[B Knotts]

Members of the musical band which performs at the 10:30 Mass were particularly dismayed (having no role during a Latin Mass), as were lectors and extraordinary ministers.

Yeah, I just bet they were!

I wonder why the bishop thinks this priest is insane; maybe because the priest actually believes in God?

[Cvengr]

You picked up on that as I did. Seems as though the bishop reveals qite a bit in the nature of dead works when he first refuses to discern the Holy Spirit moving and filling one of his priests, also removes the priest after only one or two hours of conversation after a 25 year service, and then lacks the discernment to even consider the difference between spiritual and psychological patterns.

Reads as though the bishop is fallen away as a believer, but sure likes authority and human good.

[sinkspur]

I wonder why the bishop thinks this priest is insane; maybe because the priest actually believes in God?

He's not insane, but he's just as selfish as Fiorenza is.

Fiorenza should have allowed a Tridentine Indult Mass, and Fr. Fig should have left the regular Sunday Novus Ordo lineup alone.

[Antoninus]

Insane ca. 1960: Serially committing homosexual acts and saying Mass in English.

Insane ca. 2003: Thinking that homosexual acts are vile, disgusting and sinful and saying Mass in Latin.

And some would argue this is somehow progress...