Thank you Ethelred, for explaining and making known just how hopeless the situation has become in the SSPX.
With pleasure.
Clearly Bishop Williamson is the true follower of Archbishop Lefebvre. Just look at his excellent
Eleison Comments. They're clear, smart and always a wonderful so-called "application of the Faith" of the Church.
How on earth can Menzingen battle the ECs and their author !
Archbishop Lefebvre also knew how to do "applications of the Faith". This method has the power to reinforce catholics and to attract many not-yet-so-catholic people in a subtle way to Our Lord. Too few clerics in the today's SSPX know how to do it anymore. It's not such a surprise, because too many of them are busy with battling the good Bishop Williamson... Weird!
Let's take an important sentence from
EC CLXII: Discussions blind-sided?, August 21, 2010 :
From France and Germany, I was told me a few weeks ago that a large proportion of Catholics attending SSPX Mass centres are only hoping and waiting for some agreement to come out of the discussions. If – repeat, if – this is true, it is very serious. Such Catholics may get full marks for wishing not to be cut off from what appears to be Rome, but they get low marks for not grasping that as long as the discussions remain doctrinal, there is no way in which the neo-modernist teaching of Vatican II can be reconciled with the Catholic doctrine of the true Church. Such Catholics may venerate and love Archbishop Lefebvre as they see him, but they have not understood what he was all about. They had best wake up if they are not in one way or another to fall into the arms of the neo-modernist Romans.
I've to confirm that this describes the situation in the German-speaking SSPX, so it
is hopeless. We're surrounded by Krahs and Pflugers (Krah for example always talks about the agreement). I'm afraid also the French SSPX has a such a state of mind and hence huge problems with Bishop Williamson. But at least their Bishop Tissier de Mallerais is theologically with him. Just look at the recent ECs about Benedict's Thinking.
On the other hand, I'm delighted to see the English-speaking US Americans' and Canadians' support for our good Bishop, like you here on Cathinfo. If I judge your reports correctly, then the good Bishop still has got a solid base of support in the US American and Canadian catholics. (But some of my pen pals say this is combated by SSPX clerics, including superiors, and laymen...)
If so, this is promising!
If I did not assume that the crash of the world wide financial system was immanent (it's said: latest in September) with incredible consequences for us all, and then followed by the Chastisement some time later, I would agree with the good Hollingsworth and say that there could occur a purging split in the SSPX: On the one side those wanting to stay with Bishop Williamson's traditional SSPX, and on the other side those wanting to stay with Bishop Fellay's New-SSPX and
"the poor, sick Pope BXVI and all his heresies".
(I'm sorry to again have to outline the irreconcilable opposition of Bp Fellay and Bp Williamson. I know many would love there was no such opposition, but it clearly is, and this is the predetermined breaking point.)
P.S. The quote:
"The poor, sick Pope BXVI and all his heresies" is a direct-quote from Bishop Tissier when he ordinated priests in Germany's Zaitzkofen on June 30, 2007. Unfortunately his sentence has been
censored by the German-speaking SSPX superiors and for the very first time ever, an official ordination sermon of a SSPX Bishop has not been printed in the official German SSXP newsletter... How sad. How untruthful.