From the only reliable source of Catholic news on the net, Eye of the Tiber:
PopeWatch attempted to contact the Vatican for comment but was advised that the Vatican was on lock down. Apparently some members of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate had gotten loose and there was concern they might be praying and/or making converts at the Vatican itself.
But why wouldn’t those German bishops want to accompany those
priests from the peripheries? Or are some peripheries more peripheral
than others?
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As for the idea of FFI priests making converts at the Vatican– I wish them
all the luck in the world. They’d probably need it.
Funny.
Reminds me of the network of recovering Orthodoxoholics. You know..OA.
“Hi everybody. My name is John. I’m a Orthodoxoholic. They say it’s not uncommon if your parents and grandparents were daily Mass participants, which makes perfect sense now…because they were, and now…I am.
I have found myself walking into small box like rooms hoping to confess, yet these boxes were only small storage rooms. No priest to hear my confession.
When I would pray my Rosary over and over again I thought it was OK…normal ya know…but everybody was talking and shaking their heads at me. It didn’t dawn on me that I was in deep trouble until I was caught driving to a dark chapel early in the morning.. 3am..and sitting alone in the chapel. One morning my wife followed me there. She waited in her car for an hour while I sat alone in that candle lit chapel….yeah…I had it bad.”
Substitute SSPX and “rad trad” for Muslim and Islamic fundamentalist- and the story takes on an entirely different complexion.
Cardinal Kasper belongs in a cloistered Cistercan monastery where he would be forbidden to open his mouth except to eat, drink or brush his teeth.
Yes, I know this is parody. I would take the SSPX over Kasper seven days a week.
I’ll take those FSSPs in my parish. The current order of priests, dear as they are, is running low on numbers to fill the vacancies. I am told that FSSP has seminarians galore. Let the Germans get what they deserve.