Those who criticize Bp. Tissier for not supporting the resistance should keep in mind his poor health. Even ten years ago, he was cutting back on demanding activities.  In the last seven or eight years, he had to carefully ration his energies. He did still perform Confirmations, but only every four to five years, and within the US and Canada. 
He may have wanted to support the resistance but ultimately decided it better to semi-retire.  It’s easy to say what someone else should have done or should be doing. It’s quite another to actually experience it personally. 
I’m saying, let’s cut him a break. Yes, we generally do limit our funeral sermon, if public, livestreamed, to speaking of the good things about the deceased.  Everyone knows he had weaknesses, failures, even sins, like everyone.  This isn’t canonizing him a saint.  Let’s pray for Bp. Tissier’s soul.
Rather than critique him for what could have been, let’s have faith a bishop will be provided.  If the SSPX accepts to be absorbed into Rome, then God will provide some other way. 

Those who criticize Bp. Tissier for not supporting the resistance should keep in mind his poor health. Even ten years ago, he was cutting back on demanding activities.  In the last seven or eight years, he had to carefully ration his energies. He did still perform Confirmations, but only every four to five years, and within the US and Canada. 
He may have wanted to support the resistance but ultimately decided it better to semi-retire.  It’s easy to say what someone else should have done or should be doing. It’s quite another to actually experience it personally. 
I’m saying, let’s cut him a break. Yes, we generally do limit our funeral sermon, if public, livestreamed, to speaking of the good things about the deceased.  Everyone knows he had weaknesses, failures, even sins, like everyone.  This isn’t canonizing him a saint.  Let’s pray for Bp. Tissier’s soul.
Rather than critique him for what could have been, let’s have faith a bishop will be provided.  If the SSPX accepts to be absorbed into Rome, then God will provide some other way. 

Around 2012, just after the fallout of the General Chapter, I went to Connecticut for a retreat given by +Zendegas and the Dominicans.  One of the Dominicans read an email from +Tissier in which Tissier said he 'was ready to make a deal with Rome'.  I don't know if he ever changed his mind but that was hot off the press at the time.  That is unfortunate but +Tissier was also instrumental in getting +Lefebvre to put down his retirement and create a seminary.  Without +Tissier who knows where things would be now.  Thank you +Tissier and +Lefebvre.

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The problem with this line of thinking - and it is no small problem, to say the least - is that the Catholic Church is by its nature a visible organization.  A scattered group of individuals who don't know each other - but who mistakenly believe they have the faith - is not the Catholic Church; and it wouldn't even be the Catholic Church if they did have they faith. 

There is a crisis of faith in the Traditional movement specifically, and it consists in the fact that almost no one knows what the Catholic Church is.  And what the Catholic Church definitely isn't is a scatterd group of individuals who do not belong to a visible organization with four marks - the same visible organization that has existed as such since the time of the Apostles.  The promises of Christ - "the gates of hell shall not prevail," etc., pertain to the visible organization.

The nature of the Church itself - not what is required to be a member of it, since every heretic will mistkenly think he meets that definition - is what every Traditional Catholic should immediatly begin studying.

It depends on how you view Pontius Pilate. I don't think he was evil at all. He certainly didn't want to crucify Our Lord. At least he tried to reason with the Jєωs who wanted Our Lord to be crucified. But they wouldn't back down. So Pilate gave in, in order to keep the peace and not lose his job.