As usual, when there is something profoundly helpful for understanding the devil's
ploy, something that liberals desire to suppress because it might devastate their
smoke-and-mirrors campaign, the minions come out of the woodwork to flail
around over side issues, over diversionary tactics, over contrived controversy.

Let the liberals flail away.

Here is a copy of Bishop Williamson's EC 268, and we don't have to fuss and
fume over whether he said this or not, because it came to all of our email boxes
just yesterday, and we can see it is legitimate.

I have printed out multiple copies and I will hand them out to interested parties
this morning at Mass. I suggest you all do the same.

Of course, Gertrude the Ingrate will complain, but so be it. Some people will never
be satisfied with the truth.










In an official letter of July 18 to Superiors of the Society of St Pius X, its General Secretary revealed the six “Conditions” for any future agreement between the SSPX and Rome. These were hammered out by discussion amongst the 39 capitulants of early July. Surely these Conditions demonstrate an alarming weakness on the part of the Society’s leaders as a whole.

The first “essential requirement” is freedom for the Society to teach the unchanging truth of Catholic Tradition, and to criticize those responsible for the errors of modernism, liberalism and Vatican II. Well and good. But notice how the Chapter’s vision has changed from that of Archbishop Lefebvre. No longer “Rome must convert because Truth is absolute”, but now merely “The SSPX demands freedom for itself to tell the Truth.” Instead of attacking the Conciliar treachery, the SSPX now wants the traitors to give it permission to tell the Truth? “O, what a fall was there!”

The second condition requires exclusive use of the 1962 liturgy. Again, well and good, insofar as the 1962 liturgy is no such betrayal of the Faith as is the Conciliar liturgy imposed by Rome from 1969 onwards. But do we not right now see Rome preparing to impose on Traditional Congregations that have submitted to its authority a “mutual enrichment” Missal, mixing Tradition and the Novus Ordo? Once the SSPX were to have submitted to Rome, why should it be any more protected?

The third condition requires the guarantee of at least one bishop. The key question here is, who will choose him? Readers, in the text of any future “agreement” with Rome, go straight for the paragraph about the appointment of bishops. In 1988 Rome proposed that the Archbishop present a selection of three candidates for Rome to choose one. Rome then rejected all three. When will people get it? Catholics must fight and fight in this titanic war between the religion of God and the religion of man.

The fourth condition desires that the Society have its own tribunals of the first instance. But if any higher tribunal is of the official Church and can undo the lower tribunals’ decisions, what Catholic decision of any Society tribunal will still have any force at all?

The fifth condition desires exemption of SSPX houses from control by diocesan bishops. Unbelievable! For nigh on 40 years the SSPX has been fighting to save the Faith by protecting its true practice from interference by the local Conciliar bishops, and now comes the General Chapter merely desiring independence from them ? The Society is not what it was, dear readers. It is in the hands of people quite different from Archbishop Lefebvre!

The sixth and last condition desires a Commission to be set up in Rome to look after Tradition, with a strong representation from Tradition, but “dependent on the Pope.” Dependent on the Pope? But have the Conciliar Popes not been ringleaders of Conciliarism? Is Conciliarism no longer a problem?

In conclusion, these six conditions are excessively grave. Unless the Society’s leadership is shaken out of its dream of peace with Conciliar Rome as revealed by them, then the last worldwide bastion of Catholic Tradition risks being on its way to surrendering to the enemies of the Faith. Maybe bastions are out of date.

Friends, prepare to fight for the Faith from within your homes. Fortify your homes.

Kyrie eleison.

© 2012 Richard N. Williamson. All Rights Reserved.


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The good Bishop clearly announces that "these six conditions are excessively
grave." We cannot ignore his words, lest we ignore our own peril. Print it, learn it,
share it. This is something you can do NOW to further the good of the Church.

You don't even have to fuss about how to get the copy off the CathInfo site and
into your printer, because here is a .doc file ready to download and print out:

the whole 'stack' was taken by a 'lackey' and most probably handed over to the district superior

Assuming you mean a 'lackey' to mean pro-agreement, perhaps a few people can have a word with him/her. I'm not suggesting you intimidate the person but could they clarify why they are for a deal etc etc. They might change their mind. It's never any harm to have a word with them.

Could we please stay on-topic and not derail virtually any thread? It's unfair.



This is a most excellent Eleison Comment. Thank you, Your Excellency!
As SpiritusS. says: Bishop Williamson at his best!


Now I'd like to quote "Faber" from another forum on the same topic:

Quote from: Faber @ Sep 1 2012, 15:17 GMT

Quote from: Seraphim

On the other hand, I dont like the part about "fortify your homes."

It could be taken to mean the bishops have no plans to do anything, regardless of what happens, and the best they can advise us is to become home-aloners.

There won't be a new bastion when this one is slighted. Bishop Williamson has been talking about a loose association of priests and about "only the rosary left" some time ago.

Quote from: Bishop Williamson

Maybe bastions are out of date.

Friends, prepare to fight for the Faith from within your homes. Fortify your homes.

Very well said, Faber. Genau so ist es. It looks like we Catholics will have to do what our brave Japanese brothers in faith did after their priests had been slaughtered.

Your words are quite chilling. No two ways about it. Remember the Japanese
martyrs. They might become our role models, and soon. Remember the Cristeros.

I appreciate your desire to stick to the theme of this thread here, Ethelred,
because it's quite frustrating to look for material in the forum when it is not
described by the title of the thread:


 Eleison Comments by Mgr. Williamson - Issue CCLXVIII - 268


That ought to be good for anyone looking for "Manager Williamson EC 268."


............Wait a minute................

Manager Williamson?
The English abbreviation for Monsignor is Msgr., not Mgr. It seems we forget that
because of the French "Mgr."

Maybe we should all just speak French and keep it simple?!   :thinking:


But back to the topic! I have to admit, that I'm quite uncomfortable with the
concept that "Maybe the bastions are out of date." I do not like that.

Call me a stick-in-the-mud, but I prefer a holy Holy Father, and sound catechesis
at the local parish. I had a few years of that before the age of reason, but it
wasn't enough! What I received in school and my parish church as a child was a
fading remnant of the Golden Age of the Church; enough for me to recognize what
had just happened, but not enough for me to fully appreciate all the effects
thereof.

I feel like a child who arrives at the Parade just as the last band is marching by,
and as they fade away down the street, I see the cleanup crews sweeping and
the crowds going home. I did not see the whole parade. I did not see the most
magnificent floats. All I can do is look at the photographs that others took when
those things had gone by, long ago, before my time.

It seems to me that this particular EC, 268 is not quite the last marching band
of the parade. But it is a marching band. Don't miss it. I would like to think there
is at least one float left before the final band and the cleanup crew. Maybe the
parade has been stopped for a moment. Sometimes there is a traffic jam even
when "full speed" is 2-1/2 MPH. But you know, when that happens, one advantage
of a marching band over a float is, that the band can stand still and play a song.

Do not miss the music of H.E.'s words here.

Share the music with your friends today.

Make someone happy.

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the whole 'stack' was taken by a 'lackey' and most probably handed over to the district superior

Assuming you mean a 'lackey' to mean pro-agreement, perhaps a few people can have a word with him/her. I'm not suggesting you intimidate the person but could they clarify why they are for a deal etc etc. They might change their mind. It's never any harm to have a word with them.

I can tell you from personal experience that talking to this "lacky"  is the surest and best way to be expelled from the chapel!  
The lacky will dutifully report tto the priest, and of course, mention your name.

Quote from: John Grace

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the whole 'stack' was taken by a 'lackey' and most probably handed over to the district superior

Assuming you mean a 'lackey' to mean pro-agreement, perhaps a few people can have a word with him/her. I'm not suggesting you intimidate the person but could they clarify why they are for a deal etc etc. They might change their mind. It's never any harm to have a word with them.

I can tell you from personal experience that talking to this "lacky"  is the surest and best way to be expelled from the chapel!  
The lacky will dutifully report tto the priest, and of course, mention your name.

I'm alarmed if people have allowed themselves to be bullied out of leaving the chapels of the SSPX. How are people expelled from the chapel?

I second the suggestion to distribute this E.C. at your chapel. Just make a stack of papers, and place it there when no one is looking. Even if a "lackey" takes them away and trashes most of them, you tried. And some people got a copy before he discovered it!

And you never know -- you might be at one of the chapels where there ISN'T a vigilant lackey keeping an eye out.

Either way, you'll get people talking -- and that's what we want. We're of the TRUTH, not the deceivers who want to stifle all discussion and knowledge of what's going on. We WANT people to be awake, to listen and think for themselves.