Interview with Fideliter magazine, 1990:
Fideliter: Father de Blignieres, the Abbe de Nantes and Dom Gerard have virtually accused you of lying when you stated that you did not sign two Council docuмents, ‘Dignitatis Humanae’ on religious liberty and ‘Gaudium et Spes’. The magazine “Sedes Sapientiae” reproduced a docuмent drawn from the Vatican archives on which figured your name written in your hand. What is the truth of this, and what is this docuмent?
Archbishop Lefebvre: The idea of interpreting signatures to signing an approval of Conciliar docuмents germinated in the more or less malicious brain of Father de Blignieres. The approving or refusing of docuмents was obviously carried out for each Council docuмent on its own. The vote was secret performed on individual cards, and done with a special pencil which made possible the electronic counting of the votes. The cards were picked by the secretaries from the hand of each Bishop voting, The large sheets were circulated from hand to hand among the Council Fathers, and where each one put his signature, had no meaning for or against any of the docuмents, but merely signified our presence at the voting session for the four docuмents. One would truly have to take the Council Fathers who voted against the text for weather-cocks turning with the wind, when one gives people to understand that with their signatures on the sheet they approved of what they had disapproved of half an hour beforehand in the vote itself.
One sees what can be expected from the imagination of people who truly are weather-cocks and who are now adoring what they burnt a little while beforehand, such as Father de Blignieres, Dom Gerard and the fightingest weather-cock of them all, the Abbe de Nantes.