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To: BlackElk

Agreed. This is for others who have insinuated as much. You claim "adherents," which of course is right.

Pax Christi in Regno Christi!


108 posted on 10/24/2006 12:28:28 PM PDT by Mershon
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To: Mershon; sittnick
BTW, if mere attendance at SSPX Masses were some sort of problem (which it is not), I have attended worse. There was an independent chapel in New Haven where the late Fr. Paul Wickens used to come from New Jersey to say Tridentine Masses. Fr. Wickens fell victim to Archbishop Peter Gerety of Newark when Fr. Wickens refused, as a long term pastor, to inflict a scandalous sex education program upon the innocent students in his parish school in direct defiance of Gerety (who, coincidentally, had once been pastor of a black parish in the New Haven ghetto). Archbishop Gerety suspended Fr. Wickens (an otherwise saintly man) and had civil authorities physically evict him from his rectory. Conservative Catholics at New Haven who were aware of the situation (via the Wanderer in my case) sympathized with Fr. Wickens. I noted that Fr. Wickens, on his trips to New Haven, said fine Masses but could not leave quickly enough thereafter. After a few Masses, I hung around to get to know those running "St. Clare's Priory" (an absolutely unauthorized institution run by a "Benedictine brother" in full regalia who turned out not to be a Benedictine brother and nuns in uniform who turned out not to be nuns, but they were all quite sure that our Archbishop John Whealon, though quite sympathetic and generous to Tridentine Masses, was a heretic and worthy of being reviled and verbally abused). Before I went to this informative social get together, I had actually contributed money (to defray some of the expenses at their request and no more). Please keep Fr. Wickens in your prayers. He died of throat cancer last year or the year before, reconciled first and left his New Jersey chapel to the Archdiocese of Newark over the verbal objections of some of his unofficial flock there. This was nearly thirty years ago.

Viva Cristo Rey and God bless the San Patricio Brigade.

111 posted on 10/24/2006 1:43:55 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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