The SSPX however, does have a few priests that are suspect. One in particular is an Americanist and promotes the bogus claim that America was founded on Catholic principles and that George Washington converted on his deathbed. These views are now wide spread amongst American Traditional Catholics.
ALL of the SSPX priests are suspect, because the SSPX espouses blatant errors, and if a nobody of a layman like me can see it, what does that say about priests who studied for years and years? Then again, practically all priests in France were Gallican at one time too...
I can't explain these things, except to say that I've also been tricked, and it was very sincere -- I was sincerely prideful and thus easily fooled
Speaking generally, I have no doubt that the temptation to wear a cassock, with all the respect that entails, could lead people to twist their minds around to believe something that is ridiculous. Just look at Vatican II and how many of the clergy went along with it. That is why the early saints RAN AWAY from being priests, rather than seeking it out, because they knew the high responsibilities that would be placed on them. Somewhat later, St. Francis refused to be made a priest and always stayed a deacon, because he felt unworthy ( think about that ). I fear for the SSPX priests, if there are any, who care more about what they consider to be their vocation than about truth.
Yeah, CMRI published something along those lines -- not the first part, but the second part, about George Washington's conversion. But the implication of America being somehow admirable to God is there.
I love the deathbed conversion stories. Napoleon and George Washington both converted on their deathbeds apocryphally. Though this may not count as "conversion," exactly, in the Trad Wars, Malachi Martin and Abp. Lefebvre either accepted sedevacantism at the end, or were always against it, depending on who you talk to.