I just don't like this attitude where Archbishop Lefebvre is propped up as some "rule of faith", with not only neo-SSPX but now different Resistance groups arguing ("WE are the true followers of Lefebvre." -- "No, WE are." Sometimes you can find +Lefebvre saying both things, depending on when it was (whether early 1980s, where he was more pro-Vatican, or else Assisi and later, where he was borderline SV at times).
You can find +Lefebvre at one time talking about the NOM satisfying Sunday obligation and at other times saying that Catholics can't attend it because it's a non-Catholic rite (which it is).
Hi Ladislaus-
In the recent Kansas interview I did with Bishop Williamson, he explained that there really never was a "wavering" Lefebvre:
He always held to the principle of trying to help Rome come back to the faith:
When Rome feigned interest, or gave other reason for optimism, he moved toward them; once he realized they had no desire to return, he cut them off. So the principle always remained the same, though extrinsic circuмstances could cause him to apply that principle in one direction or the other.
I understand how that could
look like wavering, if one was not aware of this principle of action, but the reality was that he was remarkably consistent in this regard.
As an aside, it also demonstrates why the Resistance is clearly right (and the SSPX clearly wrong) about how Lefebvre would react to the prospects of a practical accord with modernist Rome today:
The preponderance of pre-1988 quotes show a willingness to work with Rome; the preponderance of post-1988 quotes show the opposite. The reason is the principle previously adduced (i.e., a desire and willingness to bring Rome back to the faith, until he realized they had no interest).