It was approximately ten years ago when I confronted Bp. Fellay face to face one on one. I expected to have only a relatively brief encounter with him so I decided to focus on one issue and one issue only. I was attending the SSPX chapel Our Lady Immaculate in Oak Park, Illlilnois at the time. His Excellency gave a long lecture starting at about 7 p.m. at the Art Center of Oak Park (
http://www.artscenteroakpark.com/index.htm). The talk was mostly about the state of the SSPX and its ongoing relations with Rome.
The lecture had been much hyped up at our chapel and I was hoping to get there from the start. Unfortunately (or rather in retrospect fortunately), I missed most of it. I got in towards the end and afterwards followed the bishoop outside waiting for a chance to catch him when he was not chatting with other people. Finally, I approached him and asked him why the SSPX appeared to be backing away from discussions in the Angelus and elsewhere of things of a Jєωιѕн nature. I used the Angelus as a point of reference to make my question more concrete by example. I was polite, but firm. I wanted a straight answer and tried to press until I got one. I made it quite clear that I was not happy about this shying away from the Jєωιѕн Question. After a few minutes or so I realized I was not going to get anywhere so rather than continue the exercise in futility I said my adios and left.
I know that little account is not that interesting, but because of the topic, I thought I should state it for the record. Since my one encounter with the bishop I have tried to avoid seeing him any more.