[history_matters]

If Brady continues to write letters like this no one will ever listen.

Some will listen, patent. The question as always is the fruit that comes from such a thing.

Because of RCF and the late Fr. Hardon, of blessed memory, the Vatican already had an enormous amount of information before this scandal broke. I know that the Church's thinking is glacial and its movements usually slow. But the festering scab has been ripped off the wound, and now is the time for a vigorous Vatican-directed disinfecting and cleansing.

[I understand from a SSPX friend that their chapels were overflowing this last Sunday. I am not surprised to hear that, nor am I surprised when I hear many Episcopalian churches in the northeast have had a sudden influx of refugee Catholics. I pray for them all in their confusion and despair.]

Since many feel that Cardinal George has been moving steadily in the proper direction -- if too slow for some -- then I hope this current moment opens the door for him to move with all do haste to cut out the cancer and cleanse the archdiocese from top to bottom.

[Askel5]

I hope this current moment opens the door for him to move with all do haste

And there will be proof in the pudding. Hopeful the beleaguered traditional will take the bit in their teeth now that the homosexuals and pervs have dropped the reins for a moment.

[patent]

Fr. Hardon was a saint. Despite his heavy involvement in these things he acted like one. We will truly miss this man, and need many more like him to recover. I pray the Vatican does get moving. If the seminary review doesn't happen, or if its as phony as the last one was, we will have this problem for some time to come.

Re full chapels, they have been out in force recruiting. They know opportunities when they see them. Nothing drives away Catholics like either their own inability to be chaste or their priest's inability to be chaste.

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