[sitetest]

Dear ultima ratio,

Yes, I know that there are SSPX in a number of countries.

The organization has approximately 370 priests world-wide, or at least, that is what is reported at the organization's headquarters website. Imagine that! Three hundred seventy priests world-wide! In only 30+ years! Why, in another 30+ years, they'll be as big as a medium-sized religious order in the real Catholic Church!

"The young priests are heroic, travelling long miles to get to distant chapels. I travel an hour with my family to get to church on Sunday."

Yes, well, in the real Catholic Church, when we see this sort of thing, we are saddened because of the lack of vocations, and we wonder what poor spiritual administration the local bishop has committed that things have come to such a sorry state.

You know, "By their fruits you shall know them."

sitetest

PS: I'd love to continue our little dialogue, but in a little while, I'll be leaving to hang out with faithful Catholics - it's Knights of Columbus night. So, at some point, I will disappear from this otherwise edifying conversation.

[ultima ratio]

Your figures are not up to date--the site probably isn't. I got mine off the letter just published by Bishop Fellay and distributed a few Sundays ago. In any case it is about a quarter of the whole movement, which includes many many independent priests and Indult priests, etc. But they are important out of proportion to their numbers because as long as they exist people will have the old faith--before the conciliar wrecking-ball started swinging.

[Catholicguy]

The organization has approximately 370 priests world-wide, or at least, that is what is reported at the organization's headquarters website. Imagine that! Three hundred seventy priests world-wide! In only 30+ years! Why, in another 30+ years, they'll be as big as a medium-sized religious order in the real Catholic Church!

How can that possibly be? For over a quarter of a century, I have been told by the schismatics that "we are growing by leaps and bounds." Are there any universal standards for "leaps and bounds?"