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Author Topic: "Perils from False Brethren", 1997 Letters from Bishop. WILLIAMSON  (Read 152 times)

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The priest in question was the choir director, as a seminarian,  I would consider him a born leader. He seemed very zealous for the Faith. One must nevertheless be on the lookout for errors in doctrine. His Society of St J*hn spent $70 K in some N.O. diocese. When the treasurer asked him where all this money was going, supposedly he said: None of your business.!
Love of $  = lack of Doctrine.
The Church has vows...Chastity, Poverty, Obedience. I won't tell about his notion of the First virtue., and his Poverty was poor ~ abjectively speaking. Read the entire letter to find his promised Obedience!!
U should pray for him. +
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https://williamsonletters.blogspot.com/2009/02/defections-from-society-in-may-1997.html?m=1

Excerpt:
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Q. ?: But can they not keep the Faith by working with St. Peter's Fraternity or with the Institute of Christ the King or with the Indult Mass or with the Traditional Mass under Bishop Timlin of Scranton?

A: No. All these enterprises, and the new society if it is ever publicly approved within the Newchurch, are crippled in their preaching of the Truth by the fact that they cannot criticize the principles of Vatican II, deadly to Catholicism, on which the Newchurch is built: religious liberty, ecuмenism, the independent dignity of the human person, etc. In order to tell the truth, such priests must offend the Newchurch. In order to be accepted (or stay) in the Newchurch, they must water down the Truth. Dilution is not Our Lord's way.

Q: When are there going to be no more cliques within the Society?

A: When Our Lord takes away His priests' free-will! In other words, never. Pray not only for new vocations, but also for the faithfulness of old vocations.

Q: Is the Society being infiltrated?

A: It is quite possible. One reason why Our Lord included Judas Iscariot amongst His 12 Apostles was to teach His Church that this could always happen. Of course Our Lord was not deceived by Judas as merely human Superiors can always be deceived, but He wanted to teach His Church that it will work not on an absence of infiltration but on the presence of charity.

Q: Are there spies within the Society?

A: Maybe. Certainly Superiors must keep their eyes open, and, for the common good, expel such enemies as soon as they are recognized. However, too much suspicion kills charity, the engine-oil of Catholic institutions, so an excess of spy-hunting would kill the Society.

: Was the Argentinian priest a plant from the Newchurch, Opus Dei, for instance?

A: That is like asking whether Paul VI was a Freemason. Maybe he was, possibly he had been one, in any case he did not need to be one because he certainly in large part thought like one. Whether or not the Argentinian priest always belonged to the Newchurch, in any case he finished up thinking like it, which is what matters.

Q: Why do American priests not yet hold key..."

La mesure de l'amour, c'est d'aimer sans mesure.
The measure of love is to love without measure.
                                 St. Augustine (354 - 430 AD)