This goes to show that the rumor of Msgr. Fellay "selling out" the SSPX is hogwash.

That is most blessed though that the bouquet of Rosaries had more than the requested number.

About the Pope, Vatican II, and the motu proprio, we have yet to see any real significant changes that sort of go back to Catholic Tradition. There have been some little things here and there, yes, but nothing too big yet. I say now that if we only had a Pope who was a Thomist/Scholastic, then I think many of the problems in the Church would be resolved. Sadly, our Pope is not a Thomist. I do not even know what he would think of Scholasticism now, being older and wiser. He still has adherence to modernist theology from what I can tell so far. We must still pray for him then.

I remember recently reading Abp. Lefebvre's "Luther's Mass." In it, he mentions what I see also are three big errors that we can draw from the docuмents of Vatican II which each have to do with the liberty, equality, and fraternity of the French Revolution. The three errors are: religious freedom (liberty), ecuмenism (equality), and collegiality (fraternity). Now I see those three as especially interrelated with one and another. About collegiality, the Pope today appears to be above the bishops still, but he is not able to do as much as Popes of days of old who indeed took their Petrine office seriously. Not that our Pope now does not take his role seriously, but having in mind Vatican II, there would be a "limit" to his power right now, which is absurd because the power of his Petrine office is above all bishops. What he does have in equivalence to other bishops is simply the mere fact that he is a bishop himself with the same episcopal power of the sacrament of order. As to the government of the Church though, he is supreme over any bishop or paster anywhere in the Church. Now as to the SSPX right now, it may sort of appear it is disobeying the Pope, when actually one thing it is trying to tell the Pope basically is "you have the full supreme authority over the Church; do not take abuse and actual disobedience from bishops under you." Sadly, certain Popes have not seemed to get it or have been simply weak in the past forty years, and many bishops and pastors get away with injuring and killing souls.

Those are my two cents so far. :D  :wink: