Mr. McFarland wrote in and said,
ABL's living an EASY MODE compared to +Williamson? Have you read +Tissier's biography? If so, could you look me in the eye and say that ABL EVER lived an EASY MODE?
I didn't say that +ABL was living life on easy mode, or that he had no sufferings in his life. I said he was on Easy Mode (as in a game) COMPARED TO BISHOP WILLIAMSON. Guess what? All those dry martyrdom points suffered by +ABL are also well-known to +W as well. But +W is dealing with an enemy who is diabolically clever enough to make no martyrs, to set up controlled opposition, and keep the people happy, lest they LEAVE and become SUPPORTERS of a resistance movement -- whether the Traditional Movement in the 70's or the Resistance in 2012 and after.
A lot of lessons were learned after Vatican II. Setting up the Indult was a stroke of diabolical genius. You want to give the people an OUTLET for their desires for things traditional. You want to fulfill those needs, lest they leave and have them fulfilled completely and properly in the Traditional Movement. But then you can't control them. So you can't have that.
+ABL was dealing with a ham-fisted opponent, a metaphorical bull in a china shop, who woke up countless Catholics to the Crisis and drove many into the waiting arms of Tradition. Having to choose between the SSPX Tridentine Mass and the banal, empty Novus Ordo -- that was a no-brainer for most. So after leaving behind the empty religion of man, they joined and supported the Traditional Movement with their time, their money, their labors. Groups like the SSPX benefited GREATLY from this.
Topic: If ABL lived today, the SSPX would not have succeeded (Read 3275 times)