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Offline parentsfortruth

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SGG, what do you think about Msgr. Lefevbre?
« on: December 16, 2011, 12:04:54 PM »
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  • Please give us your thoughts on Archbishop Lefevbre.
    Matthew 5:37

    But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil.

    My Avatar is Fr. Hector Bolduc. He was a faithful parish priest in De Pere, WI,


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    SGG, what do you think about Msgr. Lefevbre?
    « Reply #1 on: December 16, 2011, 09:48:46 PM »
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  • I presume you mean me.

    I gave my opinion on another thread recently, in the following words.  If you familiarise yourself with the writings and the life of Archbishop Lefebvre you may come to the judgement that he was head and shoulders above any of his peers in terms of the strength and refinement of his theological register.

    Consider this 1964 testimony by Fr Victor-Alain Berto, who was responsible for many of the Archbishop’s interventions at Vatican II.  Fr. Berto died in 1968, said to have been crushed by the inconceivable evil of Vatican II.  He was a sedevacantist, and remained close to the Archbishop until he died.

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    I had the honor, a very great and quite unmerited honor — and I say this before God — to be his theologian. The secrecy to which I am sworn covers the work I did under him, but I am betraying no secret in saying that the Archbishop is far superior as a theologian to me — and would to God all that the Fathers had his knowledge of theology. His theological habitus is completely sure and acute, and his very great devotion to the Holy See adds to it the connaturality which enables the Archbishop, even before the discursive habitus comes into play, to discern intuitively what is and what is not compatible with the sovereign prerogatives of the Rock of the Church. He in no way resembles the Fathers who, as one of them had the effrontery to boast publicly, took from the hands of an “expert” in the very car that was taking them to St. Peter’s, the “ready-baked” text of their intervention into the Council hall. Not once have I submitted to him a memorandum, a note, a draft docuмent, without his having reviewed, revised, re-thought, and sometimes re-worked it from beginning to end. I have not “collaborated” with him; if such a word existed I would say I have truly “sub-laborated” with him, in accordance with my capacity as private theologian and in accordance with his honor and dignity as one of the Fathers of an ecuмenical Council, Judge and Doctor of the Faith with the Roman Pontiff…

    Abbé V. A. Berto,
    Private theologian of Archbishop Lefebvre at time Second Vatican Council and Secretary of the Coetus internationalis Patrum (International Body of Fathers).
    3 January 1964

    This text is given by Bishop Tissier in his biography of the Archbishop.


    I think the Archbishop was saintly.  I could not sufficiently express my respect for him.