![]() ![]() ![]() But… hey, we’re talking about bishops.Īs for the Cardinals. It is a little too early to see if the building of the Immaculate by the SSPX might be a wake up call or turning point for US and other bishops. Sadly, it appears that our bishops are not asking these questions in fact, they seem wholly incurious, even at times antagonistic, about this juxtaposition. The CWR piece suggest that the College of Cardinals had better do some serious soul searching about the future of the Church. Why? What is the SSPX doing that attracts followers? How are they able to build a huge new seminary in Virginia and a huge new church in Kansas? The Crisis piece says that the SSPX is growing and dioceses are in decline in many ways. As the scene moves on he’s viewed by the General down on the floor looking more closely at the underside of the chair. In the room where he is waiting for the General to appear there is a rocking chair like the one he was trying to make. ![]() Later in the movie, he is in the house of a British General against whom he is fighting. In anger he hurls it into the corner where is a pile of previous experiments. As he rocks, about the second time the frail thing implodes, cracking him to the floor in splinters. Early on you see him trying to make a very light weight rocking chair. I have in mind a couple scenes from the movie The Patriot with Mel Gibson. Are they doing something differently? What’s the key to their success? Moreover, when normal people fail several times they make changes. Normal people, when they try to do something and they don’t get too far, on seeing others succeed begin to wonder how they did it. The writer thinks that, as the old saying goes, the problem may be at the head. But the problems are deeper than how many years of this or that sort of formation or whether or not seminarians should wear clerical clothing. In Milan there is a scramble to find solutions, some good, some really bad. On a similar note at Catholic World Report there is a piece about how numbers of priestly vocations are down and… why they might be down. The next day there was confirmation of an absolute hoard of confirmands. It was packed with precisely the sort of people bishops might like to see: devout, young, large families, etc. The SSPX just consecrated a huge and beautiful church in Kansas. At Crisis there is a piece by Eric Sammons entitled “ Our Incurious Bishops“. ![]()
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