If these 200-300 N.O. Bishops truly/honestly liked traditionalism so much as to send their seminarians to be trained by the SSPX, they could/would have left the N.O. by now and became traditionalists.
Not bl**dy likely.
First, there's the matter of
defective or questionable Holy Orders. Few
Novus Ordo priests still alive today received Holy Orders that would not be dismissed--or at least questioned--as mere
Novus Ordo 'installation' instead of
traditional 'ordination'.
Even fewer
Novus Ordo bishops now alive received Holy Orders that would not be dismissed--or at least questioned--as mere
Novus Ordo 'installation' instead of
traditional 'consecration'. For a bishop nowadays to be younger than the 75 cited by the
Novus Ordo for 'mandatory retirement, yet received a
'consecration' that was traditional, valid, and licit, he'd need to have been born no earlier than 1938, and consecrated before the end of 1969, thus traditionally 'consecrated' a bishop at an age no older than 31. Unless the consecrating bishop somehow got away with refusing to use the
New Ordinal after it became universally required, reportedly on Easter Sunday (April 6) in 1969.
Novus Ordo seminaries dropped their extensive required training in Latin decades ago, didn't they? Yet a
traditional priest is expected to be so fluent in Latin that he
understands all the Latin words of the traditional Mass and other traditional rituals, not simply learns enough to pronounce them convincingly. Right?
Consider what was reportedly a big majority of cardinals present at B. VXI's abdication announcement, who failed to understand what he said
in Latin. With Italian now a
de facto substitute for Latin as the language of the
Novus Ordo for various purposes, how how could
Novus Ordo bishops be able to fulfill their official roles--per 'consecration'--as
authoritative teachers & protectors of the traditional faith, whose original sources are
written in Latin?I suspect that despite the on-going scandals of numerous dioceses, and their resulting financial drain, practically
all Novus Ordo bishops prefer the cash flow, customary certainties, and secular honors of being duke of a Novus Ordo duchy, to the financial uncertainty and secular rootlessness that would come with abandoning a
Novus Ordo duchy to become a traditional bishop. Especially given the Vatican policy of 'collegiality', whose
de facto meaning seems to be that neither the Vatican, nor even the pope himself, has
any disciplinary authority over bishops, no matter how scandalous their behavior or negligence. This
laissez faire operation seem likely to intensify under a new pope who reportedly considers himself merely the "Bishop of Rome".
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