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That’s really cutting off your nose to spite your face. It’s like a healthy branch on the Vine of Christ saying, “Oooh, I hate those rotten branches out there! I’ll show ‘em! I’ll just get me a pruning knife and cut myself off!”

The last 2 priest we had were liberal social justice warriors. The CC is being overtaken. Our Bishop also spent millions in lavish lifestyle and trued to hide it.

Those are sins. If we have to be in a church that has no sins, we'd have to leave because of Judas.

Think of what Jesus might have thought on the day he died. In the beginning of His public ministry, he hand-picked 12 men to be His chosen lieutenants.

Of his inner circle --- Peter, James, and John --- not one of tem could even stay awake and pray with him at his hour of crisis.
One Apostle betrayed him for money.
One denied he even knew him, three times, because he was intimidated by a servant girl. (A servant girl!!)
Nine of them just ran like scalded cats, headed for the tall grass.

So who remained as "His Church" at the foot of the cross? A pitiful handful. John the Beloved. His mother Mary. A couple of faithful women (who stayed when the "Apostles" deserted him). A repentant capital criminal. And a Centurion, one of His executioners, who finally blurted out, "Truly this man was the Son of God!"

It was not the Apostles' moment of glory. One priest I know, remarked that this was the first time the "Bishops" acted "collegially" --- by abandoning Him!

So when the "clergy" disgrace themselves, don't be surprised. Just be faithful.

Many of us are in regions that enjoy NO experience of Faithful priests.

It is rightful and charitable that reactions to our geographic or logistical are unknown, therefore it is concerning and worrisome for other loving Catholics, who have access to faithful priests and to Traditional Catholic parishes, to misunderstand.

We who have None of that and do not have that privilege, may say we have “left the Church”, however, it seldom means we reject Holy Mother Church, but that we reject the spiritual Auschwitz we suffer, starved of faithful priests, starved of any recognizable signs of spiritual life existing, in buildings inside reduced to nothingness over the course of time, since Vatican II and by its devious implementation.

It is Agony to be 14 hours from a Traditional Catholic Latin MASS, to be so scandalized that to be “properly disposed” to receive our Lord in Holy Eucharist is made impossible.