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Quote from: Michelle 2/20/2026, 7:19:50 PM
If I remember correctly, many years back the SSPX held a rosary crusade asking our Lady to have the false excommunications lifted.  Soon after they were lifted, but I read it was all pre-scripted to make it appear as an answer to our prayers and our Lady wanted this agreement with Rome.??  Has anyone else heard this?

From the Compromise Changes Contradictions pdf.
Excerpts:

#94 On July 16, 2006 Bishop Fellay's Letter to the Faithful announced that:
"The Society has the intention of presenting a spiritual bouquet of a million Rosaries to the Sovereign Pontiff for the end of the month of October, month of the Rosary.
These Rosaries will be recited for the following intentions:

1. To obtain from Heaven for Pope Benedict XVI the strength required to completely free up
the Mass of all time, called the Tridentine Mass.
2. For the return of the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
3. For the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

We are calling you, therefore, to a true Crusade of the Rosary."
https://www.sspxasia.com/Docuмents/Society_of_Saint_Pius_X/Bishop_Fellays_Letter_post_General_C
hapter.htm

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Our concern here is to consider the sincerity of the request made in this first Rosary Crusade.
Why?
Because this announcement was made in July/2006, but only three months later, while the Rosary
Crusade was still in progress, Bishop Fellay spoke of the "imminent arrival of a motu proprio which
would replace that of 1988 so as to give more freedom to the Mass, an equal right to the new Mass."
(Cor Unum #85) (*)

  And then, of course, in July 2007, the motu proprio Summorum Pontificuм was promulgated (i.e., almost exactly one year after Bishop Fellay's announcement of the first Crusade.

  The (...)  concern here is that, with Bishop Fellay's October admission that he expected an imminent motu proprio, it makes it look like Bishop Fellay had called for a Crusade to effect an end already agreed upon, and more than this, that the purpose of the Crusade was not so much to bring about the already agreed upon result, but to make it look as though the Blessed Virgin herself was in support of the reconciliation process (a suggestion that Bishop Tissier...

  Is there some other explanation? Had Bishop Fellay learned of the imminence of the forthcoming motu
proprio sometime between the July announcement launching the Crusade, and his October
announcement? Or, had Bishop Fellay launched the Crusade merely in the hopes that Rome would
follow through on a promise made to him?

  Possibly, but in light of the tremendous scandal caused by the Crusade(s), of which the general House
was surely aware, one would have expected that if such were the case, the SSPX would have clarified
(particularly in the wake of Fr. Rioult's book The Impossible Reconciliation, wherein this timeline is laid out, and of which the General House was also well aware).
That they did not strengthens such a reading of events, and particularly in light of similar "incongruities" in the subsequent Rosary Crusades, of which we shall now discuss.
(*) I have not yet been able to secure the French version... stating:
"At the same time that it is announced to us the supposed imminent appearance of a motu proprio that
would replace the one of 1988 to give greater freedom to the Mass, giving it a right equal to the new
Mass."

#95: Compromise (The Second Rosary Crusade):
  On October 23, 2008 in his Letter to Friends and Benefactors #73, Bishop Fellay announced a second
Rosary Crusade, this time, to offer Our Lady 1 million chaplets to obtain the "withdrawal"(*) of the
"excommunications" through her intercession, and this time, he wanted it quickly:
"3 – Hope of a Rapid Fulfillment of Second Pre-condition [...]

   Confronted with these new difficulties, we take the liberty of appealing once more to your generosity.
Given the success of our first Rosary Crusade to obtain the return of the Tridentine Mass, we would now like to offer to Our Lady a new bouquet of a million rosaries (5 decades) to obtain the withdrawal of the decree of excommunication through her intercession."
http://archives.sspx.org/superior_generals_news/sup_gen_ltr_73.pdf

  Not even three months later, on January 21, 2009 the Blessed Virgin had (allegedly) answered, and
Bishop Fellay held in his hands a decree from the Congregation for Bishops "lifting" the "excommunications."
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cbishops/docuмents/rc_con_cbishops_doc_20090121_
remissione-scomunica_en.html

  By January 29, Bishop Fellay explained in an interview with Libero that:
"We were embraced. Then, first of all, I gave thanks to the Blessed Virgin; it is her gift. It was to obtain her intercession that we gathered together more than one million, seven hundred thousand (1,700,000) Rosaries that had been recited by the faithful who desired the revocation of the excommunications." -Rioult, Fr. Olivier. The Impossible Reconciliation, p. 22 (2013 English-language edition)

  But it remains unclear how, once again, Bishop Fellay can attribute the "withdrawal" of the
excommunications to Our Lady as a result of the Rosary Crusade, when he himself attributed the measure
to his negotiations with Cardinal Hoyos as far back as 2005:
"[Monde et Vie:] Did you expect, Your Excellency, this removal of the excommunication concerning
you?
[+Fellay:] I expected it since 2005, after the first letter requesting the lifting of the excommunication which I had sent at the request of Rome itself. Because it is clear that Rome did not ask for this letter in order to refuse to lift the excommunication. As for the moment when it took place, I did not expect it. These past few months, after the ultimatum affair..., even after it had been minimized, we were mostly cool [in the mutual relations]. Then, I wrote the letter of November 15, which is mentioned in the decree and in my letter to the faithful... [sic]

[Monde et Vie:] Is this decree a sign of the Pope's will?

[+Fellay:] I ascribe it first of all to the Holy Virgin. It is a manifest sign, with an almost immediate response. I had just decided to go to Rome to deliver the result of the Rosary bouquet we had launched at Lourdes with this explicit intention when I received a call from Rome inviting me to go there."
https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-fellay-interview-division-will-be.html

  What is this double-mindedness which can simultaneously acknowledge the result was inevitable (even if the exact day was in question), based on negotiations and assurances from Rome, cook up a quick Rosary Crusade to make it appear that the Blessed Virgin wants a deal, and then attribute to her what had already been prearranged?

  But that was Bishop Fellay's story, and he was sticking to it, as he recounted in his Letter to Friends and Benefactors #74 a couple months later:
  "When we launched a new Rosary crusade during our pilgrimage to Lourdes last October, we were
certainly not expecting such a quick answer from Heaven to our petition! Indeed, as it has happened
with our first petition, which our good Mother in heaven answered so effectively through the intermediary of the Vicar of Christ and his motu proprio on the traditional Mass, the Blessed Virgin was pleased to grant us a second grace even more quickly during the same visit to Rome in the month of January when I presented the bouquet of 1,703,000 rosaries for the Sovereign Pontiff’s intentions, I received from the hands of Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos the decree remitting the “excommunications.”"
https://sspx.org/en/publications/letters/april-2009-superior-generals-letter-74-784

  Not expecting that which you acknowledge you had been expecting for the last two years?
In the words of Fr. Alphonsus Rodriguez, it would seem that some men are as far from telling a lie, as
they are from telling the truth...."