I've heard that every year Fr. Schmidberger sent Ratzinger flowers for his birthday.
YES, Immaculata! I heard the same thing too!
Last December 08, he received a certificate of congratulations from Leo XIV. The topic was posted on Cathinfo :
https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/fr-schmidberger-accepts-gifts-from-modernist-rome-2025/ This certificate was an appropriate gift for a priest who tried hard to move the Society into a practical agreement with Rome.
Indeed, in February 2016, Society leaders were in the process of organizing a meeting to study the latest proposals from Rome. To influence them into accepting the offer, Fr. Schmidberger sent them a 7 points internal memo in French. It was supposed to remain secret, but it was leaked a few weeks later, and then was much publicized. See here the English translation, published the next April on an Indult website:
https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2016/04/considerations-schmidberger-letter.htmlOn April 16 2016, H.E. Bp Williamson gave an answer to Fr. Schmidberger's memo in his Eleison Comment # 457:
https://respicestellam.org/eleison/erroneous-vision-ec-457/ And then, in his E.C. # 463 of May 28, he published Fr. Girouard's full analysis of Fr. Schmidberger's memo :
https://respicestellam.org/eleison/normalisation-illusions-ec-463/Father Schmidberger, together with Bp Fellay, were installed in July 2018 by Fr. Pagliarani, and the General Chapter, in the new function of GENERAL COUNCILLORS. Their role is to give advice to Fr, Pagliarani and his two General Assistants regarding relations with Rome.
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