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Three more articles from (another?) anonymous priest, writing under the pseudonym "Fr. Ambrose Astor," for your consideration:

1) Conscience and Vaccines: https://catacombs.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/misc/Fr._Ambrose_Astor/Ambrosiaster_1_Conscience.pdf

2) Prudence and Vaccines: https://catacombs.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/misc/Fr._Ambrose_Astor/Ambrosiaster_2_Prudence.pdf

3) Charity and Vaccines (Intended for Priests): https://catacombs.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/misc/Fr._Ambrose_Astor/Ambrosiaster_3_Charity.pdf

Fr. Ambrose Astor can be contacted directly here: ambroseastor@protonmail.com

I corresponded with Fr. “Astor,” and here’s how it went:

Greetings Fr. Astor-

I'm not sure whether you are familiar with the rather surprising lax position the SSPX has taken regarding the moral liceity of the COVID19 "vaccine" (until 2006, they held that under no circuмstances could anyone knowingly receive an abortion-tainted vaccine, but reversed that position after the 2005 PAL docuмent), but in the course of my online opposition to that position, I came across your recent articles on conscience, prudence, and charity relative to the jab, and wondered if you could take a look at the attached letter the SSPX recently published in New Zealand, announcing that the teachers at it's school there would take the "vaccine" in order to keep their school open.

It seems the SSPX is not concerned to meet the requirements for moral liceity contained within the 2008/2020 CDF docuмents (preferring instead to quote from manuals regarding general principles of remote material cooperation in evil generally).

What do you make of the arguments contained in the attached letter, ostensibly permitting the use of abortion-tainted vaccines?

Semper Idem,
Sean Johnson
USA

Fr. “Ambrose Astor’s” response:

Dear Mr Johnson,

Thank you for your message. I am aware of the SSPX position which does indeed sidestep the fundamental issue of the derivation of the vaccines.

I understand the approach of the NZ district, but I cannot approve. It is a terrible thing to have to close a good school because of unjust mandates.

In my humble opinion, it is nevertheless essential that the schools resist, even if they have to close for a time. There are some countries in which the state has backed down eventually. I think it is a lack of faith and putting too much confidence in man.

Disappointing.

God bless you.
Fr Ambrose

Father Robert Altier rejected the three U.S.-backed coronavirus vaccines in late-stage testing on moral grounds

I know this priest, and used to go to the Church of St. Agnes where he was then stationed back in the mid-late 1990's during my Novus Ordo days.

The Novus Ordo there was (and still is) in Latin, using the traditional Canon exclusively, with Gregorian chant (and even poliphony), communion rail, on the tongue kneeling, with solemn high Masses which even feature a sub-deacon (which is persona non grata in the Novus Ordo), birettas, and incense.

Its probably the most "conservative" Mass venue in the ccountry, and is a stepping-stone to the indult, and then the SSPX (many people at the local SSPX chapels used to go there).

Doctrinally -unless he has changed since I last spoke with his 20+ years ago- he would be a JPII priest: Good on morals, but a hermeneutic of continuity-BXVI'er doctrinally.

Today, he is now biritual, saying the TLM on the weekends (though I'm not sure how that will continue in the era of TC).

Anyway, I remember when this sermon came out, and how strange I thought it was that the Archbishop smacked him down, going so far as to solicit the refutation of Fr. Altier's sermon by the state health department. 

I remember starting to refute the health department's letter, but than abandoning the project, because it would only result in a worse punishment from the Archbishop if he should continue to debate the matter, or if the public should then start defending him.  Bishops rarely admit they're wrong.

To his credit, Fr. Altier refused the bishop's request to recant/retract his sermon (this was announced by Archbishop Hebda), and he has more or less left him alone since then (or at least, I haven't seen anything in the local Catholic media to indicate otherwise).