Hugh Akins would like to share this update with everyone on CathInfo --
Greetings in Our Lord Jesus Christ the King!
I’d like to share some encouraging news. I will submit it in the form of a brief update relative to two topics that have recently been posted on this site:
(1) My open letter explaining the reasons the League of Christ the King was forced to sever all ties with the SSPX-Marian Corps; and
(2) Sean Johnson’s very excellent Catechetical Refutation which is presently being published by the League in booklet form.
In the short period of time that these two writings have materialized – and in response to them,
29 new pro-Resistance people subscribed to the League’s official quarterly magazine, Oportet Christum Regnare, at least one-third of them saying it was because
(a) we’ve remained loyal to Bp. Williamson and/or
(b) we’ve finally opened their eyes to all that was wrong with the Marian Corps and their cohort, The Recusant of the UK.?
7 existing subscribers renewed early and sent in a donation to show their continuing support, perhaps in appreciation for the position we’ve taken or in anticipation of future attacks to come either from Pfeifferville, KY, The Recusant, or both;
32 more folks renewed whose subscriptions were about to expire (and that was after reading my hard-hitting 5-page insert about the MC and about Sean Johnson’s theological Refutation);
And after all the smoke settled, only one individual cancelled her subscription, which I found quite amazing, as I expected a dozen or more cancellations. Several others did let me know that they disagreed with my letter and Sean’s study, but only that one lady asked for a refund and for the removal of her name from our mailing list;
And now, I actually have so many requests for A Catechetical Refutation that the initial printing has nearly sold out – even before I’ve received the shipment from the printer, or mailed out one single copy, or any real advertising was done to promote the booklet; or even before it has been posted on my website. Imagine how many more copies might be ordered when we get around to announcing to the world its availability!
I have already begun seriously thinking in terms of a 2nd printing – again, even before the 1st printing has seen the light of day. Correspondingly, Sean Johnson is already planning on drafting an appendix for the 2nd edition, to include additional private refutations.
How’s that for some encouraging news? But wait! – there’s more to come.
Father * wrote to inform Sean Johnson that he would not be joining the MC in Boston, Kentucky, as he originally planned. What changed this good priest’s mind was a careful reading of A Catechetical Refutation, coupled with a cordial and most fruitful exchange of emails with its author. Congratulations, Sean Johnson, for a job well done!
True, these are small victories, but victories nonetheless, especially the rescue of a priest from the clutches of the Marian Corps. I’m beginning to think that the MC has hurt themselves more than the Resistance as a whole, which wisely stood behind Bishops Williamson, Faure and Aquinas. Catholics are not as blind as the MC may have thought – and perhaps hoped.
With all this good news I am reminded of what His Excellency Bishop Williamson wrote in the Foreword to the 2nd English edition of Fr. Rioult’s The Impossible Reconciliation, namely, that no matter how “insignificant” the true Resistance may be in numbers at this time, it is “SURELY ENOUGH for God’s purposes!”
A profound thought to reflect on.
Onward, good soldiers of Christ!
Hugh Akins