Author Topic: Would you rather avoid controversial priests? (Read 6660 times)

Matthew · « **on:** June 24, 2015, 12:51:15 PM »

I will grant that today there are a few priests who are "controversial" or "hot potatoes". One of them is even a bishop.

Some people have washed their hands of these priests; they "can't take the heat" for whatever reason. They ask them to leave their homes and not come back, etc.

Some even say things like, "I like you, I respect what you are doing -- but you're too "hot" for me. Please leave my house and never come back."

I would only have one thing to add:

What would you do if you had been born 2,000 years ago in the Holy Land? Would you have been one of Christ's disciples? Would you have been there next to St. John and the Blessed Mother during the Crucifixion?

Yeah right.

If you can't take the heat from the media, the puny neo-SSPX, etc. and stand by good prelates like Bishop Williamson today (as well as those priests he works with), what makes you think you would stand by an even more controversial figure back then?

Such people would have been the first to cave to Jєωιѕн pressure. Heck, they might have been in the crowd that called for Barabbas!

Don't kid yourself.

Pax Vobis · « **Reply #1 on:** June 24, 2015, 07:57:18 PM »

Could you give an example? I am under the opinion that 95% of priests who reject Vatican 2 and the novus ordo, and who are brave enough to live "outside of Rome" are legit and we are lucky to have them (in the face of the general "peanut gallery" of uneducated catholics, who believe that "current rome" = "Eternal Rome"). This is regardless of a sedevecantist belief or not.

Obviously, there are always exceptions to the rule, if a priest is untrustworthy or behaves scandalously, etc. But, for the most part, as long as the priest is not looking for a "deal" with Rome, I'm lucky to attend his mass.

hollingsworth · « **Reply #2 on:** June 24, 2015, 08:27:34 PM »

Matthew:

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If you can't take the heat from the media, the puny neo-SSPX, etc. and stand by good prelates like Bishop Williamson today (as well as those priests he works with), what makes you think you would stand by an even more controversial figure back then?

Such people would have been the first to cave to Jєωιѕн pressure. Heck, they might have been in the crowd that called for Barabbas!

A fair question.

MaterDominici · « **Reply #3 on:** June 24, 2015, 10:02:40 PM »

Quote from: Pax Vobis

Could you give an example?

He's referring to people who support the priests and bishop who've left or been expelled from the SSPX in theory, but when the opportunity comes to assist at their Mass, they don't want to be involved in anything controversial. Some simply won't show up, others will come, but stay far away from the cleric so as not to be caught in any photographs.

... in this night before the cock crow, thou wilt [dodge a photo opp with me] thrice.

Joking aside, I don't think it's that much of a parallel as many of those who act like this are simply not informed or principled enough to care much one way or the other about the issues which caused these priests and bishop to be separated from the SSPX.

Matthew · « **Reply #4 on:** June 24, 2015, 10:05:36 PM »

Quote from: MaterDominici

Joking aside, I don't think it's that much of a parallel as many of those who act like this are simply not informed or principled enough to care much one way or the other about the issues which caused these priests and bishop to be separated from the SSPX.

As always, you're being too nice :)

Regardless of niceness or weakness, the results are the same.

Why do you think those who avoided Our Lord did so? pure satanic malice? No, it was often weakness. Just like the people we're talking about.