Pierre Joly and host
More details about the Kidnapping of Abp. Thuc
(19:20) As Published by Fr. Anthony Chekada on March 8, 2014; Father Francis Miller stated:
Among the last words Monsignor Thuc spoke to me while he was being mistreated in New York during the terrible events that led to the loss of our common home, he said: "They want me to sign a reconciliation and renounce everything I have done. Why would I do that? It would destroy the work God gave me to do—preserving the sacraments for the future. I cannot do that."
Later, Monsignor Thuc was invited to dinner by that same delegate, along with four priests and two Conciliar bishops, at a hotel in Washington. After the meal, Monsignor Thuc was supposed to return to Rochester that same evening. Brother Francis, a seminarian from Rochester who had accompanied him throughout the trip, telephoned Monsignor Vezelis to let him know they were about to take a taxi to the Washington airport to fly back to Rochester; but unfortunately, while packing their bags, Monsignor Thuc and Brother Francis both fell into a deep sleep because their hosts had slipped sleep-inducing drugs into their food during the meal they had just eaten.
Becoming seriously worried about not seeing Monsignor Thuc return... Monsignor Vezélis phoned the driver (Mr. Tran, hotel owner), asking him to bring the archbishop back to Rochester starting Monday, but the driver had absolutely no intention of letting Monsignor Thuc leave; he had received specific instructions from the superior of the Carthage seminary not to allow him to leave the hotel room without permission. That is precisely why Monsignor Vezélis finally decided to go to New York himself to retrieve the archbishop. Upon arriving around 4:00 p.m., Monsignor Vezélis found Monsignor Thuc asleep in his hotel room. After helping the archbishop quickly get dressed to leave the building with him, half a dozen hotel employees blocked access to the elevator; that was when a confrontation broke out in the hallway between Monsignor Vezélis and the hotel staff. Brother Francis therefore decided to call the police to put an end to this violent altercation; in fact, it was this same seminarian who had previously phoned Monsignor Vezelis to warn him about the rather strange behavior of the others—or rather, the Archbishop's; indeed, Brother Francis had made a point of informing Monsignor Thuc that the Vietnamese men trying to convince Monsignor Thuc not to return to the Rochester monastery had attempted to disrupt his diet by regularly offering him confectionery and overly sweet desserts, even though he suffered from diabetes. After the intervention of the police, who questioned each of the individuals involved in the scuffle, Monsignor Thuc was eventually transferred to the modernist monastery of Carthage, located in the state of Missouri. The seminarian accompanying Monsignor Thuc tried in vain to contact the French embassy to alert the authorities about the danger facing the Archbishop, who was cut off from all outside contact. Monsignor Thuc was held in this monastery until his death on December 13, 1984; he was then 87 years old.
A few days after his passing, the Vatican's official journal published an alleged retraction by Monsignor Thuc; this docuмent—which, strangely enough, did not even bear the Archbishop's signature—stated that he had reconciled with John Paul II, and that he supposedly urged the three bishops he had consecrated in Toulon in 1981 to do the same; indeed, in *L'Osservatore Romano* on December 24,1984, the following text was published:
"I, the undersigned Pierre-Martin Ngô-dinh-Thuc,
Titular Archbishop of Bulla Regia and Archbishop Emeritus of Huế, wish to publicly retract all my past errors,
which consisted of illegitimately ordaining various priests to the episcopate in 1981—namely Fathers
Guérard des Lauriers, Moises Carmona, and Adolfo Zamora—and also of having rejected the Second Vatican Council, the *Novus Ordo Missae*, and specifically the dignity of His Holiness Pope John Paul II, the current legitimate successor of Saint Peter, in a publication in Munich in 1982.
I wish to sincerely ask them all for forgiveness, and to ask them to pray for me and to make reparation for all the scandal
caused by the regrettable actions and statements I made. I would also like to urge all the aforementioned priests who were
illegitimately ordained to the episcopate by me in 1981—and all those whom they, in turn, ordained as priests or bishops,
as well as their successors—to retract their errors by abandoning their truly false position and to reconcile themselves with the Church and with the Holy Father, Pope John Paul II."
Topic: Autobiography of Archbishop Thuc (Read 293696 times)