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PostYes, this pretty much explains everything.
While I agree with your knee-jerk reaction, for it is the same one
I had had upon reading Fr. Girouard's sermon and hearing him
speak it. -- But then, when I read this post yesterday, I wasn't
so sure about it at first sight.
I didn't really know why. Now, today, I think I have an answer for
that hesitancy. You say, "This pretty much explains everything."
Okay, but we were saying that about GREC when that news erupted,
even though it had been 'hiding in plain sight' for several years
already. And we said that about 'el Krahgate' too. And we likewise
said that about the abominable AFD when it was ultimately leaked.
So this is turning into a refrain. We need a songwriter. :guitar:
THIS PRETTY MUCH EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!It would make a great Irish Folk Song!
The suspicion that the SSPX was becoming unduly concerned with its public image is corroborated here.
Remember, we were told Bishop Williamson had to go because his presence was damaging the apostolate of the SSPX.
In reality, he was an obstacle to this branding campaign.
What madness.
Absolutely! It is madness, for sure. The folly of man toward his
ultimate and eternal demise in sin has no peer.
The ousting of Bishop Williamson was all about the Menzingen-
denizens and their concern for their public image -- the plan for
which they PAID FOR DEARLY with the widow's mites they had
collected over the years.
If the SSPX grew, it was precisely because of its willingness to combat the errors of Rome and Vatican II, not because it was silent on the matter.
What kind of incompetence (at best) hires a marketing company to make the SSPX appeal to a world opposed to what it stands for....unless the marketing campaign tells management it must no longer oppose, in order to gain the approval of the world.
Is this not exactly what happened at Vatican II: An attempt to reconcile the Church with the modern world.
Bishop Williamson is again vindicated when he says, The crisis in the SSPX in all respects resembles the crisis in the Church after Vatican II."
Very true. The re-branding campaign utterly ignores what it was
that made the Society great in the first place, and any decent
marketing company would never advise such a thing for their
customer -- that is, unless the thing against which they advise
is due to its conflict with the core principles upon which the
marketing firm itself is squarely founded............. :scratchchin: