In this Open answer to the Open Letter of Bishop Williamson to the members
of the SSPX Singapore, May 12, 2013, Fr. Laisney provides the one tidbit that
the Accordistas have latched onto, in answer to the claim that
the
AFD has not been withdrawn by +Fellay. Here are the two sentences:
It is not true to say that the SSPX Headquarters has not retracted it (your French KE 303, but not in the English version: which one is the original?)
Explicitly Bishop Fellay said to Archbishop DiNoia on 28th August 2012 that it is retracted and can no longer serve as basis for work.
Of all the tangled words in this too-long letter, it is remarkable to me that
someone who is not an SSPX chapel regular would know offhand about
these two sentences.
I just encountered this today.
Here is the post in which I describe the
conversation.
I had given this person my 3 x 5 index card with
The Recusant's challenge
on it, front and back, as described in the post linked above. The person
reading the card very rarely assists at SSPX Mass sites. But some friends
of his have provided him with opinions, apparently, but he does not tell me
where he gets his information. He is the expert, you see. This is how they
have been brainwashed -- pretending that "the buck stops here."
He said to me that +Fellay had retracted the AFD. I asked to know when
that happened, and where I could go to read about it. He did not know the
date, but said that it was described in the response to a letter that +Williamson
had written, and the author was another priest, but he did not know the
name of the priest.
But that this sentence was the response that was a correct answer to my
assertion that +F had not retracted the AFD is significantly noteworthy to me:
"Explicitly Bishop Fellay said to Archbishop DiNoia on 28th August 2012
that it is retracted and can no longer serve as basis for work."
Now, if this is true, where, except in this letter, is it that this was "said?" Was
it written? Or, was this a conversation that +F had with DiNoia? If the former,
I want to see the docuмent. If the latter, whose word are we relying on?
Fr. Laisney was told by someone, perhaps not +F, that this is what was said?
Did DiNoia say this in some interview from DICI or whatever? What is
the source? Where does Fr. Laisney come up with this? How can it be
verified? Was Fr. Laisney present to hear this statement made at the time?
He doesn't say!!
In any case, if it was spoken only, you know how those things go: it can
easily be UNSPOKEN with one phone call. No docuмent, no writing, no
existence, because "words fly." They are there one minute and gone the
next. Who was the witness? Where is the record? When was it reported?
What did DiNoia say about it? Nothing???? Most likely.
This seems to be a very important question. Because if it cannot be
verified, then that is the reply that we need to have on hand when we hear
this assertion, that +F has retracted this AFD.
I suspect it is A RUMOR, that Fr. Laisney is spreading, doing the very thing
that he scolds his opposition for doing, when they have in fact done no such
thing. And if this is the case, he needs to BE CALLED OUT ON THIS.
For reference, here is the text in my post linked above that mentions
this:
They said, "No, +Fellay has since taken this back." I asked them to
please tell me when he did so, and on what occasion and how do I
find a copy of that anywhere that I can read? They replied that it
was some other priest who was commenting on the letter of
+Williamson who said that this AFD "SHOULD" be taken back by
+Fellay. I replied, "Well some other priest saying he 'should' take it
back is not the same thing as +Fellay taking it back, is it?"
"The priest said that the wording was deficient, and it should be re-
worked, but for now, there is no agreement, so we should be over
this." [I guess it was Fr. Laisney saying "especially paragraph 7" and
all that, which is his comment on the +W letter - correct me if I'm
wrong.]