"... He said that he was present when ABL announced the names of the priests to be consecrated he added Fr. Fellay because the Swiss donor wanted a Swiss bishop.
When Fr. Fellay’s name was mentioned, Fr. Fellay was very reluctant and Fr. Schmidberger took him behind closed doors for 45 minutes and when they came out, Fr. Fellay accepted.
Perhaps TIA has a copy of that Letter? May have been in the same 2009 letter opposing the talks with Rome.
What did Fr. Schmidberger tell Fr. Fellay? Perhaps about post ABL Plans? Only God knows...
https://fliphtml5.com/gqqes/meia/Le_Livre_Noir_de_la_Fraternit%C3%A9_Sacerdotale_Saint-Pie_X_%28FSSPX%29/37/AI Translation:
"...In 1987, Bishop Lefebvre anticipated ("pressenti" in French) that three of his priests would receive the episcopate and an insistent and plausible rumor has that Abbé Fellay was the fourth name, added between February and May 1988. According to this same credible information, it was important figures from the "tradiland" of the Écône region who would have insisted with Bishop Lefebvre to add to the list an episcopal from the Lower Valais. And so it happened, on June 30, 1988, Bernard Fellay received episcopal ordination with his three colleagues..."
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Armand L says: Tragic, ... may I say : Trad chic ?
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+ Lefebvre: June 29, 1976 AD. "...our Creed. And so on and so forth.
We cannot accept these things. They are contrary to our Faith. We regret infinitely, it is an immense, immense pain for us, to think that we are in difficulty with Rome because of our faith! How is this possible? It is something that exceeds the imagination, that we should never have been able to imagine, that we should never have been able to believe, especially in our childhood-then when all was uniform, when the whole Church believed in Her general unity, and held the same Faith, the same Sacraments, the same Sacrifice of the Mass, the same catechism. And behold, suddenly all is in division, in chaos.
I said as much to those who came from Rome. I said: so: Christians are torn apart in their families, in their homes, among their children; they are torn apart in their hearts by this division in the Church, by this new religion now being taught and practised. Priests are dying prematurely, torn apart in their hearts and in their souls at the thought that they no longer know what to do: either to submit to obedience and lose, in a way, the faith of their childhood and of their youth, and renounce the promises which they made at the time of their ordination in taking the anti-Modernist oath; or to have the impression of separating themselves from him who is our father, the Pope, from him who is the representative of Saint Peter. What agony for these priests! Many priests have died prematurely of grief. Priests are now hounded from their churches, persecuted, because they say the Mass of all time.
We are in a truly dramatic situation. We have to choose between an appearance, I should say, of disobedience-for the Holy Father cannot ask us to abandon our faith. It is impossible, impossible-the abandonment of our faith. We choose not to abandon our faith, for in that we cannot go wrong. In that which the Catholic Church has taught for two thousand years, the Church cannot be in error. It is absolutely impossible, and that is why we are attached to this tradition..."
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