I apologize "Adolphus"...I was rushed for time...if I had had more time to respond I would have sd something more explanatory such as:
1. everytime you backbite Bp Williamson you do the bidding of Bp Krah and Max Fellay...(oops)
2. People like you are hideous...you hide behind anonymous names and gleefully push people's buttons...
3. If we ever meet you'll think this was a pleasant exchange..
but keep hunting that wascally Williamson...
Possibly a bit uncharitable to Mr. Adolphus?
Bishop Williamson enjoys an abundance of talents and is probably the most intelligent among us. Nevertheless Fathers Ceriani and Meramo are reflecting some important realities of Catholic Tradition that seem to escape our brilliant bishop. In particular it may be that the episcopal lineages of Archbishop Thuc have faired somewhat better than those of Archbishop Lefebvre. Both have had no shortage of troubles, but many of the Thuc bishops appear to be defending Tradition much better than are the four current episcopal heirs of Archbishop Lefebvre.
This may be a truth hard to hear for those of us who have given much of our lives to the SSPX. Nevertheless the track record of the SSPX at the moment is not especially impressive. The actual leaders of Catholic Tradition are to be found elsewhere and the actions of Fathers Ceriani and Meramo simply reflect this objective reality. Tradition is now clearly led by the best of the Thuc bishops and some acknowledgment of this circuмstance among the heirs of the SSPX might be prudent. And this has nothing to do with personal likes or dislikes. It is simply humble recognition of the way things now are.
Father Meramo wisely points out that the main religious weakness of contemporary Tradition is an essentially Protestant Fideism. We seem to require unthinking cults of personality when what is needed is a more normal historic Catholic ability to think hard and clear. Catholic adults should have the ability to reason as the Children of God they are and not have to fall into the traps of Legal Positivism, Asiatic Despotism and other such Fideist untruths. The First Vatican Council wisely affirmed the Infallibility of the Church, not any mindless Chinese or Prussian Imperial Despotism of the Papacy.
Catholics are free Roman Trinitarians, not enslaved Judaized Unitarians. The powerful central administrative authority of our Catholic Popes, Emperors and Military Leaders is meant to support what is essentially a Roman Confederacy of free men able to think and act for themselves. The normal day-to-day infallibility of the Church consists in the confederal and free unity of the Roman bishops while both the administrative kingship and the Extraordinary Infallible Magisterium of the Popes is in essence but a support of and safeguard for our Infallible and Universal Roman Episcopal Magisterium and Church.
Therefore neither Bishop Williamson nor Bishop Fellay enjoy any Papal infallibility. Even the Holy Fathers themselves only enjoy such an infallibility as an extraordinary and exceptional proclamation ex cathedra. The everyday fallible administrative authority of a Pope, however great, must never be confused with the everyday infallible teaching authority of the Roman Bishops and Church. Instead the Catholic Popes, Catholic Bishops, Catholic States and Catholic laity form the Catholic Church. And all of them together only in the mutual Roman confederal liberty of the Sons of God.
Otherwise we are liable to fall into the arbitrary and cruel tyranny of the Jєωιѕн Rabbinate and their Ex-Catholic Judaized followers we have come to know as their Novus Ordo of Apostate Jew-Occupied Rome.
May the Good Lord forbid.
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