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Apparently, the secret chapter took place between 1 and 7 August. If the district superiors were not in their countries during those days, it is sure that the secret chapter took place.
Fr. Couture, DS Canada, was in St-Cesaire and Montreal over the period in question. He was not in Europe at a secret chapter.
Can you be sure that wasn't a disguised look-alike filling in for him?
There have been other incidents of disguised SSPX appearances in Canada in recent years.
At a recent funeral for a deceased choral conductor, Cardinal Balony - I mean Mahony - attended, sitting quietly at the side of the sanctuary. He stood up, walked across the front, peered into the open casket, then processed around (where the communion rail had been, now recently torn out) and back to his seat, without saying anything. People around me were murmuring, "Who is that?" and "Isn't that Balony - I mean Mahony?" "Why isn't he saying anything?" "He looks like a ghost."
He was, in objective fact, moving like a ghost. But he always did look that way.
Point is, it could have been an actor made up to look and move like him, and nobody would have known the difference, especially since he didn't say anything.
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