To be a Traditional Catholic, deserving of the name, we must repudiate Vatican II completely and completely avoid Vatican II and its modernism. Lest we become infected with it ourselves.
But as I wrote last time, against the truth there is no argument. For the past forty years, the archbishop, bishops, superior generals, and seminary rectors of the SSPX have ALL maintained the same position ... uncomfortable reading:
Abp. Lefebvre (1976), "
I do not reject it [Vatican II] altogether. I accept the council in so far as it conforms to Tradition."
[France-Soir, Aug. 4, 1976]
Abp. Lefebvre (1980), "
I am fully in agreement ... that the Council must be understood in the light of the whole of holy Tradition, and on the basis of the unvarying Magisterium of Holy Mother Church."
[Letter of Mgr. Lefebvre to Cardinal Seper, quoted in Apologia Pro Marcel Lefebvre Vol. III, Ch. XLV]
Abp. Lefebvre (1981), "
As to the Council, I reaffirm that I subscribe to what the Holy Father said, asking that it should be received "in the light of Tradition and the constant Magisterium of the Church.""
[Letter of Mgr. Lefebvre to Cardinal Seper, quoted in Apologia Pro Marcel Lefebvre Vol. III, Ch. LII]
Abp. Lefebvre (1982): "
The necessity of judging the Second Vatican Council in light of Tradition and the unchanging Magisterium of the Church, so as to correct the texts that are either incompatible with Tradition or equivocal."
[Letter of Mgr. Lefebvre to Cardinal Ratzinger, quoted in CFN:Rome-SSPX: Background to the Doctrinal Discussions]
Abp. Lefebvre (1985), "
We consider likewise indispensable noteworthy revisions of docuмents like ‘The Church in the Modern World’, ‘Non-Christian Religions’, ‘Ecuмenism’, and clarifications of numerous texts presently tending toward confusion."
[Letter of Mgr. Lefebvre to Cardinal Ratzinger, quoted in CFN:The April 15 Deadline]
Fr. Richard Williamson (1985), "
The Archbishop's central position is that the docuмents of Vatican II are acceptable on condition that they are sifted according to Tradition (what text would not be acceptable, on such a condition?)"
[Letter to Friends and Benefactors #80]
Fr. Schmidberger (1989), "
...opposition to the Novus Ordo Missae, and to certain [parts] of the conciliar docuмents..."
[God's Ways are not Our Ways, The Angelus, Jan 1989]
Bp. Fellay (2001), "
we go along with about 95% of the Second Vatican Council, ..."
[DICI no. 6, May 2001]
Fr. de Cacquerary (2006), "
Father Cacquerary’s outline is not his own, but conforms to the position of Archbishop Lefebvre who noted it crucial that doctrinal questions of the Council be resolved according to the traditional teaching of the Church, ..."
[Letter of Mgr. Lefebvre to Cardinal Ratzinger, quoted in CFN: The April 15 Deadline]
Bp. Fellay (2009), "
but when speaking of the letter [of the Council], we do not reject it in full as it is ..."
[Mgr Fellay, de la Fraternité saint Pie X, dit ses réserves sur Vatican II, AFP, 10th Feb 2009]
Fr. Schmidberger (2009), "
The SSPX does not reject the whole Council. Archbishop Lefebvre himself participated in the council, was in the preparatory commissions and approved most of the docuмents."
[Where Do We Stand, The Angelus, March 2009]
Fr. Pfluger (2009), "
we do not deny the Council as an historical fact, but we ask that ambiguous texts and decrees be explained and revised if necessary."
[Interview Fr. Niklaus Pfluger, The Angelus, April 2009]
Bp. de Galarreta (2009), "
Therefore to study the Council in the light of Tradition means rejecting everything that is in contradiction to the traditional teaching and Magisterium, and accepting that which is consistent and harmonious with what was believed always, everywhere and by all"
[An Interview With Bishop de Galarreta, The Angelus, July 2009]
Bp. Fellay (2010), "
The only way to read the Council in a Catholic way is to read with the filter of Tradition"[2010 Angelus Press Conference]
Fr. Laisney (2012), "
But Archbishop Lefebvre and his Society do not reject everything in Vatican II; we carefully distinguish between that which is in conformity with the previous teachings of the Church (and we fully accept this)"
[The Remnant:The New Doctors of the Law, April 2012]
Fr. Schmidberger (2012), "
In this statement of Abp. Lefebvre of his epochal declaration of 21 November 1974 are contained two inseparable fundamental principles: on one hand, the rejection of the spirit of the Council, of some of the declarations of the council and of some of the reforms that arose from the Council ..."
[Mitteilungsblatt, May 2012]