Great graphic Matthew. I remember it well.
Speaking of the graphic above,
Do you remember Sedetrad? He had that graphic as his avatar for a long time. I don't know what went wrong with that guy, but I had to ban him for some good reason.
Recently I saw him start a thread on another forum, "I recant anything bad I ever said about Fr. Pfeiffer."
I was like, "Huh?"
Most people these days are doing the opposite -- apologizing for being blind to the evil for so long, but they won't be silent any longer. They are reluctantly speaking up against the evils coming from Boston, KY and Fr. Pfeiffer himself, etc.
Now some people DO go too far when criticizing a priest or bishop who is publicly in the wrong (e.g., Fr. Pfeiffer, Bishop Fellay) and they should apologize at any time.
But the rest of us shouldn't have to apologize unless we're doing something wrong. Speaking up against evils is NOT WRONG no matter how uncomfortable it makes you.
Which of these makes you uncomfortable?
A) Going along with your friends who are doing something bad.
B) Speaking up, admonishing your friends to stop committing sin.
We all know that B is the right answer, God's will, but it's not always easy for us to do, given human nature and human respect.
It's like he feels uneasy about the situation, for good reason, but totally mistakes the cause of his pangs of conscience.
Incidentally, the masters of the spiritual life teach us that often scruples is a manifestation of a more serious defect elsewhere. The proverbial "strain out a gnat and swallow a camel". Not always, but I have seen it firsthand. People totally scrupulous about A, B, and C, but they have glaring faults in their life regarding X, Y or Z. Their spiritual life is all out of focus and balance; they can't see the forest for the trees.