If you don’t think that +Fellay picked his successor and that +Benedict picked his successor, you’re naive. That’s how power works. To stay in charge.
+Benedict admitted that he failed to “make a deal” with the new sspx. We all know +Fellay wanted to make a deal too.
... +Fellay didn’t pick his successor by accident...
Mistake here...I intended to post on the other thread, but computer tricked me, sorry. I learnt a thing from this French web news. This article was posted just before the General Chapter 2018.
+Fellay had an interview with a German media outlet, and reportedly he was optimistic on achieving approval from Rome...
Secondly, he noted that it was mostly the German bishops that were against the SSPX reintegration...( Hey! Belated Thank you German Episcopy!)
So, Bishop Fellay probably expected to be re-elected...he had made substantial inroads with N.O. church, and in this article he states that a reconciliation will eventually take place. I know this is OLD news for most, but bear with me a few moments...My thinking says +Fellay didn't choose Fr. P. I thought the majority of the Chapter voters had taken lots of heat from Priests and faithful about the possible surrender to Rome.
Besides, no one could influence the vote in a "Conclave" type atmosphere, nooo; Impossible!??? Corruption?... Oh, where was H.E. Williamson? ( +F would have lost ONE vote, guaranteed) The reckless outcome of that Chapter was two new positions , and would they have been created if +F had been re-elected? Think about that. He effectively keeps influencing the neoSSPX. Another news site adds that the election of Fr. Pagliriani was a surprise, seeing that there are relatively dew Italian priests in the SSPX. My gut feeling is that the electorate, if you can call it that, really wanted a major shift in direction. How many good priest had been expelled etc. It was creating a stressful "workplace".
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https://www.cathobel.be/2018/07/fsspx-mgr-fellay-reste-optimiste-pour-ne-reconciliation-avec-rome/Google Translation:
Excerpt:
2018 AD.
Bishop Fellay remains optimistic on Reconciliation with Rome.
"...Bernard Fellay was the most linguistically gifted and intelligent of the four new traditionalist bishops. Logically, in 1994, three years after the death of Bishop Lefebvre,... was elected superior general of the SSPX, which continued to grow on all continents despite the excommunication. Since then, he has led the Fraternity for two 12-year terms, for a total of 24 years. It remains to be seen whether the General Chapter will elect him as superior a third time in mid-July (2018.). The game is open.
An impressive record
...The number of active priests and future priests has increased, under the leadership of Bishop Fellay, to more than 600 priests and more than 200 seminarians throughout the world. The Valais bishop has made several concessions to successive popes since he entered St. Peter's Basilica in Rome during the Holy Year in 2000, during a spectacular pilgrimage with hundreds of supporters.
He began to gradually move closer to Rome. Pope Benedict XVI was the one to whom he felt closest: in 2007, the German pontiff again accepted the celebration of the Tridentine Mass in Latin throughout the world, and in 2009, he lifted the excommunication at the request of Bishop Fellay.
[In] an interview given to the German Catholic newspaper Die Tagespost, Mgr Fellay nevertheless assures that “
reconciliation will come”. Especially since according to him, the relationship with Pope Francis is “very good”. “Optimistic”, Bishop Fellay, however, does not want to precede God’s time and bring forward a date for this reconciliation. According to him, there is in fact a “war in the Church” with episcopates – he cites the case of Germany –
opposed to the reintegration of the SSPX.
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