You saw what a (bad) joke the General Chapter was. If the powers that be were able to get everyone to not only hold their tongues but actually uphold the expulsion of Bishop Williamson, it may be — and I sincerely hope that I'm wrong — that the SSPX is finished.
Bishop Williamson said as much in Post Falls. He hopes and prays that the Society
may come to its senses before it's too late, but that if it does, it will be a miraculous
intervention behind it, for by mere human means it is already beyond recovery.
The reason is, that a lot of men entered the SSPX because they admired the
Archbishop's charisma, and looked upon him as a possible means of restoring
the Comfortable Catholicism of the 1950's. But that is not what ABL was all
about, +W says. It was only after the Romans showed their true colors in May
of 1988 that ABL's true heroism rose to the surface, and he consecrated the
bishops. But those who had followed him yearning for a return to the 50's
never really understood this heroism, he said. And soon after he died, this
latent accommodation with comfortableness and prestige and human respect
has gradually risen to the surface, as evidenced in the GREC story. And it
is THAT which was at the root of excluding +W from the Chapter and pushing
forward with a "practical and impossible regularization" with apostate Rome.
As for the conclave, they're putting up two chimneys on the roof over the
Sistine Chapel. One is for the stove that will burn the ballots, and a SECOND
one is for a SECOND "electronic stove" (?) that will carry "smoke from flares"
to signal the process - black smoke for NO POPE and white smoke for POPE.
Imagine the confusion now if one chimney has white smoke and the other
chimney has black smoke. I, for one, do not understand the need for two
chimneys. Maybe this time there will be two popes?
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