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To: maryz
I don't think that "bringing in" traditionalists is viable. He makes it sound like there's a store somewhere that has shelves and shelves of "traditional" Catholics.

It WOULD mean uprooting families and communities, thereby upsetting THEIR traditional Catholic community.

The problem is societal, don't you think? Perhaps there should be some heavy duty missionary work WITHIN THEIR OWN failing parishes.

9 posted on 09/03/2007 7:05:23 AM PDT by starfish923 (Socrates: It's never right to do wrong.)
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To: starfish923

I’m not sure what you mean. I was picturing more a priest or priests from FSSP or Christ the King taking over a parish designated for closing (one near me, for example) and celebrating the TLM. The parishioners could continue to attend there with the TLM or go to whatever neighboring parish the Archdiocese had in mind in closing the parish.


10 posted on 09/03/2007 7:24:26 AM PDT by maryz
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To: starfish923

It would depend on the diocese. In Dallas, the bishops (both of Dallas and Ft. Worth) are so stingy that any traditionalist that doesn’t want to attend an SSPX is crowded into a single chapel at a convent, and it is overflowing for two masses every Sunday. (The traditionalist mass in Ft. Worth is on Sunday evenings in a dangerous part of town).

Here it would be great, as those of us with children face a hardship to travel so far and would be able to actually form a community. So many of us aren’t able to due to the refusal of Bishops to provide for us.

In a dioceses with a more generous bishop you are right, it probably wouldn’t be a good option.


16 posted on 09/04/2007 5:50:58 PM PDT by rmichaelj
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