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Traditional Catholic Faith => Crisis in the Church => Topic started by: HeidtXtreme on May 19, 2025, 05:59:41 PM
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Does the May 5 1988 protocol of agreement between Lefebvre and Rome constitute a compromise? It’s a bit troubling to me.
https://fsspx.org/en/protocol-agreement-may-5-1988-31095
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Does the May 5 1988 protocol of agreement between Lefebvre and Rome constitute a compromise? It’s a bit troubling to me.
https://fsspx.org/en/protocol-agreement-may-5-1988-31095
Sspx by recognising these heretics as so called “popes” has always been in a state of compromisre
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https://meretradition.substack.com/p/the-prophecy-of-archbishop-lefebvre
This article is mostly about FSSP, and they are experiencing contradictions ...okay have the Old liturgy, but accept N
O. mass too, etc. ..
But more to your OP, can we distill the Protocol to : Have room for us "As we are"?, +L was focusing on that I presume. Just 2 bishops against Rome!! I would like to know what you would have done. Yes he was diplomatic, respectful , hopeful, and he compromised on some Vat II docuмents. A few years later he admitted that 'who would have thought Rome wanted to destroy the Church..!?'. '88 - '89 , the Dark skies of Rome were now become hail storms!!!
Say a Hail Mary for peace. +
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"...In any event, Lefebvre was offered various concessions and encouraged to concede to various compromises throughout his second career as the leader of the Society, but he never conceded.
Why did he not concede?
Was it out of pride? Was he merely a stubborn man who could not see the good of the whole but just the good he desired for his own ambition? Well, he may have been stubborn, but heroic men are always stubborn. A man holding on for dear life who refuses to let go is stubborn. A general who knows either defeat or victory is imminent and holds his position is stubborn. A man who holds on to the wood of the Cross when Satan tells him to let go is stubborn. Stubbornness can be a virtue, and when it is a virtue it is an imperative.
A Matter of Faith
Why Lefebvre never accepted the Indult (special permission for the TLM to be said) was very simple: the Indult was a reductionist action on behalf of Modernist Rome wherein Tradition was reduced to rubrics. As important as the Old Mass is — and its importance is invaluable — the Old Mass is not the whole equation. The Old Mass is the most perfect presentation and prayer of the faith of Latin Rite Roman Catholics, and it is an apostolic gift that we must cherish with a love that is beyond measure. But, given that all liturgy is in a sense of work of the Church, we might say that just as faith without works is dead, so too are works without faith.
We cannot have the Old Mass for long if we have the Old Mass without all of the Old Faith. Every heretic usurper at the Council said the Old Mass, but they were rotten inside. “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres