Well, well, that certainly lays it out in lavender!
That's the kind of English that goes to work and gets the message across.
Excellent.
They put the bee on several items I hadn't thought of. I would like to know
which of the names in the list was the author, though. I don't recognize any
of the names, but then again, I'm not from their area.
It was very brave of them to sign up like this and be counted.
Does anyone know if we are not making trouble by copying parts of this
letter for our own use, to send +Fellay our message? It might be a bit much
to copy the whole thing, but there are certain clips that would be most useful:
We are scandalized at your recent remarks, published across the world by CNS, that:
“[thanks to the doctrinal discussions with Rome] we see that many things which we would have condemned as being from the Council are in fact not from the Council, but is the common understanding of it”.
...and that:
“The Pope says that the Council must be put within the great Tradition of the Church... these are statements
we agree with, totally, absolutely.” (CNS, May 2012)
We wish to point out that
when you say “we” you do not speak for us. Furthermore, we wonder how you can reconcile this idea that the Council was misinterpreted, with the words of Archbishop Lefebvre (in his books
“They Have Uncrowned Him” and
“I Accuse the Council!” for example), or even with your own statements from not so very long ago, such as:
“Ratzinger should prepare for a direct revision of the Council texts and not just denounce their incorrect hermeneutic (interpretation)”. (CNA, 30 October 2007)
I would back off of that last item and simply demand that the nefarious Council
texts be thrown out wholesale, because they
reek with the
UNCLEAN SPIRIT
OF VATICAN II. Maybe the Brits are bold, but not quite that bold.
Further on:
When you became Superior General of the SSPX in 1994, you took your place at the head of a Society that was strongly united, fervent, devout and unworldly, which knew what it stood for and why, and which had a clear vision of where it was going. Our Lord entrusted this Society into your hands. Were He to ask you now to render an account of what you have done with that same Society, what would you be able to show Him? What sort of a Society will you bequeath to your successor?
Excellent points. At this juncture, it seems to me that reminding +Fellay of the
words he can read to this day carved in the headstone of Archbishop Lefebvre:
he can read words there, that at this time he would never anticipate reading on
his own future headstone, but rather, perhaps could expect to see something
like the following:
They bought with them
the Potter's field, to be a
burying place for strangers
~Matt xxvii. 7~