I don’t get it. What’s different about the gatherings, aside from the Jesuits not wearing the black robes, and there being one black woman up front in their picture?
(No insult intended, I’m seriously curious. I’m Protestant and don’t even know who the FSSP are.)
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I think the one you think is a black woman is really an East Asian man: Malaysian, maybe, or Bengali.
The FSSP is a traditionalist, Latin-using order, while the Jesuits symbolically represent Modernity.
The Jesuits, on the other hand, show their "progressivist" tendencies by dressing in ordinary clothing and are older.
Jesuits = Society of Jesus, an order of priests founded in the 16th century, once outstanding for their loyalty to the Pope, but recently ---meh--- not so much. They're mostly old, not a cross in sight nor any other symbol of the clerical state, and they look like the Rotary Club ("Not that there's anything wrong with that.")
It reminds me of a picture I saw of Fr. Hans Kung chatting with some lady at the World Council of Churches. He looked like a bank manager or Creflo Dollar or something; and she, of course, was in clericals. Thanks for asking.
Besides the dress difference, the age difference is really striking.
Look at all the orthodox orders and they are all well represented by the young.FSSP, LOC, etc. all have a ton of young preists and young seminarians and those that are further from Rome have a bunch of old soon to be has beens.
I wish the Jesuits would return to their founder’s vision, it would be great for the church.
That's not a woman.
That's part of the problem.