Some time ago I predicted to a liberal Catholic acquaintance of mine that someday soon, the Latin (Tridentine) Mass would see a resurgence, and the SSPX would have their excommunication lifted.  This was in context of her assertion that JP2 wasn’t really all that conservative or traditionalist, and was just doing lip service to the same, and we’d see married clergy and women in diaconate roles sooner.

Her response to my prediction was “If that day comes, I’ll be joining the Episcopalians.”

Tonya - don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.  And pray take with you as many troublemaking, malcontent, heterodox, pro-abortionist queer-activist liberation theologians as you can.  Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and the Kennedys can be next.

For such “progressive” Catholics - take careful note that His Holiness Benedict XVI is taking slow but sure steps to further the good work of his predecessor.  Your ilk is being pushed to the sidelines, and where they can’t be put out to pasture, put in places where they can do little damage, if any at all, being reduced to merely functionary and paper-pushing roles.  Your theologians are having their credentials revoked.  Red hats and positions of power and decision making are going to Trads.  Read the writing on the wall, and understand - the experiment is over, and the adults are back in charge of the church.  You blue haired, dope-smoking, aging hippy dinosaurs have bred yourselves out of relevance, and good riddance to you.

Go hold hands, sing kum-ba-yah at some coffee-table kool-aid play mass, and have a cup of shut the fuck up afterwards, m’kay?

And I’ve counted the collections.  Families of six who make half of what your kind do are giving twice as much, and there are more and more of them.  So you won’t be missed.  If you all vacated en masse, you’d be a single year statistical budgetary blip.

Buh-bye.