[Alberta's Child]

You must be getting me mixed up in another post. At no time did I refer to anyone as a heretic or a schismatic -- in fact, I specifically pointed out that I often attend the same Latin Mass as Ferrara!

Like I said -- he's got a reputation for being blunt. He managed to get himself thrown out of Catholics United for the Faith (and his local CUF chapter disbanded) some years ago. But I would have been on his side on that one -- he violated one of CUF's basic codes of conduct by publicly criticizing a bishop at a press conference in New Jersey.

The court case I mentioned was not just a chance encounter between Ferrara and a fellow parishioner -- it was a court case that resulted from a dispute within that particular Latin Mass community.

I thought the persepctive from the same church as the author would be interesting. What I must point out, however, is that this group had a reputation that pre-dates my first exposure to them -- a friend of mine who is a priest in the Fraternal Society of Saint Peter several thousand miles away once told me that this particular apostolate has quite a few pains in the @ss (again, I have no idea which side Ferrara would be on).

[ultima ratio]

Your attack is still ad hominem. Address his argument. What he does in a courtroom is beside the point. And I was not referring to you when I stated that there were many on this thread who use pretty crumby methods to silence those they disagree with.