[saradippity]

That was not the right way to go about it.

You are technically correct but it does point out how arbitrary and capricious these bad bishops are. On one hand they run around flapping their gums about priestless parishes yet think nothing of losing a priest for offering a Mass that was approved and encouraged by the Holy Father,granted it was conditoned upon the approval of the bishop,nonetheless. The more I think about it the more unreasonable this resistance to the Tridentine Mass becomes.

The other day on another thread you (I think it was you)suggested we start keeping book on good bishops.I think there were about twenty names of bishops that seemed to be accepted as good and it didn't reach a whole lot of Freepers. meaning there could be quite a few more.

Anyway I would be interested in how many of those considered good,orthodox Catholic Bishops do allow the Tridentine Mass in their dioceses. I would be willing to bet a great percentage of the good ones permit it.It really would be great to define the criteria and then come up with some names that passed the muster,or is it pass the mustard? Well,you know what I mean.

[rogator]

Where is this list of good bishops? I am amazed that there are twenty of them. If compliance with the pope's "wide and generous approval" directive (re: 1962 Roman Missal) is a criterion there must be very few good bishops.

[B Knotts]

You know...I wonder how quickly the bishop would have cracked down if, instead of committing the act of celebrating the Tridentine Mass, this priest had allowed "liturgical dance" during Mass?

[ninenot]

Not only does Bp. Bruskewitz allow the Old Rite--he also allowed the SSPV to build their new seminary in his Diocese.

But--interestingly--because Lincoln was a 'straight' Diocese beforehand, and there was no gitchee-goommeee Mass, no bozos, no babes, no Coke w/Twinkies--there is little demand for the Old Rite at all.