From the Vatican Insider article "Pell dismisses traditionalist leader's attack on Pope" (hat tip: Rorate):
On that basis, I interviewed him in Rome, October 17, five days after Bishop Bernard Fellay, Superior-General of the Society of Saint Pius X, speaking in Kansas City, had launched a harsh attack on Pope Francis. I began by asking him to comment on that attack.
Bishop Fellay has denounced Pope Francis as “a genuine modernist”, and charged that while the Church was “a disaster” before he was elected, he is making it “10,000 times worse”. What do you say to this?
To put it politely, I think that’s absolute rubbish! Francis said he’s a loyal son of the Church, and his record shows that. He’s very, very concerned for the day-to-day life of the people, and for those who are suffering, those not well off and those in difficult situations. He’s a completely faithful exponent of Christ’s teaching and the Church’s tradition.
So people like Fellay have completely misread Pope Francis?
Yes, it is a gigantic misreading! In actual fact, the Lefebvrists – many of them - have misread the situation for decades. It was to Benedict’s great credit that he tried to reconcile with them, but they didn’t respond. Now the Church today accepts the Second Vatican Council. You don’t have to accept every jot and tittle of it, but it is part of Church’s life now, there’s no way around that.
Its funny how many conservatives thought of Pell as some staunch traditionalist, the man is clearly an apostate for defending a heretic. To claim that Bergoglio has been misread is beyond stupid, it shows that you can no longer take someone
. I guess our world has turned into a whole stage for lawyers and defenders like Clinton.
"Ohh he has stated that he is a loyal son of the Church." Well of which Church we might ask? He has already multiple times said that the Orthodox Church are true Churches, Protestants too are a part of the Church, and that even good willed atheist belong to this Church also. So if he means that "Church", then well in modernist speak he is saying truth. That is the problem is that any conservative statement they ever make has to be made in light of ecuмenism, they are completely an enigma if you don't see it that way. I have shown several times throughout the forum how this method is to be applied to the Conciliar Church.
Deo gratias, if H.E. Fellay has been lulled out of his sleep. There is no more risk of joining the Conciliar Church, this is definitely for the good of the faithful.