Hollingsworth, you are absolutely correct from a philosophical standpoint, and I'm sure +Williamson agrees with you. But practically, +Williamson has to be concerned with souls, who need Mass and the sacraments. Though the new-sspx is headed for disaster, the train has not yet fully gone off the rains. Until they completely sell out to new-rome, or until they cross the line into unabashed modernism/heresy, then those who have no other options for mass/sacraments must make use of what little orthodoxy that the new-sspx still has. Bickering over a group or philosophy takes a back seat to real-life concerns over 1,000s of souls.
It’s nice to be told that I’m correct about something, and that +W probably agrees with me. The explanation you provide for the bishop’s leniency may be true. I’ll not dispute it. We got much the same defense of W’s position every time the matter was brought up in the past.
I do, however, have to wonder that so many priests have left the sspx, including at least two of +W’s own consecrated bishops. Did they not realize how many thousands of souls still needed “valid” Mass and Sacraments? Did they not realize the practical “real-life concerns” of these souls? Yet, aside from the numbers of priests, who were summarily cast out of the Society, the ones who left of their own accord,(and are still leaving), these concerns, in the end, did not sway their decisions. It did not prevent them from abandoning these needy souls. Some of them, at least, may have concluded that sspx Masses and Sacraments were not that vital for the spiritual maintenance of these same souls; or, one would think, they would have tried to hold out a little longer, even under the stultifying and oppressive conditions of a Fellay-led organization.
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