With the consecration of Bishop Roy, the Bishop Dolan group, no longer supports Bishop Rodrigo da Silva.

https://x.com/liturgicalife/status/1726207662596264014?t=r5RH6dxltjAGXvoND8K9zw

That's actually old news. Thank you.

I cannot keep up with the news of the Traditionalist chaos.

 Hello, a certain person on CathInfo! Bp. W. did indeed conditionally consecrate Vigano. 

Comments - +Viganò's Eulogy for +Williamson—and other responses
From Sean:
 (nothing longer than 10 minute episodes, as His Lordship believed that’s all the modern mind could muster;

Interesting, since His Excellency has been known to go on for 45 minutes with sermons.  He did insist upon seminarians keeping their to 10 minutes when they were practicing as deacons at STAS, but then went 45 himself.

But here's the thing.  I've never in my life heard so captivating a speaker as Bishop Williamson, where you hang on his every word and lose any sense of time passing, where after 45 minutes you're disappointed that he's done.  I've seen other priests go 30+ minutes, and by about 12-13 in, everyone's squirming in their pew, shifting their weight, and checking their watch.  Not so with +Williamson.  Only he could pull that off.

An updated version from Respice Stellam:



The Death of +Richard Williamson:

A Bitter Eulogy

By

Sean Johnson

It is not widely known by the faithful that in the years preceding 1988, when +Lefebvre was still negotiating with modernist Rome for a bishop for Tradition, it was the name and dossier of Fr. Richard Williamson which was provided to Cardinal Ratzinger as his preferred choice for episcopal consecration. It was this man, and no other, whom +Lefebvre selected to perpetuate and safeguard the traditional Catholic priesthood (“and all that pertains to it”), which his Society was created to do.

Rome understood that such a man could not be permitted episcopal consecration, because his candidacy represented a continuation of the intransigent preconciliar “Lefebvrism” they sought to eliminate. He could not be negotiated with. They needed someone else, who in time might be separated from the views of the Society’s founder, in order that the SSPX could be reoriented back toward conciliarism, and the traditionalist resistance eliminated. They found their man in the person of +Bernard Fellay (who in ascending to the superior generalship in 1994, at the prompting of Fr. Schmidberger, directly violated the Founder’s command that a bishop never become superior general, upon the pretext of needing a bishop for greater stature in dealing with Rome).

In +Fellay, Rome found a man they could work with (as Cardinal Hoyos stated): That is, a man willing to depart from +Lefebvre’s post-1988 principle of action that there be no practical accord with modernist Rome before Rome returned to Tradition. Therefore, +Fellay’s disobedience to the Archbishop would introduce division into the SSPX, and a quiet power struggle began between those on the side of +Fellay (who wanted a deal with modernist Rome), and those behind +Williamson and +Lefebvre (who refused any practical negotiations with same).

But +Fellay, being the superior general, held all the cards, and having began secret negotiations with Rome through the GREC (1997-2000), and a few years later agreeing with Cardinal Hoyos to “proceed by stages” toward canonical recognition, knew +Williamson had to go. Consequently, in 1999, +Fellay sought to remove +Williamson from the American seminary, but the latter refused, until 2003, when he consented to be transferred to Argentina. But this did not suffice, and in 2009 the famous h0Ɩ0cαųst interview was used as a pretext to remove +Williamson from active ministry, sequestering him in a Wimbledon attic for four years, while +Fellay maneuvered to vilify his name and reputation until 2012, when, having just revised the SSPX constitutions in preparation for reinsertion into the conciliar church at the General Chapter in July, he expelled +Lefebvre’s most trusted and loyal confidant in October.

The muzzled SSPX, now more or less approximating another indult community (a la the Fraternity of St. Peter), +Williamson would become the moral head of the Resistance movement (i.e., all those SSPX and allied priests expelled or cut off for resisting the sellout to modernist Rome). Toward that end, he would provide ordinations, and beginning in 2015-2021, would eventually consecrate 6 bishops for the various Resistance camps (and conditionally consecrate yet another bishop refugee from the conciliar church), thereby guaranteeing a future for Tradition as Archbishop Lefebvre did before him.

But just as divisions emerged in the greater Church after the council, and then within the SSPX, so too would they emerge within the Resistance movement, such that, just a few short years into this “remnant of a remnant,” many would abandon +Williamson, exclaiming as many disciples did to Our Lord, “This saying is hard, who can hear it,” and not understanding, marched off into obscurity, to the detriment of the recovery of the Church.

That said, faithful throughout the world may take some small consolation in knowing that His Lordship was surrounded by faithful, friends, and clergy in his last days, praying the Rosary around the clock, and according to some reports, gave evidence of being aware of their presence and prayers. For that, I am most thankful.

It must be stated that Bishop Williamson deserved far better treatment from his former SSPX confreres, who in the main, never came to his rescue, preferring to sit in cowardly silence for self-preservation, and watch +Lefebvre’s preferred bishop be jettisoned in favor of a gentler, modernized, and mainstream repackaged SSPX, which Rome would not object to, and gradually float imperceptibly into the conciliar pantheon.

+Richard Williamson’s death leaves in his wake an unfillable hole in the Church; there are none of equal stature to replace him. With time, we will miss him more and more, as it becomes apparent even to those who disagreed with him on various points, that we have lost a treasure, and all are the worse for it.

“No prophet is not accepted in his own country.” (Luke 4:24)

He was my friend, and I shall miss him greatly. But we have his Letters from the Rector. We have his Eleison Comments. We have decades of YouTube and online video conferences. In these teachings, His Lordship will live on even here on Earth, even as he enters into eternity.

He lived up to the motto on his coat of arms: Fidelis Inveniatur (“Let him be found faithful”) in an age where fidelity is increasingly rare and undervalued. But it gives me hope that, God willing, I will see him again one day, in a place where there will be no sadness, and everlasting joy and peace.

I will miss you, old friend.