The SSPX has done much that is good and it been of great benefit to myself and my family, but that does not mean it is a light in the heavens. I once thought it was, but the last few years have been a rude awakening and a crash course in reality.
I could have written that myself.
However, some people go too far in their "wake up call" and find the need to find something *fundamentally wrong* with +ABL's work, as if he made a major mistake, or his whole strategy was fundamentally flawed.
No, he just had the one weakness that even God can relate to (to a certain degree): he depends on, and works with, flawed and frail human beings. Human beings who lose heart, betray, get deceived, go astray, etc. (Obviously it's hard to directly compare God with any human being. In the case of God, He *chose* to work with flawed human instruments -- but being God, He can still arrange things so that His will is done.)
God and +ABL could talk about how their respective organizations had serious "personnel" problems -- with God, it's His Church and the recent Modernists/popes. With +ABL, it's the SSPX and +Fellay and cabal.
For that matter, many parents could talk about how they did everything right, and this or that child still went astray. It's called FREE WILL and FALLEN HUMAN NATURE.
Let's put it this way -- right now, the Catholic Church founded by Jesus Christ has fallen MUCH harder, and much lower, than the SSPX has. Is there anyone on the entire Forum-sphere going to deny that? So can we therefore conclude that the Church was more fundamentally flawed than the SSPX was? Obviously we can't do that. We'd be getting into blasphemy territory.Just because a child turns out awful doesn't always mean it's the parents fault.
Sometimes you can indeed trace the cause to bad example of the parents, lack of discipline, sending them to public school to get corrupted, etc. -- but not always! There is such a thing as a "black sheep" who came from the same family, but rejects what the family taught by word and example, and held most dear (Catholic Faith, Catholic morality, etc.) It happens all the time. We can't deny the role of Free Will in the world's problems -- or the Church's problems.
I say: there was nothing wrong with the SSPX or its position. Let's keep up the good work. Keep on doing what we were doing. We were doing fine (at least as fine as a small, microscopic group can). That's all God expects of us -- to try. He will turn things around when *He* is good and ready.
As for why the Crisis isn't over, and why the world is still going to hell in a handbasket -- well, Russia hasn't been consecrated to the I.H.M. yet, and the Chastisement hasn't happened yet. I'm with Bishop Williamson on this one. Political activism, grassroots campaigns, and individual heroism didn't turn things around before the Great Flood, and it's not going to work now. God knows this.
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