I'm wearied to my back teeth by Father Z

Once upon a time in the 60s an archbishop looked at a parish and decided that the church wasn't being used enough. Without telling the parishioners or the parish priest he announced that he was giving the property to the federal government. The church and school would be torn down and turned into public housing. The parishioners didn't take this lying down. Eventually protesters surrounded the archbishop's limousine  and screamed, "Give us our church back you son of a bitch!" The archbishop had been accustomed to adulation for most of his career and was so shocked that he had his driver leave the area. He backed down and resigned later that year. The archbishop was Fulton Sheen.

I'm not saying I approve of the Rochester folks' language but the concept of reminding a bishop that he works for God and is supposed to care for his people and not act like Simon Legree and the slaves, is not new.

In the present day Bishop Stika of Tennessee has told his people that they can only have Communion in the hand and has Tweeted that anyone who creates a scene will be kicked out. He has also Tweeted that angry Catholics have called his office and been insulting. He even accuses people of being mean and threatening to the elderly lady answering the phone at his office. Bishop Stika has said some wild things in the past. He's danced on the razor's edge of heresy and fell over on occasion.

So considering the source of the accusation why does Father Z. trust  with no reservation what Bishop Stika says and just lambastes  Catholics as being selfish, cruel jackasses. Father Z has disappointed me so many times that I just stopped reading his blog years ago. His great strength is  cooking posts, travelogues, jokes and cozy-come-sit-by-fire-and-bring-your-drink tales and that's okay but it wasn't enough to keep my attention. "Brick by brick" may have been a decent strategy when JPII was alive and even when Benedict was timidly reigning but it stinks like five day old fish now.

 I understand that he believes that traditional Catholics should behave like the French Resistance in WWII : smile, be pleasant, speak softly and don't attract hostile attention so you can secretly act. He'll never stand openly. He'll always smack the sheep around if they get out of line and he'll always encourage us to grin and be loudly thankful when a bishop allows a traditional Mass in the worse neighborhood in his diocese.

 I'm tired of traditional priests constantly putting traditional Catholics down. I'm tired of feeling like   most of the "leaders" of Trad Inc. are really running a managed opposition campaign.