Actually, I think they’ll go for a small diocese first. Our bishop (small diocese) wrote a good letter that was to be read at all masses yesterday...and a lot of the priests (older VII types) didn’t read it.
So I think they’ll look for a place that is vulnerable because it’s already slightly undermined from within and probably the orthodox bishop himself doesn’t think that it’s an important enough place for him to really have to worry about it.
Our bishop (small diocese) wrote a good letter that was to be read at all masses yesterday...and a lot of the priests (older VII types) didn’t read it.
I attended a Tridentine Mass yesterday; the priest is also parish pastor of a Novus Ordo church...in his sermon, he addressed the issue of USSC meddling with the sacrament of Holy Matrimony, and he also spoke about the displeasure he got from his parishioners over the same sermon...he said to us “I could tell all of you one thing, and you won’t bat an eye, but my parishioners would think I’m crazy...’
I also believe the chink in the Catholic armor is some out of the way parish with a closet activist as priest; I believe two lesbians from a modern order will approach him to get married, and he will perform the ritual...it will take complicity on both parts to effect it...
in other words, no one will force the Church to concede...the Church shall do so on Her own...
The biggest problem for the Catholic Church isn’t going to be the legal pressure from homosexuals to do these “marriages.” It’s going to be the number of priests and bishops who are perfectly comfortable giving their blessing to these diabolical relationships without any pressure at all.