[ultima ratio]

I called you a pompous ass. I apologize. Though your smugness is mind-boggling, it's not necessarily caused by arrogance. More likely it's caused by sheer stupidity since you identify your ideal situation with that of the rest of the faithful in far lousier circumstances--which clearly is just plain dumb. If you had an ounce of sense, you'd know this just ain't so. So you're not a pompous ass--you're only a horse's ass.

[BlackElk]

It might have been more elegant to reference the east end of a horse heading west or whatever. Well, it seems you have my number. You have discovered I am stupid; that I have smugness; that I may be arrogant and a few more. Since dumb means speechless, I must admit that I have seldom been considered speechless.

Of course, as I understand it from sitetest, you abandoned your local Tridentine or traditional mass in communion with the Holy See for the schismatic substitute. Don't complain about your circumstances when you reject the old Mass offered in communion with your bishop and Rome.

Thank you for your continued blazing insight, courtesy and, above all, diligent attention to the argument producing nearly nothing by way of substantive response.

[Catholicguy]

<>U R, you are way off re Black Elk. I don't think he is either smug or dumb. He has a great sense of humor, he is well-informed, well-read, intelligent and he is very funny -and fully Catholic, in the best sense of that word<>