More propaganda. It's bursting at the seams, ever since the scandals broke. Hordes of guys recently left their N.O. seminaries in India, lots of others. There are about 500 priests now, and one million plus faithful. This is only about a quarter of the Traditional Movement in toto. They increase roughly by 10% annually--at about the same rate as the Novus Ordo decreases. And yes, I'm Catholic. What I'm not is a Vatican-two-er. You Novus Ordo people believe the Church began in 1963. Mine began in the days of Christ and the apostles. No problem at all attracting the young, by the way. Lots of young families--who don't practice birth control. 12 new schools were built this year in this country alone. One other thing: the people we attract are devout--not cafeteria Catholics. We practice the old faith, not the watered-down Protestant variety.
Dear ultima ratio,
I can't speak about the rest of the world, but the website www.sspx.org, which is the website for the organization in the United States, tells me that within the United States, the organization has:
- 43 priests
- 5 deacons
- 6 brothers
- 60 seminarians
- 98 chapels
What is interesting is that there are only 43 priests for 98 chapels. That sort of ratio in a diocese of the real Catholic Church is usually considered a sign of a lack of vocations.
In any case, the SSPX, at least in the United States, is a very, very, very tiny organization compared to the Catholic Church in the United States, even though the SSPX has 65,000,000 nominal Catholics from which to poach for members.
sitetest
Hordes of guys recently left their N.O. seminaries in India, lots of others. There are about 500 priests now, and one million plus faithful. This is only about a quarter of the Traditional Movement in toto. They increase roughly by 10% annually--at about the same rate as the Novus Ordo decreases. Where did this come from? One million "faithful"? The Moonies have more members than that.
The Novus Ordo is not decreasing; it is increasing.