I've just found a very good German Resistance blog run by a layman, Paul Schenker, who's been supporting Tradition by writing and publishing since the 1960's.  

http://poschenker.wordpress.com/

He links to the French website Avec l'Immaculee.

He gives an account of the banning by Fr. Schmidberger of two laymen from all the chapels in the German District of the the SSPX and from the church of St. Athanasius in Hattersheim which is affiliated to them. (I don't know how independent it is.):

http://poschenker.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/offener-brief-an-p-franz-schmidberger-bezuglich-seiner-kritik-an-den-schwestern-von-brilon-wald/

The laymen have been told by two priests of the XSPX that they will also refuse them Holy Communion outside of Mass, as to give it to them would be to evade "the punishment of Fr. Schmidberger". One of the laymen quotes from a letter from Fr. Schmidberger in which he is told that a reason for the ban is "the collection of signatures for an Open Letter" (supporting the Carmelites of Brilon Wald).

You can see how important losing the Carmel of Brilon Wald has been
because of the vengefulness it evokes in the Menzingen-denizens.

The Church of St. Athanasius, built by Fr. Hans Milch, the only parish priest in Germany to refuse to say the New Mass,

I am very interested in seeing a list of the priests who had the fortitude
to hold out against the Newmass.  I have never heard of this one.  Now,
I have to wonder, how is his name pronounced?  How can I speak it to
people without mispronouncing it?  

is run by Actio Spes Unica and its website promotes the memory and writings of Fr. Hans Milch and Fr. Gregorius Hesse,

Now, I knew Canon Hesse, and I treasure the memory of giving him a
great joy that he took to his grave.  I reported to him that my godson
was converted to the Faith from protestantism by listening to his lectures,
and he told me that now he can take consolation that all his efforts have
not been in vain.  Those were his parting words to me, and the next I
heard of him was that he had died.

Was Fr. Hans Milch an influence on Fr. Gregorius Hesse?  

two priests who would certainly be supporting the Resistance now. Their President says he wishes to distance the organisation from Bishop Williamson.

I highly doubt that Fr. Hesse would want to 'distance himself' from +W, and
by association, I figure the same would be true of Fr. Milch.  

This is sad news, that the president of Actio Spes Unica would have this
view of things, but it is sadly consistent with the spread of the unclean
spirit of Vat.II manifest in the acts of the Menzingen-denizens like Fr.
Schmidberger.

This is the kind of thing that +W is up against in his decision to consecrate
bishops.  It would be far less complicated if traditional groups who support
and commemorate heroes like Fr. Milch and Fr. Hesse would be more in step
with the program instead of inimical to it.  For as it is, consecrations might
be more of a wedge that divides rather than a balm of preservation.

The question he must weigh is, which direction is it going?  Are things on
the increase?  Is there more support for the Resistance?  Or is it fading,
and less support?  Would consecrations shatter the fragile vase that holds
the Faith of Catholics or would they guard it from the snares of the devil?

I'm surprised that a ban from entering the buildings is possible under German charity law.

 

That's a good point.  Maybe there is another law that supersedes it, like
the one that says you can't incite racial unrest or whatever.

How would they enforce it?  Is there now a system like the police have
of mug shots of criminals, and every ExSPX chapel has a book with photos
of the people (and children?) who are VERBOTEN from entry, and a man
stands guard at every doorway with an iPad carrying the files to view???

Father Hesse would have been a great bishop!

Good old Father Schmidberger is a "class act".  

First he attempts to defame the Carmelites for resisting the SSPX capitulation.
Now he bans their faithful supporters from the Sacraments.


Wonder why the faithful want to distance themselves from +W ?  Is it due to his expose of chimney-less gas chambers which is part of Germany's political dogma?

The nαzι h0Ɩ0cαųst is the dogma outside of which there is no salvation!  

But you debase the nαzι h0Ɩ0cαųst when you commercialize it.

What do the Hollywood elite say when they visit Jerusalem?  

There's no business like Shoah business!  

 How can I speak it to people without mispronouncing it?  

Raphaela: "I'm surprised that a ban from entering the buildings is possible under German charity law". Private buildings included?

If the chapels of the SSPX are just "private buildings", then the (Neo-)SSPX is a sect.

It's just WRONG to use the Mass and the Sacraments as a political weapon.  The priests who knowingly do so will be punished by God.

My priest told me that it is a mortal sin for any priest to withhold the
sacraments for a nefarious purpose.  

There are very specific rules that apply.  Only a narrow demographic
qualifies as those who would be so affected.  One of them is a public
sinner who scandalizes the community by his unCatholic life or
behavior in a public capacity, such as Nancy Peℓσѕι or Biden receiving
Communion while they are pro-abortion, or Mel Gibson while he is
living in sin with a woman who is not his wife.

But for anyone to be opposed to the political leanings of a pious
union of priests that has no jurisdiction over the Faithful -- there is
no way that can ever qualify as a public sinner.  No way, Jose.  

Quote from: Elsa Zardini

Raphaela: "I'm surprised that a ban from entering the buildings is possible under German charity law". Private buildings included?

If the chapels of the SSPX are just "private buildings", then the (Neo-)SSPX is a sect.

What Fr Schmidberger does with the laymen mentioned in this thread, who are just not in agreement with Bishop Fellay and Fr Schmidberger, but who're absolutely faithful Catholics, is a clear infringement of the Church Law: of the old Canon, but also the new Canon!

And no less a figure than the well known German senior Church Law expert Father professor Georg May from Mainz, who was consulted by the laymen mentioned in this thread, this professor who's an eminent authority in such questions, stated that Fr Schmidberger's exclusion of these laymen because they're in disagreement with him and with Bishop Fellay, is a perversion of justice, a perverson of Church Law, and very grave.


So, AtH is correct, as usual. A Roman-Catholic Holy Mass is not a private meeting. A chapel's prior where the Holy Sacraments are spent, has no right to exclude a faithful Catholic. There's only two exceptions where it is allowed to do so: if the person in question would be a known heretic, or a known mortal sinner (for example living in public adultery).

Concerning a house ban, because of a chapel being a private property: Catholic superiors can only use this to make faithful laymen who're in disagreement with them, to leave the building after Holy Mass, so that for example they can't distribute flyers or the like. Or these superiors can use the civil right to exclude people who would demolish the building.
But several senior traditional priests told me that it's not possible for any Catholic priest or superior to exclude a Catholic layman who's asking for the Holy Sacraments, wherever they're being spent.

Additionally in the case of this thread, one (or more?) of these laymen was denied the Holy Sacrament of the Confession. An upright SSPX priest was asked to spend this sacrament outside the SSPX chapel (because of a house ban where the superior said he would call the police), and was ready to do so, but was prohibited to spend the confession outside the Neo-SSPX chapel's property by his superior...


Alas, this is no a Fr Schmidberger ego-trip. He knows that Menzingen is standing behind him in this aspect. Also Fr N. Pfluger already excluded Catholic laymen from the Holy Sacraments, when he was district superior. Doesn't the US district do similar things? I think I read it here on Cathinfo some weeks ago, about a dying boy being denied the last Sacrament.

When in autumn the Austrian and German district superiors will be replaced by the two "little Swiss" (as Bishop Williamson used to say in his recent Asian lecture) who're 100% loyal to Bp Fellay, this a perversion of justice will continue.

Yes, this infringement of the Church Law is a clear sign of a sect. I heard from a good source, that after a Neo-SSPX priest was confronted with Fr. May's sound argumentation, the Neo-SSPX priest just "replied": "Then sue us!", well knowing that in today's Church crisis you won't find a traditional ecclesiastical court. So they don't mind them breaking the Church Law. Incredible.