I think AmChurch has finally come together with a plan, especially considering the fact Ecclesia Dei is putting together a new document to deal with resistant bishops.
Steinbock in Fresno recently issued an announcement on the local TV channel stating that due to the priest shortage (paraphrasing here) the priests are much too busy so don’t bother asking for the Old Mass. He claims the Pope’s MP was intended for Europe where church attendance is declining, not the U.S. where churches are full. The icing on the cake? He topped it off by saying many parishes would no longer have priests but parish life coordinators so get used to it.
I remember Archbishop Borders, then head of the Bishops’Doctrine committee and Archbishop of Baltimore,stating to the press that Pope Paul’s order to put first confession back to its traditional place before first holy communion was meant only for the Italians. . . . . When Ex Corde Ecclesiae was issued the bishops said that it was for Europe. When the review of religious orders of women was had, they said it was meant for Europe. When the Popes condemned slavery, the American bishops wrote President VanBuren and told him that the pope was not talking about us but Europe! Cardinal O’Malley was the first to state in his meeting with the pope and afterwards to his diocese that the motu proprio was intended primarily for Europe.
Is there a pattern emerging here? ;-)