Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s Holy Wisdom on the Crisis in the Catholic Church

Quote:“Through some cracks the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God: there is doubt, uncertainty, problematic, anxiety, confrontation. One does not trust the Church anymore; one trusts the first prophet that comes to talk to us from some newspapers or some social movement, and then rush after him and ask him if he held the formula of real life. And we fail to perceive, instead, that we are the masters of life already. Doubt has entered our conscience, and it has entered through windows that were supposed to be opened to the light instead. . . Even in the Church this state of uncertainty rules. One thought that after the Council there would come a shiny day for the history of the Church. A cloudy day came instead, a day of tempest, gloom, quest, and uncertainty. We preach ecumenism and drift farther and farther from the others. We attempt to dig abysses instead of fillin

Paul VI rendered this cataclysmic assessment of the state of the Church over a decade before John Paul II’s prayer meeting at Assisi, which only magnified the confusion of serious Catholics. Obviously, then, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s 1988 actions cannot seriously be blamed for making Catholics feel “lost and confused.” Rather, it is certain that Archbishop Lefebvre accurately diagnosed the actual source of confusion in his 1986 book, Open Letter to Confused Catholics:
[quote]“Who can deny that Catholics in the latter part of the twentieth century are confused? A glance at what has happened in the Church over the past twenty years is enough to convince anyone that this is a relatively recent phenomenon. Only a short time ago the path was clearly marked: either one followed it or one did not. One had the Faith — or perhaps had lost it — or had never had it. But he who had it — who had entered the Church through baptism, who had renewed his baptismal promises around the age of twelve and had received the Holy Ghost on the day of his confirmation — such a person knew what he had to believe and what he had to do. Many today no longer know.  They hear all sorts of astonishing statements in the churches, they read things contrary to what was always taught, and doubt has crept into their minds. . . We naturally ask,  therefore, what brought on this state of things? For every effect there is a cause. Has faith been weakened by a disappearance of generosity of soul, by a taste for enjoyment, an attraction to the pleasures of life and the manifold distractions which the modern world offers? These cannot be the real reasons, because they have always been with us in one way or another. The rapid decline in religious practice comes rather from the new spirit which has been introduced into the Church and which has cast suspicion over all past teachings and life of the Church.” (Open Letter to Confused Catholics, p. 1)

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"Rome and Constantinople are not called to vie for primacy" - Leo XIV Contradicts Leo I

Quote:"Unity among those who believe in Christ is one of the signs of God’s gift of consolation; Scripture promises that 'in Jerusalem you will be comforted' (Is 66:13). Rome, Constantinople and all the other Sees, are not called to vie for primacy, lest we risk finding ourselves like the disciples who along the way, even as Jesus was announcing his coming passion, argued about which of them was the greatest (cf. Mk 9:33-37)."

Mr. Jackson's picture is incomplete - he passes over in silence those priests and laity of the True Resistance who have stood up to both the new conciliar-SSPX and the fake Resistance [which allows for many of the same doctrinal errors of the now conciliar-SSPX with respect to the New Mass, etc].

But his overall point is well made.

Rome Only Blinks When You Push
Turns out Rome doesn’t reward loyalty, it rewards leverage.

Quote:What we came to realize was that, for all practical purposes, the Society of St. Pius X had become in effect the tenth religious Congregation to have rallied to the Conciliar Church. Even if no deal has yet been signed, the principle of such a deal was adopted by the July 2012 General Chapter. For indeed, however few or many conditions the SSPX leaders might insist on for such an eventual deal, they decided that the Society could henceforth sign a pact with those who are relentlessly changing the Catholic Faith…

The present management of the Society is stamping out dissent and expelling critics…

And if we ask when we can fully trust the SSPX again, the answer is the same: when all SSPX leaders and priests of the Society who have promoted the new line will be demoted; when the texts of the 2012 Chapter will be properly condemned; when the faithful priests will be vindicated by the new management; when a book on the history of this crisis will be published and read yearly in our communities; when a new General Chapter will abjure any contact with Conciliar authorities, until Rome has cleaned up its mess.

Let us merely do our duty, give glory to God, and let Him deal with our former colleagues who are in danger of compromising. We pray and sacrifice for their conversion, sure enough. But compromise, and put ourselves in harm’s way? Never!  Nevertheless, let us remain united with them in prayer.

Quote:Now my dear faithful that prayer, this rite of transmitting the power to forgive sin, was simply deleted from the new rite of ordination. There is no trace of it. So this new rite of ordination is not Catholic. And so we will of course continue faithfully transmitting the real and valid priesthood – made valid by the traditional rite of ordination.