France is Bp. Fellay's "Gettysburg". [N]ewChurch , and the SSPX know that a loss of the French SSPX chapels means the heart of Tradition has escaped alive.[/color] Pray that the French SSPX priests and faithful , rally to lead us in this holy battle.
Arrrgh!How anyone can refer to a war in which the
industrially wealthy political
establishment embodied as the
Union, aggressively assaulted the
underdeveloped & undermanned Confederacy, almost entirely as an
invasion of Confederate home soil, then present that as an analogy for the vindicative struggle of the property-
wealthy Novus Ordo establishment to assimilate Abp. Lefebvre's
undermanned rebellion to preserve
Tradition,
well! To phrase it charitably, it's an
awful mismatch,
illogical in
so many different ways.
Although
Abp. Lefebvre organized what was a less contentious
rebellion against the
Novus Ordo establishment, to apply the metaphor of the history of the War of Southern Secession to the current situation in the SSPX, one would need (to find) an
imaginary universe where the Confederacy's Constitutionally elected Pres. Jefferson Davis turned
traitor and led a contrary movement that recruited a majority of the Confederacy's leaders eager to return to the Union. Instead, the Confederacy of the
real universe fought on thro' military & civilian privation
well past the point of
exhaustion. The latter, albeit grim, might be the best analogy to the even-more
undermanned SSPX
Resistance; Catholic traditionalists should, of course, fervently hope & pray for a completely different outcome.
Be that as it may, I wonder who in the SSPX will fill the role of Union Gen.
W.T. Sherman and his "March to the Sea" of looting and wanton destruction?[‡] I have no doubt that the SSPX faithful will find the Vatican's imposition of
Reconstruction on the
SSPX and its
chapels quite, um, distasteful.
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Note ‡: Augustin Verot: the French-native Catholic Bishop of Savannah (Ga., U.S.A.), was saying Mass in his seaport see (cue theme to
Raiders of the Lost Ark) when Sherman's Union troops entered victoriously. Verot observed Sherman's destruction first-hand during amazingly extensive contemporary travels around his diocese. Alas, only frustratingly skimpy details were recorded or survived for many of them.