Bishop Bernard Fellay |
Bishop Richard Williamson |
Anti-Pope Francis before the statue of arch-heretic and blasphemer, Martin Luther. |
The latest meeting of
the Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X, Bishop Bernard Fellay with anti-pope
Francis is really scandalous and calls for questioning. If Bishop Fellay really
believes that Bergoglio is a legitimate Pope (and he really does!), then
something very serious is wrong with his Catholic conscience and in that case
we have to be on our guard against such a leader. Bishop Fellay has
constantly been mingling with the anti-pope, all in the name of seeking a “reconciliation”
with apostate Rome, the latest being his meeting with Bergoglio in Casa Santa Marta on October 13 2016, on the very day anti-pope Francis had gone to Sweden to honour arch-heretic and blasphemer Martin Luther. (See Yesterday, Francis managed to spit into the faces: of Our
Lord, of the Blessed Ever Virgin Mary, of past popes, and of the entire Church). The Italian paper Il Foglio broke the story, quoting
sources who said the meeting “was positive” and “understanding is good”
between Fellay and Francis.
Well now is the time for all SSPX faithful to put
aside their sentiments and understand that this was exactly how Vatican II
revolution started--gradual compromising! As Bishop Williamson warned three years ago, in his Open Letter To Priests of The Society of St. Pius X, “Blind leaders are a punishment from God”; we
have to be serious with our study of the Catholic Faith and we also have to monitor
seriously the activities of those leading us and be ready to challenge them
whenever they mess up (doing so doesn't in any way means we hate them), “otherwise” said Bishop Williamson to the priests,
“you will lose your Society without realizing it, just as the mass of Catholics
lost their Church with Vatican II, and did not realize it. Then having made the
disaster clear in your own mind, you must tell the truth to your Society flock,
namely the danger in which your Superiors are placing their faith and therewith
their eternal salvation.”
YES,
Bishop Williamson was right when he warned three years ago that Bishop Fellay's
leadership is leading the SSPX "away from the direction set for it by Archbishop
Lefebvre, and towards the ideas and ideals of the Second Vatican
Council."
Below is
Bishop Williamson’s 2013 OPEN LETTER TO PRIESTS of the SOCIETY of ST PIUS X,
written even during the era of Benedict XVI:
OPEN LETTER
TO PRIESTS of the SOCIETY of ST PIUS X
By Bishop
Williamson
Reverend and dear Fathers,
The recent publication of the Doctrinal Declaration,
addressed by the General Council of the Society of St Pius X to the Church
authorities in Rome on April 15 last year, confirms our worst fears. We waited
for nearly a year to know what it contains. It proves once and for all that the
present leadership of the Society of St Pius X means to lead it away from the
direction set for it by Archbishop Lefebvre, and towards the ideas and ideals
of the Second Vatican Council.
However busy you may be with the daily ministry, this
is bound to concern you because it means that the souls under your care are,
through you, coming under Superiors meaning to lead them and yourselves
towards, even into, the great apostasy of modern times. We recall that it is
Superiors who mould their subjects and not the other way around – have we not
observed a number of good Society priests, one after another, giving up the
fight for the Faith as we know Archbishop Lefebvre led it, and instead going
with the flow, with the strong and very different current flowing for some
years now from the top of the Society downwards ?
Detailed analysis will confirm the danger of each of
the Declaration’s ten paragraphs, as outlined only briefly below:--
I Fidelity promised to the “Catholic Church” and to
the “Roman Pontiff” can easily be misdirected today towards the Conciliar
Church as such, and to the Conciliar Pontiffs. Distinctions are needed to avoid
confusion.
II Acceptance of teachings of the Magisterium in accordance
with Lumen Gentium # 25 can easily be understood, especially in conjunction
with Rome’s 1989 Profession of Faith which is mentioned in a footnote of the
Declaration, as requiring acceptance of Vatican II doctrines.
III,1 Acceptance of Vatican II teaching on the College
of Bishops as contained in Lumen Gentium, chapter III, is, despite the “Nota
Praevia”, a significant step towards accepting Conciliar collegiality and the
democratisation of the Church.
III,2 Recognition of the Magisterium as sole authentic
interpreter of Revelation runs a grave risk of submitting Tradition to the
Council, especially when the interpretation of any break between them is
automatically to be rejected (cf. III,5 below).
III,3 The definition of Tradition as “the living
transmission of Revelation” is highly ambiguous, and its ambiguity is only
confirmed by the vague words about the Church, and by the quotation from the
equally ambiguous Dei Verbum #8, which follow.
III,4 The proposition that Vatican II should “throw
light” on Tradition by “deepening” it and “making it more explicit”, is
thoroughly Hegelian (since when did contradictories explain and not exclude one
another ?), and it risks falsifying Tradition by twisting it to fit the
multiple falsehoods of the Council.
III,5 The statement that the novelties of Vatican II
must be interpreted in the light of Tradition, but that no interpretation
implying any break between the two is acceptable, is madness (All shirts are to
be blue, but any non-blue shirt must be taken to be blue!). This madness is
none other than that of Benedict XVI’s “Hermeneutic of continuity”.
III,6 Giving credit to the novelties of Vatican II as
being legitimate matter of theological debate is gravely to underestimate their
harmfulness. They are fit only to be condemned.
III,7 The judgment that the new sacramental Rites were
legitimately promulgated is gravely misleading. The New Order of Mass
especially is much too harmful to the common good of the Church to be a true
law.
III,8 The “promise to respect” as Church law the New
Code of Canon Law is to respect a number of supposed laws directly contrary to
Church doctrine.
Reverend Fathers, whoever studies these ten paragraphs
in the original text can only conclude that their author or authors have given
up the Archbishop’s fight for Tradition, and have gone over in their minds to
Vatican II. Do you wish yourself and your flock to be moulded by such Superiors
?
Nor let it be said that the first two and last three
of the ten paragraphs are broadly taken from the Archbishop’s own Protocol of
May 5, 1988, so that the Declaration is faithful to him. It is well known that
on May 6 he repudiated that Protocol because he himself recognized that it made
too many concessions for the Society to be able to continue defending
Tradition.
Another error is to say that the danger is over
because the Declaration has been “withdrawn” by the Superior General. The
Declaration is the poisoned fruit of what has become a liberal mind-set at the
top of the Society, and that mind-set has not been recognized, let alone
retracted.
A third misconception is to say that since no
agreement has been signed with the apostates of Rome, then there is no further
problem. The problem is less the agreement than the desire of any agreement
that will grant to the Society official recognition, and that desire is still
very much there. Following the whole modern world and the Conciliar Church, the
Society’s leadership seems to have lost its grip on the primacy of truth,
especially Catholic Truth.
Reverend Fathers, “What cannot be cured must be
endured.” Blind leaders are a punishment from God. However, the least that you
can do about this disastrous Declaration is to study it for yourselves with
everything that led up to it, otherwise you will lose your Society without
realizing it, just as the mass of Catholics lost their Church with Vatican II,
and did not realize it. Then having made the disaster clear in your own mind, you
must tell the truth to your Society flock, namely the danger in which your
Superiors are placing their faith and therewith their eternal salvation.
To all of us in that Society which Archbishop Lefebvre
made into a worldwide fortress of the Faith, Our Lord is now putting the
question of John, VI, 67 : “Will you also leave me ?”
To any and all of you I gladly impart the episcopal
blessing of your servant in Christ,
+Richard Williamson, Nova Friburgo, Maundy Thursday,
2013.
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