Number CCCLII (352)
        
12th April 2014
FRENCH TOUR

Good news again, this time from France, once more small in quantity but high in quality. A handful of good priests are gathering together and taking action to make sure that the Faith will continue to be defended along the lines laid down by Archbishop Lefebvre, steering between sedevacantism on the right and conciliarism -- from above. SSPX HQ will be left to disarm its followers, while a remainder of happy priests will continue to take arms with the true religion for the next stage in their persecution.

This is what I observed on a fourth lecture tour since last autumn of centres in France where the laity are interested in the anti-liberal doctrine of the Catholic Popes between Pius VI (1717-1799) and Pius XII (1876-1958). That doctrine was not new, even at the beginning of the century and a half over which it was elaborated. It was merely that particular part of the Church's timeless teaching which needed to be refreshed from the moment when the Christian social order of 15 centuries was undermined and supplanted by the French Revolution of 1789.

That Revolution was Freemasonic liberalism making war on God by seeking to overthrow throne and altar. Since then the Catholic thrones have been virtually overthrown by "democracy", while the Catholic altars were virtually overthrown at Vatican II by that Council's conversion to the religion of man. Archbishop Lefebvre however, cleaving to the religion of God, wished that his seminarians would be thoroughly familiar with the Church's anti-Revolutionary doctrine in order to know how to take their Catholic stand in the midst of a liberal world. It follows that Catholic lay-folk who can see how the Archbishop's Society of St Pius X is being cunningly transformed into the Newsociety, are interested in the Popes' Encyclical Letters of those 150 years before Vatican II. On the first of my four lecture tours there were five stops. On the latest, between end March and early April, there were nine, and there risk being more invitations. There are, all the time, more Fren ch lay-folk waking up to how the Society is being misled.

Alas, all too many SSPX priests are still spellbound by a master of seduction, lost in his worldly dream. I met a few of them on this latest tour. They are no doubt good men, they have been good priests, they have their eyes open and see many things, but when they are exposed once more to that seducer, their vision clouds over and their will is puzzled. The Greek verb "diaballein" from which come the English words "diabolical" and "devil", means to turn upside down, to throw into confusion.

These confused priests contrast with the half dozen mentioned above who have seen clear and are taking action on what they see. The tension by which they were tortured for as long as they tried to remain loyal to diabolical leaders is a thing of the past. They are serene, and happily making plans for the continuation of the Archbishop's work. Fr. de Mérode, ordained many years ago, has left the SSPX of his own accord, has bought one house in Lourdes and is buying another in the Southwest of France. These will act both as bases for an apostolate to many interested souls in the region, and as refuges for priests needing somewhere to recover. I can add that I met a venerable soul in Lyon who is offering a studio of hers in that city to any priest similarly looking for a roof. Also the "Resistance" House in Broadstairs, England, is now open and can receive priestly visitors. One has already come by. Discretion guaranteed.

Outside, Archbishop, of its structure bent
Your noble work continues, as you meant.

Kyrie eleison.
   
   
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This sentence:

The tension by which they were tortured for as long as they tried to remain loyal to diabolical leaders is a thing of the past.

- specifically refers to 6 priests "mentioned above who have seen clear and are taking action on what they see," but it cannot be separated from the voluntary tension with which +F persists in burdening the Society, which effects its bentness in its structure.  The SSPX is tortured by diabolical leaders in Newchurch but that's only because the diabolical leaders of the Society have chosen to so burden the Society by that same tight tension and torture.  

The structure is bent only because of +F and his henchmen, only because of the nefarious deeds they do and the deceptive words they say, consequent to the twisted thinking that they so carefully conceal from view, and quickly scamper to re-bury the moment too much of it comes to light.  

But they will continue to try to unbury it as time goes by, because it's what they're made of.  Their persistence in their error will guarantee that the structure will remain bent.  The funny thing about this bentness is, it could be healed in a moment, by the grace of God, and Fr. Pfeiffer preaches about this without ceasing.  

The progressives at Vat.II exposed themselves rather quickly, and were surprised at how successful they were at pulling it off.  Now the Menzingen-denizens have been trying to follow suit, and they're shocked at the RESISTANCE they're evoking from quarters they had not expected.  

They knew that the principal source of their 'trouble' was the continuing work of +W who had been rector at Winona for so long, with his bothersome involvement in the formation of priests -- most of whom continue to be a source of RESISTANCE to the denizens of Menzingen.  Therefore, they sent him packing to Argentina, out of where the next Pope would emerge, almost like it was scripted in a chapter of the Apocalypse of St. John or something.  But they finally wrapped their filthy claws around him by way of a Scandinavian journalist sent to Germany;  that would be perhaps another chapter, but nonetheless in the same book.  Then they did what they had been dreaming of, for so many years already.  And the real scandal is that the reaction was so weak.  Where was the outcry?  There was none.  


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"In brief, your Excellency, you may now go ahead and exclude me, because the arguments above are not likely to persuade you, but the exclusion will be more apparent than real. I have been a member of the Archbishop’s Society ever since my perpetual engagement. I have been one of its priests for 36 years. I have been one of its bishops, like yourself, for nearly a quarter of a century. That is not all to be wiped out with one stroke of a pen. Member of the Archbishop’s Society I therefore remain, and I wait."


http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php/OPEN-LETTER-TO-BISHOP-FELLAY-2

If France cannot produce a large high level of resistence to the diocesan reality and the faux traditionalism practiced by conservatives, I do not know who will.  But I would guess there are already a lot of independent priests as there are in the US that would regard the bishop as a late-comer in this respect and feel he is too Society-driven to be objective enough for those that have got by without all of ABL's idiosyncratic prescriptions.  

And so the emphasis here is again on 'opening the eyes' of the French district to current management and hoping for some internal revolution.  Curiously, the UK district has been left alone, maybe out of negligibility. Obviously, the bishop's favourite hobby is ABL, so where better to pursue it than in France! So, are the French just as keen?