, I do not believe that any apparition relieves us individually or collectively from our resposibilities in matters of defending and propagating the Faith of Christ.  We were not incarnated into corporal bodies to do nothing but wait for the Heavenly realm to solve all of our problems. Christ came into the world as a man in a human body because it was necessary to accomplish His will.

But more on point, the corruption of the Church and the Faith rests almost exclusively with the hierarchy.
It came by every Bishop that affixed his signature to the docuмents of Vatican II, and every priest who went against the Church by accepting the new  non-Catholic religion which came from it.

It is therefore most heavily the responsibility of the hierarchy to battle the corruption and to see that order and orthodoxy are restored to the Church by whatever means is available to them, as it is with them that the power and authority of the Church is bestowed that they might correct the fault of those who are among them.
In this, the hierarchy has utterly failed and abdicated its holy responsibilities. I gave an excellent example of Catholics in Belgium doing what the hierarchy should be doing to battle this scoundrel in the Vatican.
It is shameful and a commentary upon the effeminate and flacid responses of our clerics to the ongoing pillaging of the Church and the corruption of uncounted souls.

As I said, we are on our own with only God to help us as His lieutenants are on a self imposed strike.

     

Sean Johnson, you made comments earlier on in this discussion and other articles on your website which could have been lifted from a pfeifferite site. You have their same bitter misdirected zeal. Are you moving in their direction in your opinions?

C.

Cebu,
Maybe it would be better if you could actually demonstrate how Sean's zeal is "bitter and misdirected" instead of just lobbing a rotten "cyber-tomato" at him, yes?

Mr. Johnson's comments were a rational and accurate observation. But, such objective critiques will always be taken in the wrong spirit, and mischaracterized by the sectarian partisans. It is the nature of narrow human loyalties.

I agree.

I have criticized Mr. Johnson before because sometimes he can be over the top. But he is right here.

There is a simplistic approach being taken by many, including priests, that if you make any criticisms, especially of the bishops, then you must be a Pfeifferite.

Sorry, but if you can't take the heat, step out of the fire.

The objective fact of the matter is that the pilgrimage was not advertised publically anywhere on the english  speaking trad internet.


It is not "bitter" to point this out. There was poor organization and we have to admit it.

People seem not to be learning, especially after the whole controversy recently over Bishop Z's residence. In the age of the internet, there is very little you can hide, so there is not point trying (for it's own sake)