Author Topic: Has Fr. Edward Macdonald left the SSPX? (Read 20743 times)

Gail · « **Reply #45 on:** April 08, 2015, 05:33:55 PM »

Father MacDonald arrived in Australia yesterday. He is presently in Brisbane but plans a visit to all Mass centres......time will tell whether he stays or moves elsewhere.

Francisco · « **Reply #46 on:** April 09, 2015, 01:05:16 AM »

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Really, im sure he will be made welcome so,

.....welcome where? In Ireland or Australia? I know that he has good support in both places.....

Australia seems to have a strong Resistance group, and is not the easiest of places to travel to. So logically, I feel that he should be based there.

stgobnait · « **Reply #47 on:** April 09, 2015, 03:10:55 AM »

Resistance in Ireland is growing, and a Priest like Fr Mac Donald would certaintly be a plus, he is well known in all regions, and greatly respected, but we will all have to wait and see, im sure he will be wherever he believes he can do most good,and that is what we all want, im sure. God bless Father.

Pepe · « **Reply #48 on:** April 10, 2015, 07:34:22 AM »

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Resistance in Ireland is growing, and a Priest like Fr Mac Donald would certaintly be a plus, he is well known in all regions, and greatly respected, but we will all have to wait and see, im sure he will be wherever he believes he can do most good,and that is what we all want, im sure. God bless Father.

Hi stgobnait, aren't Frs. Bufe and Abraham looking after the Resistance in Ireland?

AJNC · « **Reply #49 on:** April 10, 2015, 10:25:22 AM »

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Resistance in Ireland is growing, and a Priest like Fr Mac Donald would certaintly be a plus, he is well known in all regions, and greatly respected, but we will all have to wait and see, im sure he will be wherever he believes he can do most good,and that is what we all want, im sure. God bless Father.

Hi stgobnait, aren't Frs. Bufe and Abraham looking after the Resistance in Ireland?

When some Traditional Catholics hear of "available" Traditional priests, they try and rope these for themselves. Years ago I heard that the late Fr Bolduc, when still with the SSPX, recruited a dozen or so priests from India to work in his US District. This project, I was told, ended in failure. Did Fr Bolduc clear his conscience that these Indian priests were prepared to say the TLM anywhere in the world except their own country? Or would his project have deprived some Indians of the TLM?

I know of a young priest in India who has recently taken to Tradition. I also know some of the people who attend the TLM which he celebrates at his family home. But now I hear that a group in America has invited him to go over there and minister to them! So if he does run after the Almighty Dollar what will happen to those who attend his chapel? Will it not affect the very fragile Traditional Catholic movement in India? Does God bless this sort of behavior?

Matthew · « **Reply #50 on:** April 10, 2015, 11:39:45 AM »

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I know of a young priest in India who has recently taken to Tradition. I also know some of the people who attend the TLM which he celebrates at his family home. But now I hear that a group in America has invited him to go over there and minister to them! So if he does run after the Almighty Dollar what will happen to those who attend his chapel? Will it not affect the very fragile Traditional Catholic movement in India? Does God bless this sort of behavior?

This is a complex and difficult issue. It's certainly not clear-cut.

On the one hand, sometimes God wants you to stay where you are planted. It is easiest for natives to convert/work with the population of a given country.

On the other hand, sometimes a country happens to produce more priests than it needs, relative to other countries.

In your example, it would be interesting to know the situation of the US chapel that is asking for that Indian priest. Are they in an area with little or no TLM options within a 3 hour drive? Or are they in California or Cincinnati, OH with 5 or 6 options within a half-hour drive, but they are extremely picky about various things (or even sectarian -- avoiding the Masses of this or that valid Trad priest)?

Remember, just saying, "I need the Mass" is ambiguous. There are a handful of sectarians (that is a better term than schismatic -- I will go into that later) in Danbury, CT who attend Fr. Pfeiffer's sporadic Masses there, and when he's not there, they stay home: from the local SSPX as well as Fr. Zendejas' Masses. Can they honestly say they "need" a TLM on most Sundays? I certainly don't feel sorry for them. They are in a borderline cult. Fr. Zendejas offers a valid TLM which is fully Traditional Catholic, and he is in full opposition to modernism, Vatican II, and the Novus Ordo. They don't have a leg to stand on.

That would make a big difference.

AJNC · « **Reply #51 on:** April 10, 2015, 12:02:25 PM »

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I know of a young priest in India who has recently taken to Tradition. I also know some of the people who attend the TLM which he celebrates at his family home. But now I hear that a group in America has invited him to go over there and minister to them! So if he does run after the Almighty Dollar what will happen to those who attend his chapel? Will it not affect the very fragile Traditional Catholic movement in India? Does God bless this sort of behavior?

This is a complex and difficult issue. It's certainly not clear-cut.

On the one hand, sometimes God wants you to stay where you are planted. It is easiest for natives to convert/work with the population of a given country.

On the other hand, sometimes a country happens to produce more priests than it needs, relative to other countries.

In your example, it would be interesting to know the situation of the US chapel that is asking for that Indian priest. Are they in an area with little or no TLM options within a 3 hour drive? Or are they in California or Cincinnati, OH with 5 or 6 options within a half-hour drive, but they are extremely picky about various things (or even sectarian -- avoiding the Masses of this or that valid Trad priest)?

Remember, just saying, "I need the Mass" is ambiguous. There are a handful of sectarians (that is a better term than schismatic -- I will go into that later) in Danbury, CT who attend Fr. Pfeiffer's sporadic Masses there, and when he's not there, they stay home: from the local SSPX as well as Fr. Zendejas' Masses. Can they honestly say they "need" a TLM on most Sundays? I certainly don't feel sorry for them. They are in a borderline cult. Fr. Zendejas offers a valid TLM which is fully Traditional Catholic, and he is in full opposition to modernism, Vatican II, and the Novus Ordo. They don't have a leg to stand on.

That would make a big difference.

I would take a guess and say that the only people who would be told about this priest in India are those connected with the Resistance in America. At present there are only four non-SSPX/SSPX-affliated priests in India saying the TLM. Fr James (75?)Fr Pancras (80?), Fr Valan- SSPX-MC (40?) and this priest (35? and ordained in the New Rite). If Dr Sunil is posted here after his ordination in June, the number goes up to five. The Novus Ordo is still packed out on Sundays in India, with people having to stand outside. Most of the churches are very easy to get to. The nearest N.O. church from me is a fifteen minute slow walk away, whereas the independent chapel I now attend along with 40-60 other people takes away 5-6 hours all told on a Sunday. You cannot attract people to the TLM which is only once in a while and tell them to stay at home and pray etc. the rest of the Sundays. India needs all it's native priests if, even at this eleventh hour, it is to make some headway in Tradition. Sectarianism, favoritism and "blue-prints" drawn up by foreign priests have screwed Tradition here these past 30 years.