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Sean,

JL was banned from this forum.

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If even the moderator condones and participates in this behavior,  exhortations to the contrary are futile.

It is the stated reason why reputable authors like Dr David Allen White, The Recusant,  and John Lane no longer (or only rarely) participate on this forum.

If it continues in this fashion, it will be left with nothing but fanatical rabble,  and the Resistance will be cast in the same light.

You are a good man, Matthew.

I hope you won't sink to their level.

Resistance to a practical accord and virtue are not incompatible.

If resistance becomes synonymous with impulsive venting, what claim to the high road can we make?

"Dear Matthew,

The current overseers of the SSPX have more in common
with Stalin than Archbishop Lefebvre. Pray your rosary
and ignore these lunatics. The Blessed Mother will
not abandon you and yours.

Continue your good work and may God bless you.

You are being persecuted with the good Bishop and
persecution is the fifth mark of the Church.

David Allen White"


Selective memory, you have there!

I would suggest to you that, the post you cite, following shortly upon the expulsion of Bishop Williamson, was uncharacteristic of Dr. White, whose (very) short posting history also includes this nugget:

"I recommend a year's research and a grand silence before all future posts on every subject."

Sage advice.

I had also intended to provide a PM he sent me (presuming he would not mind) in which he expressed his aversion to forums because everything descends into fighting, but alas the PM is no longer in my box.

With regard to The Recusant, the lastest edition (p. 2) includes a statement of aversion to internet forums, and Cathinfo is not among it's list of recommended websites.

And of course, John Lane has not returned since the days when he was roughly handled and accused of wild ulterior motives for seeming to defend Bishop Fellay against unfounded accusations (for which I myself also had some culpability back in the days of posting as Seraphim).

But the point of mentioning all this is not to criticize Cathinfo, but to attempt, at least, to keep a Catholic spirit in the tenor of the posting done here, and recall to posters that Catholic norms must be obeyed where reputations are concerned.  

Otherwise, men of virtue and righteousness will be repulsed, and we will lose the benefit of their contributions.

So, you're saying that Catholic norms are relative and situational?  The degree of culpability for calling one a lunatic on one day is less or more than on another day, and dependent on the circuмstances!

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A great ship went down, many people end up in the water, two lucky ones found a dingy each.

Mr Dingy 1 shouts to the others in the water : you idiots are wrong to be in the water, I am right to be in the dingy, get lost !

Mr Dingy 2 reaches out to them : you better get out of the water and get into my dingy, it'll be better for you.

Mr Dingy 2 has charity. Mr Dingy 1 has not.

Does that make Mr Dingy 2 a 'woman', a wimp, unable to think, acting on feelings only, weak, coward, useless in a fight ?

Charity covers a multitude of sins and pride comes before the fall.

Quite the analogy, but okay, I'll bit . . . like the shark that you think I am!

Mr. Dingy 2 would be a 'woman', a wimp, unable to think, acting on feelings only, weak, coward, useless in a fight, if, after he said:
"you better get out of the water and get into my dingy, it'll be better for you" HE THEN SAYS: "I retract my opinions." And, on more than one occasion, while watching the others drown as he continues to fret and bite his nails.

But, you know, Mr. Nobody, you are being uncharitable to the core, because you harp on these things. Others, like myself, just throw it out there and hope/pray that the words nudge someone to rethink their sloppy thinking!