There is much in this video which will gain the approval of trads, however, less conspicuous in this video is the subtle defense of the Council itself:

-The new Mass did not follow the directives of Vatican II (consequently it can be criticized). 

-The hierarchy and the conciliar and post-conciliar "reforms" lack piety (but they were not heretical or even erroneous?).

-Priests wanted, for reasons of conscience, to remain faithful to the liturgy (a dramatic restriction of the scope of the Church crisis).

What do you think?

Very interesting question is why Jorge would permit him to make these statements that are absolutely contrary to his own position that was detailed in Traditionis Custodes?  Does Huonder act and speak with Jorge's blessing?  Why would Jorge approve of his saying such things as on this video unless there were some nefarious plot here and Huonder is merely play-acting his role?

Everything Huonder says and does to further this dilution and reintegration is pre approved in Rome.

The latest wrinkle: the Swiss bishops are calling for an apostolic investigation into Huonder's labeling of a "pontificate of rupture" (thread here, article in German here). He's retired, what are they going to do. Unless this is part of the scripted lead-up into something else.

Now maybe some day, instead of attributing grave error to the Holy Catholic Church, you'll realize that Ratzinger was playing the exact same role, and was no Catholic but, rather, a deceiver and an infiltrator, a usurper of the Holy See.

Suite-and-tie-at-V2-buddies-with-the-Modernists-purveyor-of-numerous-unretracted-heresies-worse-than-Luther Ratzinger was transformed by a deliberate PR campaign into "God's Rottweiller", a Hammer of Heretics, by having him put on a show in slapping the likes of Hans Kung and Charles Curran on the wrist, by forcing them to be transferred to a different department in their "Catholic" universities and having the course numbers changed on their heretical classes, so that once his pre-determined and engineered (like Biden's) "election" took place, he spoke a bit of Latin and issued a sleight-of-hand-smoke-and-mirrors "Motu" in which the Tridentine Mass became permitted-unless-forbidden instead of forbidden-unless-permitted by the Conciliar "bishops", his sole mission being to neutralize and re-asborb the majority of Traditional Catholics (in the SSPX) back into the Conciliar Borg collective, and having failed in his mission due to some unexpected comments made by one Trad bishop about a certain matter that provoked the ire of his own chief sposors, handlers, and controllers, was told to step down from the office and make way for the destroyer Bergoglio who had been pre-selected and waiting in the wings, who despite making no bones publicly about having nothing but contempt for the Tridentine Mass and Traditionalists, nevertheless continues to work toward the re-absorption under the guise of his great "mercy" and humbleness.

How's that for a single run-on-sentence

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