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SSPX and Fr. McLucas

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So Church Militant is at it again - trolling the trads with an article that prove that the SSPX is "sheltering predators".
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So let's look a the fundamental claim made by CM via their free-lancer:
Indulgence [shown by Rome] now being shown towards the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) by Church authorities can allow priests suspended from ministry on account of sexual immorality to function under the cover of quasi-legitimacy should they choose to associate themselves with the renegade organization. ... This is not just a theoretical possibility. It is already happening in the case of Fr. James McLucas.
So the first question is ... what is the crime of Fr. McLucas?  Ultimately, he was accused of sexual and physical abuse. Now there are two things to consider here (beyond the Fr. Perrone vs Fr. McLucas parallels):
  1. This single accusation was settled out of court. Meaning while we know the accusations, we don't know if it is true. 
  2. The lady involved was over the age of consent. To be specific in her 20's.
 So ... even if true, the accusation that Fr. McLucas is a predator is way off the mark and Fr. McLucas is, at worst, a priest who fell into a 'natual' sin, and that is unproved.

Again, this is simply a case of Baresel trolling the trads. 

So the next question ... is the SSPX sheltering him?  In other words, does he live with them for a long period of time. Is he a member of the SSPX?  Along these lines Baresel makes the accusation that:
Suspended from his priestly functions by the archdiocese of New York, McLucas turned to the SSPX, with which he was working by October 2016. ... SSPX priest Nicholas Stamos informed me by phone on July 18 that McLucas is still participating in the organization's work.
It would have been nice if Baresel had dug a little deeper to see the depth of the relationship between Fr. McLucas and the SSPX. Saying that Fr. McLucas works with the SSPX is far different than occasionally helping.

Fundamentally, Fr. McLucas isn't a member of the SSPX, he only visits periodically.  Baresel's piece is simply sloppy click bait that implies much and proves nothing.


So what are they trying to do? 

Simply two-way guilt by association:
  1. SSPX is guilty for associating with Fr. McLucas,
  2. Fr. McLucas is guilty for associating with the SSPX.
For a change, I have included links to CM's articles as an example of trolling, half-truths and inuendoes.

I have also included a link to Connecticut Catholic Corner for a sanity check from a non-SSPXer who asks all the right questions!



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