Read this if you have time. It is very important to understand the Resistance.
Courtesy of The Recusant.
In February 2015, Bishop Fellay visited the SSPX seminary in the United Stated, St. Thomas
Aquinas Seminary in Winona, Minnesota. Although, as it happens, Bishop Athanasius
Schneider happened to be visiting around that same time, nominally Bishop Fellay was there
to confer tonsures on the seminarians. One of the faithful present at the ceremonies had the
opportunity to speak to Bishop Fellay face to face. The following brief account was recounted
first-hand by the gentleman himself, a close personal acquaintance of this author and a
man of unimpeachable integrity whose word is above suspicion and beyond question.
Given the crowds, the short time available, and the very likely possibility of interruption, he
asked the Superior General what he considered to be the one question that matters most:
your Excellency, do you stand by the contents of your Doctrinal Declaration of April 2012,
or do you consider that it contains anything wrong, anything which might need correcting?
The question was simple and clear, the immediate answer equally so: There is nothing
wrong with my Doctrinal Declaration; I stand by what it says.
As noted above, this story cannot be kicked into touch with the usual accusations of
“hearsay,” “rumour” and the like. Furthermore it comes as no great surprise anyway, being
already confirmed by several different things heard from the mouth of Bishop Fellay across
the globe over the past two years. It is therefore beyond serious dispute that Bishop Fellay
stands by the content and substance of his Doctrinal Declaration. He regards it as wholly
orthodox and free from any error, heterodoxy or diminution of the truth in any form - in
short, an accurate reflection of his own doctrinal position and that of those with him.
It need hardly be said that this is a very serious matter indeed concerning as it does Catholic
doctrine and teaching, a matter which is of profound and lasting consequence to every priest
of the SSPX and the faithful with them, whether they realise it or not.