[ultima ratio]

Modernist Rome will never accept the traditional Mass--it is much too Catholic.

[BlackElk]

There are times when you have had legitimate complaints but what the hell does Rome (trusting that you mean the Vatican) have to do with the renegade Bishop Fiorenza? He is AmChurch personified. Like that scum Trautman in Erie, PA, or that other scum Adamec in Johnstown-Altoona, he is getting back in shape for major league defiance of Rome when the Mass document is issued by Arinze, Ratzinger and another come fall.

The ones who walked out of this priests Mass are getting in practice too. They remind me of Planned Barrenhood in a tizzy over the possibility that someone hostile to infant slaughter might make it onto the SCOTUS and reposess the stolen constitution massacred in Roe vs. Wade. No less than you an I, the bishop and those parishioners KNOW that the suppression of the Tridentine Mass is another instance of stolen goods.

I would burn Fiorenza, Trautman, Adamec, McPhoney and all of their ilk at the stake in a New York minute. I hope you would too. I would dig up Bernardin and burn him posthumously. Unfortunately, it is less practically possible to adminster real justice nowadays. Don't blame the victim.

If your computer skills exceed mine (even Ronald Reagan in his current condition has better skills than I) you might be able to find the transcript of Fiorenza's deposition on covering for pedophiles and other exotic flora and fauna among his priests in which Fiorenza essentially smart mouths the deposition-taking lawyer and says, hey, it ain't no big deal and I will be long retired before this gets resolved.

[Thorondir]

Come on, my friend. That cut was over the top.

[Antoninus]

Modernist Rome will never accept the traditional Mass--it is much too Catholic.

Last time I checked, Fiorenza was bishop of Houston, not Rome.