He is some sort of Jesuit and I am a Franciscan, but despite everything I must respect him for what he does in this video. And when some sort of Jesuit like Bishop Fellay commands the respect of a Franciscan like me, then he is entitled to the respect of every Catholic. He is entitled to our respect.
Agreed. Bishop Fellay is doing everything a traditional Catholic Bishop should do, working for the restoration of all things in Christ, and the return of Christian civilization, like Archbishop Lefebvre did before him. In this era secularized nations are ashamed of their Christian roots, and want to ban every public display of that heritage from the Creche to the Crucifix. The truth is that almost everything that even the godless recognize to constitute true civilization, from countless social works like charities, hospitals, schools, universities that the Church developed and established, to beautiful art and architecture, and so much else that the West knows and has inherited and still values today, owe their origin and development to Christianity. Thomas Woods, a traditional Catholic, docuмents this fact in "How the Catholic Church built western civilization". The recognition of the invaluable debt society and culture owes to Christianity would be the first step in coming back to acknowledge the Kingship of Christ over our societies and civilization.
Indeed, granted that so many nations in Europe, the Americas and Russia have a rich Christian tradition, what a great thing it would be if those nations joined together to publicly acknowledge their debt to Christianity, and recognized it as foundational and intrinsic to true civilization. The flag of the EU, with its twelve stars, was actually designed by two Catholics, and is meant to represent the Sovereign Queenship of Our Blessed Lady over society, though that is impiously ignored today. Not that that is likely to happen any time soon, but because secularists foolishly and absurdly say "religion is divisive" or some such nonsense, the fact rather is that a recognition of common Christian roots would greatly unite three otherwise and currently disunited world powers.
If we look back through history, we see immediately that what I have been speaking of took place in our own countries in the first centuries after Constantine. For we too, are, in our origins, converts. Our ancestors were converted, our kings were converted, and down through the centuries they offered their nations to Our Lord Jesus Christ, and they submitted their countries to the Cross of Jesus. They willed too that Mary should be the Queen of their lands.
One can read the admirable writings of St. Edward, King of England, of St. Louis, King of France, of the Holy Roman Emperor, St. Henry, of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, and of all the saints who were at the head of our Catholic nations and who thus helped to make Christianity. What faith they had in the Holy Mass! King St. Louis of France served two Masses every day. If he was traveling and happened to hear church bells ringing to announce the consecration, he would dismount to adore on bended knee the miracle being performed at that moment. There indeed was Catholic civilization! How far from such faith we are now, how far indeed!