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Offline CathSarto

Re: SSPX Response to Bishop Williamson
« Reply #110 on: February 04, 2025, 09:12:17 AM »
Our chapel's response:

Dear Faithful,


Please pray for the repose of the soul of Bishop Richard Williamson, who was called to God yesterday, 29 January 2025, at 11.23pm.

Following a cerebral hemorrhage, he was rushed to hospital on the evening of January 24, after having received extreme unction. He was 84 years old, having been born on March 8, 1940.



Ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Lefebvre on June 29, 1976, he taught at the seminary in Weissbad for a year, then at Écône for five years. After a year as vice rector in Ridgefield, he directed the seminary in the United States for twenty years, then in Argentina for six, before retiring to England. Consecrated bishop on June 30, 1988, he also served as the Society’s second Assistant General between 1988 and 1994. Although his path and that of the Society separated many years ago, we nevertheless owe him a true debt of gratitude, in particular for his work in this country which includes the many priests he formed here, as well as the priestly ordinations and confirmations which he conferred. I recommend the eternal rest of his soul to your fervent prayers. Requiescat in Pace.




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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: SSPX Response to Bishop Williamson
« Reply #111 on: February 04, 2025, 10:26:05 AM »
Quote from: CathSarto on February 04, 2025, 09:12:17 AM
Our chapel's response:

Dear Faithful,


Please pray for the repose of the soul of Bishop Richard Williamson, who was called to God yesterday, 29 January 2025, at 11.23pm.

Following a cerebral hemorrhage, he was rushed to hospital on the evening of January 24, after having received extreme unction. He was 84 years old, having been born on March 8, 1940.



Ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Lefebvre on June 29, 1976, he taught at the seminary in Weissbad for a year, then at Écône for five years. After a year as vice rector in Ridgefield, he directed the seminary in the United States for twenty years, then in Argentina for six, before retiring to England. Consecrated bishop on June 30, 1988, he also served as the Society’s second Assistant General between 1988 and 1994. Although his path and that of the Society separated many years ago, we nevertheless owe him a true debt of gratitude, in particular for his work in this country which includes the many priests he formed here, as well as the priestly ordinations and confirmations which he conferred. I recommend the eternal rest of his soul to your fervent prayers. Requiescat in Pace.

They just pasted that in from fsspx.news website, verbatim.
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Offline Geremia

+Williamson more "excommunicated" from SSPX than Conciliar Church‽
« Reply #112 on: February 04, 2025, 12:05:53 PM »
Quote from: Geremia on February 02, 2025, 10:14:23 AM
But +Williamson was only "excommunicated" from the SSPX, not the Catholic Church, unless the SSPX thinks his Novus Ordo "excommunication" for "illicitly" consecrating bishops is valid?
Actually:
Quote from: Geremia on February 02, 2025, 04:01:11 PM
Stephen Kokx's LSN article is good:
Quote from: LSN
In 2015, Williamson consecrated French priest Fr. Jean-Michel Faure. Faure had been asked by Lefebvre to be consecrated in 1988 but turned down the offer after stating he believed he was unworthy. The SSPX denounced the move in a press release, but the Vatican [i.e., Conciliar Church] has never commented on it.
So +Williamson is more "excommunicated" from the SSPX than he is from the Conciliar Church‽ 🤔
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Offline Clare67

Re: SSPX Response to Bishop Williamson
« Reply #113 on: February 04, 2025, 12:25:36 PM »
Quote from: Ladislaus on February 04, 2025, 10:26:05 AM
They just pasted that in from fsspx.news website, verbatim.
Almost, except they added "We nevertheless owe him a true debt of gratitude, in particular for his work in this country which includes the many priests he formed here, as well as the priestly ordinations and confirmations which he conferred." 
The original communique did not include this bit, although it certainly should have.  
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Offline ElwinRansom1970

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Re: SSPX Response to Bishop Williamson
« Reply #114 on: February 04, 2025, 01:29:21 PM »
When I see where the SSPX is today and then reflect back on the landscape of Tradistan back in the 80s and early 90s (and the stories I was yold first-hand about the 70s), it is very clear that the SSPX today is far to the Left of any Trads from those days, including the original FSSP.

I do not believe that the SSPX of today would have cooperated with so many of the "independent" priests of those days. Further, those who left the SSPX to form the SSPV or the Instituto Mater Boni Consilii or even Msgr. Williamson himself would never have been admitted to Holy Orders were the SSPX of today been the SSPX of then. They would probably have been dismissed before Tonsure.

I am not saying that the SSPX of old was perfect -- far from it -- but it was far superior to what claims the name SSPX today. I pity those men formed by Frs. le Roux and Goldade. They are so far from those who were formed by Msgr. Williamson or, before him, Bishop Sanborn.
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