Slight correction to the above. The footnote does not imply that ++ABL wanted to convert Rome from within. The Archbishop knew that to be the absolutely wrong way to go. My intention is merely to point out that +BF appears to believe that:
(a) today, it would be ABL's intention, and
(b) that he, +BF is fulfilling the purpose of the SSPX according to the situation today.
I would say the same thing as you, donkath, but I would use
different terms.
I was at a conference speech given by HEBF in the year 1995
or 6, which was when he had only been SG for a year or two.
In this speech, which I recall well (not the words but my
impressions of +F and of what people had to say about him),
there is no question but that he was already thinking of
making some kind of 'deal' with conciliar Rome as his primary
goal if not in the Society then in life itself.
He spoke of it as a "luscious plum," his exact words, and only
later, did I realize the allusion to the forbidden fruit of the
Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
But, if that's not bad enough, after having read about the
Re-Branding effort, and GREC, and the AFD and the GC 6
Conditions, and on and on, it becomes more realistic to me
that what has been going on in between the ears of this
current SG is, that he thinks of his agenda toward making
a 'deal' with modernist Rome as the MANIFEST DESTINY of
the SSPX.
The Manifest Destiny of the SSPX.
The Manifest Destiny of the SSPX.
The Manifest Destiny of the SSPX.It has a kind of song quality, don't you think, Kazimierz?