"Today, there are approximately 145 women Catholic priests in the U.S. and about 204 worldwide, according to the Roman Catholic Womenpriests organization"
According to the Parish Priests initiative, which was founded by nine parish priests in 2006 to promote heresy concerning homosexuality:
"the initiative says it now has around 350 members from the ranks of the official Church and more than 3,000 lay supporters"
Priests: 330
Non-deacon seminarians (including postulations): 162
For people who say Traditional liturgy is our salvation
Today, Orthodox Christians represent only 4 percent of the world’s population. Additionally, Orthodox followers account for 12 percent of Christians worldwide, down 8 percentage points from the levels in 1910, according to the Pew report.
Discussion:
If the traditional liturgy were what converted people, the Eastern Orthodox would be growing like mushrooms after a rain. Instead, they are wilting like mushrooms in the desert. The FSSP has been around twice as long as WomenPriests or the "Parish Priests Initiative", but the numbers of ordained (or, in the case of women priests, invalidly "ordained") between the three groups are comparable.
Conclusion:
There is no serious demand for the traditional liturgy. People aren't flocking to it. The best-known and most successful group of traditional-liturgy-minded Catholics, the FSSP, are about as numerous as any other fringe group in the Catholic Church.
The FSSP's numbers are encouraging, but it is most lamentable that the heretical feminist sect barely out of diapers that you mention has more members that the faithful and holy priestly fraternity that John Paul II established in 1988. Lamentable, but unsurprising given the grievous spiritual ills afflicting modern Catholics both lay and clerical. But as the Holy Spirit told the prophet Zacharias, let us never despise the little days. "Fear not," said the prophet Elisaeus, "for there are more with us than with them" (meaning the heavenly hosts).
ReplyDeleteThe FSSP's numbers are pathetic
ReplyDeleteYou're much more impressed by the sickening spread of the wicked sect of women's ordinationists?
ReplyDeleteIf you're worried about the smaller size of the FSSP, God has given you two means by which you can help the fraternity -- prayer and monetary offerings. What good does it do to grouse about how successful Satan's heretical minions seem to be in contrast to Christ's servants in the FSSP? God permits the spread of the women's ordinationist heresy for His reasons. Just remain faithful to God no matter how much the Devil rages.