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Inspired by the courage and lucidity evinced in the Letter to Bishop Fellay by the District of Great Britain faithful, I propose to draft a similar letter from the US District faithful.
In order for the Letter to have any impact, and to induce brave laity to sign it, several things would need to happen:
1) The letter would be worthless unless it could muster the signatures of 50% of the US faithful;
2) Knowing the US District to be most hostile to supporters of Archbishop Lefebvre, most US faithful would be reticent to sign without anonymity until they could be sure of significant support;
3) Therefore, I propose that that supporters email me their names/parish name/city, to be held in strict confidence until such time as 50% support is reached (If ever);
4) Last I heard, there were approximately 20,000 SSPX faithful in the US District (a few years ago);
5) This means the petition would not be published/sent unless 10,000 signatories could be obtained;
6) In order to obtain this number of signatures, a couple things would need to happen:
A) The letter would need to appear on all major Catholic websites (e.g., Cathinfo; Ignis Ardens; others), with an email account to send your confidential name/parish/city;
B) I could look into purchasing the entire back page of the Catholic Family News, seeking signatures for this "Bouquet" to send to Menzingen;
B) The letter would probably also need to circulate at SSPX chapels (The best way to do this without detection, and maintaining anonymity, is for someone to print hard copies and have a non-parishioner friend/family member stick them on windshields during Mass). Can we find sufficient support in all SSPX chapels to plaster cars with the letter?
C) This will also have an awareness-raising effect, since many of our people do not frequent the internet, and are probably oblivious of the whole debate/situation
7) If a large, but insufficient number of signatures is obtained, I will ask respondants (whose emails and addresses will have been retained for this purpose) whether they want to publish their resistence anyway.
8) On this score, I would ask you to reflect deeply; there will be consequences (thrown out of the parish; banned from the schools; loss and alienation of accordistas; etc). I do not know that I myself would make my resistence known, unless of course a deal is signed, in which case none of us has any choice.
So at this preliminary stage, I ask you Cathinfo readers to trouble shoot my idea.
Feedback is most welcome.
Once a plan is worked out, I can begin organizing a draft of the letter, which I will again submit to Cathinfo readers only, for critiqueing for a 2-3 day time period (i.e., Time is of the essense).
NOTE TO READERS: There are only a couple of you on this forum who know my true identity. You have the ability to sabotage this entire undertaking, should you choose to do so. I am at your mercy. Betraying me would rob my family of access to the sacraments. Given what is at stake, it seemed to me to be worth the risk. God's will be done.