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The dehabilitation of Archbishop Lefebvre by the Neo-resistance Priests

by QuaeriteDominum

February 2, 2013

Sooner or later it was bound to happen. There are too many inconvenient truths concerning the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s sometimes conflicting words and actions. It has been difficult, if not impossible, for the neo-resistance priests, and their moral authority, Bishop Richard Williamson, to use Archbishop Lefebvre as a standard bearer and yet explain away some of his actions. In the same way, Thuc-line sedevacantists have a problem justifying the soundness of mind of Archbishop Thuc while avoiding the fact that at times, he appeared willing to make a bishop of anyone with a pulse. Here are the inconvenient truths that the neo-resistance group have so far swept under the rug, so it speak.

1. The Archbishop signed all but two of the Council docuмents. Very awkward.

 2. In February of 1966, the Archbishop informed his colleagues in the Coetus that he proposed to publish a “combative, multilingual interepiscopal bulletin of information and analysis which will help the bishops to take practical measures against progressivism and in favor of a sound interpretation of the Council”. This must certainly be a very embarrasing piece of history for the neo-resistance and their moral authoritarian. The Archbishop apparently felt, a year after the conclusion of the council, that it was possible to interpret it in the light of Tradition!!

3. It is tantamount to heresy to even meet with the conciliar Cardinals and Pope, yet the Archbishop met with Paul VI and John Paul II. Actually, all four of the SSPX Bishops met with Cardinal Castrillon, but apparently, that was just for tea and nuts, so no harm done.

4. After penning “I accuse the Council” in 1983, Archbishop Lefebvre found his way clear to collaborate with Cardinal Ratzinger over several weeks to produce an agreement that would recognize the SSPX and give it a canonical structure within the church with the SSPX Superior General answering to some loosely defined council. This became known as the 1988 Protocol. The lynchpin of this agreement was the replacement of Archbishop Lefebvre with a new bishop to be chosen from within the SSPX. The day after signing the Protocol, the Archbishop contacted Cardinal Ratzinger and told him that he changed his mind. By his account, he did not trust that the promised and oft-postponed consecration of an SSPX bishop would ever be honored by the Vatican. According to Bishop Tissier’s book, even on the day of the episcopal consecrations, the Archbishop confided that he was willing to postpone them until the following August if Rome agreed to this condition. Apparently, this was the archbishop’s criterion for the “conversion of Rome”. He reiterated this when challenged about his criticism of the FSSP and the Benedictines for accepting the same Protocol. His answer was emphatic: “No, they have NOT signed the same Protocol, for they have not been granted a Bishop.” This, along with the fact that Archbishop told Ratzinger that he signed the Protocol with “enthusiasm”, must really cause some hand-wringing among the neo-resistance.

What to do? Well, one certainly cannot take the Archbishop’s life and events in the church in chronological order and build a case to use him as support for rejecting a canonical recognition of the SSPX by the Pope. Therefore, they do the only thing they can do which is to take a line from the last priestly retreat Archbishop Lefebvre preached that was subsequently turned into a book “Spiritual Journey” to justify the rejection of the Pope until he converts, which is not specifically what the Archbishop said.

With the prospect of any near-term developments between the SSPX and the Pope close to nil, and the SSPX not yet celebrating the Novus Ordo or holding hands during the Pater Noster, it appears that it now is necessary to begin to marginalize Archbishop Lefebvre and expose some of the chinks in his armor. The moral authoritarian of the neo-resistance has begun, in his recent English language writings, to recall liberalism, in definition and origin. Fine, you might think, as all Popes prior to the council have also done. What has not received much notice in the English press is a conference given by His Excellency in French last month. Here is what he said: (from lefebvristes.forum-box.com)

 

Je pense que chez Mgr Lefebvre la pastorale minait sa doctrine, une pastorale qui correspondait à une doctrine qui n’était pas la sienne. Je crois qu’il a été moulé par l’Eglise des années 30, 40, 50 et on se souvient que déjà le vers était dans le fruit aux années 20: Action française et toute la décadence qui a suivi! Donc le mal était déjà bien installé dans l’Église dés les années 20. Mgr Lefebvre était très loyal, il a su apprendre du père Le Floch au séminaire français, il a su assimiler la bonne doctrine. La bonne doctrine des encycliques anti-libérales qu’il a apprises auprès du père Le Floch, mais il nous disait lui-même que quand il est arrivé au séminaire, il croyait encore à la séparation de l’Eglise et de l’État. Ses idées libérales étaient tout-à-fait courantes depuis depuis un siècle à ce moment-là. Autrement dit, quand j’analyse la chose maintenant, je pense qu’il y a eu un aspect “cinquantiste” même chez Mgr Lefebvre. Et je crois que c’est cela qui a mis la pagaille, parce que la moindre faille dans un fondateur se montre inéluctablement par la suite. Il y a un dicton, très amusant, pas très élégant en espagnol: “Ce n’est que quand le singe monte dans l’arbre qu’on voit son derrière!” C’est graphique mais ça dit une grande vérité! A savoir, plus on est supérieur, plus ses déficiences sont dangereuses. C’est pour ça qu’il faut que les supérieurs soient les plus parfaits possibles.

Bishop Williamson often offers an analogy of the conciliar faith with even a slight bit of error like a cake with a slight bit of poison that a mother would never serve to her children. Here, he is using the same analogy with Archbishop Lefebvre saying that because modernism was already rooted in the church as early as the 1920′s, the Archbishop was already tainted with this “flaw” (faille) which has apparently now come to roost in the SSPX. Sins of our fathers equals Flaws of Our Founders (faille dans un fondateur). Luckily, the neo-resistance priests and their moral authoritarian have benefited by an Immaculate Formation whereby they were preserved from the original flaw of modernism, unlike the unfortunate Archbishop and the whole of the SSPX, save for those in Kentucky and Wimbledon.

Now I will expect that little by little, in the future neo-resistance YouTube sermons, we will begin to hear about the flaws and non-infallibility of the Archbishop. It is the next logical step in the side-stepping of the inexplicable episodes in the life of the Archbishop who appeared to be ever interested in a (now taboo, regardless of conditions) canonical status for the Society of St. Pius X.


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« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2013, 03:17:45 PM »
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  • "neo-resistance" - the word doesn't even make sense.

    Bringing in the Thuc line bishops: again, a ridiculous attempt to conflate the resistance with sedevacantists.

    These people are ridiculous.

    Incredible that they think they can go back to the 1960s, take some of the actions of Archbishop Lefebvre, then simply ignore the rest of the things he said, especially from the time of the consecrations to his death.

    The Emperor has no clothes.  Bishop Fellay does not teach what the Archbishop taught.  

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    3. It is tantamount to heresy to even meet with the conciliar Cardinals and Pope, yet the Archbishop met with Paul VI and John Paul II. Actually, all four of the SSPX Bishops met with Cardinal Castrillon, but apparently, that was just for tea and nuts, so no harm done.


    A straw man.

    Here is what Archbishop Lefebvre said though about a prospective deal in the future:

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    Archbishop Lefebvre: We do not have the same outlook on a reconciliation. Cardinal Ratzinger sees it as reducing us, bringing us back to Vatican II. We see it as a return of Rome to Tradition. We don’t agree; it is a dialogue of death. I can’t speak much of the future, mine is behind me, but if I live a little while, supposing that Rome calls for a renewed dialogue, then, I will put conditions. I shall not accept being in the position where I was put during the dialogue. No more.

    I will place the discussion at the doctrinal level: “Do you agree with the great encyclicals of all the popes who preceded you? Do you agree with Quanta Cura of Pius IX, Immortale Dei and Libertas of Leo XIII, Pascendi Gregis of Pius X, Quas Primas of Pius XI, Humani Generis of Pius XII? Are you in full communion with these Popes and their teachings? Do you still accept the entire Anti-Modernist Oath? Are you in favor of the social reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ? If you do not accept the doctrine of your predecessors, it is useless to talk! As long as you do not accept the correction of the Council, in consideration of the doctrine of these Popes, your predecessors, no dialogue is possible. It is useless.”


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    Therefore, they do the only thing they can do which is to take a line from the last priestly retreat Archbishop Lefebvre preached that was subsequently turned into a book “Spiritual Journey” to justify the rejection of the Pope until he converts, which is not specifically what the Archbishop said.


    You very tellingly don't quote the line, nor are you engaged in a good-faith discussion.


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  • Stevus, do you seriously believe this rubbish?

    Quit reading AngelQueen and read sites that give the FACTS - such as CI.
    Please ignore ALL of my posts. I was naive during my time posting on this forum and didn’t know any better. I retract and deeply regret any and all uncharitable or erroneous statements I ever made here.

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    « Reply #3 on: February 23, 2013, 03:31:44 PM »
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    Stevus, do you seriously believe this rubbish?

    Quit reading AngelQueen and read sites that give the FACTS - such as CI.


    Stevus doesn't always agree with the things he posts.

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    « Reply #4 on: February 23, 2013, 03:35:45 PM »
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    do you seriously believe this rubbish?


    Does anybody believe that rubbish? I had actually forgotten about AngelQueen.


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  • Tele is right.

    I don't necessarily agree with it. But I saw it on AQ and thought it would definitely make for good discussion here.

    The tone of the missive is classic AQ. Condescending and sarcastic.

    I didn't get a chance to read it in depth. The article throws out so many quotes I'd have to look them up and read them in context.

    All-in-all I've stayed out of the Society/ Resistance duel as I think we should all be attacking the Neo-Modernists.

    However, I must say that there has at least been a shift in tone among the SSPX and a more silence on certain points. Now some of this may be because the most fiery Society priests left and joined the resistance. The Society and Bishop Fellay are still holding the Traditional line in favor of Christ the King and against the NO. Just listened to BF's talk at the Angelus conference last year. He gave a great talk against Conciliar Rome's ridiculous view of religious liberty. However, I do feel that some Society priests and adherents have drifted a little towards the FSSP in certain aspects, but not completely.

    The point of the resistance as I see it is that they did sense a palpable shift in the Society's rhetoric towards the end of the discussions when a deal was said to be on the horizon. This, along with odd and ambiguous statements from Menzigen, reasonably caused a lot of Society faithful to get upset, as they have sacrificed a lot to devote their lives to Tradition and did not want to see it all for naught as their chapel turns into the Motu church they could have joined years ago.

    In any case, I see both sides, but snarky polemics like this from AQ do not help matters at all. The resistance wants to ensure that the big resistance (SSPX included) stays faithful to Tradition and ABL.

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  • Stevus, I apologise. I thought you approved of what was written, but apparently I was mistaken.
    Please ignore ALL of my posts. I was naive during my time posting on this forum and didn’t know any better. I retract and deeply regret any and all uncharitable or erroneous statements I ever made here.

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    The dehabilitation of Archbishop Lefebvre by the Neo-resistance Priests

    by QuaeriteDominum

    February 2, 2013

    Sooner or later it was bound to happen. There are too many inconvenient truths concerning the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s sometimes conflicting words and actions. It has been difficult, if not impossible, for the neo-resistance priests, and their moral authority, Bishop Richard Williamson, to use Archbishop Lefebvre as a standard bearer and yet explain away some of his actions. In the same way, Thuc-line sedevacantists have a problem justifying the soundness of mind of Archbishop Thuc while avoiding the fact that at times, he appeared willing to make a bishop of anyone with a pulse. Here are the inconvenient truths that the neo-resistance group have so far swept under the rug, so it speak.

    1. The Archbishop signed all but two of the Council docuмents. Very awkward.

     2. In February of 1966, the Archbishop informed his colleagues in the Coetus that he proposed to publish a “combative, multilingual interepiscopal bulletin of information and analysis which will help the bishops to take practical measures against progressivism and in favor of a sound interpretation of the Council”. This must certainly be a very embarrasing piece of history for the neo-resistance and their moral authoritarian. The Archbishop apparently felt, a year after the conclusion of the council, that it was possible to interpret it in the light of Tradition!!

    3. It is tantamount to heresy to even meet with the conciliar Cardinals and Pope, yet the Archbishop met with Paul VI and John Paul II. Actually, all four of the SSPX Bishops met with Cardinal Castrillon, but apparently, that was just for tea and nuts, so no harm done.

    4. After penning “I accuse the Council” in 1983, Archbishop Lefebvre found his way clear to collaborate with Cardinal Ratzinger over several weeks to produce an agreement that would recognize the SSPX and give it a canonical structure within the church with the SSPX Superior General answering to some loosely defined council. This became known as the 1988 Protocol. The lynchpin of this agreement was the replacement of Archbishop Lefebvre with a new bishop to be chosen from within the SSPX. The day after signing the Protocol, the Archbishop contacted Cardinal Ratzinger and told him that he changed his mind. By his account, he did not trust that the promised and oft-postponed consecration of an SSPX bishop would ever be honored by the Vatican. According to Bishop Tissier’s book, even on the day of the episcopal consecrations, the Archbishop confided that he was willing to postpone them until the following August if Rome agreed to this condition. Apparently, this was the archbishop’s criterion for the “conversion of Rome”. He reiterated this when challenged about his criticism of the FSSP and the Benedictines for accepting the same Protocol. His answer was emphatic: “No, they have NOT signed the same Protocol, for they have not been granted a Bishop.” This, along with the fact that Archbishop told Ratzinger that he signed the Protocol with “enthusiasm”, must really cause some hand-wringing among the neo-resistance.

    What to do? Well, one certainly cannot take the Archbishop’s life and events in the church in chronological order and build a case to use him as support for rejecting a canonical recognition of the SSPX by the Pope. Therefore, they do the only thing they can do which is to take a line from the last priestly retreat Archbishop Lefebvre preached that was subsequently turned into a book “Spiritual Journey” to justify the rejection of the Pope until he converts, which is not specifically what the Archbishop said.

    With the prospect of any near-term developments between the SSPX and the Pope close to nil, and the SSPX not yet celebrating the Novus Ordo or holding hands during the Pater Noster, it appears that it now is necessary to begin to marginalize Archbishop Lefebvre and expose some of the chinks in his armor. The moral authoritarian of the neo-resistance has begun, in his recent English language writings, to recall liberalism, in definition and origin. Fine, you might think, as all Popes prior to the council have also done. What has not received much notice in the English press is a conference given by His Excellency in French last month. Here is what he said: (from lefebvristes.forum-box.com)

     

    Je pense que chez Mgr Lefebvre la pastorale minait sa doctrine, une pastorale qui correspondait à une doctrine qui n’était pas la sienne. Je crois qu’il a été moulé par l’Eglise des années 30, 40, 50 et on se souvient que déjà le vers était dans le fruit aux années 20: Action française et toute la décadence qui a suivi! Donc le mal était déjà bien installé dans l’Église dés les années 20. Mgr Lefebvre était très loyal, il a su apprendre du père Le Floch au séminaire français, il a su assimiler la bonne doctrine. La bonne doctrine des encycliques anti-libérales qu’il a apprises auprès du père Le Floch, mais il nous disait lui-même que quand il est arrivé au séminaire, il croyait encore à la séparation de l’Eglise et de l’État. Ses idées libérales étaient tout-à-fait courantes depuis depuis un siècle à ce moment-là. Autrement dit, quand j’analyse la chose maintenant, je pense qu’il y a eu un aspect “cinquantiste” même chez Mgr Lefebvre. Et je crois que c’est cela qui a mis la pagaille, parce que la moindre faille dans un fondateur se montre inéluctablement par la suite. Il y a un dicton, très amusant, pas très élégant en espagnol: “Ce n’est que quand le singe monte dans l’arbre qu’on voit son derrière!” C’est graphique mais ça dit une grande vérité! A savoir, plus on est supérieur, plus ses déficiences sont dangereuses. C’est pour ça qu’il faut que les supérieurs soient les plus parfaits possibles.

    Bishop Williamson often offers an analogy of the conciliar faith with even a slight bit of error like a cake with a slight bit of poison that a mother would never serve to her children. Here, he is using the same analogy with Archbishop Lefebvre saying that because modernism was already rooted in the church as early as the 1920′s, the Archbishop was already tainted with this “flaw” (faille) which has apparently now come to roost in the SSPX. Sins of our fathers equals Flaws of Our Founders (faille dans un fondateur). Luckily, the neo-resistance priests and their moral authoritarian have benefited by an Immaculate Formation whereby they were preserved from the original flaw of modernism, unlike the unfortunate Archbishop and the whole of the SSPX, save for those in Kentucky and Wimbledon.

    Now I will expect that little by little, in the future neo-resistance YouTube sermons, we will begin to hear about the flaws and non-infallibility of the Archbishop. It is the next logical step in the side-stepping of the inexplicable episodes in the life of the Archbishop who appeared to be ever interested in a (now taboo, regardless of conditions) canonical status for the Society of St. Pius X.



    In other words, the author wants a merely practical accord.

    Talk about sweeping ABL's words under the rug!
    Rom 5: 20 - "But where sin increased, grace abounded all the more."


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  • Interestingly, with the hardliners or their ideas being pushed out of the Society, the vacuum caused now is dividing it between mildly critical voices of conciliarism and those who would adopt positions similar to the ED bodies. The old rhetoric has gone; I suspect no priest dare stick his head above the parapet now.

    Those basing their arguments purely on the words and actions of ABL are on a hiding to nothing. He definitely hardened with the consecrations and afterwards but was capable of backtracking somewhat. This may have been because of the influence of large benefactors or he personally had this love/hate thing going with Rome. The resistors ought to establish a mission in their own right with the minimum of the awkward 'recognise and resist' feature (if they must!) and not indulge in perpetual ABL-dissection. Afterall, Menzingen has the copyright and the real estate .... and the bones; a big thing in Catholic iconolatry!  

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  • I'd just like to say that seeing the idiocy of Queer-iteDum-dum there makes me
    remember how nice it is to be able to read stuff that intelligent members here
    contribute, like Wessex, Telesphorus, Seraphim, ServusSpirutusSancti, sspxbvm,
    stevusmagnus, and John Grace, speaking of which....




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    do you seriously believe this rubbish?


    Does anybody believe that rubbish? I had actually forgotten about AngelQueen.



    ...you took the words right out of my mouth, Mr. Grace!

    Queer-iteDum-dum is like a recurring nightmare I almost forgot about.  Shucks.  




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    I'd just like to say that seeing the idiocy of Queer-iteDum-dum there makes me
    remember how nice it is to be able to read stuff that intelligent members here
    contribute, like Wessex, Telesphorus, Seraphim, ServusSpirutusSancti, sspxbvm,
    stevusmagnus, and John Grace, speaking of which....




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    do you seriously believe this rubbish?


    Does anybody believe that rubbish? I had actually forgotten about AngelQueen.



    ...you took the words right out of my mouth, Mr. Grace!

    Queer-iteDum-dum is like a recurring nightmare I almost forgot about.  Shucks.  






    I was being serious when I stated I had forgotten about AQ. It's well over a year since I heard it mentioned.

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    Tele is right.

    I don't necessarily agree with it. But I saw it on AQ and thought it would definitely make for good discussion here.

    The tone of the missive is classic AQ. Condescending and sarcastic.

    I didn't get a chance to read it in depth. The article throws out so many quotes I'd have to look them up and read them in context.

    All-in-all I've stayed out of the Society/ Resistance duel as I think we should all be attacking the Neo-Modernists.

    However, I must say that there has at least been a shift in tone among the SSPX and a more silence on certain points. Now some of this may be because the most fiery Society priests left and joined the resistance. The Society and Bishop Fellay are still holding the Traditional line in favor of Christ the King and against the NO. Just listened to BF's talk at the Angelus conference last year. He gave a great talk against Conciliar Rome's ridiculous view of religious liberty. However, I do feel that some Society priests and adherents have drifted a little towards the FSSP in certain aspects, but not completely.

    The point of the resistance as I see it is that they did sense a palpable shift in the Society's rhetoric towards the end of the discussions when a deal was said to be on the horizon. This, along with odd and ambiguous statements from Menzigen, reasonably caused a lot of Society faithful to get upset, as they have sacrificed a lot to devote their lives to Tradition and did not want to see it all for naught as their chapel turns into the Motu church they could have joined years ago.

    In any case, I see both sides, but snarky polemics like this from AQ do not help matters at all. The resistance wants to ensure that the big resistance (SSPX included) stays faithful to Tradition and ABL.


    I also thought there was some good discussions to be had here, all polemics aside.  A couple of the points are particularly interesting, firstly that the Archbishop, who was a canonist and no slouch in matters of faith, felt that immediately following the end of the council, that it could be implemented "traditionally".  Was he a dim-whit or a heretic? The second interesting point is that Bishop Williamson has insinuated that the Archbishop was "flawed" with modernism and that is now surfacing in the SSPX. True? Fortunately the indelicate reference to a monkey's bottom was not translated from French.

    But it looks like, instead of any discussion, it will be dismissed as rubbish with a little name-calling thrown in.

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    But it looks like, instead of any discussion, it will be dismissed as rubbish with a little name-calling thrown in.


    It is rubbish, Vinny. It's not an accurate article.

    Also, Bishop Williamson never called Archbishop Lefebvre a "modernist".

    Please ignore ALL of my posts. I was naive during my time posting on this forum and didn’t know any better. I retract and deeply regret any and all uncharitable or erroneous statements I ever made here.

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  • Vatican II being implemented traditionally is like trying to find cheese from the moon. Its docuмents have to be revised, to get rid of ambiguities and outright dangerous errors.

    How ironic that the accordistas always have to dig up quote after quote of ABL from just after the Council and just before the consecrations, as well as quotes of his after the Consecrations taken out of context, and ignoring his prudent directive for eventually resuming talks with Rome, not a practical agreement without doctrinal agreement.
    "In our time more than ever before, the greatest asset of the evil-disposed is the cowardice and weakness of good men, and all the vigour of Satan's reign is due to the easy-going weakness of Catholics." -St. Pius X

    "If the Church were not divine, this