+ JMJ Introduction Since the 1980’s when my family started going to Fr. Normandin’s mass (link: https://tradicat.blogspot.com/2026/05/stories-early-days-of-tradition-part-5.html ), I have seen the oppressive attrition resulting from the continuous pressure on Traditional Catholics and the inexorable passage of time. In Ecclesia Dei (link) , I intuitively recognized it as an attempt to scare people into submission with vague threats and ambiguities. Later on, when I studied ED, the chasm between disobedience and schism was one that seemed insurmountable – declaring an action contravened Canon 751 when it wasn’t included in the Canonical warning was akin to declaring something illegal after-the-fact (link) . Now we are faced with an objective repeat of the 1988 Episcopal Consecrations and the media frenzy and well / not so well intentioned voices are crying out all over the wilderness of the internet. Are they sirens calling us to our immortal damnation or voices of reason ...
+ JMJ A now the moment that we've all been waiting for ... well not exactly ... but I have been waiting to hear the names of the SSPX candidates for the auxiliary bishops (i.e. no jurisdiction and no schism). It is a sign of the passage of years that I have never met any of the candidates in my years roaming across Traditionalism - whereas in 1988, I had personally met 3 out of 4 of the candidates. I had been told that they would be older than forty and probably not much older than fifty. ... and so it is with two outliers: Father Pascal Schreiber Swiss 53y German, French, English Father Michael Goldade USA 45y English and some competency in French and Spanish Father Michel Poinsinet de Sivry France 42y French, English and some competency in German and Dutch Father Marc Hanappier France 36y French, English and some competency in German and Spanish Suffice to say, I believe the SSPX is counting on Fr. Schreiber to add additional wisdom and Fr. Hanappier longevity to the SSPX....