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Tuesday, 6 November 2018
 Polemical avoidance

"The newly-redesigned sspx.org is fully responsive and beautiful no matter what device you are using! In honor of the 48th anniversary of the founding of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), the United States District has launched a brand new website. The new site contains the same rich body of historical, catechetical, and doctrinal content as the previous one, but with an enhanced, user-friendly interface that will assist the site’s visitors in locating new and archived content."
 
 The above is the beginning of the introduction to the release of the new, revamped (rebranded) SSPX website. Many years ago, I received an email from the new Editor of The Angelus magazine. I think it was Fr Hegenberger (?). In it he stated that The Angelus was no longer focusing on polemics. I had to re-read it a few times to make sure that I was not mistaken. It was one of the first times that I became aware that the SSPX was changing its position.
 
 Of course, no-one wishes to read the same subject matter over and over but to actually state a change of position to its readers is a serious matter. As stated before on this blog, if the SSPX plans to eradicate everything that differentiates it from Ecclesia Dei then it has to accept that its young people and 'newbies' are going to take it at its word and fluctuate between Fraternities. Indeed one can see even district superiors, once solid, now whispering sweet nothings to Ecclesia Dei telling them that the SSPX were "never that hard on them". (It was probably just extremists like Archbishop Lefebvre!)
 
 The new SSPX website is another step in the direction of polemical avoidance, it could easily be the FSSP. Thank goodness a site has been set up recently, minus the bells and whistles to be sure, but at least direct, to the point and easy to navigate for those who want to find out why we believe what we believe! Here.
 
 Here Tradidi website puts it succinctly.
 

There is a method in their madness, and a madness in their method !
 On the old site (which you can still visit in the web archives, for example here 1) it would take you only one click (on Article Index) to get a quick and thorough overview of what the (old) SSPX was all about and what they were fighting against. Plenty of articles against the Council, against the New Mass, against the Indultarators, against annulments, against false ecuмenism, against the Vatican II popes, against the luminous mysteries, against Opus Dei, against Feeneyism, against stem cell research, against bogus canonizations, and the list goes on and on… and all of these articles in one place, referenced and indexed on one single page!

On the new site, practically everything is “positive” and you will need to be very persistent and dig deep for any strong articles that condemn anything or anyone (except the Resistance of course). Like the Romans in the sixties preparing their surrender to the world by stopping their condemnations of all kinds of errors, so too now is the SSPX preparing their own surrender by hiding any and all condemnations and trying to focus on their positive image, to show the world and the modernists: “hey we are nithe Catholics, you needn’t fear anything from us, we won’t condemn you, let’s all be friends!”

If you know what to look for you can still find the old articles hidden underneath the new website (often they’re just a link to … an archive of the old website, archive.sspx.org 1) , but you will have to go digging deep, and all by yourself. For example, try and find the article “The Indult Mass: Should one attend it all?” on the new website. Good luck!
 It is so plain for anyone to see, yet many (most) SSPXers don’t want to see it.

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Neither do they put new wine into old bottles. Otherwise the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish. But new wine they put into new bottles: and both are preserved. (Matthew 9:17)

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Neither do they put the new direction into the old website. Otherwise the website will break, spill the beans, and give them away. But a new direction they put into a new website: and both are preserved, the old direction in the museum and the new direction on their new website.