This is to announce with deep regret that the
"Unity Dialogue Initiative"
has been terminated.
The UDI was abandoned over a year ago, and has lain dysfunctional since then. The UDI pages have therefore been deleted.
Traditionalism is a movement that has reached a dead end. It has broken up into a infinite number of small, personality based sects and cults, with heresies of various kinds thrown in for good measure. Every group aims for nothing more than to secure itself by procuring for one of its members — usually than not, one of the leaders, episcopal consecration of some kind or the other, and thereafter, they believe themselves complete and independent.
The claim that these sects seek to defend the Catholic Faith, whole and unaltered, is daily proven to be nothing but a pretence, lip service.
My unity effort was beginning to look like a Traditionalist "Ecumenism", where every one is placed on the same and equal footing. That is unacceptable.
By and large, every individual in the Traditionalist Movement seems to manouevre himself into position for procuring episcopal consecration, and to set up around himself a little, self-contained sect based on a cult of his personality.
Every small grouping, having constituted itself into its own self-sufficient little sect, assured of perpetuation by the presence of a "bishop" who can ordain priests and consecrate future bishops to carry forward the heritage of that sect, there is no longer felt any need to get together and to procure the restoration of the Church.
Indeed, there is a not too secret loathing of such an idea, of a restored centralised Church, where one man — the pope — will supervise and impose discipline on all.
Many traditionalists are comfortable, too comfortable, as they are, and see the effort at restoring the Church as a threat to their comfort. Therefore they sneer at those who concentrate their energies on such a task, a task necessarily of procuring the true Pope as instrumental to this end, and contemn it as being childish and contrary to (their falsified notions of) Catholicism.
Lucio Mascarenhas, formerly "Prakash". June 22, 2004.