10-07-2022, 03:13 AM
One can't help but notice that things have become more divisive under Bp. Williamson. They only thing uniting the False Resistance is Bp. Williamson. Total loyalty is all that matters to remain in that 'club.' Any objective criticism of his errors will get you ostracized and criticized.
Compare that to Archbishop Lefebvre and the old-SSPX. Loyalty to the 'person' of the Archbishop was never demanded. It was always about the Faith. Loyalty to what the Church always taught. That was all that mattered.
In the 'early' days of Bishop Williamson's errors (2015) many priests of the false resistance quietly agreed that he was wrong on the 'grace in the New Mass' issue but that 'we need a bishop' and therefore he must be tolerated. Now, fast forward a few years... the indoctrination is complete and these same priests are adamantly defending Bp. Williamson's errors and castigating anyone who refutes them.
Excerpt from Archbishop Lefebvre's 1974 "Declaration":
Shame on the priests and bishops leading souls astray for the sake of one man...who like all of us, will one day meet his Maker!
Compare that to Archbishop Lefebvre and the old-SSPX. Loyalty to the 'person' of the Archbishop was never demanded. It was always about the Faith. Loyalty to what the Church always taught. That was all that mattered.
In the 'early' days of Bishop Williamson's errors (2015) many priests of the false resistance quietly agreed that he was wrong on the 'grace in the New Mass' issue but that 'we need a bishop' and therefore he must be tolerated. Now, fast forward a few years... the indoctrination is complete and these same priests are adamantly defending Bp. Williamson's errors and castigating anyone who refutes them.
Excerpt from Archbishop Lefebvre's 1974 "Declaration":
Quote:To the Novus Ordo Missae correspond a new catechism, a new priesthood, new seminaries, a charismatic Pentecostal Church—all things opposed to orthodoxy and the perennial teaching of the Church.
This Reformation, born of Liberalism and Modernism, is poisoned through and through; it derives from heresy and ends in heresy, even if all its acts are not formally heretical. It is therefore impossible for any conscientious and faithful Catholic to espouse this Reformation or to submit to it in any way whatsoever.
The only attitude of faithfulness to the Church and Catholic doctrine, in view of our salvation, is a categorical refusal to accept this Reformation.
Shame on the priests and bishops leading souls astray for the sake of one man...who like all of us, will one day meet his Maker!
"So let us be confident, let us not be unprepared, let us not be outflanked, let us be wise, vigilant, fighting against those who are trying to tear the faith out of our souls and morality out of our hearts, so that we may remain Catholics, remain united to the Blessed Virgin Mary, remain united to the Roman Catholic Church, remain faithful children of the Church."- Abp. Lefebvre