You're exactly right.
Little Michael Matt had to ratchet up the rhetoric, continually, to keep the readers lathered up.
Like Michael Moore, the integrist press has to get more and more ridiculous and unbelieveable with each and every accusation made against the Church.
It's just a matter of time before the traditionalists who try to remain within the Church just jump off the cliff with the sedevacantists.
"Like Michael Moore, the integrist press has to get more and more ridiculous and unbelieveable with each and every accusation made against the Church."
Specifics, please. They were right to object to Assisi I and II. They were right to object to the liturgical abuses at World Youth rallies. What do you find so offensive in what they complain about? They at least forward a point of view and show some anger towards the moneychangers in the Temple who push the modernist agenda in the Vatican and in chanceries around the world. It's the lukewarm, remember, whom the Holy Spirit will vomit out.
You are so right. I know many traditionalists who are in a constant state of frenzy because of the bazaar stories printed in the Remnant and the Wanderer. I imagine the stories have a grain of truth but these papers sensationalize the stories so much that I feel like I am reading the Enquirer. The only problem is that these papers are gossiping against our beloved Church.
I think the traditionalists probably feel very conflicted after reading all of these papers. I know I do when I read them.
Reminds me of a joke. The definition of mixed emotions is when you see your mother in law drive off a cliff...in your new Mercedes ;-)