CathInfo.com

From: http://sodalitium-pianum.com/new-details-coming-to-light-on-fr-morgons-departure-from-the-sspx/

On August 11, Sodalitium Pianum reported on the departure of Fr. Paul Morgan (former SSPX British District Superior) from the Society.

On August 12, we followed up that initial report with additional details surrounding Fr. Morgan’s resignation.

Today, still more details connected with the circuмstances surrounding Fr. Morgan’s departure from the Society have emerged on the French Resistance forum.
Apparently, Fr. Morgan had written a private letter to Bishop Fellay, expressing his disagreement/opposition to the new SSPX policy subjecting their marriages to conciliar jurisdiction.

Menzingen’s response?

They issued an ultimatum to Fr. Morgan:

Either he submit an apology for his private letter, or, be dismissed from the SSPX!!!

The French forum user “Mikael” observes the irony and contradiction inherent in this ultimatum:

SSPX.org has just published an article in which it laments the dismissal of a conciliar theologian for his public criticism of the Pope, after having expelled one of its better priests for his merely private dissent.

And more to the point: How is the delusional SSPX going give a lesson to Rome, when we see what happens to those who try?

Does Menzingen think it will be exempt from the same tyrannical treatment from Rome, which it meted out to Fr. Morgan?

Meanwhile, we have reliable confirmation that Fr. Morgn has been actively ministering to Resistance faithful in France, where he plans to remain.

Bit like a Dubia...

This resistance label can mean lots of different things. Opposition to Econe/Menzingen is getting to be as wide and diverse as opposition to Rome. Placing a recent SSPX refugee on a measuring scale of dissidence can be a precise art both for the priest suddenly experiencing the fresh air of freedom and the mass of curious observers wondering where this loose prospect will land.

Fr. Morgan opposed the UK rebellion of some years ago although he was not an enthusiastic supporter of the Society's new direction. He considered his options and continued to run his district long after it had changed its position. I think I would say he belongs to no local faction and now merely adds his name to that long list of individual priests wandering the spiritual byways, especially France.    

What does opposition to Econe/Menzingen mean? Nothing substantial I think, and those priests who leave the parent sect and then frequent the other factions are just wandering from one room in the SSPX house to another.  It is more to be hoped that more of them would indeed turn to being independent and itinerant as they woulkd likely be touching those souls who do not have workable access to the establishment chapels. As it is, most of the newly minted chapels are in urban areas and the countryside Catholic has to work much harder for his sacramental bread. It is too bad that loose associations are not a little looser and the factional shepherd's hook was not trying to snatch up every priest that leaves the mother house.