Hello, GerardP, et all!
O.K., Gerard, hereâs the problem: âWhat the SSPX
teachesâ â can be exactly that.
What the work-a-day SSPX
does in an everyday 24/7 âwork-a-dayâ environment can be radically different, varying form priory to priory, Mission Station (or Mass Center) to Mass Center (or Mission Station).
The negative:
EXMPLES OF: YOUâRE A WOMAN WITH NO STATUS; THUS YOUâRE FAIR GAME!
(1) A young divorced motherâs âspiritual God sisterâ finances her teenage daughterâs tuition at a boarding school under sisters affiliated with the SSPX. Com evacation time the mother is shocked to discover that the âMother Superiorâ has arranged for the teenager to spend her vacation with a young boy in his parentsâ house while both parents are away. Enraged at what she believes is an outrage, the motehr summons up her own brothers, and the uncles pool their resources and bring the girl back post haste so she can be enrolled in a public high school.
(2) A Sixteen to seventeen year old girl of no status goes off on a SSPX staff member who she thinks is harrasing her. Her abject public apology is coerced from her using the continued attendance at the SSPX school by her younger siblings as hostage for her âgood behavior.â
Among the legal issues involved is obviously one that is related to what is loosely known as âage of informed consent.â A fed-up palace guard member documents all this in 35 mm, then casually rips the offending letter off the public wall and sends it to the nearest municipal police sex crimes unit.
(3) A young, bright, 17-year old recent graduate of a SSPX boarding high school gets a post as a âteacherâ far from her home. One day while still shaken up she reveals to her room mate that she was ordered by a SSPX priest to give a homeless man a ride (alone) to the nearest bus station, and she felt obliged to do so.
(4) Two other young girls from troubled homes answer a call for â you guessed it! â âteachersâ by the SSPX grape vine â and wound up all but financially stranded as their pay (unlike Aurelio) is supposed ot cover both food and rent. It doesnât. So, given a choice of starving or paying their rent, they elect to eat.
(5) Young mothers of girls enrolled in a SSPX school are upset because an all-night adoration planned for both sexes calls for the boys to be housed and guarded inside the priory grounds, while the girls are banished across the street and off the property in a big building with little or no security or even basic privacy.
A hot-tempered (male, of course!) member of the palace guard out does even our friend Aurelio
by exploding in a fury of open contempt in the face of the SSPX priest in charge, banishes him from sight, and establishes an effective security perimiter with enough add-on personnel to guarantee both the physical comfort and safety of the girls, as well as respecting their privacy while they are attending this same function.
The positive:
EXAMPLES OF: THE SSPX SUPER-WOMAN!
(1) A former female prosecuting attorney turned fulltime SSPX Staff Member goes off in the face of a disgruntled palace guard member (male) who is trying to alert her to some very serious devoloping issues involving minors of both sexes, threatens him with her going to the local DA ''cause youâre harassing me! OK? I donât want to hear it! Not now, not ever!"
(2) Another positive example? âUmmm⊠oh yeah: at least one(1) SSPX affiliated group is (or was) headed up by a DRE.â
Sorry! Iâm afraid someone else will have to take the rest of this part, 'cause hereâs the only two(2) examples I either know personally, or have even heard of.
Anyway, I guess what Iâm trying to say here, GerardP and all, is that this role of women in the mindset of the work-a-day SSPX can sure enough be just a tad complicated, what say?
Thanks!
Aurelio:thumbsup: