Dear Hollingsworth,
You say:
"I've never been sure that there is a 'resistance movement,' much less that it has evolved along some recognizable lines. I know this: I began to resist just after Bp. Fellay went to der Speigel and dissociated himself from the h0Ɩ0cαųst remarks made by Bp. Williamson during his infamous interview. Suddenly the lights came on. I was no longer a Fellay-led sspxer."
I'm having trouble understanding this.
Judgments regarding the H are not a matter of faith.
Public expression of H revisionism is, however, a crime in Germany and Switzerland. As a result, there is even less H revisionism there than in countries where it is not a crime. Criminalized or not, there are virtually no country in the First World where H revisionists are not considered moral lepers.
+Fellay was clearly very angry, as was Fr. Pfluger, because +Williamson had imperilled the SSPX's status in Germany, by an imprudent expression of what they consider a crank theory.
+Williamson's position on the H has been common knowledge in the Society and among its faithful for, I believe, better than twenty years. I would be interested in knowing what if anything Fr. Schmidberger or +Fellay had to say to him about it. My guess is little if anything, or it would have come out in the aftermath of the events of early 2009. As best I can recall, there was no mention in Fr. Pfluger's personal letter to +W of any previous admonishment by the Society.
+Williamson is clearly not very knowledgeable about H revisionism. When he spoke at St. Athanasius during Thanksgiving week in 2008, it was clear to me that what he knew dated from the late 1980s. So he is clearly not an H revisionist devotee, and seems to have limited his remarks on the matter to audiences of his fans. He certainly has been quite quiet on the matter since the events of early 2009.
Now even those who agree with +Williamson on the H can fairly conclude that he was amazingly imprudent, and imperilled the SSPX's status in Germany.
So: can you explain to me how +Fellay's "dissociating" himself from +W's H revisionism is something so horrific that it turned you against the SSPX leadership?