[sydney smith]

Compare this impotent treatment with that meted out to Archbishop LeFebvre and the SSPX. How can we take Rome seriously with the present group of jokers that have appropriated the seats of power? Reminds me of the wait we must endure to see the U.S. Supreme Court revert to common sense once the libs are gone.

[ultima ratio]

Even better, compare it with the treatment meted out to loyal and orthodox FSSP Indult priests in 1999. Their duly elected superior general was fired--as well as several of their seminary theologians--over a dispute regarding the Fraternity's right to use the '62 missal "exclusively"--the words of the Pontiff when he set up the "Indult". Apparently the Pope's idea of exclusivity shifts around. In any case, the Vatican KNOWS HOW TO DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH when it wants to--it just doesn't want to, unless the "punishees" are traditionalists. In the case of the good FSSP priests--the Vatican came down hard on them WITHIN WEEKS. No sooner had a single letter, written by a few disgruntled priests sympathetic to the Novus Ordo, reached the desk of Ecclesia Dei when the boom was lowered--POW! Apparently their big crime was being too successful in attracting vocations as well as exponential growth in attracting faithful Catholics to Indult Masses. I'm still waiting for that kind of fast response from Rome with priests who rape altar boys and with the bishops who protect them. Let's see...this Pope has had twenty-five years so far to do something...We're all still waiting...

[Land of the Irish]

How can we take Rome seriously with the present group of jokers that have appropriated the seats of power?

Poor Cardinal Ratzinger is one of the better ones, but nobody listens to him, neither his subordinates, nor his superiors (his warning about elevating Kasper to the cardinalate was ignored).

But once Rome speaks on matters concerning the FSSP, SSPX or even Campos, everybody jumps on the Novus bandwagon.