Michael J. Matt



Tired of the Battle ?



Posted on TIA on 9/25/2012

Mr. Michael J. Matt
Editor, The Remnant

September 5, 2012

I just received your most recent Remnant and I was immediately drawn to the article of Mr. Brian McCall regarding the recent declaration of the SSPX. The article exudes a high respect and honor for the “good” Bishop Fellay who has succeeded in “unifying” the dissident attitude within the SSPX, which attitude was brought about due to his wish to have an agreement with Rome. The poor priests whom he is now disciplining for having the courage to speak out against what they saw as an attack on their last 40 years efforts are bearing the brunt of Bishop Fellay’s actions.
 
I assure you that there are a good many SSPX’ers [particularly us older ones] who are not too happy about the course of events. I would ask that you include in your next Remnant the most recent Eleision comments from Bishop Williamson. For example he says:
 
“The first 'essential requirement' is freedom for the Society to teach the unchanging truth of Catholic Tradition, and to criticize those responsible for the errors of modernism, liberalism and Vatican II. Well and good. But notice how the Chapter’s vision has changed from that of Archbishop Lefebvre. No longer 'Rome must convert because Truth is absolute', but now merely 'The SSPX demands freedom for itself to tell the Truth.' Instead of attacking the conciliar treachery, the SSPX now wants the traitors to give it permission to tell the Truth? O, what a fall was there!”
 
When Rome asked Bishop Fellay to come talk, many of us felt he had an obligation to do so but that he would tell the Roman authorities that no agreement can be made unless and until Rome acknowledges that Vat II IS the problem in the Church, the docuмents contain serious errors and the New Mass is an abomination and hateful in God’s eyes!
 
How can we now act as though it can be possible to have an agreement with Rome which today is the enemy of the true traditional Catholic Faith? In my younger days, the Jesuits would write and not concern themselves with how nice they were but how truthful their case was. Do we now just write what sounds nice? A Pope once said, "It is better that scandal arise than the truth be concealed!"
 
I’m sorry but I do not feel that Bishop Fellay is working for the betterment of the faith.
 
     J.P.

I gave up on the Remnant about 6 or 7 years ago,  I think they had been on a slow, downward slide into modernism probably long before I, being a bit slow on the uptake, noticed it.
I started reading the Wanderer about 20 years ago, then went to the Remnant, now the Catholic Family News is the only Catholic publication that I subscribe to.

Marsha

These journalists, though critical, could never break away from the conciliar church. They are really conservatives, not traditionalists, and were only interested in boosting the weak indult faction by having Bp. Fellay and a liberalised SSPX join the party. They continue to write in support of the bishop's changed position and his clampdown on hardliners. It is as though such people have for some time been looking for a focus in the form of Bp. Fellay to lead them to their promised land after seeing their efforts with Rome crumble into many parts. They will be disappointed.