Life is perhaps most wisely regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings. O'Neill
There's one good thing about the Terrible Trio: their behavior always proves their adversaries' point.
Last week, "One-Hand Dan" impressed his cult with a brief account of his ordaining to the priesthood a man who belongs to a group of latter-day "Dominicans" in Boston. Then he casually boasted that the newly minted levite would be spending a few months in West Chester to finish his priestly studies "under Fr. Cekada's tutelage."
Nothing, we think, is more emblematic of the intellectual morass of the traditional movement than this ugly, little story. As you can see, things have come to such a pass that "One-Hand" doesn't even bother with requiring a semblance of sacerdotal formation before he makes a priest forever. All that's required is a few months of post-factum indentured servitude in a highly dubious independent study program. (We won't even comment about the "tutor's" qualifications.)
What we have here is the blunt admission that becoming a priest is mentally less rigorous than getting a GED. Gone is all pretense that a Roman Catholic priest is carefully selected, well formed, and thoroughly vetted.
Perhaps that's a good thing. It better suits the crisis than the absurd charade that MHT completers have any connection whatsoever to the priestly training of the past. Perhaps such ordinations will, in the end, make traditional Catholics wake up a realize just how bad it's all become.
It all goes to prove the Readers' point that the Restoration will have to come from the conservative Novus Ordites, because Traddieland has surrendered.
STAY HOME ALONE -- YOU'LL BE IN BETTER COMPANY.
Traddieland will definitely not be taking part in the Restoration, except, perhaps, on a purely material plane. "We saved a few books and, in some cases, maintained valid orders..." Ironically, AC, DD, and DS think they are part of the preservation of the form, i.e., the very soul, of the Mystical Body. If anything, they have reduced themselves to nothing more than bag handlers, the inept custodians a rat-infested halfway house for the rites neglected for a few mere decades -- which is nothing in God's sight.
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