Author Topic: Archbishop Lefebvre (Read 754 times)

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #15 on:** July 26, 2021, 12:48:42 AM »

ByzCat3000
I totally agree with your statement. It is all in God's Hand to declare whether the seat of Peter is vacant or not. As of now Pope Francis is still the visible head of Catholic Church, we have to accept him as the Pope.

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #16 on:** July 26, 2021, 05:00:31 AM »

If this forum keeps going for another 5 - 10 years, I think by then hardly anyone on this forum will even remember Archbishop Lefebvre. There's only 3 or 4 people who here who really pay him any attention. The SSPX doesn't care for +ABL's outdated views, and neither do the sedes. And, quite frankly, neither does the Resistance in the U.S.

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #17 on:** August 01, 2021, 11:58:16 AM »

Quote from: Ladislaus on July 25, 2021, 05:09:57 AM

It’s well known that Bishop de Castro Meyer did in fact go sede toward the end of his life.

http://williamsonletters.blogspot.com/2009/02/campos-what-went-wrong.html
"Let me explain: up until the consecrations of 1988 Bishop de Castro Mayer's reaction to the crisis was curious. On the one hand he was legalistic, tending to stick to the letter of the law. For instance after ceasing to be the diocesan bishop of Campos, he ordained no more priests except one that he ordained after the 1988 Consecrations. On the other hand he had a tendency towards sedevacantism, as when he would say of John Paul Il, 'Whoever does not belong to the body of the Church cannot be its head'.

"Archbishop Lefebvre was aware of this twofold tendency in Bishop de Castro Mayer, which is why he would say concerning the bishop's legalism, 'Bishop de Castro Mayer must understand that today we have to "go illegal", if necessary' (a remark to be understood, obviously, in the present context), and concerning his sedevacantism, Archbishop Lefebvre said, 'Were it not for me, Bishop de Castro Mayer would be sedevacantist, but in order not to separate from us, he holds back from sedevacantism'.

"I think the Archbishop was right. There were in Bishop de Castro Mayer the two tendencies of legalism and sedevacantism. The bishop's friendship with Archbishop Lefebvre moderated these two tendencies and enabled Bishop de Castro Mayer to take courageous and well-founded positions. However the Campos Priests seem never to have completely shaken off these two false ways of posing today’s problem, because they seem to me to argue like the sedevacantists: 'If John Paul Il is Pope, we must obey him. If we do not obey him, we must declare that he is not Pope'...

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