Good for them!
May Good be unto them!

The Mass gives grace of itself. Pray for them!

Sobering words from Cardinal Vingt-Trois: http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/07/30/paris-cardinal-islamists-worship-a-god-of-death/

I'd be tempted to go into full-on Francis of Assisi mode if I went into a mosque.

Partes vulpium erunt, Mr. Kubisz.

Mohammed can't even tell the difference between the Blessed Virgin and Moses's sister.

Yeah, but the connection is flimsy, unheard of until Muhammad's time. The claims extends to all Arabs. Nostra aetatae basically rejects the claim, but the council fathers acknowledge that such a claim is made.

encountered opinions (educated ones)

Hmmm
Truly educated people will admit that we can sometimes see further because we are standing on the shoulders of giants.
Sadly in our times many of the seemingly educated think they can see further because they are 'enlightened'. In most cases they are mistaken.

MJO I would not, and did not assume that you were in their camp. I am always suspicious of these modern theories, and think it important to point out the possible error at the root of the theory.

I too think the difference between 'enlightenment' and 'wisdom' is rather interesting, and could be loosely defined as,
Wisdom: An understanding and appreciation of the past and / or Tradition).
Enlightenment: A misunderstand and lack of appreciation of the past.

N.B. I was an Organic Synthetic Chemist... We had to prove what we said in the laboratory, sadly certain other scientists, and certain non-scientists! cannot prove their theories to be true, but still talk as if they have been proved to be true.

I just read it, too, and found the advice of Arbp. Bernardini very compelling. It's funny that you mention being a chemist, tomjaw. I imagine there are strict protocols about what compounds you can safely mix and what you can't without risk of explosion or death. It's also true in a doctrinal and moral sense: I don't think you can just toss different theological opinions, religions and strains of moral belief into the blender, and by "making chaos of the Faith" will somehow end up with a nice fluffy homogenized product. It's far more likely you will end up with a Molotov cocktail.

I don't either; relativism is a very attractive proposition on the surface. Wish it were all that easy, but it ain't.

...dangerous in the wrong hands.

Knowing how to write (what is supposed to be) music certainly is!

There's a movement trending now in France called #DefendTonsEglise. Some beautiful pictures of churches if you scroll down.

This was rather good thing to do,

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2016/07/an-ef-requiem-mass-for-fr-jacques-hamel.html

The glory of France is identified with the Catholic religion. Her power, greatness, renown, art, civilization, chivalry, glorious deeds, recollections, — all that is a spell upon the heart of the Frenchman, and makes him proud to belong to France, to call himself her son, — is redolent of Catholicity, inseparable from Catholic faith and piety. Divest France of what she owes to Catholicity, and she is a byword and a mockery.

-- Orestes Brownson, 1847

You can read the full quote here. It's truly prophetic.

Read Brownson's full quote. He addresses that.

If this is the instance I have read about - Keep in mind that it was not a Roman Catholic priest who was so rudely dispatched. It was a Gallican Catholic priest, the leader of a congregation of squatters. As I understand the French arrangement, at least the major churches all belong to the French government.

Yes, I also read that it was an SSPX priest and congregation, and simply that the Gallicans had it previously.

It was IBP, not SSPX.

The details in the Breitbart article are slightly different from the IP5 article.

It's a very sad situation, and the exact details are not clear yet, but what gives me pause is the involvement of the Institut du Bon-Pasteur, the presence of the mayor and other elected village officials who were resisting the demolition, and the fact that the LePen's are obviously in sympathy. All of the above lends a certain measure of respectability to the resistance, at least in my mind, but I freely admit a bias in favor of French traditionalists.

This was a doomed effort. From what I read on the French news sites, the Gallicans probably had no way to fight this: they were renters. When the Gallican clergy left in March 2015, they cleared out their religious furnishings before the end of the month, and the squatters were mad at them for yielding. (Maybe church squatters get their way in France sometimes, but here in Boston we've seen a lot of that, and it generally doesn't work.) The IBP priests were trying to help the congregation out and maybe reconcile them with the Catholic Church.

If I understand the coverage in the French press, the building had belonged (early 20th c.) to some part of the "Irvingite" sect, the "Catholic Apostolic Church".

That denomination is a curious historical case, in which a group of pentecostal-type Protestant enthusiasts in Britain in the 1700s decided to call themselves apostles and built a reconstruction of the Catholic Church, with a hierarchy and liturgy and sacraments, and expected the return of Christ soon. Well, it didn't happen, and the 'apostles' decided around 1900 to put the denomination out of existence by not consecrating any more bishops: its last "priest" died in 1971.

The property was being held by some board of trustees. It wasn't an architectural treasure, and the owner organization sold it to a developer who filed papers to build an eight-floor apartment block there. So the talk about putting just a parking lot there sounds like inflammatory spin.

There was a lot of local sentiment about the place, largely from animal lovers who remembered the Gallicans' annual Mass at which there was a blessing of animals, and the animals were even brought into the church. I wonder whether the IBP would have kept that practice up.

At the end, it was nasty of the police to interrupt a Mass -- if that is what happened: I've seen differing accounts in various articles.