•In Cleveland Ohio at the SSPX chapel there one Father Scott was caught throwing out artwork, devotional handbooks, cruets, candlesticks and even the furniture in the sacristy. Why? Why would any priest in their right minds do such a thing?
As someone who has regularly attended St. Peregrine's in Cleveland, I can attest to the fact that 90% of the stuff in that chapel (artwork, cruets, candlesticks, furniture) was downright hideous from an aesthetic standpoint. In fact, the entire altar needs replaced. I would have thrown it all out as well.
I too attended St. Peregrine's, probably for more years than Laddy. Let us all take a moment to bask in the warmth of the light cast by someone as knowledgeable as Laddy.
Now back to reality. The Furniture Fr. Scott tossed was not ugly or hideous. Something not mentioned were the vestments which were sold or given away. The vestments were definitely not hideous. Then there are the red cassocks which were only a few years old and also shipped off by Fr. Scott.
Let us not forget about Fr. Scott's thing about shinny brass. He made it his business to know how we got the brass bells do shinny. He insisted he had a better way to shine the brass and we would do well to consider using his method. I thought priests saved souls not brass bells.
And Fr. Scott did the same "sell off the valuables" in Erie as well as Cleveland. I suppose the photograph of Fr. Sullivan, the founder of St. Peregrine's which was found in the trash can was probably judged as hideous as well, and was found in the trash with the St. Peregrine devotional prayer books also judged as hideous.
Someone asked why not ask why? That question was placed with Fr. Rostand. Ultimately there was a response, "Thank you for your concern." They don't care, Fr. Scott was just doing what he was told by the Euro centrists.
Under Fr. Scott, the Sunday offering dropped from the $1400s to the $800s. Apparently the people were not pleased with how shinny the brass was.
One of these days I will have to locate my sermon notes. Fr. Scott had some real winners. But I do recall one Sunday when the Passion was to be read. Fr. Scott took the N.O. short cut, doing the three minute version, a point noted by a parishioner, Mickey, in an email to the members of the parish, and contrary to popular belief, Mickey was not Dawn Marie as reported by some members of the Parish. Even back then, they were trying to smear Dawn Marie. So, back to the passion. Fr. Scott was not up to reading the oassion. What if Our Lord had said He was not up for His pain and suffering waiting for Him.