https://freerepublic.com/tag/daviesopposedsspx/ en-us Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:34:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/4387473/posts Michael Davies: A “First Responder” of Catholic TraditionAs a 25-year-old who had just entered the seminary, I lacked the proper vocabulary to articulate my dissatisfaction with Catholic liturgical life as I experienced it. I was born in 1965, the last year of the Second Vatican Council, and so had lived my Catholic faith and discerned a priestly vocation entirely under the new rite of the Mass established by Pope Paul VI after Vatican II. Yet I had come to see, in how the liturgy was typically celebrated, serious problems that (as I later learned) derived from its departures, in ways... One Peter Five https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/4387473/posts#comment Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:34:26 GMT