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Letter of Father Cardozo to the Silent Priests, December 2012
Dear colleagues,
In your letters, you say that you expect to something bad to happen before acting ... What serious thing are you waiting for? ... That they make you say the new mass with a woman acolyte who distributes communion in the hand, as some Fathers of Campos do already? Once we accept an error, what is the standard for not to make the next mistake? What is the limit? We saw the fall of "hard" priests who one day became absolute modernist, and have spent writings against Catholic orthodoxy ... What ensures you that there will be a return to sound principles of Catholic Tradition we have received from our founder Archbishop Lefebvre? Is the letter of Bishop Fellay to three bishops, the expulsion of Bishop Williamson, lies and permanent ambiguity of your superiors were not serious enough?
Translation glitch -- should say:
What ensures you that there will be a return to sound principles of Catholic Tradition
that we have received from our founder Archbishop Lefebvre? Is
it that the letter of Bishop Fellay to three bishops, the expulsion of Bishop Williamson,
the lies and permanent ambiguity of your superiors were not serious enough?
I think many are deceived and deceiving souls entrusted to them by God, saying that the Fraternity remains the same, that the agreement has not been signed, etc.. How can it be the same from the moment the SG Bishop Fellay responded to three bishops in May of this year by minimizing the errors of Vatican II, praised Benedict XVI as if he were a faithful instrument of Christ, insisting that we must enter [ed: dar el paso in Spanish] in the official Church "? ... If we are in the Church of Christ why enter "[dar el paso] a conciliar church which, in principle, we never wanted to belong? Or have you also thought that we were outside the Church? ... This can be only that to explains your attitude! ... One of you told me that we should apply the rule of St. Ignatius, "no change in the time of tribulation" ... exactly! Why change Fraternity? [note: Father means that the Fraternity of Bishop Fellay is not the same as the Fraternity of Archbishop Lefebvre and the priests therefore should not change Fraternity]
What is going on under +Fellay is the same thing as B16's hermeneutic of
continuity: +Fellay demands that everyone accept his innovations after Vat.II
as though they are consistent with the Catholic Faith we have received from
ABL and the Fathers and Doctors of the Church.
What is going on is the fundamental denial of
extra ecclesiam nulla salus (outside the Church there is no salvation) only this time the attack is that for a
Traditional Catholic to be "in the Church," he must accept the heresy of the
Modernists! This error in thinking was going on in the 1940's, long before Vat.II,
but it was the essential groundwork for the success of the deplorable Council itself.
We must stay Catholics! ... We are members of the Fraternity founded by Archbishop Lefebvre, which has nothing to do with the sect that occupies our priories, our schools, chapels and seminars. Would it not be clear enough that the principles of this sect have nothing to do with the Society of St. Pius X and his fight against modernism? How can you criticize Vatican II now, when your Leader says it "is not a super-heresy"? ... How are you going to say something against the beatification, for example, of Paul VI, when your leaders say that Benedict XVI is a person of "integrity"? ... Where do you see the four notes of the Church of Christ in the conciliar church to which your leaders are committed to drag you in?
This is Vatcian IIB. The same thing happened in 1964 when the deplorable
Council came out with the sentence, "The Church of Christ ... subsists in the
Catholic Church" (
LG 8) and there was no uproar. There were no riots. One word,
"subsists" and the world's Catholics failed to react, so Vatican II kept on going.
So too, now +Fellay and the Menzingen-denizens say "prudence!" when they are
actually talking about
false prudence; "obedience!" when they are actually
talking about
false obedience; and "just trust Menzingen" when they really should
be saying "
distrust Menzingen."
Your silence is already scandalous. Priests outside the Fraternity reacted, the [Faithful who demand] to hear the truth raise their voices and the only response is silence or complaint within four walls ... Is it not cowardice? ... Is it not complicity? Or omission? ... Do your silences [not] protect the [M]odernist mistakes of your leaders? ... And your anti-[M]odernist - ath, what became of it? ... Or is it [rather] that there is no death, judgment, or hell to you?
That paragraph alone should be directed toward Bishop Tissier de Mallerais.
These days, I read the following:
Who are those who follow the path of hell?
It is mainly men who abuse their authority in any field, who are dragging their subordinates to evil, either by violence or by deception. They will be judged very harshly; real Satans of this earth, it is to them that are addressed these terrible words of the Scripture: "Oh, Lucifer, how did you fall from heaven"
Bishop de Segur, Hell, chap. III.
Because of the silence, we are in this situation! I pray to God that you leave your silence and speak against so much disorder and apostasy. False prudence hides the cowardice and lack of faith, silence only benefits the enemy.
P. E.J.J. Cardozo
N. Fribourg-Brazil-December 2012
This is a fine letter. And Fr. Cardozo is a fine priest. God bless him.
His name is one of the signatories on the January 29th (St. Francis de Sales)
Declaration from Mosteiro da Santa Cruz, Nova Friburgo, RJ Brasil.
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