Quote from: Green Scapular

In Fr. Cyprian's own words,  "We remain unshaken and do not intend to withhold our full support of the SSPX.  Bp Fellay is the true and most worthy son of the Archbishop.".  

I have it in writing, dated Nov 2014.

That was five months ago, I lot can change in 5 months.  Perhaps his eyes have been opened.

Yes. Such as another bishop and a new seminary in France.

It just shows you how strong, appropriate, and earth-moving +Williamson's recent action -- the consecration of +Faure -- was.

He is a leader, and he did what needed to be done. Now everyone scrambles to re-define their position, etc. He really rattled the cages.

Exactly.  This consecration turns the Resistance into something just a bit more concrete and not just an idea or ideology.  And it throws a major wrench into the plans of +Fellay to resolve the "internal problems" preventing unification with Rome.  If +Fellay did it now, people would feel that they had "SOMEWHERE" to go and would hesitate much less to leave if they did not agree with the unification.  +Fellay could sign the agreement and then find the SSPX reduced in size by over 50% the next morning.

Bishop Williamson has been instrumental in preventing the unification all along.  I'm convinced that it would already have happened had it not been for the h0Ɩ0cαųst comments.

And I also agree with your criticism of SSPX "exceptionalism", as you called it.  Yes, +Fellay believes that after a unification, millions upon millions of people will flock to the SSPX in droves (drawn no doubt by his own charismatic personality).  That is IMO what's behind the new seminary project.  Build it and they will come.  But what has stopped these untold millions from flocking to the FSSP and the Motu Masses?  Your typical Diocese has on average maybe one or two Motu Masses, and all those interested from the entire diocese are generally enough to fill one Mass to about 2/3rds capacity.  Why would they suddenly flock to the SSPX just because they're canonically recognized?  They won't.

When we attended the old Indult Masses, we tried to convince more traditionally-minded / conservative members of our Novus Ordo parish to come with us and give it a try.  At the end of the day, they were just too lazy to make the 40-minute drive; otherwise they might have been inclined to try it.

No, the only way that this will change will be when ROME CONVERTS and re-imposes the Traditional Mass as the standard Mass everywhere.  Otherwise, it's like telling your 10-year-old child that he can attend Sunday Mass if "he wants to".  You'd be lucky to get 50% Mass attendance from him under those conditions.

In the meantime, the role of the SSPX and Traditional Catholicism in general is to be a "sign of contradiction" against the errors of Vatican II ... with a view towards the eventual conversion of Rome.  But an agreement would effectively eliminate that aspect of the SSPX, rendering it absolutely no different than FSSP or any other such organization.

I watched the Easter Mass said by Francis, and he said the entire thing in Latin, including the "Roman Canon" (Anaphora #1) in Latin; it's practically identical to the Tridentine Canon with only very minor changes.  Did that make him a Traditional Catholic?  We can never forget that Traditional Catholicism is primarily a question of doctrine and secondarily a question of the Mass.

You also have to keep in mind that some of these monasteries owe the SSPX money.  The SSPX helped many of them get established, funding quite a bit of their building campaigns.  This may explain a lot of their so-called "loyalities."  

What is the source of this information that you seem to be presenting as factual?

We should remember that it is not enought to resist in private the new direction of Bishop Fellay. This resistance to bishop Fellay liberalism must be done in public and addressed in Public to all tradition in order not to be accomplice to Bishop's Fellay new direction. "Not to oppose error is to aprove it" said St. Pius X. The silence in public newsletters about bishop Fellay new direction makes Fr. Cyprian accomplice of that work of the SSPX because at the eyes of tradition Fr. Cyprian is supporting Mons. Fellay by his silence.