We provided a great counterexample to the "standoffish Trad" stereotype.

Yep: appeasing the post-Conciliar counterfeit church achieves - every time - actually what it achieved for you. Bupkis.

The Novus Ordo Missae isn't a liturgical treasure. Maybe the Bishop can begin there with his education of young people. Also his statement about the "ideological wars that animated their elders" comment is disingenuous in the extreme. The Ecclesial War of the past 60 years is not "ideological" in nature: it is about the recovery of the very nature of the Church and its relationship with a fallen world.

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A covenant involves two parties. The Lord said that the Covenant would remain with the Hebrews as long as they kept their part of their covenant and remained faithful. The Hebrews didn't. The destruction of the Temple was the visible sealing of the Old Covenant's death.

I'll listen to Fessio's talk - maybe he's changed his tune - but I doubt it. He's been an unabashed opponent of the Ancient Mass. His Ignatius Press has published some good things - but like Pius X's description of Modernism, the danger posed by the proponents of this synthesis of rot (Modernism), will be perfectly sound in the Faith on one page, only to launch into heresy on the next. Fessio was taught by Joseph Ratzinger - a revolutionary at the Council and only comparatively milder after it. Need more be said? Joseph Fessio is no Restorationist, and frankly, Restorationism - that is, the sine qua non for the re-embedding of the sacred within a counter-reformed ante-Conciliar Church, is the only message I want to hear from him and his ilk.

One need no better example of Fessio's inclinations than his promotion of Adrienne von Speyer as a mystic - as well as his embarrassing near-romance with Hans Urs von Balthasar.

For 90% of these mitered cretins: if they were "good priests," they wouldn't possess the miter in the first place. They have supported the revolution that has installed, plank by plank, the "Religion of Man" into the Temple of the One True Faith. The "sainted" Popes preferred to play Vatican politics rather than to clean out the Augean Stables of the Vatican bureaucracy - and appointed as bishops only those effeminate "men" who were indifferent to or sympathetic with that very corruption.