Sceptic,

No, Bishop Fellay is not infallible. Neither is Bishop Williamson. But Bishop Fellay is the Superior General. Bishop Wiliamson is not. The issue about the grace of office in this context is quite simply that our presumption should be that the Superior General will not agree to anything that is harmful to the Church, whereas there is, abroad, an uncharitable suspicion of the Bishop whom Archbishop Lefebvfre described as the “principle of unity” for the Society. They choose to ignore the fact of his good will and the authority and grace of his office. You cannot sustain the argument that because others have shown signs of not living up to the grace of THEIR office, that somehow that means that we can dismiss the authority of Bishop Fellay on a “just in case” basis. There are bad apples in the police force but we still have to pull over if we’re instructed to do so by a patrol officer on the road. And no, I’m not speaking from experience!

The fear that somehow any resolution will mean that the Society is silenced is unfounded. There are plenty of examples from bishops and priests “within the walls” who have spoken out against errors – such as Archbishop Schneider on the error of Communion in the hand, Bishop Olmstead in Texas has not remained silent on the importance of kneeling for Communion, Cardinal Egan & others on dissenting priests and Cardinal Ranjith on a whole host of errors. I’ve even had a letter from a top Vatican cardinal who openly lamented the way the pope is disobeyed and he actually mentioned in passing that the media and many bishops had shamefully used the Bishop Williamson/h0Ɩ0cαųst affair to attack the Pope, even though the bishop was expressing a merely personal view on an event in history, nothing to do with the Faith. In my letter to him I hadn’t mentioned Bishop Williamson. I had asked him to use his influence with the Pope to help us get at least one good bishop in Scotand to which he replied that he did, every time he spoke with the Pope, encourage him to deal with the liberals and – moreover – that he agreed with me that there had been some very bad appointments in Scotland. So, the Society regularisation would be of great help to good bishops in the Church who may feel isolated and they, in turn, would have friends in high places to support them.

I cannot understand the fear – not to mention the hatred emanating from the sedevacantist website comments posted by Athanasius above. Bishop Fellay has taken the supernatural road, invoking Divine Providence, so I suggest we trust him and wait for the details of this papal offer.

Unless someone suggests it’s worth leaving this thread open a bit longer, I will close it down this afternoon.

Great post here from Dawn Marie on another forum.

http://cathinfo-warning-pornography!/Ignis_Ardens/index.php?showtopic=9541

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I wonder how much backpedaling people like Fathers Celier, Pfluger, Schmidberger or Bishop Fellay etc will be doing when this Pope passes from this life into eternity and a new Pope is elected.

If the next Pope should prove to be an outright modernist who has no favor at all for Tradition and or who attacks the SSPX with full force will these men quickly change the nonsense they are promoting right now?

The ridiculous article above clearly indicates that ABL does not fit into the new direction +Fellay is trying to force the SSPX to go. Once again he tries to force the hand to fit the glove.

That is the thing. They won't  back-pedal.SSPX faithful have been had.

HOLLY: This Fr. Celier essay is truly amazing. Does the SSPX really think that most of us will have any patience with Fr. C trying to explain what ABL really meant by some of his more historic and inflammatory remarks? Is any intelligent traditional Catholic going to take Fr. C seriously as he attempts to put "They have left the Faith" into a proper context? Can we interpret "They are anti-Christs" in the light of nouveau SSPX hermeneutics? This is getting just plain laughable!

CANTATE: Prepare to cry your eyes out when you see how many fall into this pit.

One truth is that you/we have been limited to the spectrum of acceptable opinion. It’s our own fault by not protesting (at the time) what Bp. Fellay has said about Vatican II, and his Ideological persecution inside SSPX. We always thought he was working for our benefit, but the SSPX has metamorphosed into a vehicle of the New Order - just like the VII frog in the pot of water.  If he can’t be voted out at the next Chapter, the SSPX is done for. Good priests, yes – but faulty leadership.