.
It would be nice, Mr. Johnson, if you could post a link to "the famous
Letter of the Three Bishops," so that readers could have the option
of taking a quick look at it if they're not up to speed. It was over a
year ago, correct? Wasn't it April 14th, 2012? Or, are you referring
to another "famous" letter?
Paul rebuked Peter publicly, "Because he was to be blamed," and Peter's humble response was not to tell Paul about his grace of state, or tell him only he had the authority, or expel Paul from the company of the Apostles!
When SAINT Paul rebuked SAINT Peter (protestants call them "Paul
and Peter" because they don't like to recognize the authority of the
Church to canonize saints) it was a true Apostle and a truly Catholic
Pope, two Catholic bishops who practiced what they preached, and
true followers of Our Lord, even unto martyrdom.
How different is HEBF*s behavior. He responds with eager gushings
about his grace of state, and his most prominent virtue of
prudence -- oh, but he doesn't say "virtue." That would make him
appear
proud! And appearances are everything, of course. He does
venture to claim a monopoly on 'prudence' however, which he
presumes to be something like 99% of the virtues, leaving the rest
of them for the 1% remainder of the market share.
And 'authority'!! Imagine how often St. Peter could have pulled the
'authority' card, but did not. Can you find one example in all of
Scripture where the word 'authority' is used regarding St. Peter, or
his claim to have authority? He tells his priests they have authority,
and he tells women their husbands have authority, but he does not
go around saying that HE has authority.
St. Peter did not send St. Paul to Argentina or lock him in the attic
in Wimbledon or demand that St. Paul stop writing his bothersome
Epistles to the Romans, or Corinthians or Thessalonians etc.! He
didn't demand that St. Paul stop riding on sailboats and getting
lost at sea, sunk in the bottom of the ocean. He could have, you
know! But he did not. Gee. I wonder why?
And it's actually funny you'd mention that St. Peter did not 'expel'
St. Paul for disagreeing with him. Because it was only over one
issue that this rebuke was made. HEBF, however, has been at odds
with +W for many years and had been making incessant and
unreasonable demands that he cease his exercise of his office as
a bishop of the Church, that is, an office HEBF shares but one which
he does not likewise practice as +W does by way of his ECs. And
it was the ECs that HEBF was so perturbed about.
But even after many offers and requests, where +W asked +F to
show him where +F had found +W to have written something -
ANYTHING - that was contrary to the Catholic Faith, +F could not
do so. +W even made paper copies of all his ECs and delivered
them to +F asking for his criticism of anything specific, and he got
NO REPLY from HEBF, who is only 'eager' to make headway toward
patching a rift with modernist Rome, not to repair the rift with his
own brother bishop.
The contrast between the interaction of the two Saints Peter and
Paul, and that of these two modern bishops +F and +W is most
striking.
This one comparison ought to be sufficient to open the eyes of any
diehard Accordista.