Novus-Ordo Absurdistan: Improvised Chapel on the Same Level as the Cathedral
I have found that most priests are simpletons. It is one of the reasons why I wasn't allowed into the local seminary. They didn't like monarchists, and people vocal against the dilution of logic until it becomes irrationality.
Francis Promotes Bishop Who Eliminated the Latin Masses in Strickland’s Diocese
@Steve D Not as far as I know. He started off working in many parishes around Texas, all ironically named St. Joseph's, and worked his way up from there.
Francis Promotes Bishop Who Eliminated the Latin Masses in Strickland’s Diocese
@Marcos I G He is well-liked amongst the Novus Ordo Catholics because he does not make waves and represents the population here. The Catholics of his diocese are largely liberal whites or hispanics. He also was one of the last bishops in the United States to cancel Masses during COVID, and he is functionally pro-life. He is not averse to somewhat fine vestments, incense, and a little Latin here and there, but much like our most prominent parishes, it is all show and little substance.
He allows many homosexuals into the priesthood, and permits heretical teachings in the churches, which are obvious and flagrant (this is not my nit-picking over small details). To his credit, he did expel the Paulista from the University of Texas, but they were not replaced with anything much better.
And more to his credit, he was very gracious in allowing us a great deal of freedom in the Latin Mass, but he turned very quickly, and was not a courageous man in permitting its celebration once Rome came down on him. I am sure he knew his promotion was at stake. He also never once visited our Latin Mass ever, whereas I as chaplain for the bishop in a neighboring diocese who would visit his, and preach fondly of it at the Mass. My whole point is that he is a slippery man that will be whatever the Pope is at the time. Perhaps if we get a Pius XIII, he will change again.
The bishop that preceded him was far worse for sure, and died miserably in his nursing home after proclaiming that women should be priests. It is simply a dark time for Catholics in this city, and I am sorry that my efforts were not as fruitful as they should have been.
Francis Promotes Bishop Who Eliminated the Latin Masses in Strickland’s Diocese
@SonoftheChurch The whole experience really soured me. That was only a very quick summary of everything that went down. Due to the way I was treated by the clergy and a lot of things in my personal life, I do not attend church anymore or consider myself Catholic. However, I am still an ardent defender of the Catholic Faith, and continue my work in writing my comprehensive series on the rubrics of the Mass and other ceremonies, for whatever good it will do.
My letter was never openly responded to, but it was a couple weeks after that, that I was dismissed over email. In the end, I believe it was the extended quotation from Quo Primum that angered the bishop (whom I did in fact know personally, being a constant gnat buzzing around his parish). I knew that the Mass was to be replaced by a Latin Novus Ordo, when they did a couple as a trial run, and recruited me to do the training for it. I conceded out of obedience, knowing that none of them could accurately celebrate it. I was an arch-traditionalist (dare I say, a "last of the Romans"), but I still made the effort to learn the rubrics for a Latin NO.
Ultimately, most Catholic clergy are homosexual, and as a result, are quite catty and envious people. They resented the fact that I was intransigent, and could see through the charades. They resented the fact that I was the only person in the diocese that was completely fluent in Latin, that I contained more knowledge in my head of the Mass, its mysteries and significance than they could ever dream of. They resented the fact that I was more respected than they were. And they didn't care when they cut me off. I have almost no respect for the vast majority of the Catholic clergy.
Francis Promotes Bishop Who Eliminated the Latin Masses in Strickland’s Diocese
He also eliminated the Latin Mass in his own diocese. I have a lot of experience with Vasquez and he reveals his personality by the actions of his lower clergy. He is certainly a devious man who likes to work quietly behind the scenes.
I was the Master of Ceremonies of the Latin Mass in Austin for over four years. I trained several of the priests and all of the servers in the Central Texas area. In that time, the Latin Mass at the Cathedral was drastically improved, expanded, and enriched with other ceremonies. The attendance grew from 100 on Sunday (which was only Low Mass), to about 650 across two Masses on Sunday, with multiple Masses during the week and Masses on every significant feast day. The average age of the attendees was 30.
Gradually, and inexplicably, they replaced me with a dad who had no knowledge of the Latin Mass at all, and replaced the majority of the servers with his own children. Towards the end, the clergy completely dismissed me after I wrote Vasquez a strongly worded letter telling him not to abolish our Latin Masses. Apparently I was just too radical (I was trying to get our priests to say Mass according to the 1945 Missal and even bought whole vestment sets and a Missal for it). The last year the Latin Mass was in Austin, it became extremely perfunctory and a total mess. I had to attend Mass at the SSPX mission where at least they followed their own books, which isn't saying much for the SSPX 's liturgics. Every time I visited, the altar boys would constantly complain about how terrible everything was.
Vasquez will almost certainly be replaced by Fr. James Misko who is an implacable enemy of tradition. Whatever he does will be worse. The Vatican's plan is to have all the bishops in Texas be petty yes-men, so that they can then be replaced later with flaming liberals. The situation for the clergy is very bad here. The young priests we were getting were all very sympathetic to tradition, but all of them have been shoved off into tiny parishes or university centers where they cannot cause trouble. The first thing to go will be the ridiculous Latin Novus Ordo they substituted for the Latin Mass I fought for those years to make the greatest in all of Texas. What a pity.
Todos Todos Todos! "Cruel" Bishop Bans Mass in Austin
I served the Mass in that picture and remember it. I laid out all the vestments. I was Master of Ceremonies. They got what they asked for there. Not sorry
Understanding Freemasons: Coccopalmerio Has "Evolved"
I spent years trying to help American Catholics understand what Freemasons do and have done. Instead they got all wrapped in insane conspiracies. The real conspiracy is not so insane, rather simply, and has worked brilliantly.
Cardinal Calls Criticising Homosex Pseudo Blessings "Hatred"
Based on "neo-colonialism"??? What does that even mean? Colonizing what? Whom? The Africans colonizing European conservatives and Orthodox Christians? Obviously this man is just another insane geriatric that comprises 99% of the episcopate.
Traditionis Custodes: Francis' Axe Destroys Another Mass
@philosopher Someone with that name should be aware of the fallacy of ad hominem. I envisioned nothing. It is simply adherence to the Missal of Pius V, not Pius XII or John XXIII, and the traditions associated with the first as passed down. The SSPX has a very perfunctory "T"LM.
Traditionis Custodes: Francis' Axe Destroys Another Mass
@SonoftheChurch He really isn't that great a friend of tradition, other than letting it in the Cathedral. A lot of the things we did were pretty spontaneous, and over time we were prevented from doing a lot of them, such as moving the Novus Ordo table out of the way of our Mass.
Traditionis Custodes: Francis' Axe Destroys Another Mass
I was the Master of Ceremonies of that Mass in Austin for over four years. I brought it from sloppy obscurity to something phenomenal using my training in seminary. I was ousted after COVID because I was pushing us to use the 1945 edition of the Missal, and wrote a strongly worded letter to the bishop. This was not a sudden thing with TC, but was an ongoing process of eliminating the Latin Mass there. Boiling the frog...