Remember when Fellay was saying that the pope was saying the Latin Mass privately and then a Vatican official came out and said that he did not.
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2010/07/19/so-the-pope-says-the-old-mass-privately-well-probably-not/
According to Bishop Bernard Fellay, head of the SSPX, the Pope says the old rite of Mass privately. (Hat tip to Fr Z at WDTPRS.)
This story has been around for some time, but is it true? Probably not.
So far as I can make out the story first appeared in Catholic World News on July 16, 2007. Beneath the headline “Pope Benedict uses older ritual for his private Mass,” CWN reported:
“Pope Benedict XVI, who recently issued a Motu Proprio allowing all Catholic priests to celebrate the old Latin Mass, uses the older ritual himself for his private Mass, CWN has learned.
“Informed sources at the Vatican have confirmed reports that the Holy Father regularly celebrates Mass using the 1962 Roman Missal.”
That story is still being presented as news today, but think about it for a moment. CWN says it “has learned” that the Pope says the old Mass. No, it hasn’t. All it has learned is that unnamed sources have “confirmed reports” that he does so. Not the same thing at all.
The day after CWN released its story, the Vatican declared that the story was not true.
According to the Catholic News Service (CNS):
“Claims that the Pope celebrates his private Mass using the Tridentine rite are incorrect, Jesuit Fr Federico Lombardi told Catholic News Service July 17.”
Fr Lombardi is the director of the Vatican press office, and seems an honest man. It is hard to believe anyway that if the rumours had been true, the Vatican (and therefore ultimately the Pope) would have denied them.
Fellay just has to go, how many more times are we going to be duped?!
The man is not trustworthy. The whole "the pope says the mass in private" was to get the SSPX to think Razinger was traditional and one doesn't have to do much digging disprove that.
I think he is a mole but if he isn't he should still be removed for incompetence.
Goodbye Bishop Fellay.
+Fellay was quoted in
CFN back in October 2010 saying this:
Bishop Fellay noted that Pope Benedict does not like the New Mass. As Cardinal Ratzinger, he stated in print that it is a “banal on-the-spot fabrication.”
He prefers the Old Mass, and there is word he celebrates it from time to time. Yet due to the pressure from bishops, he allows himself to be intimidated into not celebrating it publicly.
The opposition is so fierce from the progressivists that even mildly conservative
Novus Ordo prelates are denounced as “ultra conservative.”
Along the same line, in 2007 the Vatican noted that
“pro multis” in the words of consecration must be translated as “for many”, since “for all” is inaccurate.
The German bishops recently stated that in spite of the Vatican’s order, they plan to keep “for all,” because – and this is priceless – “it is tradition, and we have to keep to tradition.”
If Bishop Fellay lied, perhaps it's because he's been schmoozing with Vatican liars,
and these German bishop liars who say they "must keep to tradition," and he is
learning their vices and bad habits? -- If so, that's
all the more reason to stay
away from these Modernists!