Note the little question at the bottom of the book cover:

"Can you interpret Vatican II correctly?"

Is this just a clumsy way of asking "Can Vatican II be reconciled with Tradition"

Or, does it mean that interpreting Vatican II correctly means to understand it in a completely modernist way, as was intended?

I guess we'll see, as I just ordered it.

Thank you for posting the links to +Williamson's conferences on the Prometheus book. I just finished downloading them. I will be enlightened to hear anything I have not studied yet thus far. The book would be a must read. It depends on shipping, as it is often prohibitive purchasing such things from the US, with rare exceptions.

My days of travel to the US, barring nothing short of a miracle, are done. No regrets. I could not even get health insurance. I will win the lottery up here and bring all CI folk up here to the Alberta Rockies for a mega conference Traditional Catholic style!!!!!!

Old buddy, maybe we can meet in Winnipeg sometime, and solve all the world’s problems over a bottle of this:

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Even if we cant solve all the world's problems, at least we can say we had good libations. 
I spent a year in Winnipeg as a lay apostle (2007) with the pre 2012 SSPX. I met Fr Girouard there. I discovered lectures from His Excellency at that time too.

Is this new, or was I just out of the loop?

I had no idea there was an English version available.

Yes, it's new. And published by Angelus Press of all places. Apparently even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.

First impressions and observations:

1) I did not know Fr. Calderon was as old as he is (born in 1937, he is 83-84 years-old today);

2) The whole book is a frontal attack upon the orthodoxy of the Second Vatican Council itself;

3) It is written in a style reminiscent of Romano Amerio (entertaining despite the heavy content; the reader does not feel he is slogging his way through, and is somewhat surprsed and motivated to continue by that realization, which also brings a certain joy that he is up to the task);

4) Another similarity to Iota Unum: You don't want to put it down.  It tastes good, and you have the impression of excitement to see what gets covered/destroyed next.

5) The timing: Coming out just as the MP Traditionis Custodes is released.  Did the SSPX have a premonition or inside info. regarding what was in Francis's MP, and realize, "What the hell, if its all over, we might as well start blasting again?"

6) A sample of the tenor of the book: After recalling Prometheus was punished by Zeus for stealing fire and giving it to man, but also for sacrificing a bull, and giving the better part of it to men, he writes, "The Council is Prometheus in the act of his larceny.  It was a maneuver of human prudence carried out by a divinely constituted hierarchy, which burned for men the incence that belongs to God.  As in the parable of the unfaithful steward, the COuncil cancelled man's debt to God, promising salvation to all; and in the worship of its new Mass, it has given man the better part."" (Foreword, p.7).

7) If releasing Fr. Paul Robinson's book was a signal to Rome, indicating that the SSPX was prepared to jump on board with modernity, then what message does the release of this book convey?  Will we know more after the SSPX's forthcoming commentary on the Motu Proprio?  Probably.

8) I now know where +Vigano received the idea of questioning the "officialness" of V2: It is right here in Ch. 1.

So, what happened to Father Caldron?   Did he get the boot from the SSPX?


  Fr. Calderon refutes Mons. Fellay

I received the following email from a Spanish-speaking priest (ie., English is not his native language).  So far as I am aware, he has only read the Foreword of the English-language Angelus edition:


“FYI  - The original Foreword has been edited. The English version prints about 50 % from the Spanish one.

The additional editing presents Father's book as an effort to interpret the Second Vatican Council in the light of Tradition. Actually said they, Benedict XVI's continuity has tried to do so but Francis's is just a rupture.

Indeed, there is a significant twist in the English FOREWORD. The introduction and part of the middle section do not come from Father Calderon at all. And if the book was written in 2010,  how  at the beginning
of the English Foreword speaks about Pope Francia who was elected in 2013?

At the end of it, there is no name neither date nor signature claiming the author of the English Foreword but letting people to believe that it is the same Father Alvaro Calderon.  

Ironically, the last paragraph was also
edited, it is better to say - deleted! It runs as follows:

"Just it is left for me to express my acknolegments to Bishop Richard Williamson, who not only encouraged and commanded
me to engage this task - that's why from this reason the last section of my program went through -, but also he gave me the key-idea
to come a cross with all what lastly came together, so to him it belongs the essential sketch/theme which it comes together with-the-
one-to-one conclusion of each chapter. I dare to say that I didn't want to decide to begin this essay, thinking that it might imply
a hard and long process with no much avail, but in placing the Humanism as principle of the Council (Vatican II) with its antropocentric
twist, each one of the issues was kept properly in their own place with not problem or without inconvenience. I never thought than this
project very much complicated, rather it would be resolved in a very short time. I believe that it has been the merit to obedience and
the docility to resign one's own idea in order to take some one's else. And I believe also that it is a consequence of keeping the truth.

La Reja, January 17th  2010."

Strange indeed. I purchased the book in English, but I don’t have a Spanish copy to compare it to.

I spoke with a Priest friend of Fr. Calderon who is heavily involved in the operations of Angelus Press about the book a few weeks ago. He didn’t say any alterations were made but then again would he have even mentioned it if there were?

Things like this are unfortunate if true.