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In all me days at OLOS in Phoenix and then after leaving the city and coming back, I think the OLOS Academy may better positioned now to grow than it ever has been.  There is a feeling of renewed dedication to Tradition, there are new large families, and the negative nellie's who for so many years wanted the Academy to be their personal family school, and even their little piggyback any time repairs or grounds work was needed, ARE GONE!  Some folk worry the Church and Academy will be harmed by their departure because they were considered "large benefactors"; however, even though they donated large sums of money occasionally - via their family construction company they also got richer by way of putting that money they had donated right back into their own silk-lined pockets (new Church construction, performing arts center, baseball field, etc.).  Money manipulation... hmm, I think me knows a certain accountant who was the Church and Academy Treasurer for many years until the crybaby didn't get his way and so he started HFA!  The same accountant started his own construction company and its first project was the new Church building and then the performing arts center.  This accountant awarded the contract to his self!  See a conflict of interest?

Me grandmother who came here from Belfast always said "Money that goes in a circle ends up in the same pockets it first came from and no one will ever be the wiser!"  Ay Granny, you was a smart gal... may God have mercy on your dear soul!

The problem every parish has, whether Traditional or Novus Ordo, is with those who are culturally Catholic.

Oh, yes, they do donate because their parents supported the Church, and they want to be baptized, married, and buried as Catholics. Furthermore, they want their children to also be baptized, married, and buried as Catholics.

However, when it comes to living the daily life of faith, striving to avoid mortal sins and even venial sins, observing the Ten Commandments, and praying their daily prayers, well, they do not have the time. They give their hour to God on Sunday, and perhaps say their prayers before meals, but that is it.

It is these nominal Catholics who scandalize and weaken the life of the Church.

Some of these nominal Catholics compare themselves with Nancy Peℓσѕι saying, "I am not like her." However, Nancy Peℓσѕι is not even a nominal Catholic. She is lost as she publicly supports abortion and infanticide. Instead, these nominal Catholics are like the Pharisees who say, "Thank God, I am not like that sinner over there. I support the Church; I even donated that lovely stained glass window over there. See my name is on it."

Are the SSPX priests in Phoenix addressing this situation of nominal Catholics? Are they offering homilies to help convert these nominal Catholics to a life of sanctity. After all, we are all called to be saints.