"In 1988, when Archbishop Lefebvre consecrated four bishops in defiance of a papal warning, I was a priest in his Society, the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), working in its apostolate in Stuttgart-Feuerbach, Germany. I had known for a long time that I would never be able to back such a decision, and I had already informed the General Superior, Fr. Franz Schmidberger, of my stance in September 1986. On the other hand, it would have been impossible for me to simply cast off the theological and liturgical formation which I had gratefully received in the SSPX. For this formation bore – apart from some particular constrictions which may have arisen here and there especially in recent times – the stamp of the depth and breadth of Catholic Tradition. The Holy Mass and the liturgy into which I grew in the course of my seminary formation were precisely not the liturgy of the SSPX or of Archbishop Lefebvre, but of the Church and countless saints who had been formed by it in the course of the centuries, across the historical boundaries of the modern era and the Middle Ages. I was not willing – not even in the case of my leaving the SSPX – to forfeit these treasures. Such a demand appeared to me to be completely implausible."
Yet apparently this confused priest was able to oppose the consecrations necessary to ensure that these treasures did not disappear from the face of the earth, to ensure that they remained available not only to the priests and faithful of the SSPX, but the entire Church. What pathetic short-sightedness. What a pitiful understanding of Faith and true obedience.
It is no doubt among his friends who agreed with him, but stayed in the SSPX, that we find the infiltrators who remained on the inside to continue to work to bring the Society under the control of apostate Rome. We see the ripening fruits of their labours in the Neo-SSPX.
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