I am speaking of FR. Ramon Angles, there has been a paradigm shift in the Society.
It is now producing liberal seminarians; they aren't even being taught what the fight is all about. I've talked with eighth graders at ST. Marys Academy: they aren't being taught much (if anything) about why they are standing up for Tradition, what happened at Vatican II, the docuмents of Vatican II, why there's a problem with Vatican II, etc..
If it's not too much trouble, I'd like to see more details on this. Has any real historian written some docuмentaries about it? Have there been any interviews? Can someone show some reports or something to fill in the blanks? These students you speak of are prime candidates for being sent to Winona/Virginia (when it opens). I have more on this below....
This should be introduced into their religion course as part of the curriculum. They need this information to help them in their battle against modernism in the church.
The Pius X Society has gone soft toward Rome. If it hadn't been for resistance priests to inform the Laity and other Priests what Bishop Fellay was getting ready to do, it would have been a cake walk for Bishop Fellay.
B. Fellay was getting ready to hand over the Society without a Doctrinal Agreement! A Practical Agreement was good enough for him. That's why the Society Priests and Laity were told only go to SSPX websites, don't listen to any other website, almost sounds like a CULT!
It's good to see this in black and white because I could see it happening and I couldn't believe my eyes. I know a pile of good Catholics who just can't seem to grasp that it's going on, and they really, really want to believe that everything's fine. When I have tried to explain it to them they ask, "Where have you gotten your information?" When I say the Internet, immediately they reply "OH! The INTERNET, EH? Well! NO WONDER! Don't you know you can't believe what you read there?" I say, well, I know real people and they have real experiences. Would you like to have their phone numbers? Would you like to meet them too? I can set up a 3-way phone call and you can ask them the same questions you like to ask me, if you don't think they're real people or if you think they're making it all up. They get real quiet then. But they still don't want to hear the news.
Pulling my hair out gets old. What to do? Keep studying, keep reading, keep copying key letters and docuмents, and pass them around, I suppose.
Anyway the cat was out of the bag, and its been damage control for B. Fellay ever since. When you use ambiguous language it becomes very slippery when you have to dig out the truth of a statement. So B. Fellay has been busy restructuring his sentences when caught speaking this way. So stay tuned, it's not over till its over!
I know a priest who has sent 4 seminarians to the SSPX, and the administration there pretty much used them for target practice. They encouraged the other students to give them a hard time, and said that they did not come from SSPX parishes so they're not really very good starting material. I wondered why that would be, but now seeing what you have above, cosmas, it makes more sense.
They put those four young seminarians through hoops that the others were not required to endure, and there was no reason for it. Finally, each of them left, having given up their vocation, and they all said that IF IT COMES TO HAVING TO BE AN SSPX PRIEST OR ELSE NOT A PRIEST AT ALL, I'D PREFER TO CHOOSE THE LATTER.
I don't think I've ever heard of such a thing happening in the Church prior to this. Maybe I'm just uninformed. But it really doesn't set right with me.
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