Archbishop Vigano's tribute to Bishop Williamson.

https://exsurgedomine.it/250131-williamson-eng/

This had been buried in the larger tributes thread but probably deserves one of its own.  +Vigano's writing is simply unmatched.  He writes like a Pope issuing Encyclicals.

Bishop Williamson was disobedient for an apostate Rome; disobedient for an enfeebled conservatism that had forgotten the true reasons for its existence; disobedient for a world incapable of bearing the truth spoken to its face. This apparent disobedience – which binds him indissolubly to the figure of Monsignor Lefebvre, the “rebel Bishop” who dared to challenge the modernism of Paul VI and John Paul II – was the reason why in 2012 he was abandoned and expelled from the Society of St Pius X, to which he belonged, due to his refusal to accept an agreement with conciliar Rome and with the pseudo-conservatism of Benedict XVI.

BOOM!

This simple paragraph should be sent to every, current sspx priest.  Maybe some of them would wake up.

Trento, are you reading this?

BOOM!

This simple paragraph should be sent to every, current sspx priest.  Maybe some of them would wake up.

So, that "disobedient" section reminds me of an episode when I was staying at the "Regina Caeli House" in Kansas City, where the district headquarters were at the time, during one Summer before the next year at seminary, helping out.

Father Peter Scott, Father Kevin Novak, and I were eating dinner while listening to some audio tape in which at some point the speaker declared that SSPX were disobedient to Rome.  Father Novak protested out loud:  "We're not disobedient!"  So I spoke up to disagree:  "Of course we are."  Then we both looked to Father Scott to weigh in and break the tie.  He sat for a minute in silence, and then blurted out in typical Father Scott fashion:  "Yes we are!" ... and then unleashed his inimitable laugh for 60 seconds straight.

If "Pope" Vigano declared BXVI antipope, would you accept?

If Vigano became a valid pope and he declared BXVI an antipope, I would have no choice but to accept.

Johannes, why isn't Pius XII a pope?  Most sedes don't go this far.

From before V2 or after?

Before V2 by the Holy Office and after V2 by Traditional Catholics.

Many of us would say to +Viganò in good humour:  "Hey, Johnny Come Lately, what took ya so long?"

Indeed, it's taken him a while, but if you look at his last communication on the subject, the premises are all there in the docuмent to make that conclusion about Roncalli - Ratzinger, not just Bergoglio.  He just hasn't explicitly done it.

+Vigano has done that with every one of his letters, where he takes a step, but then plants the seeds toward the next step in the docuмent ... if you have eyes to see.  I predicted Bergoglio-vacantism about 2-3 letters before he actually went there.