OK, maybe I shouldn't have compared +Williamson (in his Eleison Comments) to a gambler. I was basing it on the post below. But you have to admit that there is a game afoot in the SSPX; otherwise, why the confusion?
I'm glad I wasn't the only one scared at the “Eleison Comments of two weeks ago on authority being crippled".
Thank you, Your Excellency!
Thanks also to Fr. Chazal!
So he shook you up a little bit -- and didn't lose you!
So it worked. That's good news!
I know others who came away saying, "It sounds like he's giving up!"
And it worked on them, too, because they had been rather critical of
+W before that, but seeing the possibility that he might be bowing out
of the scuffle actually scared them.. That's good!
I expect that "gambler" is over the top. There are too many lurid
connotations there.
Better to say "calculated risk" because +W knows the landscape
pretty well. He knows the Faith and he knows Catholics all over the
world. He can see what's happening, and he is prepared to comply
with the will of God. So what to us may look like a gamble to him is
really a little daring, perhaps, but not really that risky.
It only appears risky when we don't have the inside scoop.
Topic: Eleison Comments" by Mgr. Williamson - Asian Journey - 309 (Read 20152 times)