Well, once again I stop by semi-monthly to see if there is any real news here and once again I come across a bunch of low IQ, narrow-minded, knee-jerk reactionaries anxious to drink the blood of fellow traditional Catholics.
I shall have to disabuse you bumpkins. Both the young man and the young lady are traditional Catholics and very fine ones. The young man is not Jim Vogel, and I won't name the young lady because you are very strange and uncharitable people who I wouldn't trust not to try to contact her and let her know first hand how stupid you really are. And for those of you who had such nasty criticisms for their appearances, I would love to see what you look like! I can only imagine.
You people should be thoroughly ashamed. I will remember you in my Masses and rosaries. This is so very sad to me, knowing these two youngsters as I do, one of them born into tradition to a fine traditional family.
There's perhaps a small bit of validity to your objection. Nevertheless, if people decide to become public celebrities, then they really need to develop a thick skin. Where I say that your objection is valid is that the celebrities in question are under someone else's direction, and these criticisms are really criticisms of the SSPX leadership. Perhaps the young lady doesn't even own the manly attire she's wearing in the video.
Nevertheless, they're being misguided by the SSPX leadership into their participation in this homage to and accommodation of modern secular (and feminist) culture. They're just pawns in this thing, and to the extent that they are, your objection has some validity.
And this is inevitable. Once the SSPX started to make accommodation to the Novus Ordo, then accommodation to the secular spirit of the modern world was not far behind. In fact, Vatican II was touted as precisely that, the accommodation of the Church to the modern world.
One might argue, I suppose, that this is the most effective way to appeal to the youngsters of our generation. Hmmm, where have we heard that before? Now, how far are we from hearing about the first electric guitar at an SSPX Mass? Then balloons and beachballs will follow close on.
No, that mentality is not only wrong, but it's been proven a tragic epic fail by the Novus Ordo. Young people left the Church in droves despite all these attempts to make the Mass look like a pop concert. When I came to the Tridentine Mass, I was drawn to it precisely because it was DIFFERENT, because it took me OUT of the secular world, and lifted me closer to God. If I wanted to go to a rock concert, I could find much better productions than inside a Novus Ordo church.
I used to watch a cartoon show called "King of the Hill". And the main character's son at one point decided to start a Christian rock band. After hearing them perform, the father pronounced, "Bobby, you're not making Christianity better; you're making rock-n-roll worse." So these poor attempts to imitate popular culture are usually awkward (due to the misalignment between them) ... and only end up drawing ridicule upon those who attempt them.
Mega-Church Protestants are notorious for this kind cheesiness. And they fill their meeting halls with many thousands bringing millions of dollars. But the SSPX has forgotten that the major draw there is that people can walk in from their grossly-immoral lives, drop their tithe in the basket, and walk back out to their adulteries and fornications all the while feeling completely justified and "saaaaved" for having made an appearance to drop off their tithe. So the Catholic Church cannot and must not compete with these on their terms.
If the SSPX wanted to create an informative news program, they could have chosen spokespeople with a bit more gravitas and not followed the feminist and largely impure model of the "infobabe" ... perhaps a priest or a dignified professor or a brother. Ah, but then, they wouldn't appeal to the "youfs" of the modern age ... for being so uncool.
What I find even worse than these news blurbs was that repugnant picture of the seminarians adoring the Mercedes Benz. That turned my stomach nearly inside out. I can already predict the next steps. First, the infobabe needs to show a little more cleavage to get more views. Finally, drape her in a bikini over top of the Mercedes Benz (instead of showing some boring seminarians) ... and the transformation will be complete.