Good work, Apollo. I hope the good bishop will feel compelled, finally, to issue a statement that explicates the GC’s “disguised defeat” in greater detail. There is nothing disguised in this amended, not to mention, emasculated 1974 declaration. Along with the sad election results from the 2018 GC, this foreshortened docuмent expresses the in-your-face attitude of the sspx hierarchy, and their unrelenting efforts to be reunited with the apostate Conciliar church. It constitutes a total betrayal of the sspx faithful, IMO. I doubt, however, that most of them care at this point.
Alas, the Archbishop, IMO, may have helped, though unwittingly then, to set the stage for this most recent and sorry development. Yielding, perhaps, to the incessant promptings of old guard sspx types like Fr. Schmidberger, he signed the Protocol of Accord on May 5, 1988.
Only 7 months earlier, on October 4, 1987, had he given the famous “Apostasy” sermon, wherein he decried any possibility of collaboration with Rome. Wherein, as well, he accused Rome of deChristianizing society. Wherein, additionally, he declared that Rome had lost the Faith, and was in “apostasy,” declaring openly that “Rome has left the Church.” He capped his remarks by stating: “It is sure, it is certain!”
There are only “two last remedies,” as revealed by Fr. Agustin Fuentes in his 1957 interview with Sr. Lucy. They are, quite simply, total devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Holy Rosary. The sspx does not provide an effective remedy to our deplorable spiritual state. The Old Mass will not save us now. Neither is the traditional priesthood equipped to rescue us at this point, and I include the so-called "Resistance." Only devotion to Our Lady and to Her Immaculate Heart can remediate the situation. Only the daily Rosary can satisfy the Heart of Jesus, and appease His pending wrath. Only the papal Consecration of Russia to Her Heart promises any kind of future peace.