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Today marks the one year anniversary of our mother’s death from cancer. I have been absent from Cathinfo for much of that year.

We’ve all dealt with Mom’s death in different ways. I suppose that is the way of life. For myself, I left my former job, found employment with a better company, and I do what I can to keep everyone together.

I maintained silence for my brother’s sake. He is still in Boston, now no longer a seminarian, but as a lay brother (Father Voigt told me three years ago that this would happen). I know Fathers Pfeiffer and Hewko hate what I did in my “Thirty Days in Boston”. They despise my writing here.

I tried to mend the broken connection between those in Boston and those here. I wanted peace and understanding. I wanted everyone to listen, to ask questions, to give all due consideration, with as much charity as possible. My attempts were regarded as weak and compromised by both sides of the situation.

My efforts were futile. Nothing worked. The libel and the evil came out, despite my efforts; I was a cheerleader in the midst of a squall.

In the process of the last four years, we spent much to try and improve the lives and effectiveness of the OLMC mission. I traveled there often, to cook, clean, and to be a good servant for Christ. My mother gave generously, to an extant I could not have imagined.

Now I am regarded as an enemy of the true resistance. Father will not return my calls, answer my texts or acknowledge my existence, other than by telling the seminarians that I am an enemy.

He has shut our family out, had Pablo demand money from our depleted inheritance, and threatened to call CPS on one of my sisters.

I have not written in the last year, in the hopes that I could make amends, to show him my honesty, as well as ease his fears. I have reached out, and we have still financially supported his mission and my brother’s quest for a vocation.

Recent events show that none of this outreach did anything to soften Father’s heart. I am still his enemy.

Father will never be my enemy, however, and I hope that no one here will ever view Father as such.

He is in most need of prayers, guidance and forgiveness. His masses are fully valid, and no one should hesitate to attend because of his personal issues.

I hope that Father may one day see me as an ally, despite our disagreements and past issues.

Please pray for my response of the soul of my mother. Please keep my family in your prayers.

Oh boy.

Once again we have a case of "coming around to a position, but positioning yourself as the first/holiest/most prudent, pointing to extremists and distancing yourself from them".

This happens with the Traditional Catholic position all the time. Someone wakes up to the Crisis in the Church, but the new convert to Tradition is all defensive and leery of the position still. He says things like,

"But I'm still going to be humble!"
"but I refuse to hate the Pope!"
"but I'm not going to become a sedevacantist!"
"But I'm not going to stop praying for the Pope!"
and things like that.

Basically, they carry various "baggage" which actually has no REAL connection to the new position. For example, all Trads being proud, hate mongers, or sedevacantist.

Likewise, we have Martin here coming around to the truth about Boston, KY and Fr. Pfeiffer, but he still carries with him the prejudices in him, instilled by Fr. Pfeiffer himself. Namely, that we are all a bunch of bad Catholics, haters, etc. and that even though he knows the truth about Fr. Pfeiffer HE (perhaps alone?) is not therefore going to HATE him, but he is going to pursue this like a good Catholic.

As if we ALL haven't been doing that for years! Nice try, Martin.

Welcome to the club. If you admit the problems, the depths to which Fr. Pfeiffer has fallen, and warn others only about the most serious, proven issues -- while refraining from hatred or anything uncharitable regarding Fr. Pfeiffer and his group, then you are absolutely "one of the club" and nothing special in that regard.

Speaking the truth for the common good is the height of charity. And speaking the truth to Fr. Pfeiffer (and his followers) is also about the most we can do for them, aside from praying for them of course.

If someone were to call Fr. Pfeiffer uncharitable names -- making fun of him as a human being (height, weight, age, color, ethnicity, place of birth, etc.) which is quite rare on CI I'll point out -- I would moderate (delete) it. The only "negative" things you'll see here on CI about Fr. Pfeiffer is criticism about his BEHAVIOR -- specifically his personal "war" against the Resistance (the 4 bishops, any priests who don't acknowledge Fr. Pfeiffer as king, any one who offers the slightest criticism of Boston, KY, etc.)