Japanese Catholics went 200 years without a priest. Today’s Traditional Catholics could learn a lesson here, no?
In Christ, Joseph

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The Church remained without clergy and theological teaching disintegrated … Drawn from the oral histories of Japanese Catholic communities, Shusaku … Within a year, however, he reneged on this promise and made it illegal for people to convert. … Diaz Hirayama, Lucia de Freitas, and 200 Companion Martyrs of Japan.