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I am not sure that SSPX folk have been paying much attention over the years to doctrinal issues. And keeping these issues fuzzy gave the Society a larger audience than the other groups who opted for a more precise position than just 'traditional feeling'. True, it provided the sacraments and a 'safe' place for families but the passage of time has turned them into hostages or creatures of habit while their religious fate is decided for them by others. Trads entered the movement as individuals but most ended up being collectivised! Of course, those now under 50 only know the mainstream and a shaky revivalism. They lack personal experience of the old church when it was mainstream; they do not possess that sharp feeling of loss. Menzingen will be very conscious of this and may have decided that the needs of new generations are best served by attempting to integrate with reality on the best possible terms than boldly maintaining the Society's former position ..... which was not that firm at the best of times!
I spoke to some SSPX laity in the past week. They were not aware of the developments regarding Dominicans of Avrille and other happenings.
They made the point to me once we have the Latin Mass everything else falls into place. I asked them does doctrine matter? They said it did. They are probably more moderate laity. I just got the impression they possibly believe the SSPX would never go wrong. They are good sorts, who I wouldn't regard as Modernists, but I do believe Bishop Fellay can rely on their support.
When there is a practical agreement laity will have to take a stand.
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It goes back to doctrine and keeping the faith. Bishop Williamson highlighted this at the 'Voice in the Wilderness' conference.
The Menzingen-denizens have declared WAR on doctrine
and on the Catholic sense to recognize its importance!
This could be seen as the PRIMARY reason for the so-called expulsion of +Williamson: his courageous stand was simply intolerable.
So, in typical Liberal fashion, they indecently fished for some other reason to criticize him. He's a nαzι!! That was the square where they put all their poker chips.
But that was just the thing that would make their nefarious deed 'tolerable' to the MSM, and therefore the pew-sitters.
In the end, this "WAR on Doctrine" is the same approach John XXIII (soon to be Newcanonized!) established in 1962 in his M.R.S. of October 11th, the erstwhile Feast of the Divine Maternity of Our Lady.
Note: the declaration of WAR against DOCTRINE is a Freemasonic principle. The fact that the XSPX is cooperating with it doesn't have to make them Freemasons, because you don't have to BE a Mason to be doing the WORK of a Mason. Of course, Annibale Bugnini was an exceptional case, as he not only acted like one, but he WAS one. What will they say of +Fellay in years to come? Or Fr. Pfluger? Hmmmm? ..............
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