You're effectively saying every Trad priest that wants to be a bishop should be consecrated as such.
No, and that's why I added that it should be done for any established congregation of good faith, i.e. in good faith as Traditional Catholics, to rule out the notorious Order-collectors, such as the clowns who get ordained/consecrated by a dozen Orthodox and/or Old Catholic types.
We're talking about established groups with legitimate needs to care for the faithful.
One need simply look at the souls who depend on Bishop Pfeiffer's chapel and missions, etc. and take pity on them, many of whom just don't know better and are just trying to save their souls.
Bishop Pfeiffer is not just some vagus who came out of nowhere, with decades of experience as a priest, and in fact left SSPX at the same time as many of the others for the same reaons.
While he took some bad turns, the faithful at his chapels shouldn't be punished for it.
Saraments were given for the salvation of souls, not as weapons against groups you don't like or against rival groups, etc. ... as SSPV have done. That's another situation. It's not like +Dolan and +Sanborn et al were these unknown quantities running around collecting Orders, but they have legitimate established chapels and faithful to care for. AND there's not a lick of theological disagreement between them that's worth harming souls over and costing the salvation of souls. +Kelly et al. should have promptly offered to do mutual conditionals for the peace of all involved. Instead not a few families were ripped apart by the stupidity.
After this eulogy, they should let bygones be bygones and offer conditional consecration to Bishop Pfeiffer.
So, the thing that His Excellency Bishop Williamson was KEENLY aware of is that neither he nor the bishops he consecrated have any real (as in jurisdictional) authority and are merely emergency dispensers of Sacraments in these times of apostasy.
In fact, he was criticized for consecrating Bishop Zendejas because the latter was not considered qualified from an intellectual perspective to be a bishop, and His Exellency responded that it was unnecessary given the role of these bishops, to care for the needs of the faithful. That is WHY Bishop Williamson deemed it expedient to consecrate so many, and also why he never set up an organization. I know his thinking on the matter quite well, as he articulated it long before he was expelled from SSPX and shortly aftere the death of Archbishop Lefebvre.
https://fsspxranglia.wordpress.com/2017/05/13/interview-with-bishop-williamson-on-the-episcopal-consecration-of-fr-zendejas/Here are some of the relevant portions of this (questions in plain text, with Bishop Williamson's responses in italics, and the bolding is mine to emphasis parts I find relevant) ...
... a famous and arbitrary commentary in a Forum questioned the intellectual / academic aptitude of Fr. Zendejas for the episcopate (although when consecrated bishop will have almost 25 years more of priestly experience and maturity that Bishop Fellay had in his). What would Your Excellency respond to such an accusation?
The Catholic Church always needs a number of well-trained priests, but most of the priests of old had little more than their seminary training.
He's absolutely correct. I've known quite a few pre-V2 priests who, let's just say, couldn't make it through 2 years at STAS.
In the Eleison Commentaries announcing the Episcopal Consecration, His Excellency explained the need for authority, and in combination with its analogy or parallel to the geographical location of the four original bishops of the SSPX with the four bishops of the Resistance, some are Trying to extract from this reference to geography and authority, an intention of him to impart territorial jurisdiction to the bishops of the Resistance. Presumably, that ridiculous dispute will be dispelled by the reading of the Apostolic Mandate, but in the meantime, could you say a few words in this regard?
Monsignor Lefebvre was very clear when he consecrated the four bishops in 1988, which was not intended to give them any kind of jurisdiction as only Rome is able to give. They were to be simply the Church’s emergency lighting system as long as the normal lights of the Church were obscured. In the same way, Fr. Zendejas will receive the Sacred Order of the Episcopate to be able to act sacramentally as Bishop, but will have no geographical jurisdiction in North America or anywhere else.
His Excellency concurred with the opinion I too have long emphasized here, that the current Trad bishops are merely emergency dispensers of the Sacraments for the salvation of souls and the good of the faithful. Without that need, there's no justification for their consecrations, so if they use those Orders CONTRARY to the needs of the faithful, they will be held accountable for wrongly usurping Holy Orders.
Eastern Rites have LONG had "chor-bishops" and Latin Rite dioceses "auxliary bishops", who while they had episcopal Orders and
Is Bishop-elect Zendejas expected to confine his ministry to the SAJM (in much the same way that the FSSPX bishops confine their ministry to the SSPX), or the worsening situation in the Church will force him into a wider apostolate (If not ex officio, then at least ex caritate) ?
The main idea behind the consecration of Fr. Zendejas is that on the American soil a duly dedicated orthodox Catholic bishop is accessible as a reliable source of true Catholic doctrine and sacraments, including priests. As the crisis in the Church deepens and deepens, it is possible that in the coming years more and more Catholics and non-Catholics will see the usefulness of a bishop and turn to their services (Jn XII, 20-21) to help them To go to heaven.
His Excellency refers to the future Bishop Zendejas as a bishop “duly consecrated”.Does this affirmation imply that His Excellency retains certain doubts regarding the validity of the new Rite of Episcopal Consecration?
Readers of the Eleison Comments will recall two issues, about two years ago, in which an article of Fr. Álvaro Calderón was summarized about the validity of the new Rite of Episcopal Consecration. He is one of the best theologians in the SSPX. His conclusion was that the new Rite is probably valid, but a shadow of doubt looms over his neomodernist intentions: Do you really intend to produce a Catholic bishop? The surplus is enough for Fr. Calderon to judge that ideally, all newly consecrated bishops must be reconsecrated under condition.
As Bishop-elect Zendejas speaks Spanish and English, it would seem that he would be suitable to carry out duties in Australasia, where those languages are common in the Philippines and Oceania. Is it contemplated that he will take over the duties (eg Confirmations and ordinations, etc.) in that part of the world?
Time will tell. While the planes fly, Fr Zendejas can travel.
Here's yet another glimpse into why Bishop Williamson has been consecrating bishops for different parts of the world. He (rightly, IMO) suspects that there are more (and probably much worse) lockdowns coming, and that Plandemic 2.0 was just a dress rehearsal.
The Resistance bishops have refused to collaborate with Fr. Joseph Pfeiffer and Fr. David Hewko in the United States for reasons that are well known in the hope that this charitable isolation would correct their scandalous public attacks. Is it planned to continue this policy under the episcopate of the future bishop Zendejas?
There are all kinds of pastoral questions that Father Zendejas will have to judge in the circuмstances that prevail then, because in the current chaos of the Church, all kinds of situations develop all the time.
Bishop Williamson here seems open to the situation evolving so that Bishop Zendejas might regularize relations with Father/Bishop Pfeiffer, and this last eulogy from Bishop? Pfeiffer appears to be just such an evolution.
One opinion says that, in the light of the relatively small number of Resistance faithful (at least compared to those of the SSPX), this last episcopal consecration is not necessary, and therefore its justification based on need is not justified by That numberHow does His Excellency respond to this perspective?
It is not a matter of numbers or quantity, but of truth and quality. Sacred Scripture tells us (Luke XVIII, 8) that at the end of the world the Church will be very small. However, true doctrine and true sacraments will no longer be needed, and in the end there will still be a minimum number of true sacraments, and at the end there will still be a minimum number of true bishops and priests. But nothing prevents these bishops and priests from being remarkably few in number. The Truth is not democratic.
Bishop Williamson justifies the necessity of the consecrations due to his belief that we're in the great end times apostasy, and IMO he's correct.