tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30096810.post115115160296805607..comments2024-01-18T22:58:49.172-06:00Comments on Dust of the Time: I'd Like Your VoteDust I Amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17214613587456861583noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30096810.post-1151426053951984882006-06-27T11:34:00.000-05:002006-06-27T11:34:00.000-05:00Your analysis is perceptive and thought-provoking,...Your analysis is perceptive and thought-provoking, which is exactly what I wanted to see.Dust I Amhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17214613587456861583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30096810.post-1151382037270078472006-06-26T23:20:00.000-05:002006-06-26T23:20:00.000-05:00Too complicated!!! I see no difficulty at all in ...Too complicated!!! <BR/><BR/>I see no difficulty at all in apostate places like LA and Orange and Altoona-Johnstown and such. The SSPX and the ordinary ignore each other, the SSPX grows, and the diocese shrinks (much as we've already seen in France). The difficulty, of course, comes in the dioceses which are now most open to the old rite and those whose spirituality are formed by it. <BR/><BR/>Kansas City will be one of the most difficult situations. Is it really fair for Kansas City to have THREE apostolates within six or seven miles of each other while so many other places--whole states like Wyoming, for instance--have none? Well, no! But what do you do? If you're the SSPX, you don't close St. Vincents, the magnificent church that you rescued 20 years ago and which is really the liturgical center of your North American work, and the large and well-established community there. If you're in the St. Rose Philippine Duschene Community (the Kansas-side FSSP apostolate now at Blessed Sacrament), you don't just fold and go to St. Vincent's or OSP, because you're a successful, stable community that has a wonderful (mostly) culture of its own. If you're in the tiny but growing Old St. Patrick's Oratory (the ICRSS-served community that's restoring OSP church), you don't give up on a project like that midway, after Bishop Finn has been so generous and has made a great effort at raparations for past mistreatment, do you? But do you--should you--really go on with three traditional parishes so close together?<BR/><BR/>It's where the SSPX has been long established and where the recent bishops have also acted justly to the trads that the most painful episodes in the reconciliation will take place.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16958570482046462392noreply@blogger.com