In relation to this particular article, the more relevant question is, "What is the fruit of this action by Bishop Bruskewitz?" Re-posting this article after 8 years reveals most dramatically the ineffectuality of all "conservative" New Mass efforts.
Look at the original article by Charles Wilson, "Finally, Someone has done Something." Bruskewitz's actions were the perfect answer to the prayers of the Wanderer types and the CUF types. They thought that it would only take the actions of a few bishops like Bruskewitz to get the ball rolling. This was supposed to be the start of a new era. Now "JPII's men" were really going to crack down. We were going to see some heads rolling and some changes made.
The only problem is that none of it happened. Eight years have gone by and what have we seen? No heads rolled. No changes were made. JPII installed new and worse heretics at the top of the Vatican hierarchy. New scandals arose. Liturgical anarchy continued to reign. The decline continued unabated, perhaps even accelerated. Just last month at the bishops' meeting we saw that the liberal stranglehold on the US Catholic Church was not lessened by one whit.
The anathema of a New Order bishop like Bruskewitz is just like what Fr. Gabriel Amorth says of the new Rite of Exorcism -- it doesn't work. It's not able to cast out any demons. They're like wizards whose wands are broken. They no longer have any spiritual power -- either for good or for ill.
In the Episcopal Church the lay people continue to go their merry way to the brink of hell completely regardless of whatever their effete, effeminate "leaders" say or don't say, do or don't do. The latest episode of ordaining a gay bishop is nothing more than a rare bout of honesty. The reality is that they've been ordaining gay bishops for decades. And no one, whether they're an Episcopalian or not, is the least bit fooled regarding whether arch-pagan Rowan Williams and his followers have any real spiritual power.
Unfortunately the New Order bishops have now reached the same status. No one cares what they say. No one cares what they do. Catholics continue along their merry way to the brink of hell completely disregarding the words and actions of their bishops whether for good or evil. No one has the least illusions about whether they possess any true spiritual power.
The great irony in all this is that the only Catholics who really care about authority are traditionalists. This is our weakness. The faith is most vulnerable at the top--which is precisely the means the subversives use to bring the rest of us along towards accepting the new religion. We're forced to hold the line against authority itself, which goes against the grain for most of us.