Dear Fr. Pfluger-
Notes purporting to have been taken by one of the attendees from your
recent conferences to the Brothers at Flavigny in December are being
translated and published on the internet in Spanish, English, and French
(and possibly other languages).
In justice to you, I would like to ask whether the English-language translation copied below [via The Recusant] substantially reflects your words at these conferences (note that, at the time of this email, the final conference has not yet been translated into English; I believe it is already translated into at least Spanish).  
If not, could you offer corrections where required, in order that the
accuracy of your thoughts can be known?
In Caritas,
Sean Johnson
USA
[1-28-14]

Dear Mr. Johnson,
Thank you for your message.
This is a miserable and also common attack of the Resistance.
These notes doesn't reflect in no manner what I have said.
Forget it, it is a poster against Mgr. Fellay
God bless you
Do you understand German?
Fr. Niklaus Pfluger
[2-6-14]

Commentary:
 
1) I post this response in justice to Fr. Pfluger, since I was responsible for having originally Google translated the conferences into English from the Non Possumus website;
 
2) It was irresponsible of me to have posted a sloppy translation in such grave matters in the first place;
 
3) Even though The Recusant and Ancien Regime later supplied an accurate translation, I still ought to have verified the contents before re-publishing them;
 
4) The fact that Fr. Pfluger denies the content contained in the notes of the conferences forces that conclusion;
 
5) Foreseeably, it will be argued by some that Fr. Pfluger is lieing;
 
6) Leaving aside the rashness and gravity of making such a public allegation, it should be noted that only the brothers (and others in attendance, if any) are in a position to make that grave allegation;
 
7) And though these notes purport to be precisely such an account by an attending brother, the fact that the notes were published/divulged by him anonymously harms the credibility of them;
 
8) It will be countered that, "the brother had to publish them anonymously, otherwise he would be retaliated against."
 
9) My response to that is, "Man up:"  If he was afraid of suffering the consequences of his posts, he ought not be making the information available.
 
10) I post in my own name, and am willing to endure the artillery drawn (from both sides, I might add), because the truth is worth telling, and worth suffering for, if it comes to that.
 
11) It is equally foreseeable that some persons, endowed with limited intellectual horsepower, will construe these words as defending Fr. Pfluger (just as they said I was defending Bishop Fellay when I noted his Doctrinal Declaration was not technically heretical), when in reality I am simply posting his response as an act of justice to him, and giving him the benefit of the doubt, as required by moral theology;
 
12) Admittedly, it would have been helpful had Fr. Pfluger offered some guidance as to where precisely his thoughts and words have been misrepresented;
 
13) But as his English is very limited, perhaps this is why he asked me if I understood German?  And since I do not, perhaps this is why he did not offer a point by point rebuttal?
 
14) In any case, unless one of the Brothers wants to come forward to challenge the veracity of Fr. Pfluger's denial, there is nobody in a position to call into question the latter's honesty

+AMDG+
THURSDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK IN LENT 2014 A.D.

As a mother of 10, in running my household, I take seriously the salvation of my children's souls as these were the one's entrusted to me by God.  
I take seriously my role as a wife, as my husband's soul is also entrusted to me through the Sacrament of Marriage.  
In that respect, when I speak on matters pertaining to the Faith, lives of the Saints, readings from the Missal anything that has to do with the salvation of their souls, I make sure I speak clearly and as much as possible without ambiguity.  
Where what I would say could be misconstrued and be detrimental to their spiritual life.  
And it has happened, where what I have said was misunderstood.  
But then I was quick to come to them and clarify and correct.

The fact that Fr. Pfluger's statements are not being corrected in a definitive manner, at the detriment of the salvation of souls, is just like the Holy Father when he makes statements that are irreconcilable with the Catholic Faith.
Wouldn't one who is ordained by God to make sure these souls make it to Heaven want to ascertain that his words would not be misunderstood?  
And possibly cause a loss of Faith?

Maybe hiring a full time translator instead of a marketing firm to get their message across correctly would be a wiser investment of the funds donated by many struggling Catholics thinking their money is going to propagate the Faith, not "selling" their "products."

Dear Sean,
   We are sad for you. You, correctly lets say, took the effort
to allow Father the opportunity to speak openly and forthrightly
to very concerned Catholics all across the world; to tell them in plain
english just exactly what did he say to the brothers. This is an
unbelieveable podium you offered him; the guy who was one of the prime
movers behind the expulsion of Bp. Williamson; one of the major supporters
of Fellay's sneaky dealings with Rome; one of the leading architect's of
Fellay's pogram of cleansing the SSPX of traditionalists. And this great opportunity
you hand him to speak honestly and openly to SSPX faithful, you allow him to simply
dismiss saying: "forget it--it is a manager Fellay detractor!"

We are sorry, Sean-- but you have drunk the koolaid also. It has nothing at all to do
With whether Father speaks german or english well; there are plenty of people who could
translate accurately anything he were to say in almost any language. We just so happen to have
a bishop who speaks and reads Greman, English, French and several other languages
fluently. For a Senior manager of a forty five year old corporation with operations
in over forty countries to hide behind his "german" is despicable-- and for you to let
him get away with it is revealing.

Unfortunately, if you were "manning up," as you claim, you would have
returned the response to Father with the request: " thank you for your response,
Father; however I am not a Mgr Fellay detractor; please provide me with
your talk and I will have it faithfully translated into english, for our very interested SSPX
Faithful to know what important things you believe." Instead,
Sean, you attack the brother who dared to release the information.Well, Sean, I have a little
Information for you: do you have any idea why Benedict released his former secretary from prison? I mean, come on! He was caught and convicted dead to rights of releasing tons of the
Secret docuмents of Benedict's dirty dealings! And Benedict releases him from prison???
Maybe, Sean-- just maybe, Benedict knows he's going to die-- and to die with the massive
Injustice of persecuting whistle-blowers on his head is one thing he wanted to rectify.

Here-- in this case, you had the golden opportunity to clear up so called "rumours"
or to clear the "brothers" name, or to clear Fathers fast-dwindling reputation-- and you chose to
Do nothing, again, but instead , adopt the attitude of SSPX managers and blame the messenger.

Maybe you'll get your head out of the sand before you join Bergoglio in the great new religion of man-- but it doesn't look too promising. Maybe at least you'll realize it is dishonest to be handing yourself off as a traditionalist and posting on sites like Cath Info.Fellay has plenty of organs you can write for-- you don't
 need to be deceiving those looking for the truth. At one time you appeared solid; however. Something or someone has sucked you in and you now spread their false party line.

After I received Fr. Pfluger's response, I emailed him the following message the next day:

Greetings Fr. Pfluger-
 
Thank you for your response.
 
I am relieved to hear that the words attributed to you do not accurately reflect your thoughts on these matters.
 
Unfortunately, I do not understand German.
 
But if you care to respond, and rebut the words/thoughts attributed to you in German, I could probably find someone to translate them into English.
 
Also, since I announced my reservations concerning the accuracy of the words attributed to you on a prominent Resistance website, and announced that I was attempting to contact you regarding their veracity or falsehood, do you give me permission to publish your response/denial on that website?
 
Finally, should you decide to respond, citing particular innacuracies in the words attributed to you, do you give me permission to publish that response as well?
 
Pax tecuм,
 
Sean Johnson
St. Paul, MN
USA
[2-7-14]

Yes, Father speaks english; why his language came up as a defense is interesting. It would have been nice if the entire relevant correspondence was reported-- not just select pieces. This is typical spin control: " just give them what is absolutely necessary." It would be very educational to receive the transcript of the actual talk to the brothers , so the correctness of the initial report
could be measured, and we could avoid claims of hearsay and rumor. After all, what could Father possibly say to them that could not be widely known? For this we do thank Sean!

One thing I have noticed these past few years is a great language divide within the SSPX.  There are volumes of sermons, conferences, articles, books, etc. written in French that have never been translated into English. There is also a very curious phenomenon of people within the Society saying important things to French audiences and either never mentioning them to English speaking audiences or saying something different.

Most of Archbishop Lefebvre's sermons have not been translated. As far as I know, his conferences to the seminarians at Econe have not even been written down, let alone translated. I have come across these in Fr. Pivert's famous book and have been astounded at the depth of Archbishop Lefebvre's understanding and communication of theology.

Meanwhile, the SSPX is spending a lot of money having worthless articles on the goings on in the Vatican and Novus Ordo world translated to be published in DICI.

But just try to drum up interest in or funding for translating works of any real substance. I once asked about translating some of Cardinal Pie's works after hearing a priest quote him and praise him to heaven. That same priest discouraged any idea of actually providing the Cardinal's works in English.

So, this pattern fits with Fr. Pfluger's denunciation of the notes of the brother attending his talk. The other question I have is, if he worries at all about being misquoted, why doesn't he record these talks so as to prevent this type of controversy? In this case, I really have to wonder if Fr. Pfluger even remembers exactly what he has said at any given time. There are a few recent instances of the hierarchy having to come out and "correct" or "clarify" some of his off-the-cuff statements.