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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...