Bishop Fellay gives an Assessment of the SSPX in his last months as Superior General.



Bishop Bernard Fellay, General Superior of the Society of St. Pius X, graciously agreed to give a conference to the faithful of St. Joseph’s Church, in which he spoke of the development of the Society’s relations with Rome. During the course of the evening, that of February 3, 2018, he gave a healthy dose of background information, and an even healthier dose of encouragement and enlightenment on a topic which can appear so dark to Catholics today.
In front of an interested crowd of faithful from St. Joseph’s, Bishop Fellay began the conference by sketching an interesting back-history of the work of the SSPX, calling to mind events and movements that transpired before the Second Vatican Council. He recalled the “human respect” that churchmen fell into, which caused them to avoid a condemnation of Communism and to introduce the poisonous concept of Religious Liberty. This last, it was remarked, was specifically asked of the Church by the Freemasonic B’nai B’rith lodge.
The influence of Communism and Freemasonry did not end at the Council, however, but ravaged the Church extensively in the decades after. The enemies of Christ attacked the heart of His Church by bringing their guns to bear on the priesthood. By planting hand-picked candidates in the seminaries, these enemies managed to reduce the body of priests to a skeleton of its former self in a matter of a few decades. For example, His Excellency noted, there is a parish in France that has two priests, both over sixty years of age, that have been given the care of ninety-two Mass centers. It’s a situation that is truly dramatic, and there is certainly no improvement at this time.
In a few brush-strokes the bishop then painted a brief summary of the Society’s dealings with Rome from its founding in 1970. Among other things, he spoke of the protocol of 1988 – a document which was not perfect but was sufficient in itself, and would have granted the Society its rightful place within the Church. The Archbishop retracted his signature from this document for a practical reason; after prayer he realized that he likely was being fooled, and would not be given a successor.
He mentioned the doctrinal talks of 2009-2011, which showed Rome that the SSPX believes nothing heretical and that modern Catholic teaching on certain points stands in stark contrast to the traditional doctrine of the Church.
Subsequently, pointed out the bishop, there followed many contradictory communications with Rome. Among these, the Society was given a document stating conditions for regularization which which for the Society were unacceptable. Soon after receiving this, the General Superior was told by trustworthy sources close to the then-Pope Benedict, that these conditions were not the will of the pope. It was clear that there were influential men in the Vatican that were effectively blocking the work of the Pope.
More or less, that is where things stand now. A cardinal told Bishop Fellay something that gives a simple explanation to our present problem: “Speaking of the Roman Curia, the system is corrupt.” This statement is disheartening, and might lead anyone with a love for Christ’s Church to be discouraged. This reaction may happen, says the bishop, but it is without foundation. Here we will let him explain in his own words.
“There are certain dangers; one danger is discouragement. But no, God allows these things to happen; we must not be discouraged. It just means that it is a long fight. We must continue peacefully; we do what we do, we continue Tradition, we see the fruits, and these fruits speak for themselves.

“Another danger is to be ‘fed up’, saying, ‘We should have nothing to do with these people, that’s it, enough. But this is dangerous. We are not talking about a human organization when we speak of the Catholic Church; it’s the Church founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ which has the promise of divine assistance. We know there are many things which are totally wrong, which are putting people in despair, in confusion, and that’s terrible for souls. Nevertheless, we must maintain that this Church is the Catholic Church. There are many things happening in it that are bad - we reject them, we don’t want them. But we do not reject the Church.”
The bishop then proceeded to explain that the trials we have in the Church are very similar to the trials of the Apostles at the foot of the cross. He pointed out that although Peter declared his faith in Christ’s divinity by a public profession, he reacted when Christ told him of His death. This could not happen if Christ is God, thought Peter.
“It’s exactly the same for the Church. In the Church you have a human side - you have human people; and you have a divine side. Right now what we see is not the divine side but the human side. We see the suffering, the heresies, the confusion. Like Jesus suffering, the Church is suffering. We do not have the right to say, because we see these sufferings, that the Church is no longer the Church. God has not abandoned His Church. It’s His Church, how could He? That’s why we continue to go to Rome.”

“Let’s ask the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin Mary to make an act of faith, to keep the right attitude in front of Jesus suffering on the cross. We have to understand that when we see Jesus on the cross we see God. When the Blessed Virgin Mary received Jesus in her arms after His death, she could talk to the living God, because God had not abandoned this most precious Body. The body was dead, but it remained united to the Godhead. Jesus as God was there.

“The Church is not yet totally dead; the living God is in it. And we are part of this Church.

“It is a very deep trial. I may say it’s probably the deepest [the Church] has ever had. That’s why we have priests that call themselves the Resistance, or even sedevacantists: they are so fixated on the reality of the sufferings of the Church that they run away.

“We reject what is wrong, but we don’t reject the Church.

“We have to make this distinction, [as when we say] yes, Jesus is suffering, He’s dying on the cross, but He remains God. While He’s dying on the cross, He’s still moving the stars, He’s judging the people that are dying at that moment. He’s giving strength and His grace to all who receive it. He’s God!

“The time we live in is a very, very dangerous one. As I tell you, it is the temptation of the Apostles in the Passion. You know how many of the Apostles remained faithful. Almost all of them ran away. That’s why we cannot pretend to be better than them. We must ask for the grace to be faithful.”
An audio file of the entire conference (2 hours, 30 minutes) is available for download here.

Comments

  1. The "Resistance" is not sedevacanist, it does NOT run away from the Church, and acknowledges the Church as the Church. The Resistance does not consider itself an "alter- Church". It does however, refuse complicity with the evil now running havoc inside the Church by it's hijackers and chooses to practice Traditional Catholicism in it's fullness, without the contamination of Modernism; just as the early SSPX chose to do. In fact, the Resistance is just the continuation of the stance of Archbishop Lefevbre, picking up where the SSPX fumbled in it's quest for doctrinal compromise with the Conciliar Church. We pray and watch for the Church to come to it's senses, to return to Eternal Rome, which will happen with the Consecration of Russia.

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  2. So, according to Bishop Fellay, the Church founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ, which has the promise of divine assistance, is spreading heresy and "putting people in despair, in confusion" and damaging souls? Nevertheless, the good bishop thinks "we must maintain that this Church is the Catholic Church". Sorry, I don't understand, and I also don't understand why the bishop thinks people are running away from Jesus on the cross, when they're in fact running away from the heretics that are damaging their souls.

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  3. When Bishop Fellay talks about a "human side" that's spreading heresy, despair and confusion, does he mean the "human side" is the Vicar of Christ and the representatives of Christ? Is this what he means?

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  4. God bless him, the problem is that 'Rome' is not the Church. Rome could be destroyed as it is in "Lord of the World" and still the Church would exist. We could be without a pope entirely, and still God's promise would be good. I don't think that all of the resistance priests believe that the Church cannot suffer. I think that they, like Archbishop Lefebvre, believe that we should fine well keep our distance and not enter into any 'deals' with a corrupt Rome that does not possess the Faith.

    Archbishop Lefebvre, on Oct. 4, 1987 said this regarding Rome's offers to him:

    "...even if you concede to us a bishop, even some autonomy for the bishops, even if you concede us the whole Liturgy of 1962, even if you allow us to continue the seminary and the Fraternity as it is working now, we will not collaborate! It's impossible, impossible because we work in a diametrically opposite direction. You work to the de-Christianisation of society and the Church, and of the human person. We work for Christianisation, it is illogical! Rome has lost the Faith, my dear friends, Rome is in apostasy. I do not speak empty words, only that I tell you the truth.
    Rome is in apostasy. You cannot have confidence in them. Rome has left the Church, they have left the Church, they have left the Church! It is sure, it is certain."

    What would he say today with horrors he perhaps did not even foresee coming from the Papacy?Who can think he is wiser or more holy than our dear Archbishop Lefebvre? No. The resistance for the most part, and I still attend Mass at my SSPX chapel, only wants to avoid the subversion of Tradition. They want the old Society fighting spirit to show itself once again. I would like to see that myself! And I believe that there are many priests within the Society who want the same thing and are praying for the Society to be saved from a deal with perfidious Rome. Catholics fight against error, they don't compromise with it.

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  5. "So the Resistance fleeing? Of what? Of the church? But we all know that extra Ecclesiam nulla salus . So, what? Of the official Hierarchy? Avoiding it is normally necessary to preserve the faith, to stay in the Church, to be saved. But Bishop Fellay claims that avoiding the modernist clergy is to flee the Church. Did he flee from the Church of Msgr. Lefebvre when he withdrew his signature from the protocol of '88? Did not Bishop Lefebvre call the Roman hierarchs "antichrists"? The undue contact with the corrupt official clergy must be avoided, without denying that, in spite of its serious deviation, the Hierarchy of the Church remains the Hierarchy of the Church. That was the position of Msgr. Lefebvre and that is exactly what the Resistance does, placing itself in the right medium, in this order of things, between two erroneous extremes: on one side are the sedevacantists, who refuse any kind of contact with the current Hierarchy of the Church, coming to not recognize it as such; and on the other side are the accordists led by Bishop Fellay, who are seeking undue contact with the official clergy so that the SSPX is the object of a deceptive and suicidal "regularization" and "reintegration", an attitude that is equivalent to dialogue, which Eve, with the devil, tempting God."
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  6. "So the Resistance fleeing? Of what? Of the church? But we all know that extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. So, what? Of the official Hierarchy? Avoiding it is normally necessary to preserve the faith, to stay in the Church, to be saved. But Bishop Fellay claims that avoiding the modernist clergy is to flee the Church. Did he flee from the Church of Msgr. Lefebvre when he withdrew his signature from the protocol of '88? Did not Bishop Lefebvre call the Roman hierarchs "antichrists"? The undue contact with the corrupt official clergy must be avoided, without denying that, in spite of its serious deviation, the Hierarchy of the Church remains the Hierarchy of the Church. That was the position of Msgr. Lefebvre and that is exactly what the Resistance does, placing itself in the right medium, in this order of things, between two erroneous extremes: on one side are the sedevacantists, who refuse any kind of contact with the current Hierarchy of the Church, coming to not recognize it as such; and on the other side are the accordists led by Bishop Fellay, who are seeking undue contact with the official clergy so that the SSPX is the object of a deceptive and suicidal "regularization" and "reintegration", an attitude that is equivalent to dialogue, which Eve, with the devil, tempting God." -- Non Possumus blog

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  7. He no longer makes the distinction between the Catholic Church and the Conciliar Church.

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  8. Oh, no! Another "cabal of evil people surrounding the hapless Pope" conspiracy theory? Is he serious?

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  9. Fellay was a Trojan horse for the SSPX.

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