Thank you for your post Lepanto Again, I have been trying to think of a way to express the same thoughts and your example is much better than anything I could think of.

We have expressed our support of these priests and what they stand for, and our family has experienced some insults from lay people and a priest - to our face and second hand.  We also have support from others, but they will not take a public stand, yet.  I hope they do.  Since we already experienced this from N.O. Catholics, family and others, the experience itself is nothing new.  I would think it was the same for many others.   It's unfortunate it comes from the very place that is our refuge.  I also think that is why many people stay silent, but as the article pointed out - the end result will give us only more evil.

It's our silence that will let the enemy win.

Who are these Catholics who follow a leader who is compromised with the Jєωιѕн powers?

I don't think it's as easy as that.  We follow the faith, and give everyone the benefit of the doubt that they are too.  I hesitated to give the above example because I don't want someone to be disgusted and walk away, but because the devil is very cunning in knowing our weaknesses and knows how to attack us.  The SSPX has given us a great deal and just because a few (for whatever reasons) lead it in another direction doesn't mean we won't fight to keep its principles.

This article encourages the remnant sspx priests and laity. … March, 1959
…
IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM THOMAS WALSH

Would you be so kind as to supply the source of this article?

From among the above-indexed articles is found one, October 1952 - probably
before most of us were born - which is dedicated to the infalicitous memory of
one +Richard J. Cushing, Archbishop of Boston. The portion of the article that
bears the title is repeated below for your convenience, Frs. Pfeiffer and Chazal,
with the reminder that this fine priest suffered in his day the same kind of
ostracization that +ABL and his faithful followers have suffered, and not for
different reasons: all these men have been dedicated to spreading the One, True
Faith, outside of which no one can be saved, as the Athanasian Creed (one of
the three Creeds of the Catholic Church) clearly states.

Please recall that it was under this same person that the author was persecuted in
public, only a few short years before this was written. If you don't have a stomach
for tongue-in-cheek humor, you probably won't find his words very comforting. And
if you are one of the liberal-minded progeny of the subject, something that is even
more common in 2012 than in 1952, after 60 more years of Americanism gone
rampant, you might even take personal offense to his timeless words.

I am reminded that a very talented comic, Steve Bridges, who was uncomfortably
faced with making a career imitating the so-called president, was mysteriously
found dead, not long after another prominent man, publisher Andrew Breitbart,
who had foolishly announced that he was "going to" make public devastating
docuмentation exposing the fraudulent past of the so-called, was also found
mysteriously dead. The "powers that be" do not take well to ridicule, ESPECIALLY
when it's only perceived as such because of legitimate humor. For a joke to be
really funny, it has to be based in truth. Artificial jokes, based in lies, procure a
fake laugh, an affected laugh, a laugh of intolerance, and they're not infrequently
aimed at accusations of so-called intolerance.





THE APOSTLE OF INVINCIBLE IGNORANCE

If you ask most Americans what the term “Boston Irish” means to them, they will tell you that it makes them think of strong, vigorous Catholicism. That this notion should prevail despite all evidences to the contrary, is due partly to the Boston Irish themselves, who like to create the impression, “Whatever we say, that’s the Faith,” and partly to the non-Catholics of the country, who feel that if this blustering, red-faced, unattractive thing can be passed off as Catholicism at its best, then they are well-excused in staying out of the Church.

The fact is, the Boston Irish have long since lost the Faith as the kind of bright, burning presence that fills the soul with joy and zeal. It has become for them merely a kind of national tradition, and they hold it not because it is true, but because that is what they were taught in Ireland.

There once was a time when the faith of the Boston Irish was strong, and they were persecuted for it — their convents were burned; they were told they need not apply for preferred jobs. But now the Boston Irish have ceased to make their Faith a challenge to those who hate it. They keep it to themselves, and try to conform to Protestant manners and Jєωιѕн morals. They are happy to take to their bosom any Yankee heretic who will agree to put on a green tie for St. Patrick’s Day and to attend a banquet given in his honor by the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. And they can aspire to nothing higher than to send their sons to Harvard, where, they imagine, they may hobnob with the sons of rich Protestants and Jєωs.

The leader of the Boston Irish is His Excellency Richard J. Cushing, Archbishop of Boston. He is the official representative of Boston Irish Catholicism, its product and its pride, and the Boston Irish feel about him the way other Catholics feel about the Pope.

As spiritual shepherd of the Boston Irish, Archbishop Cushing is famous for two talents: fund-raising, and getting his picture in the newspapers. So successful has he been in the former endeavor, that salesmen and rival fund-raisers study his technique to see how he does it, and so successful has he been in the latter, that he has found it necessary, in order to provide the photographers with some variety in his pictures, to strike such unepiscopal poses as riding on a merry-go-round and playing baseball in a T-shirt. He has also staged publicity stunts like persuading a young Boston couple to be married by him at a Nuptial Mass in front of a television camera.

Besides making money and getting his picture taken, Archbishop Cushing is famous for one other thing. He is famous for denying that membership in the Catholic Church is necessary for salvation. There are others who agree with the Archbishop in this denial, but he has been obliged to carry it further and to make it more conspicuously evident than anyone else. It has become the guiding principal of his episcopate.

Archbishop Cushing is known as a person who is willing to go anywhere, address any group, praise anyone. He has appeared at conventions of Jєωιѕн rabbis, at vaudeville shows, at testimonial dinners for pillars of the Protestant church. His invariable message at these gatherings, delivered with wide-spread arms and booming voice, is to assure his audience of his deep personal affection for them all, and to let them know, once again, that they can count on him not to regard differences of creed. That is all. He never mentions the divine privileges and prerogatives of the Catholic Church; never indicates that what Our Lord said about the necessity of Baptism applies to the Jєωs he is talking to; never indicates that what Our Lord said about the necessity of receiving His Body and Blood applies to the Protestants he is talking to.

Archbishop Cushing thinks that the kingdom of heaven is taken not by violence, but by ignorance. He thinks that the Protestants and Jєωs of Boston, where there is a Catholic church on every fourth or fifth street corner, will be saved either because they are unaware of the Faith, or else because they are too thick to understand it. In his largesse, the gate of heaven is open to all — both to those who die with the sacraments and to those who die hating Christ and His Church. Here is how he puts it: “When I die and go to Heaven, if I don’t find you there, I’ll know it’s because you’re not dead yet.”

In his published statements, Archbishop Cushing sounds more like a vote-coaxing politician than like a spokesman for the Church. Here are some of them:

To the Jєωs, who have for 2,000 years proclaimed their rejection of the Christ he professes to love, the Archbishop offers this expression of muddled charity: “No man could have my faith concerning Christ ... without loving Him and the people who produced Him, the Jєωs.”

To the Protestants, he presents this modest message, letting them know that the mission of the Catholic Church in America is merely to carry on the work begun by the nation’s Protestant founders: “Catholics are standing just as and where the Protestants did when they had complete moral leadership of the community.”

To non-Catholics generally, here is his assurance that they shouldn’t give a thought to changing their religion: “In the last analysis people will learn morality best within the household of their own spiritual families.”

And, ultimately, to his clergy, here is his modernization of the Gospel admonition about the narrow path and the strait way that leadeth to life: “No priest can be content today with serving God or saving people in a circuмscribed or narrow path.”

Why Archbishop Cushing should have chosen as his episcopal motto, Ut cognoscant Te, an apostrophe to God which means “that they may know Thee,” is a question only the Boston Irish can answer. For it is evident that the great intention of his episcopate is not that everyone may know God, as He is revealed in the Catholic Church, but, rather, that those who are ignorant of Him should have an archbishop’s assurance that what they don’t know won’t hurt them.

Anyone with a computer and Internet connection can do that.

I am grateful for all the information (already graciously provided to me privately by Lepanto Again), but I am by no means certain that the quoted comment was germane or necessary. The plain fact is that I thought—wrongly, as your extensive citation indicates—that given their date, the remarks about Walsh came from a book or a journal whose contents were not online.

For better or for worse, most of the information in my head and in the paper-and-thread volumes on my shelf are not yet online—and I surely don't have the strength or the savvy to begin putting it there.