St. Catherine of Sienna did it. But Catholic in Brooklyn says we shant. Voris and the Remnant have built a business around it. And I myself blogged about this once upon a time. The inverted hiearchy post a year ago.
With a hierarchy turned upside down, where the pope answers to bishops conferences, bishops to presbyteral councils, parish priests to members of the parish Faith community, and last but not least, actually now in a supreme place of authority, it is children, toddlers, and babies ruling their parents and thus in an inverted pseudo-collegial hierarchy, babies, nay Embryos take the place of Supreme Pontiff.
Is it any wonder then the Church is in crisis? And it is logically impossible to recognize and actively respond in conscience to said crisis without criticizing the conciliar bishops or pope.
But lets be honest. The traditional Catholic today commonly lives on three activities that fuel their zeal (a good thing): the Tridentine Mass, studying high scholastic thought, and focusing the problem on bishops and priests.
I for one am burnt out on the last part. The trad newbie naturally follows this line of traditionalism. How can't he? To cure a disease we need to know the root causes, but also the main vectors by which the virus entered the host.
But sooner or later the evidence is overwhelming and superfluous. I've read about one too many doings and sayings from the present pontiff. Its old. Unless it's new to you or you dont have much firewood to stoke the fire of your inner zeal.
Bishop Konderla of my Local Church shut down two traditional religious communities. I posted about it last Fall. This March I apologized for going somewhat too far. Truth be told it bothered not just my conscience but my psyche. It was not promoting my much needed inner peace. Is what it is.
Criticizing the hierarchy is a very delicate matter. Its not just about distinguishing criticism of word and deed from criticizing the bishop or priest in question. It requires a reverent reserve and careful choice of words which is very hard to do when you witness sacrilege and heresy coming from those representing Christ.
Its very late here in Oklahoma. What I'm getting around to saying is, as I start making blog posts more frequent, my clerical criticisms will decidedly shrink, and at least when I ponder the happenings of my own Okie Local Church, my lens will be widening to focus on what I can see that is good, true, and beautiful, yet ever through the eyes of a traditional Catholic, ie committed to Catholic Tradition and defeating Catholic modernism.
Keep cool. 😎