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Quote from: SeanJohnson

Well, I must admit it is quite embarrassing to expose myself to artillery barrage after barrage, going out on a limb to give Bishop Fellay the benefit of the doubt with regard to his present and future intentions with regard to Rome, and the hope that he has reverted to clear, sound, traditional doctrine, only to be confronted with an interview like this one in which he cannot even bring himself to stand behind his accusation of Francis' blatant modernism.

He seems to be at the mercy of his own weakness, and his desire to be loved in Rome is unhealthy for the SSPX (as his letter to the Three Bishops made abundantly clear).

This kind of backtracking hurts his credibility amongst his own people.

Your Excellency: How do you expect to maintain the support of those like me, who are trying to give you the benefit of the doubt and a second, third, and fourth chance, in the face of interviews like this?

The Pope is a modernist pure and simple, but you don't have the strength, inclination, or intellectual understanding to state it flatly.

How then can you preserve and direct the mission of the SSPX, created to oppose the very modernism you can't bring yourself to see in our Roman enemies?

Yes, Your Excellency, the Romans (for the most part) are our enemies, insofar as they want you to embrace their positions, so offensive to God.

You will never take me into their arms so long as they remain witting or unwitting dupes of Satan.

Dear Sean,

The point is that the pope is a man of action, not thought.  It follows that his modernism is theoretical, not practical.  He is always trying to do things and say things that put him on the side of the dominant forces of the world.

Bishop Fellay has been saying publicly that the Holy Father is a man of action and not of thought since at least his conference at the blessing of the cornerstone and the bells at the new seminary early this year.  Nor is he the only one, as the remarks of the Argentine man whose remarks H.E. repeats.

Have you come across any statements or writings of the Holy Father resembling a theoretical justification of his stances?

Does +Fellay say or imply anything suggesting that there is anything good about the Pope's practical modernism?

Does he suggest that anything much good has come out of the current pontificate, other than a number of halves of sets of contradictory statements?

The answer to all my questions is no.  So it seems to me quite clear that +Fellay's latest remarks on the Holy Father's modernism is just what he says it is: a clarification.