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Here is another quote from Gamber, the preface of whose study was written by Cardinal Ratzinger: "Today, those who out of a sense of personal belief hold firm to what until recently had been strictly prescribed by the Roman Church are treated with condescension by many of their own brothers. They face problems if they continue to nurture the very rite in which they were brought up and to which they have been consecrated.

On the other side, the progressives who see little or no value in tradition can do almost no wrong, and are usually given the benefit of a doubt, even when they defend positions which clearly contradict Catholic teachings."

This is very true. What Jesuit or Dominican religious, however heretical, has been publicly humiliated by the Vatican the way Fr. Bisig was when he was forced to step down as the duly elected superior of the FSSP? And yet Fr. Bisig is totally orthodox. What heretical theologian teaching at a liberal seminary or Catholic university has been dismissed for the content of their teaching the way the two totally orthodox FSSP professors were recently dismissed for merely questioning the efficacy--not the validity--of the Novus Ordo, which they have every right to do?

No, the problem is at the top. This pope tolerates apostasy but far less tolerant of traditionalists who stray from his agenda to liberalize the structures and doctrines of the Church. We are living at a time when someone can preach that the miracles of Christ never happened, that the Resurrection is a myth, that same sex unions are fine, that Mary was not ever virgin, and not even be slapped on the wrist. Not a warning or a protest from the Vatican. Bishops live with their lovers and nothing happens. A cardinal marries in a Moonie ceremony and the Pope treats it as a minor aberration. I know a Catholic layman, an ex-Jesuit, who teaches Christology to teenagers in a Catholic high school. He does not believe Christ was divine and told me he teaches accordingly. No one finds it especially odd that he is a teacher of Catholic children. That gives you some idea of the scale of the crisis--for which I hold this pope responsible.