[Pax Vobis]

Sean, don’t let the negativity get you down.  Your book will help those (few) with good will.  And that’s a great thing!  All others will ignore it, because they can’t handle it.  Sad to say, but it’s a fact of human nature:  Most people are sheeple who are happy with the status quo, who don’t want to know/fight for Truth, if it causes them difficulty or discomfort.  (which is why so many saints preached on the fewness of the saved).  As the post-V2 time period proved, most people put religion/God as priority #5 or 6, behind all other worldly ideals.  That, or their pride is so great that they refuse to believe that they could be duped/lied to, so they immediately refuse all contrary facts.  It’s more “safe” for them to be in the majority, even if the majority is walking off a cliff.  As crazy as it is, the current new-sspx sheeple have the same mindset as the post-V2 sheeple.  As Yogi Berra famously said, “It’s like Deja Vu all over again.”  

[Maria Regina]

Hello Matthew-

That is perhaps the most frustrating (and insoluble) problem, since it pertains to disposition.

If I demonstrate various changes or contradictions in policy and/or principle compared to those of Archbishop Lefebvre  (eg., In the matter of the now greatly reduced time for making perpetual engagements), the initial reflex of many is not to suspend judgment and investigate, but to deny, or failing that, to make an ad hominem response.

I saw one comment on one of the Facebook pages (I don’t have an account) suggest that even if the entire contents of the book were true, that is no reason to write a book about it (!).

In other words, this person is simply irked that a book running contrary to the narrative she has accepted uncritically is contradicting her, and she wants it gone.

This again brings us back to the problem of disposition.

Some folks in the SSPX love their chapels because they live close to them.

In fact, they have probably uprooted their families and changed jobs just to be close to that SSPX church.
Moreover, these families will have to say "adios" to their friends, relatives, their children's friends and their schools.
Uprooting is very hard on families, friends, and relatives.

In addition, these families become very uncomfortable in seeking another chapel that is perhaps three or more hours
away as relocating to a new chapel would cost extra fuel, and that would eventually necessitate another job search
and relocation, which would also cost money, never mind all the substantial financial contributions that they have
made to their current SSPX chapel.

So, they would rather imitate the ostrich, which buries his head in the sand and hopes that the storm blows over.
After all, it is more comforting to believe that Satan will never be able to take over Rome and the Papacy,
and that the Church will prevail even in the darkest times.

Oh, yes, your book is putting some people outside of their comfort zone.
And that is the reason for their "conspiracy theory" strawman attack.

It's all about money.

[Mr G]

This comes to mind frequently. When speaking of Campos the comments were that most in the pews noticed no difference but the perceptive ones saw the subtle changes. January 2003 Superior General's Letter

"So little by little the will to fight grows weaker and finally one gets used to the situation. In Campos itself, everything positively traditional is being maintained, for sure, so the people see nothing different, except that the more perceptive amongst them notice the priests’ tendency to speak respectfully and more often of recent statements and events coming out of Rome, while yesterday’s warnings and today’s deviations are left out. The great danger here is that in the end one gets used to the situation as it is, and no longer tries to remedy it. For our part we have no intention of launching out until we are certain that Rome means to maintain Tradition. We need signs that they have converted."

Against Campos it was good to notice these things. When the SSPX is in the hot seat, it's a different story.

Did you see the summary in the beginning of the letter? It (the SSPX, actually Bishop Fellay) says what happened in Campos should be a "lesson to us". So those of us who accepted this "lesson" are called rebels, trouble makers and conspiracy theorists by the very same SSPX who warned us!
"In the eyes of Rome, the Campos-Rome agreement was merely meant to be the prelude to our own “regularization” in the Society of Saint Pius X, but in our eyes what is happening to our former friends should rather serve as a lesson to us. There is a desire on the part of some Vatican officials to put an end to the downhill slide. However, it is clear that the principle governing today’s Rome is still to put the Council into practice as has been done for the last 40 years."

"We need signs that they have converted." said Bishop Fellay!!!!!!!

[Mark 79]

Matthew, Sean

Do you think it is a worthwhile project to buy/send copies of the book to all SSPX parishes? …or to individual priests (making it illegal to intercept such private mail)?

If so, at what cost?

Set up a Go-Fund-Me to do it?

[SeanJohnson]

Hello Mark-

In theory the idea is good, but I predict 90% of the copies sent would end up in the trash.