Uhm, major red flag that he wants to stay at a boarding school for boys.  Aren't there other neo-SSPX religious houses he could go to instead?

OK, well, maybe not so much.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2015/08/catholic-bishop-cites-leviticus-claims-gαys-deserve-death/

I'm not so sure that Bp. Huonder is actually planning on being a bishop for the SSPX. It seems to me that he's just wanting a place to retire. Though it does seem rather odd that he would want to retire with the SSPX. 

Louie Verrechio has good recent article that addresses this issue. I don't often agree with Louie Verrechio these days on much of anything, but I have to agree that maybe this story is overblown. There doesn't seem to be a lot of evidence that Huonder is wanting to actually be a bishop for the SSPX, or that Francis has engaged him in this endeavor. 


https://akacatholic.com/cancel-the-parade-new-sspx-bishop-story-overblown/

https://www.gloria.tv/article/XFiLRpv7Brqt2dgyorNNtocNT

"Conservative" Diocesan Bishop Retires With SSPX



After his retirement in April, Chur Bishop Vitus Huonder, 76, Switzerland, will reside in the boarding-school Institut Sancta Maria in Wangs, a village 30 km north of Chur, in Saint Gallen diocese.

The school belongs to the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX). Pope Francis supports the move which Hounder announced months ago in a letter to a selected group of priests.

Huonder ran Chur diocese for almost twelve years. He has been a typical "Conservative" who occasionally made "Conservative" statements but otherwise ran a radical-liberal diocese, promoting anti-Catholic priests to leading positions while relegating good priests to fringe parishes.

During his time, about 15 young and younger priests, all belonging to the Catholic wing, left his diocese.

When a liberal parish-priest blessed in 2015 a gαy pseudo-marriage, Huonder did not touch him. A retired priest who had publicly declared that he was living in concubinage with a woman, was allowed to celebrate his priestly jubilee without Huonder intervening.

The professors in the seminary in Chur are liberal extremists. Almost all of them were appointed by Huonder. Not surprisingly, when Huonder handed in his retirement in 2017, Francis extended his term for another two years.

[Disclosure: Bishop Huonder is an enemy of gloria.tv which supported him in the beginning of his term.]

I smell danger. Was he forced upon the SSPX? Or have they willingly accepted this Trojan Horse. Something is very wrong here.

Louie Verrechio has good recent article that addresses this issue. I don't often agree with Louie Verrechio these days on much of anything, but I have to agree that maybe this story is overblown. There doesn't seem to be a lot of evidence that Huonder is wanting to actually be a bishop for the SSPX, or that Francis has engaged him in this endeavor.


https://akacatholic.com/cancel-the-parade-new-sspx-bishop-story-overblown/

Louie Verrecchio attends the FSSP in Baltimore. Of course he can write in a 'ho-hum, move along, nothing to see here' manner. Why does he even try to be a spokesman for the SSPX anyway? To provide support for his readership? He's like Michael Matt 2.0 sometimes; playing both sides, occasionally feigning to be concerned about the direction the Society is taking, but never quite showing where his true loyalties lie.

As a side note -- The Remnant deleted the following quote from Archbishop Lefebvre that I had posted the other day on their Facebook page (when they were reporting on the suppression of Ecclesia Dei).  Do you think it somehow pricked their conscience?

"I think that many of those that left us to rejoin Rome (isn’t that right), did not rightly understand what liberalism is and how the Roman authorities at the moment, since the Council in particular, are infested with these errors. They did not understand. If they had understood, they would have fled, they would have avoided, they would have stayed with us. But they do not want to believe these errors. This is serious because by moving closer to these authorities, one is necessarily contaminated. These authorities are imbued with these principles, live with these principles – these principles of liberalism. Inevitably, they act in conformity with their ideas. And therefore, they can only have relations with us. They begin to have relations with us – relations which little by little impose these ideas on us, since they are the authorities. They are the authorities and we are the subordinates, so they impose these ideas on us. It is impossible otherwise. As long as they do not rid themselves of these errors – these errors of liberalism and modernism – there is no way we can come to an agreement with them. It is not possible. We cannot approach them because immediately we have to submit to their orientations."
(Archbishop Lefebvre September 22, 1988)

I often attend an FSSP parish too. But I also support the four Resistance bishops wholeheartedly.

That's a contradiction of epic proportions.

Where one attends Mass isn't always a true indicator of loyalties during a severe crisis.

Today's crisis IS ABOUT THE MASS.  So, yes, where one attends mass says everything.

Even so, the Remnant tries to have a foot in both doors, regarding the SSPX and FSSP. They do not, however, support the Resistance.

You support the Resistance, yet attend a mass from their enemies.  Is the FSSP the enemy of the Resistance?  Of course, in philosophy, in theory.  The FSSP wouldn't exist unless the SSPX of old didn't stick with Tradition.  The FSSP sold their souls to be "part of the gang", to be "with the cool kids", for human respect.  Just like the english catholics who accepted Henry VIII as their pope, so the FSSP accepts the new mass as pleasing to God.

I know you'll argue that you may not have any other options for mass, so you go to the FSSP.  But i'd say to you, as a friend, that by going to the FSSP/indult (the FSSP is an indult), that you are publicly accepting V2 and the new mass, so you are not fighting for Tradition, but are supporting a group who is anti-Tradition and bi/polar in the Faith (they accept Modernism and preach Traditionalism - how crazy can you get?).  Everytime you attend an indult, you are showing that you don't really believe what the Resistance stands for, because they would NEVER accept the indult...that's why they exist - to fight the errors of V2 and the new mass.  

Not trying to judge you, but to challenge you to make the right decision.  The faith is more important than the mass.

Tell me, what do you think of Verrecchio's article?

I don't care to read it because it doesn't matter; the neo-sspx is done for.  Most likely the neo-sspx is using this story as a "test case" (as communists do) to see the people's reaction to having a novus ordo bishop "help out".  If there is strong reaction against it, then they'll back off and wait.  If there's not an uproar, then they know that the people are accepting of this small step towards rome, so they'll proceed or they'll just take this step in a different way, with a different bishop.

It's rather telling that stories like this "leak" and then people try to chase down where it came from and if it's true.  The "leak" is an important part of the test since the neo-sspx can deny the story is true, while also getting "market research" on what would happen if it WAS true.

Hollywood uses this to promote movie ideas (i.e. to see how excited people are about a "potential" movie); The Government uses "polls" (most of which are fake) to see the political reaction on an issue; the media reports "unnamed sources" to see how people react to rumors about a politician or event; etc, etc, etc

How many "leaks" about the "deal with rome" have there been?  They happen every 5-6 months or so, in order to "test the waters" of public opinion.  If the people/priests aren't yet ready, then the neo-sspx will issue ANOTHER statement on how they love doctrine, how V2 is problematic and they're fighting for Truth, etc.  Blah, blah, blah.  Meanwhile, they continue to be friendly with new-rome officials, new-bishops and new-catholic organizations.  Actions speak louder than words and the new-sspx's actions are accepting of conciliarism.

The neo-sspx is an indult-waiting-to-happen.  They will continue to accept Modernism, the new church and all things V2 until their organization is so changed/corrupted that "making the deal" with new-rome will be the LAST STEP in the process.  They are already beginning to THINK like novus ordo catholics, so the change has already started.

And you ARE trying to judge me, because that's what trads here do. They (you) can't help it. Apparently, there's not much else to do these days except to judge other trads. 

I judge your actions and your contradiction mindset but not your heart.  If I could judge your heart as wrong, then I wouldn't have wasted my time trying to pull you back to 100% Tradition.