The result you seek has already been accomplished; ironically as your role of Devil's Advocate. By your efforts to bring the truth about +Thuc to the surface, (soundly refuted by countless sources,) it's unmistakable that he was a courageous and holy prince of the Church. Possibly even a martyr.
After the confusion spread by +Kelly was so thoroughly cleared up, it was a great pleasure for me to assist at Mass at numerous CMRI chapels this summer. I have never met such joyful priests with amazing sermons and conferences. The religious and faithful at every chapel go out of their way to make you feel welcome and the churches are beautiful.
Thank you Tommy Boy for bringing such peace to the matter regarding the +Thuc line!
Yes, it is ironic that the more Cabbage blustered, the more he inspired the rest of us to so thoroughly refute his garbage that it has absolutely nothing left to stand on. Now, that won't stop this guy for just mindlessly repeating the same refuted allegations ... but it has served a purpose, unwittingly strengthening the claims of the +Thuc line.
I believe that Archbishop Thuc was a holy man. He made some mistakes in judgment, the most egregious having been the Palmar affair, but even then he thought he had been summoned by Our Lady ... and it's what Fr. Revaz told him, and while +Thuc did not "out" +Lefebvre, the story is ... confirmed directly by Father Barbara eating with +Lefebvre ... that it had been +Lefebvre who directed Fr. Revaz to +Thuc for the Palmar situation, and I'd be surprised if Fr. Revaz had not said, "Archbishop Lefebvre sent me to take you to an apparition of Our Lady in order to provide Holy Orders to visionaries." ... thereby adding the authority and respect he had to +Lefebvre into the mix in order to persuade Archbishop Thuc.
But which Trad leader hasn't made errors in judgment, +Lefebvre in consecrating +Fellay and some priests and not expelling Urrutigoity immediately, +Williamson with many bad judgments, etc.? We're all just human.
It's difficult to read his autobiography and not be deeply moved by his simplicity, his kindness, and most of all his humility, for being an Archbishop, a Prince of the Church and Successor of the Apostles. You'd hardly know it from the book. No one has ever recorded him making a word of complaint about the disgraceful treatment of the Archbishop by Montini and others, where he had been reduced to helping at a parish hearing Confessions and teaching little children ... despite having 3 advanced degrees from Rome, trusted to found seminaries, and given a mandate to consecrate without papal permission. He loved teaching the children and hearing Confessions, and the lines to his confessional went out the back door of the church, to the point that it made the pastor jealous enough to evict him from the tiny and dirty little apartment that was barely fit for a peasant, much less an Archbishop. But he never complained. IN FACT, he expressed gratitude for the opportunity to earn his keep.
Most of the others who had been backstabbed by Montini complained openly about it, but not once have I read anything from Archbishop Thuc on the matter of his deposition and then subsequent ill treatment by the wicked Conciliarists.
And I agree that he likely joined his brother in dying a martyr. Those Vietnamese who kidnapped him were undoubtedly Commie agents.
Archbishop Thuc, please pray for us.
Topic: Novena for Thucists - St. Dymphna (Read 172 times)