+ JMJ In the ramp up to the consecrations the noise floor in the intergnat grew to a constant din. This was one of the few the peeped its signal over the noise. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/finding-common-ground-between-rome-and-the-sspx The key issue is contained in this paragraph: In the lead-up to the planned July 1, 2026, episcopal consecrations, the SSPX rejected Rome’s offer of doctrinal dialogue on the grounds that “we both know in advance that we cannot agree doctrinally, particularly regarding the fundamental orientations adopted since the Second Vatican Council.” Fr. Pagliarani also said that his previous attempt at dialogue in 2019 was shut down by Rome because of an assumed irreconcilability. It seems that, from the Society’s perspective, and perhaps from Rome’s too, their positions are incompatible. If memory serves, Rome killed any opportunity for an open discussion by stating that Vatican II was not up for debate. So it was a still-birth and ...
+ JMJ To say the least, my own family's discovery of Tradition was tumultuous. For some reason one of my older brothers was started on a path to search into what came before 1965. This led him to intense conversations with our parish priest. Ok, they were arguments and resulted in a veiled reference to him in a sermon. Our parish priest was a canon lawyer, had studied in Rome. Sprinkled throughout the Church were 'relics' of the Tridentine Mass. In the Sacristy you'd see the six altar candles. The original tabernacle was on a side altar (of which he'd kept two). Statues were everywhere, not completely out of sight, but out of mind. He kept the thurible. No girl altar servers were present in the sanctuary, nor were their lay Eucharistic ministers. The sermons were Catholic. When I was there for a funeral, Father preached on the Rosary. It made a deep impression on me and I still remember it as the best sermon on the Rosary that I had ever heard. Lookin...