Sorry, I can’t altogether buy that explanation. Yes, as you say, he may have written this EC before the general chapter ever commenced. But that would not have prevented the bishop from tacking on a short paragraph at the end of this EC, informing the faithful, that he had much to say about the event, but that, at present, he was still formulating his thoughts, and would record his reactions in a future EC.

How sad the plight of the traditional Catholic remnant.


The SSPX has turned the fight for the Faith into a Spaghetti western.

The Pfeiffer resistance turned it into a Harry Potter show.

And Bp. Williamson, telling us it was hopeless to fight the enemies of the Church... retired ?


But still blessed are we few, because our Church Fathers did not give up the fight.


                                                  St. Pope Clement I's martyrdom

Yes, we Americans are an impatient people :ready-to-eat:

The rebuttal is, it's hard to find quality seminarians and there's a 6-year bake cycle before ordination.

But even Bishop Williamson has lectured that "Americans are a people of action."

Consider that in addition to the (Resistance & SSPX) seminarians, the SSPX rules almost 700 priests.  
Can they all be comfortable with Francis?

Have our four Resistance Bishops made plans to reach-out to the disaffected ones?

Are they actively embracing them, willing and able to bring them into the Resistance fold?

There's many a Resistance and Independent chapel who needs a priest.

Man has all of these material abilities or faculties of animal and vegetable, but he also shares with the angels the spiritual faculties of mind and will, in other words he has sensation and reason, meaning the ability of the mind to read within particular sensations their universal essences, and the ability of will to desire in accordance with what his mind has read. These two faculties no animal has (when an animal behaves with apparent intelligence, like a bee for instance, that is thanks only to the animal instincts implanted in it by its supremely intelligent Creator).

Angels have mind and will, but no material faculties of the animals, because angels are purely spiritual. (The animal faculties of sense-knowledge and sense-desire all involve matter, absent in the angels.)

Now whatever is truly human, or human as such, is what men have that neither animals, vegetable nor mineral have. But all machines are purely mineral and essentially, by their essence, inanimate. At their most complicated they still have no principle or origin of life or movement from within them. Any movement of them by electricity for instance, is from without. It follows that computers have no inner grasp whatsoever of any truly human activity, which, as human, completely escapes them. All they can do is register from outside what is observable and computable in people’s behaviour, and churn out statistics and spread-sheets, i.e. numbers, which they are good at. But Churchill said – he was no Saint but he was a human politician – “there are lies, damned lies, and statistics.” And why do statistics lie, if not because the essentially human essentially escapes them?

Here is an example. In New York maybe 15 years back, a group of computer experts set up a computer, Deep Blue, to play chess against Kasparov, the world chess champion. Now if there is a game suited to computers, it is chess, because if only one can process billions of alternative moves in a few minutes, or seconds, one can come up with the best move that leaves nothing to chance. Guess what? After a few games the experts had to reset the computer to respond to how Kasparov was playing! Computers have no inner life or initiative, they cannot think outside of the box programmed into them, they cannot possibly respond to any eventuality outside of their box. Game, set and match to human beings!