In Defense of Bishop
Jean-Michel Faure
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PAX
In Defense of Bishop Jean-Michel Faure
Bishop Faure was attacked in the past and still is now. Let us look at the accusers and the accused. We begin with the accused.
Throughout his life, Bishop Faure fought against all the enemies of the true faith and true civilization.
His family had to leave Algeria, where they had lived for many decades. The young Jean-Michel took part in this war in which the government of General de Gaulle betrayed both the French and the Muslims of Algeria.
Forced to leave France, he came to Latin America. While discerning his vocation, he consulted the bishop of the Diocese of Paraná in Argentina. This bishop then told him about Archbishop Lefebvre. He therefore left for Écône, passing through Rome, where he heard Paul VI speaking from the Vatican balcony about the smoke of Satan entering the Church, while failing to name the true culprit, which was none other than Vatican II and Paul VI himself.
Welcomed to Écône in the early 1970s, he must be counted among the earliest members of the Society.
Archbishop Lefebvre entrusted him with major responsibilities in Mexico and Argentina. He founded the La Reja Seminary.
In 1986, Archbishop Lefebvre considered him for episcopal consecration. He declined, not thinking himself worthy, and proposed Father Alfonso de Galarreta instead.
When Bishop Williamson was expelled from Argentina, Bishop Faure was at his side to support him and accompany him on his journey to England.
In 2012, he did not follow Bishop Fellay—far from it. He also did not approve of Bishop Williamson’s expulsion. He eventually left the Society out of fidelity to Archbishop Lefebvre.
In 2015, Bishop Williamson invited him to accept episcopal consecration. He accepted, thinking it might be tempting God to refuse the episcopate a second time.
He founded the Society of the Apostles of Jesus and Mary and has kept his Society in the good fight of Tradition.
Do those who wish to discredit Bishop Faure have a better service record? These accusations against him were made by priests who had mostly been at the La Reja Seminary and who rebelled against their superiors in 1988. Almost all of them became sedevacantists. Archbishop Lefebvre strongly disavowed them.
Whom should we trust? Archbishop Lefebvre and Bishop Williamson, who esteemed and honored Bishop Faure, or the rebellious priests who accused him? Their accusations spring either from a sick imagination or from malice seeking to harm those who refused to follow them in their revolt.
Through it all, Bishop Faure remained faithful to Archbishop Lefebvre and, through him, to the Church. For this reason, we consider it an honor to defend him.
✠ Thomas Aquinas, O.S.B.
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