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Ladislaus, I am sure you know that nobody goes to a monastery to become a priest but to become a monk. The superior of the monastery decides who among the monks will become priests. Perhaps it is not like that anymore in the Novus Ordo monasteries.

Did I read correctly? Because I came away with the understanding that before the changing of the guard, there were problems with the formation - a destruction of individuality in favor of a man wearing a mask or facade.

The replacement of the individual of character with the equilibrious pietist.  

Why would substitution of the real man with the organizational rube be considered an honest formation?

Quite a fascinating read, BTW. Best thing I've come across in quite a while.

P.S. I disagree on the negative connotation given to the man's need for vigorous physical exercise. Disagree entirely. Some temperaments require extreme physical exertion to balance extreme mental and emotional exertion (including repression of emotions). Not receiving that medicine would cause manifold negative effects in the entire organism.  

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Elizabeth[/url]]I'm halfway through, taking a break because of its intensity and honesty. (If I watched Platoon I would be taking breaks, also).  Dang, the idea of studying Latin in French without knowing French, in France with the French... :cry:

There is another SSPX priest whom I know, whose formation closely parallels several of these aspects here, so I know that this kind of thing is not too uncommon in the Society.

Studying sacred theology in your mother tongue is challenging enough, but in a foreign language?  

SUCH AS:  sitting with the Society leaders at a table for lunch, and having Bishop Fellay ask one other priest a question in German and he answers in French, and then +Fellay responds in Latin, while comments in Spanish and English dribble in from time to time.  It can't help but put you "on the spot" when your second year French studies have not quite mastered the subjunctive mood verbs they keep throwing around like a football.

In retrospect it seems +F was doing this kind of thing because he was fishing for Liberals all along.  He wanted to earmark young potential candidates for moving into positions of power such as Capitulant or District Superior of Oceania or Poland or India.

Imagine if all these political games of attrition were never played then the SSPX would [have become] much bigger and stronger.

Like that.

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