Your Excellencies/Rev. Fathers-
No doubt, you are all aware of the +Huonder video series released by the SSPX, designed to anesthetize the clergy and faithful into accepting the “traditionalism” of +Huonder (an infiltrator on an admitted mission directly from Francis to reintegrate/dissolve the SSPX into the conciliar church).
I will not bore you with an analysis of his comments (except to note that, like +Schneider, they all tend to excuse the council itself, restrict the battle for the faith to the sole issue of the Mass, and lay the groundwork for a hybrid rite by arguing -however truly- that the Novus Ordo was not a rite faithful to Sacrosanctum Concilium), but rather, I wish to direct your attention to an old tactic being used to make the anesthesia easier for the faithful to consume, because “those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
All will recall in 2012 that one of Menzingen’s responses to Resistance warnings that +Fellay was entering a trap, was to claim that all the conciliar modernists opposed BXVI’s intention to reconcile the Society. “It proves Benedict is traditional, therefore there is no trap, and the modernists are terrified that the pope will bring us back into the ‘official’ Church.” Then followed all the premeditated “proofs” of Benedict’s traditionalism (the motu proprio, etc).
Fortunately, +Ganswein’s inconvenient biography of BXVI revealed that the late pope’s intentions were always and only to draw as many followers away from Lefebvre as possible.
Today, the same lie is proffered on behalf of +Huonder: A video series made to promote his alleged traditionalism, to reassure the faithful (and clergy) that it is right and safe to welcome this man into tradition (and by implication, that it is safe and acceptable to collaborate with conciliar clergy: a Roman prerequisite for any practical accord!).
To enhance the illusion, a disingenuous “uproar” is manufactured among the Swiss bishops in opposition to Huonder and his recent (pre-approved) comments against Traditionis Custodes.
This subterfuge allows the SSPX to point to Huonder and cry, “Look how much the modernists hate him for his traditionalism!” (Just as ten years earlier, the same tactic was used with regard to BXVI and his offer to regularize the Society: “All the modernists are up in arms and against the pope over the prospects of our regularization. This proves he is traditional!”).
But the astute observer will note a very different response, from both Rome and Menzingen, with regard to +Vigano, about who’s traditionalism there is no doubt! Why no videos promoting +Vigano? Why the long, conspicuous silence from the Society on him?
To ask such questions is to answer them.
But the devil always shows his cloven hoof, and in the case of +Huonder, it is revealed by his desire to avoid blaming the council. All the promotion and newly manufactured controversy surrounding him in Switzerland is designed to conceal that cloven hoof, and it is the same old Roman-SSPX artifice as in 2012.
Given the lack of protest coming from within the Society, it is easy to predict this tactic will be much more effective this time around (the Society having long since "purified" its ranks and pews of most who would have cared).
“Because they had not the love of truth, I will send them an operation of error, that they should believe lies…”
Semper Idem,
Sean Johnson
Topic: Huonder Video: Part II (Read 2708 times)