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Dear Little Flock,<br />
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The Divine Heart of Jesus desires to reign through the Immaculate Heart of His Virgin Mother! He chose to come to us from the days of eternity through Her. He chose to be nursed, lovingly handled, and bathed in Her motherly hands. He worked His first public miracle of the wine at Cana through Her humble appeal. He worked the triumph of the Redemption of the human race with Her constantly by His side. She, the valiant Woman of the Book of Genesis and the Apocalypse stood at the foot of the pillar of the scourging, stretched out Her helpless hands as He stumbled on the way to Calvary, and remained transfixed, weeping and standing, at the foot of the Cross!<br />
<br />
Truly, She is the Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of all graces! This is God’s Will! He deliberately desires Her participatory role to issue-in the Age of the Triumph of Her Immaculate Heart! Through Her Immaculate Heart He wants His Divine Heart honored, expiated, and loved by all nations!<br />
<br />
At the hour of His Passion and Death, the whole world witnessed the old structure of the Synagogue rejecting its true Messiah, led by the chief priests, the Pharisees, High Priest and Elders of the Temple. Meanwhile, the flame of Faith and true belief kept burning in the Heart of Mary. After the Resurrection, She rekindled this fire in the hearts and minds of the Apostles and Christ Himself came to console, rebuke and strengthen their lost Faith in Him.<br />
<br />
The then disbelieving structure contrasted remarkably with the few believing faithful, who professed the Divinity of Christ. As is the case now, the disbelieving structure of the Church contrasts with the Catholic Faith believed and professed integrally by all those who wholeheartedly adhere to Tradition. Did not St. Pius X foretell that the true friends of the people are not the innovators of new doctrines, nor the Liberal utopians ever promoting change to fit the apostate modern world, but the men attached to Catholic Tradition?<br />
<br />
Let us gather around the “Tower of David”, the “Refuge of Sinners”, the new “Ark of the Covenant”, Our Blessed Mother! and stand humbly, firmly, and confidently under Her mantle! Please pray for the six seminarians testing their vocation at the Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary here in New Hampshire. The Rule of Life follows the one of Abp. Lefebvre for seminaries. On top of classes and a regimented schedule, they find themselves loading wood, feeding two woodstoves, shoveling snow, and studying Latin declensions between all of this!<br />
<br />
They’re under no illusions as to the demands of the priesthood in this apostate age; how they must be ready to sacrifice for souls, study, pray, smile, pray, and study! All our hopes are to maintain the position of Abp. Lefebvre in the face of apostate Rome, to hold high the True Catholic Doctrine, and defend Christ the King at all costs!<br />
<br />
Our Lady at Quito, Ecuador foretold a time when “all will seem paralyzed” due to the influence of the Masonic Lodges. Can we not say that this situation applies today? What more do the enemies of Christ desire, and the Modernist parasites within, than for traditional priests to accept the errors of Vatican II and give in on the New Mass? What more can they dream of than bishops with traditional vestments, offering the Tridentine Mass, but silent as mute dogs? Their silence contributes just as much to the destruction of the Church as the vocal Modernists spreading their poison everywhere.<br />
<br />
Let us offer our Advent and Christmas Rosaries that the Sacred Heart of Our Lord touch the lips of some good-hearted traditional bishop to proclaim Jesus Christ Crucified, to defend His Royal Dignity and Rights, and consequently condemn the errors of Vatican II, the New Mass, and the Ecumenical Catechisms &amp; Bibles. Abp. Lefebvre warned that any deals made with Modernist Rome will mean our reduction to silence. This would be a criminal silence that betrays the Truth and our Good Shepherd’s sheep of His pasture! How our days seem more paralyzed than ever!<br />
<br />
May the Immaculate Heart of Mary step in soon! May She overthrow the Dragon once again and crush the head of the ancient serpent! She’s done it many times in history, She will do it again! Come quickly, Blessed Mother! The wine has run dry, tell thy Son again on our behalf, “They have no wine!” Persevere courageously in the Battle for the Holy Faith!<br />
<br />
In Christ the King,<br />
<br />
Fr. David Hewko]]></description>
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Dear Little Flock,<br />
<br />
The Divine Heart of Jesus desires to reign through the Immaculate Heart of His Virgin Mother! He chose to come to us from the days of eternity through Her. He chose to be nursed, lovingly handled, and bathed in Her motherly hands. He worked His first public miracle of the wine at Cana through Her humble appeal. He worked the triumph of the Redemption of the human race with Her constantly by His side. She, the valiant Woman of the Book of Genesis and the Apocalypse stood at the foot of the pillar of the scourging, stretched out Her helpless hands as He stumbled on the way to Calvary, and remained transfixed, weeping and standing, at the foot of the Cross!<br />
<br />
Truly, She is the Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of all graces! This is God’s Will! He deliberately desires Her participatory role to issue-in the Age of the Triumph of Her Immaculate Heart! Through Her Immaculate Heart He wants His Divine Heart honored, expiated, and loved by all nations!<br />
<br />
At the hour of His Passion and Death, the whole world witnessed the old structure of the Synagogue rejecting its true Messiah, led by the chief priests, the Pharisees, High Priest and Elders of the Temple. Meanwhile, the flame of Faith and true belief kept burning in the Heart of Mary. After the Resurrection, She rekindled this fire in the hearts and minds of the Apostles and Christ Himself came to console, rebuke and strengthen their lost Faith in Him.<br />
<br />
The then disbelieving structure contrasted remarkably with the few believing faithful, who professed the Divinity of Christ. As is the case now, the disbelieving structure of the Church contrasts with the Catholic Faith believed and professed integrally by all those who wholeheartedly adhere to Tradition. Did not St. Pius X foretell that the true friends of the people are not the innovators of new doctrines, nor the Liberal utopians ever promoting change to fit the apostate modern world, but the men attached to Catholic Tradition?<br />
<br />
Let us gather around the “Tower of David”, the “Refuge of Sinners”, the new “Ark of the Covenant”, Our Blessed Mother! and stand humbly, firmly, and confidently under Her mantle! Please pray for the six seminarians testing their vocation at the Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary here in New Hampshire. The Rule of Life follows the one of Abp. Lefebvre for seminaries. On top of classes and a regimented schedule, they find themselves loading wood, feeding two woodstoves, shoveling snow, and studying Latin declensions between all of this!<br />
<br />
They’re under no illusions as to the demands of the priesthood in this apostate age; how they must be ready to sacrifice for souls, study, pray, smile, pray, and study! All our hopes are to maintain the position of Abp. Lefebvre in the face of apostate Rome, to hold high the True Catholic Doctrine, and defend Christ the King at all costs!<br />
<br />
Our Lady at Quito, Ecuador foretold a time when “all will seem paralyzed” due to the influence of the Masonic Lodges. Can we not say that this situation applies today? What more do the enemies of Christ desire, and the Modernist parasites within, than for traditional priests to accept the errors of Vatican II and give in on the New Mass? What more can they dream of than bishops with traditional vestments, offering the Tridentine Mass, but silent as mute dogs? Their silence contributes just as much to the destruction of the Church as the vocal Modernists spreading their poison everywhere.<br />
<br />
Let us offer our Advent and Christmas Rosaries that the Sacred Heart of Our Lord touch the lips of some good-hearted traditional bishop to proclaim Jesus Christ Crucified, to defend His Royal Dignity and Rights, and consequently condemn the errors of Vatican II, the New Mass, and the Ecumenical Catechisms &amp; Bibles. Abp. Lefebvre warned that any deals made with Modernist Rome will mean our reduction to silence. This would be a criminal silence that betrays the Truth and our Good Shepherd’s sheep of His pasture! How our days seem more paralyzed than ever!<br />
<br />
May the Immaculate Heart of Mary step in soon! May She overthrow the Dragon once again and crush the head of the ancient serpent! She’s done it many times in history, She will do it again! Come quickly, Blessed Mother! The wine has run dry, tell thy Son again on our behalf, “They have no wine!” Persevere courageously in the Battle for the Holy Faith!<br />
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In Christ the King,<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">WE MUST CHOOSE SIDES</span></span></div>
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Dear Faithful,<br />
<br />
The great Fr. Gomer de Pauw warned in his talks as early as 1967: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">We must choose to be either <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Roman </span>Catholics or <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Conciliar </span>Catholics, but we cannot be both!</span>”<br />
<br />
Archbishop Lefebvre announced the same necessity to choose in his magnificent Doctrinal Declaration of 1974: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">We cleave, with all our heart and with all our soul, to Catholic Rome, the guardian of the Catholic Faith and of the traditions necessary for the maintenance of that Faith, and to eternal Rome, mistress of wisdom and truth.</span><br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">On the other hand we refuse and have always refused to follow the Rome of  the  neo-Protestant trend clearly manifested throughout Vatican Council II and, later, in all the reforms born of it.</span>” <br />
<br />
Opposing Liberal Catholicism on the battlefield of Truth, the great Spanish Catholic writer of the 19th Century, Juan Donoso Cortes, scripted these prophetic words in: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism, and Socialism</span>, (chapter III, in 1879):<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">There is no man whatsoever, whether he recognizes it or not, who is not enlisted in this furious combat;  there is no one who does not take an active part in the responsibility of defeat or victory. All are equally engaged in this combat;  the galley slave in his chains, and the king upon his throne, the poor and the rich, the healthy and the sick, the wise and the ignorant, the captive and the free, the old and the young, the civilized and the savage.</span><br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Every word that is pronounced is either inspired by the world or by God, and necessarily proclaims, implicitly or explicitly, but always clearly, the glory of the one or the triumph of the other. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">In this singular warfare we all fight through forced enlistment</span>; here the system of substitutes or volunteers finds no place. Nor is there any exception for old age. Here, no attention is paid to him who says, ‘I am the son of a poor widow’; nor to the mother of a paralytic, nor to the wife of a cripple. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">In this warfare all men, born of woman, are soldiers!</span></span><br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">And don’t tell me: ‘I don’t want to fight’; for the moment you tell me that, you are already fighting;  nor say: ‘I don’t know which side to join,’ for while you are saying that you have already joined a side;  nor say: ‘I wish to remain neutral’;  for if you wish to be so, you are so, no longer;  nor say: ‘I want to be indifferent’;  for by these very words you clearly show which side you are on.</span><br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Don’t tire yourself in seeking a place of security from the dangers of this war, for you tire yourself in vain. This war extends throughout space, and will last to the end of time. Only in eternity, the home of the just, can you find rest, because there alone is the combat over. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Do not imagine, however, that the gates of eternity shall be opened for you, unless you first show the wounds you earned;  those gates are only opened for those who bravely fought the battles of the Lord here, and, like the Lord, carried the cross and were crucified!</span></span>”  <br />
<br />
What powerful words of Donoso Cortes! It is true, Our Divine Lord willed to place all of us in these times when we have no choice but to fight. To fight for Him is the greatest honor. Neutrality is not an option! Compromise is not an option! “Hermeneutics of continuity” is not an option! Accepting Vatican II is not an option! Accepting the New Mass, even as “legitimately promulgated,” is not an option! Accepting any compromise with Vatican II and Novus Ordo sacraments, as expressed in the Doctrinal Declaration of April 15, 2012 of Bp. Fellay, is not an option! The Six Conditions for an Agreement with Modernist Rome is not an option! Accepting to be silenced in return for the “favors” of jurisdiction for confessions and marriages is not an option! Accepting excusing fallacies that the “New Mass can nourish your faith,” or “The New Mass gives grace,” or “The New Mass miracles cannot be questioned,” are not options! Fence-sitting is not an option!<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Either we choose what the Popes have taught for centuries and we therefore choose the Church;  or we choose what was said by the Council. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">But we can not choose both simultaneously, since they are contradictory!</span></span>”  (Abp. Marcel Lefebvre).<br />
<br />
Let us never fail to see what an inexpressible honor and grace it is to combat for Christ the King. The battle lines must not be confused and smeared, as Liberals always connive to do. We have received Catholic Tradition from the 20 Councils of the Church, the Ancient Magisterium, from the great Popes of Tradition, from Abp. Lefebvre and priests faithful to Tradition. We are vowed to the riding. We are vowed to the fighting!<br />
<br />
O Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, keep us faithful! Keep us from ever wavering in the Faith! Keep us from battle fatigue! Keep us attached to thy Crucified Son by thy Rosary and Scapular and always to live and breath in the burning love of thy Immaculate Heart! Sweet Heart of Mary, be my salvation!<br />
<br />
<br />
In Christ the King,<br />
<br />
Fr. David Hewko]]></description>
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<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">WE MUST CHOOSE SIDES</span></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
Dear Faithful,<br />
<br />
The great Fr. Gomer de Pauw warned in his talks as early as 1967: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">We must choose to be either <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Roman </span>Catholics or <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Conciliar </span>Catholics, but we cannot be both!</span>”<br />
<br />
Archbishop Lefebvre announced the same necessity to choose in his magnificent Doctrinal Declaration of 1974: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">We cleave, with all our heart and with all our soul, to Catholic Rome, the guardian of the Catholic Faith and of the traditions necessary for the maintenance of that Faith, and to eternal Rome, mistress of wisdom and truth.</span><br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">On the other hand we refuse and have always refused to follow the Rome of  the  neo-Protestant trend clearly manifested throughout Vatican Council II and, later, in all the reforms born of it.</span>” <br />
<br />
Opposing Liberal Catholicism on the battlefield of Truth, the great Spanish Catholic writer of the 19th Century, Juan Donoso Cortes, scripted these prophetic words in: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism, and Socialism</span>, (chapter III, in 1879):<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">There is no man whatsoever, whether he recognizes it or not, who is not enlisted in this furious combat;  there is no one who does not take an active part in the responsibility of defeat or victory. All are equally engaged in this combat;  the galley slave in his chains, and the king upon his throne, the poor and the rich, the healthy and the sick, the wise and the ignorant, the captive and the free, the old and the young, the civilized and the savage.</span><br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Every word that is pronounced is either inspired by the world or by God, and necessarily proclaims, implicitly or explicitly, but always clearly, the glory of the one or the triumph of the other. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">In this singular warfare we all fight through forced enlistment</span>; here the system of substitutes or volunteers finds no place. Nor is there any exception for old age. Here, no attention is paid to him who says, ‘I am the son of a poor widow’; nor to the mother of a paralytic, nor to the wife of a cripple. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">In this warfare all men, born of woman, are soldiers!</span></span><br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">And don’t tell me: ‘I don’t want to fight’; for the moment you tell me that, you are already fighting;  nor say: ‘I don’t know which side to join,’ for while you are saying that you have already joined a side;  nor say: ‘I wish to remain neutral’;  for if you wish to be so, you are so, no longer;  nor say: ‘I want to be indifferent’;  for by these very words you clearly show which side you are on.</span><br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Don’t tire yourself in seeking a place of security from the dangers of this war, for you tire yourself in vain. This war extends throughout space, and will last to the end of time. Only in eternity, the home of the just, can you find rest, because there alone is the combat over. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Do not imagine, however, that the gates of eternity shall be opened for you, unless you first show the wounds you earned;  those gates are only opened for those who bravely fought the battles of the Lord here, and, like the Lord, carried the cross and were crucified!</span></span>”  <br />
<br />
What powerful words of Donoso Cortes! It is true, Our Divine Lord willed to place all of us in these times when we have no choice but to fight. To fight for Him is the greatest honor. Neutrality is not an option! Compromise is not an option! “Hermeneutics of continuity” is not an option! Accepting Vatican II is not an option! Accepting the New Mass, even as “legitimately promulgated,” is not an option! Accepting any compromise with Vatican II and Novus Ordo sacraments, as expressed in the Doctrinal Declaration of April 15, 2012 of Bp. Fellay, is not an option! The Six Conditions for an Agreement with Modernist Rome is not an option! Accepting to be silenced in return for the “favors” of jurisdiction for confessions and marriages is not an option! Accepting excusing fallacies that the “New Mass can nourish your faith,” or “The New Mass gives grace,” or “The New Mass miracles cannot be questioned,” are not options! Fence-sitting is not an option!<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Either we choose what the Popes have taught for centuries and we therefore choose the Church;  or we choose what was said by the Council. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">But we can not choose both simultaneously, since they are contradictory!</span></span>”  (Abp. Marcel Lefebvre).<br />
<br />
Let us never fail to see what an inexpressible honor and grace it is to combat for Christ the King. The battle lines must not be confused and smeared, as Liberals always connive to do. We have received Catholic Tradition from the 20 Councils of the Church, the Ancient Magisterium, from the great Popes of Tradition, from Abp. Lefebvre and priests faithful to Tradition. We are vowed to the riding. We are vowed to the fighting!<br />
<br />
O Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, keep us faithful! Keep us from ever wavering in the Faith! Keep us from battle fatigue! Keep us attached to thy Crucified Son by thy Rosary and Scapular and always to live and breath in the burning love of thy Immaculate Heart! Sweet Heart of Mary, be my salvation!<br />
<br />
<br />
In Christ the King,<br />
<br />
Fr. David Hewko]]></content:encoded>
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Dear Few, Happy Few!<br />
<br />
In every renewed surge of persecution against the Church it seems the Good God is always pleased to dwindle His friends down to a few. Why few? Because:<br />
<br />
1.) It’s a lot easier for the majority of men to follow the crowd,<br />
<br />
2.) It obliges those who remain faithful to understand the principles of the Faith and to truly love Christ the Savior, for Whom they must be ready to die, and<br />
<br />
3.) God is pleased to purge His followers, as gold is tried in the fire.<br />
<br />
How often He is pleased to sift the wheat from the chaff! But we must be careful and walk prayerfully and humbly, for it sometimes happens that good wheat falls to become chaff and chaff becomes outstanding wheat! St. Paul was chaff, but became the best of the Lord’s wheat, and a <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Bishop </span>Nestor who was good wheat became chaff and a heresiarch!<br />
<br />
The faithful few begin to feel the pinch and sting of the price of fidelity to Christ when they are singled out, ignored by once smiling friends, persecuted, and find themselves quite alone, humanly speaking. Abp. Marcel Lefebvre once said that even if the whole world went with the Conciliar Church and he stood abandoned by all, he still has Christ the King and all the saints in Heaven with him. He could point to all the Popes of Tradition and the shining ancient Magisterium and say “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">I stand with the Catholic Church not the “Conciliar” Church! They were right in previous ages, they will be right in this apostate age, despite the fact that the whole world seems to have turned its back on the Faith and Mass of all time!</span>”<br />
<br />
Fidelity of the few seems to please Our Lord very much. Fewness echoes back to the Flood of Noah, for only eight were saved in the ark. Few survived the fire and brimstone of Sodom and Gomorrah, because they were faithful to God. Few marched around the walls of Jericho and few were sifted out, by God’s will, to fight with Gideon’ army. Judith and her maids, won the victory over General Holerfernes; fewer still, would refuse to bend their knees to the pagan gods with Daniel the Prophet. The Maccabees entered battle with the insanely small number of 300 against 48,000 Syrians, and won! Our Lord reveals “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Many are called, few are chosen</span>.” And, “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!</span>” (Mt. 7:14). Few were His Apostles, and even that small number was shaken with the denials of St. Peter and suicide of Judas!<br />
<br />
The first three hundred years of the Catholic Church was a constant purging under the ten violent waves of the Roman persecutions. Then, in the age of the great Fathers of the Church, how few stood with Tradition when the “the whole world groaned to find itself Arian!” as St. Jerome recorded. St. Athanasius was the laughing stock of bishops, he was condemned in frequent synods, excommunicated by a weak Pope, and ran for his life numerous times! The few faithful Catholics were scornfully labeled “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Athanasians</span>” by the prevailing Arians. But Truth stands on its own, no matter how few profess it!<br />
<br />
Shall we not forget the few Catholics in the time of the English persecutions when only one bishop, St. John Fisher, and a handful of priests stood publicly opposed to the new Religion? What of the relatively few found constant in all of France, when over half the bishops and priests signed the Oath of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in 1790, and only the Catholics in the Vendee region rose up unanimously to resist the New Masonic Regime?<br />
<br />
What of the relatively few who resisted the Communist persecution of the Church in Spain from 1936 to 1939? Also in Mexico, from 1926 to 1930, where the Cristeros and clergy boldly resisted the Freemasonic persecution? But with each of the three successive waves of attacks, the Cristeros were increasingly betrayed and deserted by the bishops and priests, down to 1937 and beyond. Then, when the liberal bishops handed all the names of the Cristeros generals to the Masons, they were hunted down like wild animals and hung up on telephone poles, for years to come. In each case, the majority of Catholics went along with the <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">status quo</span>, slid with the popular current, and turned their backs on those defending Truth.<br />
<br />
Then, lo and behold, the Second Vatican Council hit the Church from 1962 to 1965! This was the “French Revolution” in the Church bringing in the new Masonic Regime! This was the “October Revolution” of the Communists penetrating within the walls of the Vatican! 250 bishops stood with Tradition, 250 bishops were progressive Modernists and the other 2,000 bishops floated somewhere in the middle!<br />
<br />
Shall we go on? After the nuclear blast of Vatican II, when the dust somewhat settled, Abp. Lefebvre found himself quite alone in defending Tradition. There were a few bishops clandestinely applauding him from the sidelines, but only one publicly rallied with him around the banner of Christ the King, that was Bp. De Castro Mayer. When Modernist Rome tried to stop the first wave of Catholic Resistance by leveling an, albeit, null and void suspension ‘<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">a divinis</span>’ against Abp. Lefebvre, in 1976, many defected from the true Resistance, but he forged forward.<br />
<br />
Then, in 1988, Abp. Lefebvre was forced to consecrate bishops for the survival of the Catholic Faith and valid sacraments. The Catholic Faith must continue! Tradition must continue! Modernist Rome, now in the grip of Judeo-Masonic forces (as proven by the document Nostra Aetate and scandalous ecumenical-Assisi meetings) leveled a null and void “excommunication”.<br />
<br />
This nearly scared the skin off many who stood with Abp. Lefebvre. But Modernist Rome had a quick solution. They promised the fence-sitters: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">We’ll let you have your nostalgic Mass and rites, as your particular ‘charisma’, but you must accept certain aspects of Vatican II as well as accept the New Mass as ‘legitimately promulgated’, and we even promise you a bishop in the future.</span>” Those priests who abandoned the True Catholic Resistance with Abp. Lefebvre now joined the first wave of the Fake Resistance set up by Ecclesia Dei with St. Peter’s Fraternity! Abp. Lefebvre said they were doing the Devil’s work. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Their key error: putting Liturgy above Doctrine.</span><br />
<br />
Shall we continue with the next attempts of the Devil to infiltrate and neutralize the world’s last bastion of Catholic Resistance; the Society of St. Pius X? It was cleverly prepared by the GREC meetings that Bp. Fellay approved of, by sending priests to their discussions in the 1990’s.<br />
<br />
Then, Modernist Rome made its attempts to lure the SSPX leaders into fresh sessions of dialogue, knowing full well that the now-deceased Abp. Lefebvre adamantly refused all discussions until Rome returns to Catholic Tradition. For him, there must be no discussions “until Rome re-crowns Our Lord Jesus Christ as King of all nations and peoples.” This was a principle based on the primacy of the Faith. Admire the beauty of it! For Abp. Lefebvre and the saints, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">it is always Faith before Liturgy</span>; Doctrine above morality and canon law! Christ the King always first!<br />
<br />
But the ancient serpent seduced the leaders of the SSPX by thinking that they could do better than our Founder, convincing them that “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">now is no longer the time for the outdated ‘88-ism’, things are different now</span>”, “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">we have new friends in Rome</span>” and, as for the Society’s abnormal situation, “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Rome will not tolerate it any longer</span>” (Bp. Fellay). So, dialogue was re-opened in 2010, brashly casting aside all the warnings of our Founder. The bar was lowered from: first and foremost defending the Faith, to now: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">having our approval for the traditional Liturgy</span>.”<br />
<br />
Now, the SSPX leaders will settle with: 1. the lifting of the so-called “excommunications” and 2. the phony semblance of having the “abrogation lifted” to say the ‘62 Latin Mass Missal, as the conditions for trusting Rome’s good will. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The error: placing Liturgy above Doctrine</span>.<br />
<br />
Then, in 2012, the tragic Vatican II Revolution within the SSPX took place. The General Chapter of that summer overthrew the principles laid down by Abp. Lefebvre and the 2006 General Chapter, and the leaders signed the <a href="https://www.therecusant.com/2012-doctrinal-declaration" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Doctrinal Declaration</a> along with the “<a href="https://www.therecusant.com/six-conditions-general-chapter" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Six Conditions For The Agreement With Rome</a>.” This was the “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">thirty pieces of silver</span>” paying for the “unilateral recognition” from unconverted Rome! “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Because they have deceived My people, saying: Peace, peace: when there is no peace</span>.” (Ezekiel 13:10).<br />
<br />
In 2012, there arose simultaneously the second wave of the Catholic Resistance. Most priests and faithful slid with the new direction of the Conciliar-SSPX, all the while pretending “nothing has changed, everything is the same”. Yet, priests were expelled and silenced, faithful were refused Communion, talks and publications were disseminated in support of the new liberal direction. <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">The Angelus</span> magazine <a href="http://www.angelusonline.org/index.php?section=articles&amp;subsection=show_article&amp;article_id=3306" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">announced</a> a new 'non-militant approach' to defending the Faith and that would now focus on liturgical chant, aesthetics and architecture. Pressure was now applied to the priests to stop condemning the Agreement with Modernist Rome and start seeing the positive side of the Conciliar Church (in fact, Bp. Fellay will stop calling it the “Conciliar Church” altogether), they must tone down the condemnations of immodest dress and immoral vac*#+*nes from the pulpits, they must not mention political figures, etc., etc.<br />
<br />
Finally, in 2015 and 2017, the “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">thirty pieces of silver</span>” of the Doctrinal Declaration paid off, in full. Pope Francis granted the SSPX the “favors” of jurisdiction for confessions, marriages, and holy orders. Bp. Fellay will <a href="https://catholiccandle.neocities.org/priests/fellay-deaf-own-warnings" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">remark</a>: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">This is not a trap!</span>” But in fact, the neutralizing of the Society founded by Abp. Lefebvre was complete! They are at last reduced to silence! (Aside from a few insignificant peeps from uninfluential quarters).<br />
<br />
Now, in this milieu, even fewer priests and faithful, worldwide, rose up with the second wave of the Catholic Resistance. But there were still enough to rebuild. There was still hope for a resurgence. A seminary was started in Kentucky in 2013, a handful of priests were still speaking out, and most were wholeheartedly committed to continue the work of Abp. Lefebvre. However, this was the opportune time to stifle once again, any possible resurgence of the work of Abp. Lefebvre. This time there arose the second wave of the Fake Resistance, headed by Bp. Williamson!<br />
<br />
By 2017, not one of the bishops consecrated by Abp. Lefebvre would be found to fearlessly maintain his position; they had all been successfully neutralized! Bp. Williamson would soon squelch any hopes of resurgence by mocking the true Catholic Resistance, labeling it a reaction of “Resist<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">ants</span>” who needed to, once and for all, “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">put away the toys</span>” in their hopes of continuing Abp. Lefebvre’s work. Erroneous opinions were then recklessly introduced in his conferences and Eleison Comments, such as: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">the New Mass can nourish your faith</span>,” <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“the New Mass gives grace</span>,” “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">this is not the time for structure and organization</span>,” “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">this is not the time for seminaries as envisioned by the Council of Trent</span>,” “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">scientific proof supports the New Mass miracles</span>,” "<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">The Thuc line poses no problem now,</span>” etc., etc. Thus, was issued-in an entire blizzard of novelties and confusion totally and systematically opposed to the positions of Abp. Marcel Lefebvre!<br />
<br />
Now, by 2024, not one of the six or seven bishops consecrated by Bp. Williamson <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">publicly</span> oppose his erroneous opinions so dangerous to the Faith! Not one is heard (at least until now), to openly maintain the doctrinal position of Abp. Lefebvre, our founder! How did the champion of Catholic Tradition come to be so quickly buried and forgotten by his own sons? How could they forget his warnings about the danger of compromise with Modernist Rome, Vatican II, and the New Mass? Why are they all silent and work in silence? Where is the missionary spirit? Why do so few courageously stand with the true Catholic Resistance as publicly and unmistakably upheld by Abp. Lefebvre? Why the criminal silence against the scandals of Modernist Rome and the diocesan bishops? What happened to the primacy of the Faith? What happened to the primacy of Doctrine? What happened to the fight for the public Rights of Christ the King? What ever happened to working for Rome’s conversion to Tradition? What happened to the goal of re-Christianizing politics, economics, the family and all social institutions? What happened to rebuilding the Catholic City?<br />
<br />
Fulfilled now are the prophetic words of Our Lady of Fatima, “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">only She can help you!</span>” Only the powerful Queen of the Holy Rosary can solve this! Let us beg Her as Her devoted children, to step in quickly and grant the Church at last, a truly Catholic Pope, fearless bishops and priests who proclaim the Social Reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus! Let us fervently pray and offer penances for all our traditional bishops, they can still regain their first fervor! “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">I have one somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first charity!</span>” (Apocalypse 2:4).<br />
<br />
Indeed, Truth does not depend on numbers! God is pleased with a faithful few who know their nothingness and totally depend on Him and on the one He gave us as our exclusive help in this atheistic age; the Queen of the Holy Rosary! In Her hands is placed the Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary in Wentworth, New Hampshire. All it’s apostolate belongs to Her! The work of Abp. Lefebvre continues! Keep fighting, we few, we happy few!<br />
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In Christ the King,<br />
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Fr. David Hewko]]></description>
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Dear Few, Happy Few!<br />
<br />
In every renewed surge of persecution against the Church it seems the Good God is always pleased to dwindle His friends down to a few. Why few? Because:<br />
<br />
1.) It’s a lot easier for the majority of men to follow the crowd,<br />
<br />
2.) It obliges those who remain faithful to understand the principles of the Faith and to truly love Christ the Savior, for Whom they must be ready to die, and<br />
<br />
3.) God is pleased to purge His followers, as gold is tried in the fire.<br />
<br />
How often He is pleased to sift the wheat from the chaff! But we must be careful and walk prayerfully and humbly, for it sometimes happens that good wheat falls to become chaff and chaff becomes outstanding wheat! St. Paul was chaff, but became the best of the Lord’s wheat, and a <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Bishop </span>Nestor who was good wheat became chaff and a heresiarch!<br />
<br />
The faithful few begin to feel the pinch and sting of the price of fidelity to Christ when they are singled out, ignored by once smiling friends, persecuted, and find themselves quite alone, humanly speaking. Abp. Marcel Lefebvre once said that even if the whole world went with the Conciliar Church and he stood abandoned by all, he still has Christ the King and all the saints in Heaven with him. He could point to all the Popes of Tradition and the shining ancient Magisterium and say “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">I stand with the Catholic Church not the “Conciliar” Church! They were right in previous ages, they will be right in this apostate age, despite the fact that the whole world seems to have turned its back on the Faith and Mass of all time!</span>”<br />
<br />
Fidelity of the few seems to please Our Lord very much. Fewness echoes back to the Flood of Noah, for only eight were saved in the ark. Few survived the fire and brimstone of Sodom and Gomorrah, because they were faithful to God. Few marched around the walls of Jericho and few were sifted out, by God’s will, to fight with Gideon’ army. Judith and her maids, won the victory over General Holerfernes; fewer still, would refuse to bend their knees to the pagan gods with Daniel the Prophet. The Maccabees entered battle with the insanely small number of 300 against 48,000 Syrians, and won! Our Lord reveals “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Many are called, few are chosen</span>.” And, “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!</span>” (Mt. 7:14). Few were His Apostles, and even that small number was shaken with the denials of St. Peter and suicide of Judas!<br />
<br />
The first three hundred years of the Catholic Church was a constant purging under the ten violent waves of the Roman persecutions. Then, in the age of the great Fathers of the Church, how few stood with Tradition when the “the whole world groaned to find itself Arian!” as St. Jerome recorded. St. Athanasius was the laughing stock of bishops, he was condemned in frequent synods, excommunicated by a weak Pope, and ran for his life numerous times! The few faithful Catholics were scornfully labeled “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Athanasians</span>” by the prevailing Arians. But Truth stands on its own, no matter how few profess it!<br />
<br />
Shall we not forget the few Catholics in the time of the English persecutions when only one bishop, St. John Fisher, and a handful of priests stood publicly opposed to the new Religion? What of the relatively few found constant in all of France, when over half the bishops and priests signed the Oath of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in 1790, and only the Catholics in the Vendee region rose up unanimously to resist the New Masonic Regime?<br />
<br />
What of the relatively few who resisted the Communist persecution of the Church in Spain from 1936 to 1939? Also in Mexico, from 1926 to 1930, where the Cristeros and clergy boldly resisted the Freemasonic persecution? But with each of the three successive waves of attacks, the Cristeros were increasingly betrayed and deserted by the bishops and priests, down to 1937 and beyond. Then, when the liberal bishops handed all the names of the Cristeros generals to the Masons, they were hunted down like wild animals and hung up on telephone poles, for years to come. In each case, the majority of Catholics went along with the <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">status quo</span>, slid with the popular current, and turned their backs on those defending Truth.<br />
<br />
Then, lo and behold, the Second Vatican Council hit the Church from 1962 to 1965! This was the “French Revolution” in the Church bringing in the new Masonic Regime! This was the “October Revolution” of the Communists penetrating within the walls of the Vatican! 250 bishops stood with Tradition, 250 bishops were progressive Modernists and the other 2,000 bishops floated somewhere in the middle!<br />
<br />
Shall we go on? After the nuclear blast of Vatican II, when the dust somewhat settled, Abp. Lefebvre found himself quite alone in defending Tradition. There were a few bishops clandestinely applauding him from the sidelines, but only one publicly rallied with him around the banner of Christ the King, that was Bp. De Castro Mayer. When Modernist Rome tried to stop the first wave of Catholic Resistance by leveling an, albeit, null and void suspension ‘<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">a divinis</span>’ against Abp. Lefebvre, in 1976, many defected from the true Resistance, but he forged forward.<br />
<br />
Then, in 1988, Abp. Lefebvre was forced to consecrate bishops for the survival of the Catholic Faith and valid sacraments. The Catholic Faith must continue! Tradition must continue! Modernist Rome, now in the grip of Judeo-Masonic forces (as proven by the document Nostra Aetate and scandalous ecumenical-Assisi meetings) leveled a null and void “excommunication”.<br />
<br />
This nearly scared the skin off many who stood with Abp. Lefebvre. But Modernist Rome had a quick solution. They promised the fence-sitters: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">We’ll let you have your nostalgic Mass and rites, as your particular ‘charisma’, but you must accept certain aspects of Vatican II as well as accept the New Mass as ‘legitimately promulgated’, and we even promise you a bishop in the future.</span>” Those priests who abandoned the True Catholic Resistance with Abp. Lefebvre now joined the first wave of the Fake Resistance set up by Ecclesia Dei with St. Peter’s Fraternity! Abp. Lefebvre said they were doing the Devil’s work. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Their key error: putting Liturgy above Doctrine.</span><br />
<br />
Shall we continue with the next attempts of the Devil to infiltrate and neutralize the world’s last bastion of Catholic Resistance; the Society of St. Pius X? It was cleverly prepared by the GREC meetings that Bp. Fellay approved of, by sending priests to their discussions in the 1990’s.<br />
<br />
Then, Modernist Rome made its attempts to lure the SSPX leaders into fresh sessions of dialogue, knowing full well that the now-deceased Abp. Lefebvre adamantly refused all discussions until Rome returns to Catholic Tradition. For him, there must be no discussions “until Rome re-crowns Our Lord Jesus Christ as King of all nations and peoples.” This was a principle based on the primacy of the Faith. Admire the beauty of it! For Abp. Lefebvre and the saints, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">it is always Faith before Liturgy</span>; Doctrine above morality and canon law! Christ the King always first!<br />
<br />
But the ancient serpent seduced the leaders of the SSPX by thinking that they could do better than our Founder, convincing them that “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">now is no longer the time for the outdated ‘88-ism’, things are different now</span>”, “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">we have new friends in Rome</span>” and, as for the Society’s abnormal situation, “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Rome will not tolerate it any longer</span>” (Bp. Fellay). So, dialogue was re-opened in 2010, brashly casting aside all the warnings of our Founder. The bar was lowered from: first and foremost defending the Faith, to now: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">having our approval for the traditional Liturgy</span>.”<br />
<br />
Now, the SSPX leaders will settle with: 1. the lifting of the so-called “excommunications” and 2. the phony semblance of having the “abrogation lifted” to say the ‘62 Latin Mass Missal, as the conditions for trusting Rome’s good will. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The error: placing Liturgy above Doctrine</span>.<br />
<br />
Then, in 2012, the tragic Vatican II Revolution within the SSPX took place. The General Chapter of that summer overthrew the principles laid down by Abp. Lefebvre and the 2006 General Chapter, and the leaders signed the <a href="https://www.therecusant.com/2012-doctrinal-declaration" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Doctrinal Declaration</a> along with the “<a href="https://www.therecusant.com/six-conditions-general-chapter" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Six Conditions For The Agreement With Rome</a>.” This was the “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">thirty pieces of silver</span>” paying for the “unilateral recognition” from unconverted Rome! “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Because they have deceived My people, saying: Peace, peace: when there is no peace</span>.” (Ezekiel 13:10).<br />
<br />
In 2012, there arose simultaneously the second wave of the Catholic Resistance. Most priests and faithful slid with the new direction of the Conciliar-SSPX, all the while pretending “nothing has changed, everything is the same”. Yet, priests were expelled and silenced, faithful were refused Communion, talks and publications were disseminated in support of the new liberal direction. <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">The Angelus</span> magazine <a href="http://www.angelusonline.org/index.php?section=articles&amp;subsection=show_article&amp;article_id=3306" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">announced</a> a new 'non-militant approach' to defending the Faith and that would now focus on liturgical chant, aesthetics and architecture. Pressure was now applied to the priests to stop condemning the Agreement with Modernist Rome and start seeing the positive side of the Conciliar Church (in fact, Bp. Fellay will stop calling it the “Conciliar Church” altogether), they must tone down the condemnations of immodest dress and immoral vac*#+*nes from the pulpits, they must not mention political figures, etc., etc.<br />
<br />
Finally, in 2015 and 2017, the “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">thirty pieces of silver</span>” of the Doctrinal Declaration paid off, in full. Pope Francis granted the SSPX the “favors” of jurisdiction for confessions, marriages, and holy orders. Bp. Fellay will <a href="https://catholiccandle.neocities.org/priests/fellay-deaf-own-warnings" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">remark</a>: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">This is not a trap!</span>” But in fact, the neutralizing of the Society founded by Abp. Lefebvre was complete! They are at last reduced to silence! (Aside from a few insignificant peeps from uninfluential quarters).<br />
<br />
Now, in this milieu, even fewer priests and faithful, worldwide, rose up with the second wave of the Catholic Resistance. But there were still enough to rebuild. There was still hope for a resurgence. A seminary was started in Kentucky in 2013, a handful of priests were still speaking out, and most were wholeheartedly committed to continue the work of Abp. Lefebvre. However, this was the opportune time to stifle once again, any possible resurgence of the work of Abp. Lefebvre. This time there arose the second wave of the Fake Resistance, headed by Bp. Williamson!<br />
<br />
By 2017, not one of the bishops consecrated by Abp. Lefebvre would be found to fearlessly maintain his position; they had all been successfully neutralized! Bp. Williamson would soon squelch any hopes of resurgence by mocking the true Catholic Resistance, labeling it a reaction of “Resist<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">ants</span>” who needed to, once and for all, “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">put away the toys</span>” in their hopes of continuing Abp. Lefebvre’s work. Erroneous opinions were then recklessly introduced in his conferences and Eleison Comments, such as: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">the New Mass can nourish your faith</span>,” <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“the New Mass gives grace</span>,” “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">this is not the time for structure and organization</span>,” “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">this is not the time for seminaries as envisioned by the Council of Trent</span>,” “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">scientific proof supports the New Mass miracles</span>,” "<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">The Thuc line poses no problem now,</span>” etc., etc. Thus, was issued-in an entire blizzard of novelties and confusion totally and systematically opposed to the positions of Abp. Marcel Lefebvre!<br />
<br />
Now, by 2024, not one of the six or seven bishops consecrated by Bp. Williamson <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">publicly</span> oppose his erroneous opinions so dangerous to the Faith! Not one is heard (at least until now), to openly maintain the doctrinal position of Abp. Lefebvre, our founder! How did the champion of Catholic Tradition come to be so quickly buried and forgotten by his own sons? How could they forget his warnings about the danger of compromise with Modernist Rome, Vatican II, and the New Mass? Why are they all silent and work in silence? Where is the missionary spirit? Why do so few courageously stand with the true Catholic Resistance as publicly and unmistakably upheld by Abp. Lefebvre? Why the criminal silence against the scandals of Modernist Rome and the diocesan bishops? What happened to the primacy of the Faith? What happened to the primacy of Doctrine? What happened to the fight for the public Rights of Christ the King? What ever happened to working for Rome’s conversion to Tradition? What happened to the goal of re-Christianizing politics, economics, the family and all social institutions? What happened to rebuilding the Catholic City?<br />
<br />
Fulfilled now are the prophetic words of Our Lady of Fatima, “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">only She can help you!</span>” Only the powerful Queen of the Holy Rosary can solve this! Let us beg Her as Her devoted children, to step in quickly and grant the Church at last, a truly Catholic Pope, fearless bishops and priests who proclaim the Social Reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus! Let us fervently pray and offer penances for all our traditional bishops, they can still regain their first fervor! “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">I have one somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first charity!</span>” (Apocalypse 2:4).<br />
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Indeed, Truth does not depend on numbers! God is pleased with a faithful few who know their nothingness and totally depend on Him and on the one He gave us as our exclusive help in this atheistic age; the Queen of the Holy Rosary! In Her hands is placed the Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary in Wentworth, New Hampshire. All it’s apostolate belongs to Her! The work of Abp. Lefebvre continues! Keep fighting, we few, we happy few!<br />
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In Christ the King,<br />
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Dear Friends of Those Who Seek Our Lord’s Face, as the Shepherds and Magi did so eagerly,<br />
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Greetings and blessings in this holy Advent!<br />
﻿<br />
Once again, let us turn to Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre to clarify more ongoing drizzles of<br />
confusion.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #C10300;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">1. Error: “It’s time to give a green (or yellow) light to the Thuc line.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Truth</span>: Here’s Abp. Lefebvre’s answer about priests seeking consecration from the Thuc line: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Archbishop Lefebvre totally condemned their actions and warned all Catholics to have nothing to do with them. ‘They will bring ruination and scandal on the Church,’</span> the Archbishop replied, when asked his opinion of the scandal-ridden ‘consecrations’. Archbishop Lefebvre also stated the the actions of Ngo-Dinh-Thuc, the former Vietnamese Bishop who participated in the so-called ‘consecrations’ are<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"> quite questionable in view of the fact that he is the same individual responsible for the Palmar de Troya fiasco</span>… Soon after the questionable ordinations, Bishop Ngo-Dinh-Thuc renounced his actions and published a letter saying that <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">the ‘orders’ he had conferred were null and void because he had withheld his intention of conveying orders to the Palmar de Troya sect</span>. Given his past performances, there is no reason to believe that his present fiasco is any more credible… <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Referring to Ngo-Dinh-Thuc, Archbishop Lefebvre said, ‘He seems to have lost all reason’</span>.”</span> (<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">The Angelus</span>, June, 1982. See also: <a href="https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=470" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">thecatacombs.org</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="color: #c10300;" class="mycode_color">2. Error: “It’s not 1988, so it’s time for seeking a canonical solution, a personal prelature, or unilateral recognition from Modernist Rome and we approved this by signing six conditions for the agreement, in 2012.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Truth</span>: To this illusion, Abp. Lefebvre said: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“We must not be under any illusions. We are in the thick of a great fight, a great fight! We are fighting a fight guaranteed by a whole line of Popes. Hence, we should have no hesitation or fear, hesitation such as, ‘Why should we be going on our own? After all, why not join Rome, why not join the Pope?’ Yes, if Rome and the Pope were in line with Tradition, if they were carrying on the work of all the Popes of the 19th and first half of the 20th century, of course!</span> But they themselves admit that they have set out on a new path. They themselves admit that a new era began with Vatican II. They admit that it is a new stage in the Church’s life, wholly new, based on new principles. We need not argue the point, they say it themselves.<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"> It is clear, we must drive this point home with our people</span>, in such a way that they realize their oneness with the Church’s whole history, going back well beyond the Revolution. Of course. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">It is the Fight of the City-of-Satan against the City-of-God! Clearly! </span>So we do not have to worry. We must after all trust in the grace of God.”</span> (Abp. Lefebvre, September 6, 1990 Conference in Econe, Switzerland).<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="color: #c10300;" class="mycode_color">3. Error: “The New Mass gives grace. The New Mass can nourish your faith.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Truth</span>: Abp. Lefebvre answers in no uncertain terms: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“These New Masses are not only <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">incapable </span>of fulfilling our Sunday obligation, but are such that we may apply to them the canonical rules which the Church customarily applies to [i]‘communicatio in sacris</span>’ with Orthodox and Protestant sects.”[/i] (Conference, November 8, 1979).<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"> “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">It is all wasted because the holy Sacrifice of the Mass, desecrated as it is, no longer confers grace and no longer transmits it</span>.”</span> (Abp. Lefebvre,<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"> Open Letter to Confused Catholics</span>, ch. 3).<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="color: #c10300;" class="mycode_color">4. Error: “We cannot reject the scientific evidence for the New Mass Eucharistic miracles.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Truth</span>: But Our Divine Lord Himself warns: “For there will rise up false Christs and false prophets, and <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">they shall show signs and wonders, to seduce (if it were possible) even the elect</span>.” (St. Mark 14:22). “It must be understood immediately that we do not hold to the absurd idea that if the New Mass is valid, we are free to assist at it. The Church has always forbidden the faithful to assist at the Masses of heretics and schismatics even when they are valid. It is clear that no one can assist at sacrilegious Masses or at Masses which endanger our Faith. All these innovations are authorized. One can fairly say without exaggeration that most of these [New] Masses are sacrilegious acts which pervert the Faith by diminishing it.” (Abp. Lefebvre, November 8, 1979).<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="color: #c10300;" class="mycode_color">5. Error: “This is not the time for seminaries. This is not the time for structure and organization.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Truth</span>: Abp. Lefebvre thought diametrically the opposite: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“Our Lord wants Catholic priests, such as He Himself made! The pope cannot <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">not </span>want Catholic priests! The Church cannot <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">not </span>want Catholic priests!…Hence, it is wholly untrue to say that we are in danger of becoming a sect or schismatics. It is far otherwise. It is we who are most nearly in union with our Holy Father the Pope and with the Catholic Church!”</span> (Sermon of Abp. Lefebvre, September 8, 1975 in Mariazell, Austria). <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“It is our bounden duty, though all unworthy, to fight for the honor of God, the Catholic Faith, and priestly renewal as integral and as vital for Holy Church.” </span>(Abp. Lefebvre, Letter to Libre Belgique, August 21, 1975).<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="color: #c10300;" class="mycode_color">6. Error: “Batten down the hatches!”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Truth</span>:<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"> “As for me, I will not resign; I will not content myself with being present, my arms dangling, at the death-throes of my Mother the Church ... .We have to fight more than ever for the Social Reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ! In this battle we are not alone: we have with us all the Popes up to Pius XII, inclusively. All of them combatted Liberalism in order to deliver the Church from it. God did not grant that they succeed, but this is no reason to lay down our weapons! <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">We have to hold on. We have to build, while the others are demolishing. The crumbled citadels have to be rebuilt, the bastions of the Faith to be reconstructed: firstly, the holy Sacrifice of the Mass of all times, which forms saints; then, our chapels, which are our true parishes; our monasteries; our large families; our enterprises faithful to the social doctrine of the Church; our politicians determined to make the politics of Jesus Christ!</span>"</span> ( Abp. Lefebvre, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">They Have Uncrowned Him</span>, ch. 34, p.250-251).<br />
<br />
Abp. Lefebvre believed in the Catholic Resistance as a true movement of Catholics, faithful to Tradition and determined to rebuild from the ground up, relying totally on the grace of God and Our Lady of the Rosary! Despite the chaos of our times, we resist and fight in the line of all the great Popes, Bishops, priests and laymen who would not mix Liberalism with Catholicism!<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">The Revolution is the legal negation of the Kingship of Christ on earth, it is the social destruction of the Church</span>,” said Msgr. De Segura. The conniving of the enemies of Christ prevailed at the Second Vatican Council. It is the Revolution! The Catholic Resistance is chiefly to proclaim the Kingship of Christ, working for the re-construction of the Church at every level and tirelessly resist the Modernist errors destroying her! Fight on, little flock! Great will be your crown in Heaven!<br />
<br />
“Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">for My sake</span>: be glad and rejoice, for your reward is very great in Heaven!” (St. Matthew 5:11).<br />
<br />
In Christ the King,<br />
<br />
Fr. David Hewko]]></description>
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Dear Friends of Those Who Seek Our Lord’s Face, as the Shepherds and Magi did so eagerly,<br />
<br />
<br />
Greetings and blessings in this holy Advent!<br />
﻿<br />
Once again, let us turn to Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre to clarify more ongoing drizzles of<br />
confusion.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #C10300;" class="mycode_color"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">1. Error: “It’s time to give a green (or yellow) light to the Thuc line.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Truth</span>: Here’s Abp. Lefebvre’s answer about priests seeking consecration from the Thuc line: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Archbishop Lefebvre totally condemned their actions and warned all Catholics to have nothing to do with them. ‘They will bring ruination and scandal on the Church,’</span> the Archbishop replied, when asked his opinion of the scandal-ridden ‘consecrations’. Archbishop Lefebvre also stated the the actions of Ngo-Dinh-Thuc, the former Vietnamese Bishop who participated in the so-called ‘consecrations’ are<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"> quite questionable in view of the fact that he is the same individual responsible for the Palmar de Troya fiasco</span>… Soon after the questionable ordinations, Bishop Ngo-Dinh-Thuc renounced his actions and published a letter saying that <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">the ‘orders’ he had conferred were null and void because he had withheld his intention of conveying orders to the Palmar de Troya sect</span>. Given his past performances, there is no reason to believe that his present fiasco is any more credible… <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Referring to Ngo-Dinh-Thuc, Archbishop Lefebvre said, ‘He seems to have lost all reason’</span>.”</span> (<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">The Angelus</span>, June, 1982. See also: <a href="https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=470" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">thecatacombs.org</a>).<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="color: #c10300;" class="mycode_color">2. Error: “It’s not 1988, so it’s time for seeking a canonical solution, a personal prelature, or unilateral recognition from Modernist Rome and we approved this by signing six conditions for the agreement, in 2012.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Truth</span>: To this illusion, Abp. Lefebvre said: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“We must not be under any illusions. We are in the thick of a great fight, a great fight! We are fighting a fight guaranteed by a whole line of Popes. Hence, we should have no hesitation or fear, hesitation such as, ‘Why should we be going on our own? After all, why not join Rome, why not join the Pope?’ Yes, if Rome and the Pope were in line with Tradition, if they were carrying on the work of all the Popes of the 19th and first half of the 20th century, of course!</span> But they themselves admit that they have set out on a new path. They themselves admit that a new era began with Vatican II. They admit that it is a new stage in the Church’s life, wholly new, based on new principles. We need not argue the point, they say it themselves.<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"> It is clear, we must drive this point home with our people</span>, in such a way that they realize their oneness with the Church’s whole history, going back well beyond the Revolution. Of course. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">It is the Fight of the City-of-Satan against the City-of-God! Clearly! </span>So we do not have to worry. We must after all trust in the grace of God.”</span> (Abp. Lefebvre, September 6, 1990 Conference in Econe, Switzerland).<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="color: #c10300;" class="mycode_color">3. Error: “The New Mass gives grace. The New Mass can nourish your faith.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Truth</span>: Abp. Lefebvre answers in no uncertain terms: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“These New Masses are not only <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">incapable </span>of fulfilling our Sunday obligation, but are such that we may apply to them the canonical rules which the Church customarily applies to [i]‘communicatio in sacris</span>’ with Orthodox and Protestant sects.”[/i] (Conference, November 8, 1979).<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"> “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">It is all wasted because the holy Sacrifice of the Mass, desecrated as it is, no longer confers grace and no longer transmits it</span>.”</span> (Abp. Lefebvre,<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"> Open Letter to Confused Catholics</span>, ch. 3).<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="color: #c10300;" class="mycode_color">4. Error: “We cannot reject the scientific evidence for the New Mass Eucharistic miracles.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Truth</span>: But Our Divine Lord Himself warns: “For there will rise up false Christs and false prophets, and <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">they shall show signs and wonders, to seduce (if it were possible) even the elect</span>.” (St. Mark 14:22). “It must be understood immediately that we do not hold to the absurd idea that if the New Mass is valid, we are free to assist at it. The Church has always forbidden the faithful to assist at the Masses of heretics and schismatics even when they are valid. It is clear that no one can assist at sacrilegious Masses or at Masses which endanger our Faith. All these innovations are authorized. One can fairly say without exaggeration that most of these [New] Masses are sacrilegious acts which pervert the Faith by diminishing it.” (Abp. Lefebvre, November 8, 1979).<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="color: #c10300;" class="mycode_color">5. Error: “This is not the time for seminaries. This is not the time for structure and organization.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Truth</span>: Abp. Lefebvre thought diametrically the opposite: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“Our Lord wants Catholic priests, such as He Himself made! The pope cannot <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">not </span>want Catholic priests! The Church cannot <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">not </span>want Catholic priests!…Hence, it is wholly untrue to say that we are in danger of becoming a sect or schismatics. It is far otherwise. It is we who are most nearly in union with our Holy Father the Pope and with the Catholic Church!”</span> (Sermon of Abp. Lefebvre, September 8, 1975 in Mariazell, Austria). <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“It is our bounden duty, though all unworthy, to fight for the honor of God, the Catholic Faith, and priestly renewal as integral and as vital for Holy Church.” </span>(Abp. Lefebvre, Letter to Libre Belgique, August 21, 1975).<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="color: #c10300;" class="mycode_color">6. Error: “Batten down the hatches!”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Truth</span>:<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"> “As for me, I will not resign; I will not content myself with being present, my arms dangling, at the death-throes of my Mother the Church ... .We have to fight more than ever for the Social Reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ! In this battle we are not alone: we have with us all the Popes up to Pius XII, inclusively. All of them combatted Liberalism in order to deliver the Church from it. God did not grant that they succeed, but this is no reason to lay down our weapons! <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">We have to hold on. We have to build, while the others are demolishing. The crumbled citadels have to be rebuilt, the bastions of the Faith to be reconstructed: firstly, the holy Sacrifice of the Mass of all times, which forms saints; then, our chapels, which are our true parishes; our monasteries; our large families; our enterprises faithful to the social doctrine of the Church; our politicians determined to make the politics of Jesus Christ!</span>"</span> ( Abp. Lefebvre, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">They Have Uncrowned Him</span>, ch. 34, p.250-251).<br />
<br />
Abp. Lefebvre believed in the Catholic Resistance as a true movement of Catholics, faithful to Tradition and determined to rebuild from the ground up, relying totally on the grace of God and Our Lady of the Rosary! Despite the chaos of our times, we resist and fight in the line of all the great Popes, Bishops, priests and laymen who would not mix Liberalism with Catholicism!<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">The Revolution is the legal negation of the Kingship of Christ on earth, it is the social destruction of the Church</span>,” said Msgr. De Segura. The conniving of the enemies of Christ prevailed at the Second Vatican Council. It is the Revolution! The Catholic Resistance is chiefly to proclaim the Kingship of Christ, working for the re-construction of the Church at every level and tirelessly resist the Modernist errors destroying her! Fight on, little flock! Great will be your crown in Heaven!<br />
<br />
“Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">for My sake</span>: be glad and rejoice, for your reward is very great in Heaven!” (St. Matthew 5:11).<br />
<br />
In Christ the King,<br />
<br />
Fr. David Hewko]]></content:encoded>
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Dear Friends of the Cross!<br />
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“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">We have to build while the others are demolishing</span>,” preached Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. How we long for a good Pope in Rome! How we long for bishops to stand fearlessly for the integral Catholic Faith, as Abp. Lefebvre did! Bishops who are not compromising with Vatican II, the New Profession of Faith, the new Sacraments, the New Code of Canon Law, and the New Mass! How we long for a resurgence of the Catholic Faith of Tradition in Rome and the Social Reign of the Heart of Jesus in every nation! “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Thy Kingdom come, on earth as it is in Heaven!</span>”<br />
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In the ongoing Battle, there’s not a single priest of the Catholic Resistance who desires to be “independent,” working without a bishop and laboring totally on his own. This is abnormal and undesirable for any Catholic, let alone the priest. But, when Conciliar Rome slipped into apostasy after the Second Vatican Council, did Abp. Lefebvre expect to be found standing alone, “rogue,” “disobedient,” “dissident”? Far from it! Did all those priests expelled by their bishops in the 1960’s and 70’s for refusing the New Mass and filthy Catechisms desire to be “independent” and “on their own”? Far from it!<br />
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But when the authorities abandon their duties and abuse their position by inflicting unjust punishments and try to coerce their subjects to accept compromises against the Catholic Faith, then they have no choice but to prudently separate themselves from these abusers and continue feeding the flock and fight for the Faith. This was the wise advice of Abp. Lefebvre: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">It is a strict duty of every priest who wishes to remain Catholic, to separate himself from this Conciliar Church</span>.” (<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Spiritual Journey</span>, Abp. Lefebvre, p.13). If this applies to Roman authorities imposing Vatican II and the New Mass on their subjects, the same applies for those bishops demanding compromise, however slight it may be, with Vatican II and the New Mass as a matter of obedience.<br />
<br />
Thus, every single priest of the Society of St. Pius X has been in the position of having to make a choice, since 2012. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Either</span>, he conforms to the new doctrinal direction which accepts that Vatican II can “enlighten and deepen the understanding of Tradition” and that the New Mass and New Sacraments are “legitimately promulgated”, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">or </span>he resists this abuse of authority and is consequently silenced or cast out as a rebel. Unfortunately, most priests conformed to the new orientation since 2012, as did thousands of clergy and religious after the Second Vatican Council, in the 1960’s and 70’s.<br />
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The same applies to bishops of the False Resistance who give the appearance of standing with Abp. Lefebvre, but insist on the following: that the New Mass “miracles” be believed; the New Mass can give grace and nourish your Faith; that “it's not the time for seminaries, structure and organization;” that the Faith can be taught in silence; and that the true Catholic Resistance is nothing more than disgruntled “Resistants,” who must put away the “toys” of expecting a Catholic resurgence in the pattern of Abp. Lefebvre. These positions are in direct opposition to everything the Archbishop stood for! These bishops do not represent the true Catholic Resistance! They are not the Catholic Resistance! They admit this fact out of their own mouths!<br />
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On the contrary, Abp. Lefebvre condemned the New Mass and the errors of Vatican II, in no uncertain terms! He insisted the New Mass is <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">sterile </span>and cannot nourish one’s Faith but rather erodes it! He energetically defended the urgent need for seminaries and founded five of them throughout the world, himself! He established veritable oases of structure and organization in the retreat houses, parishes, missions, schools, universities and convents he founded! He did not restrict his preaching and letters to his chosen few hidden “under a bushel,” but fearlessly preached the Faith and wrote letters to the Popes and the entire world! He called for the crusade of the large family, the generous sacrifices of seminarians, sisters, brothers, and priests to rebuild the Church! Even in his eighties, he traveled the world strengthening the Faith and administering Confirmation to thousands!<br />
<br />
Some may object: “You can’t expect everyone to be an Abp. Lefebvre, he was unique and it's unrealistic to expect his bishops to do the same!” This is true, if one speaks of his gentlemanly meekness, his sanctity, and fruitful apostolate as a missionary in Africa. No one can easily match such greatness, sanctity and experience. But the duty of publicly preaching the integral Catholic Faith was imposed by Christ Himself on all the bishops of the Church! “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Go, Preach to all nations!</span>” The duty of publicly condemning heresy, scandals against the Faith, compromise, and error are commanded by the Divine Savior Himself! If they fail to do so, He will require the blood of the stray sheep at their hands! (Ezekiel 3:18).<br />
<br />
So when it is said: “You Resistance priests are independent, you have no bishop. You are rebels!” What can we say but: “Please show us even one bishop who is not compromising with Vatican II and the New Mass. Please point out one that openly condemns heresy and error and never compromises with it. Please give the information to contact one who stands with the unchanging Magisterium of the Church, like Abp. Lefebvre, but also openly opposes the public scandals of the Modernist Popes, prelates, and Conciliar Magisterium.” Indeed, it should be his spiritual sons, whom he consecrated, who ought to be doing these things. But unfortunately, every one of them has compromised with Vatican II and the New Mass in some way, since 2012, even if by silence. [N.B: The Thuc or De Costa line bishops are dubious and out of the question].<br />
<br />
“But you expect perfect bishops and that’s unrealistic, not all bishops in history have been saints.” That is true, not many have been saints. In fact, “Hell is paved with the skulls of bishops,” said St. John Chrysostom! The Novus Ordo bishops may have some excuse due to their lack of formation, ignorance and modernist training.<br />
<br />
But the sons of Abp. Lefebvre have no excuse! He formed his seminarians in the good soil of Tradition and in the solidity of the counter-Revolution. They were watered in the sound doctrine of the anti-Liberal Popes and their roots struck deeply in the life of prayer and spirituality of Holy Mother Church. So to expect the same anti-Liberal position from them should be no surprise. What is surprising is their lack of it!<br />
<br />
Abp. Lefebvre once said that the faithful have a right to know where their priests stand. They have a right to hear sound doctrine in their preaching and to know that their priests are not evolutionists, ecumenical, modernists or compromisers with Vatican II and the New Mass. The same holds for the bishops.<br />
<br />
This is not a call for condemning anyone nor of overly-scrutinizing the least mistake of the authorities, but rather an appeal for all to pray and do penance for them. We must beg the Hearts of Jesus and Mary for Rome to return to Tradition and our bishops and clergy come back to where they once stood, by publicly maintaining the doctrinal position of Abp. Lefebvre. He not only said, but did the Truth. Abp. Lefebvre was a pattern for all shepherds to imitate. He was one that Pope St. Pius X would have unhesitatingly canonized as a model for all clergy. The Archbishop is still a true model, but not the false caricature often portrayed of him as the ever smiling, meek and gentle bishop, to the exclusion of his other side which included his iron fist, the episcopal lion that roared the Truth, and the boxer for the defense of Catholic Tradition, that he truly was!<br />
<br />
“Prudent as a serpent, but simple as a dove” defines his character and wisdom. So, if we find ourselves out in the cold, let us at least be found standing by the Sorrowful Mother at the foot of the Cross! The first Pope and bishops fled away in that hour, but She remained with Her Divine Son, strong in Faith, like an immovable pillar, knowing without hesitation that the day of the Resurrection would come. May She inflame us with love for Jesus Crucified and an unshakeable hope that God will grant us, once again, Popes and bishops who will lead and feed the flock! “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">The gates of Hell shall not prevail!</span>”<br />
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In Christ the King,<br />
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Dear Friends of the Cross!<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">We have to build while the others are demolishing</span>,” preached Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. How we long for a good Pope in Rome! How we long for bishops to stand fearlessly for the integral Catholic Faith, as Abp. Lefebvre did! Bishops who are not compromising with Vatican II, the New Profession of Faith, the new Sacraments, the New Code of Canon Law, and the New Mass! How we long for a resurgence of the Catholic Faith of Tradition in Rome and the Social Reign of the Heart of Jesus in every nation! “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Thy Kingdom come, on earth as it is in Heaven!</span>”<br />
<br />
In the ongoing Battle, there’s not a single priest of the Catholic Resistance who desires to be “independent,” working without a bishop and laboring totally on his own. This is abnormal and undesirable for any Catholic, let alone the priest. But, when Conciliar Rome slipped into apostasy after the Second Vatican Council, did Abp. Lefebvre expect to be found standing alone, “rogue,” “disobedient,” “dissident”? Far from it! Did all those priests expelled by their bishops in the 1960’s and 70’s for refusing the New Mass and filthy Catechisms desire to be “independent” and “on their own”? Far from it!<br />
<br />
But when the authorities abandon their duties and abuse their position by inflicting unjust punishments and try to coerce their subjects to accept compromises against the Catholic Faith, then they have no choice but to prudently separate themselves from these abusers and continue feeding the flock and fight for the Faith. This was the wise advice of Abp. Lefebvre: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">It is a strict duty of every priest who wishes to remain Catholic, to separate himself from this Conciliar Church</span>.” (<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Spiritual Journey</span>, Abp. Lefebvre, p.13). If this applies to Roman authorities imposing Vatican II and the New Mass on their subjects, the same applies for those bishops demanding compromise, however slight it may be, with Vatican II and the New Mass as a matter of obedience.<br />
<br />
Thus, every single priest of the Society of St. Pius X has been in the position of having to make a choice, since 2012. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Either</span>, he conforms to the new doctrinal direction which accepts that Vatican II can “enlighten and deepen the understanding of Tradition” and that the New Mass and New Sacraments are “legitimately promulgated”, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">or </span>he resists this abuse of authority and is consequently silenced or cast out as a rebel. Unfortunately, most priests conformed to the new orientation since 2012, as did thousands of clergy and religious after the Second Vatican Council, in the 1960’s and 70’s.<br />
<br />
The same applies to bishops of the False Resistance who give the appearance of standing with Abp. Lefebvre, but insist on the following: that the New Mass “miracles” be believed; the New Mass can give grace and nourish your Faith; that “it's not the time for seminaries, structure and organization;” that the Faith can be taught in silence; and that the true Catholic Resistance is nothing more than disgruntled “Resistants,” who must put away the “toys” of expecting a Catholic resurgence in the pattern of Abp. Lefebvre. These positions are in direct opposition to everything the Archbishop stood for! These bishops do not represent the true Catholic Resistance! They are not the Catholic Resistance! They admit this fact out of their own mouths!<br />
<br />
On the contrary, Abp. Lefebvre condemned the New Mass and the errors of Vatican II, in no uncertain terms! He insisted the New Mass is <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">sterile </span>and cannot nourish one’s Faith but rather erodes it! He energetically defended the urgent need for seminaries and founded five of them throughout the world, himself! He established veritable oases of structure and organization in the retreat houses, parishes, missions, schools, universities and convents he founded! He did not restrict his preaching and letters to his chosen few hidden “under a bushel,” but fearlessly preached the Faith and wrote letters to the Popes and the entire world! He called for the crusade of the large family, the generous sacrifices of seminarians, sisters, brothers, and priests to rebuild the Church! Even in his eighties, he traveled the world strengthening the Faith and administering Confirmation to thousands!<br />
<br />
Some may object: “You can’t expect everyone to be an Abp. Lefebvre, he was unique and it's unrealistic to expect his bishops to do the same!” This is true, if one speaks of his gentlemanly meekness, his sanctity, and fruitful apostolate as a missionary in Africa. No one can easily match such greatness, sanctity and experience. But the duty of publicly preaching the integral Catholic Faith was imposed by Christ Himself on all the bishops of the Church! “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Go, Preach to all nations!</span>” The duty of publicly condemning heresy, scandals against the Faith, compromise, and error are commanded by the Divine Savior Himself! If they fail to do so, He will require the blood of the stray sheep at their hands! (Ezekiel 3:18).<br />
<br />
So when it is said: “You Resistance priests are independent, you have no bishop. You are rebels!” What can we say but: “Please show us even one bishop who is not compromising with Vatican II and the New Mass. Please point out one that openly condemns heresy and error and never compromises with it. Please give the information to contact one who stands with the unchanging Magisterium of the Church, like Abp. Lefebvre, but also openly opposes the public scandals of the Modernist Popes, prelates, and Conciliar Magisterium.” Indeed, it should be his spiritual sons, whom he consecrated, who ought to be doing these things. But unfortunately, every one of them has compromised with Vatican II and the New Mass in some way, since 2012, even if by silence. [N.B: The Thuc or De Costa line bishops are dubious and out of the question].<br />
<br />
“But you expect perfect bishops and that’s unrealistic, not all bishops in history have been saints.” That is true, not many have been saints. In fact, “Hell is paved with the skulls of bishops,” said St. John Chrysostom! The Novus Ordo bishops may have some excuse due to their lack of formation, ignorance and modernist training.<br />
<br />
But the sons of Abp. Lefebvre have no excuse! He formed his seminarians in the good soil of Tradition and in the solidity of the counter-Revolution. They were watered in the sound doctrine of the anti-Liberal Popes and their roots struck deeply in the life of prayer and spirituality of Holy Mother Church. So to expect the same anti-Liberal position from them should be no surprise. What is surprising is their lack of it!<br />
<br />
Abp. Lefebvre once said that the faithful have a right to know where their priests stand. They have a right to hear sound doctrine in their preaching and to know that their priests are not evolutionists, ecumenical, modernists or compromisers with Vatican II and the New Mass. The same holds for the bishops.<br />
<br />
This is not a call for condemning anyone nor of overly-scrutinizing the least mistake of the authorities, but rather an appeal for all to pray and do penance for them. We must beg the Hearts of Jesus and Mary for Rome to return to Tradition and our bishops and clergy come back to where they once stood, by publicly maintaining the doctrinal position of Abp. Lefebvre. He not only said, but did the Truth. Abp. Lefebvre was a pattern for all shepherds to imitate. He was one that Pope St. Pius X would have unhesitatingly canonized as a model for all clergy. The Archbishop is still a true model, but not the false caricature often portrayed of him as the ever smiling, meek and gentle bishop, to the exclusion of his other side which included his iron fist, the episcopal lion that roared the Truth, and the boxer for the defense of Catholic Tradition, that he truly was!<br />
<br />
“Prudent as a serpent, but simple as a dove” defines his character and wisdom. So, if we find ourselves out in the cold, let us at least be found standing by the Sorrowful Mother at the foot of the Cross! The first Pope and bishops fled away in that hour, but She remained with Her Divine Son, strong in Faith, like an immovable pillar, knowing without hesitation that the day of the Resurrection would come. May She inflame us with love for Jesus Crucified and an unshakeable hope that God will grant us, once again, Popes and bishops who will lead and feed the flock! “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">The gates of Hell shall not prevail!</span>”<br />
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In Christ the King,<br />
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To The Last-Standing-Flank of the Holy Church Militant,                      <br />
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This quote is from Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s last testament to his priests, Spiritual Journey, p. 13, Angelus Press [English Edition], 1991:<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“Vatican II’s desire to integrate into the Church, non-Catholics ‘such as they are’, is a scandalous and adulterous desire. The Secretariat for the Unity of Christians by favoring the granting of mutual concessions - dialogue - leads to the destruction of the Catholic Faith, the destruction of the Catholic Priesthood, and the elimination of the power of Peter and the bishops. The missionary spirit of the apostles, the martyrs and the saints is eliminated! For as long as this Secretariat keeps the false Ecumenism as its orientation and Roman ecclesiastical authorities approve it, we can affirm that they remain in open, official rupture with all the past of the Church and with its official Magisterium. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">It is, therefore, a strict duty for every priest wanting to remain Catholic to separate himself from this Conciliar Church for as long as it does not rediscover the Tradition of the Church and of the Catholic Faith!</span>”</span><br />
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What here goes for priests, goes also for bishops and the faithful. As one believes (doctrine), so one acts (morals). Doctrine influences morals. Morals follow doctrine. For example, Billy won’t tell lies (morals) because he believes (doctrine) in the Ten Commandments of God.<br />
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But if the doctrine is false, the morals will necessarily be twisted. Luther rejected Holy Orders and celibate clergy, so he broke his vows as a priest and married an ex-nun who broke her vows to God.<br />
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So the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">doctrinal </span>heresies and errors of Vatican Council II necessarily lead to bad <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">morals</span>! Abp. Lefebvre understood this well, which is why he fought like a tiger to defend the true <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">doctrine</span>, because he saw the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">moral </span>consequences that would follow on the errors of, e.g. Religious Liberty, which are: contraception, abortion, pornography, legalized drugs, euthanasia, rotten public schools, etc., etc.<br />
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How farsighted he was, when we now see the horrors coming out of Modernist Rome! Recently, the Associated Press Agency commented: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“(Francis) called on Catholic bishops … to welcome LGBTQ people into the Church. Bishops need to <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">undergo a process of change </span>to recognize the dignity of everyone.” </span>That’s the new trend! The whole world has seen the images of Pope Francis in Rome openly receiving homosexual couples with embraces and smiles, encouraging them in their vice. Indeed, a scandal to the whole world! He has, like all his predecessors following the “spirit of Vatican II,” failed to punish, defrock and remove clergy found guilty of these crimes.<br />
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Can this really be happening? Modernist Rome is now plunging further and further into the pit of another Sodom and Gomorrah and Pope Francis is requiring the bishops to conform to his degenerate direction. This is a crime against God and His Commandments and any honest Catholic out there, must also separate himself from this Church of Apostasy. Rather than showing these poor souls the evil of their ways and seeking their conversion, which is the way of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Conciliar Rome now approves their wicked ways and supports the LGBTQ people on their road to Hell. It is indeed, what Our Lady of LaSalette warned about a “clergy polluted with impurity.”<br />
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On the other hand, how often Sacred Scripture warns against these vices of unrepentant sinners, who publicly flaunt and boast proudly of their debauchery! Here’s the mind of God:<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind, because it is an abomination … Every soul that shall commit any of these abominations, shall perish from the midst of his people”</span> (Leviticus 18:22,29).<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“If any one lie with a man as with a woman, both have committed an abomination, let them be put to death: their blood be upon them” </span>(Lev. 20:13).<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous … And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And He destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth” </span>(Genesis 18:20; 19:24, 25).<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“For professing themselves to be wise, they became fools … wherefore, God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves … Who changed the truth of God into a lie; and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator (<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">the New Mass!</span>),  who is blessed forever. Amen … For this cause God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature. And in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men, working that which is filthy … God delivered them up to a reprobate sense…” </span>(Romans 1:22-28).<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor liers with mankind (i.e., LGBTQ and the like), nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of God!"</span> (I Corinthians 6:9,10). <br />
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In the light of this, it is no surprise that the Popes of Vatican II: who received the mark of the goddess Shiva (John Paul II); gathered all religions at Assisi to get “together to pray” and face Mecca in a Mosque while praying with Muslims (Benedict XVI); who received the Devil “Pachamama” into St. Peter’s and planted a tree in its honor (Francis) are being blinded and plagued with vices of Sodom &amp; Gomorrah! It is a clear punishment for their “Vatican II religion” and the Man-centered New Mass! It contaminates the entire Conciliar Church!<br />
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Pope Francis demands that the bishops, in the name of “dignity”, approve all sexual perversions, including “Q” - perversions related to sadomasochism, necrophilia or sexual homicidal manias. If the Conciliar bishops don’t fall in line and approve LGBTQ perversions, then they will be removed from office. So, he calls for their “conversion” which is, in fact, the last step of apostasy, the thirtieth piece of silver in the betrayal of Christ the King, the New Age anti-Church. It is the logical conclusion of Vatican II, the New Mass and the New Code of Canon Law! Yes, bad <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">morals </span>do flow from bad <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">doctrine</span>!<br />
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This is why Abp. Lefebvre treated the Second Vatican Council as St. Polycarpe (who personally knew St. John the Evangelist) treated Marcion the heretic, who denied the Human Nature in Christ. Once, when they encountered each other in the streets of Rome around 150 A.D., Marcion asked whether he recognized him, St. Polycarpe replied: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“Yes, I recognize the one who is the firstborn of Satan.” </span>Truly, all Catholics faithful to Tradition can admit the same thing regarding the Revolutionary Council and New Mass! Hence, the Archbishop’s well-known phrase: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“I accuse the Council!”</span><br />
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It was the great Apostle of Charity, St. John, who warned early Catholics against the false charity of welcoming unrepentant LGBTQ people into the Church:<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"> “Receive them not into your home (church), nor say to him, God speed you. For he that saith unto him, God speed you, communicateth with his wicked works!” </span>[In other words, “whoever welcomes them has a share in their wicked activities!”]. <br />
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When Abp. Lefebvre said we must separate ourselves from this Conciliar Church, he was chiefly standing against the new <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">doctrines </span>of Religious Liberty, Ecumenism, Collegiality, the New Code, the New Mass &amp; sacraments. Consequently, those hellish doctrines have spawned their infernal “morals”, namely, every <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">im</span>morality</span>!<br />
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The answer then, as always, is to restore Catholic Tradition with no compromise, obey the Immaculate Heart of Mary and fight for Her triumph! The Divine Heart of Jesus wants His victory to come through Her’s! Come, O Queen of the Holy Rosary, come reign over us with thy Divine Son! At last, “...<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Only She can help you!</span> (Fatima).<br />
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In Christ the King,<br />
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To The Last-Standing-Flank of the Holy Church Militant,                      <br />
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This quote is from Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s last testament to his priests, Spiritual Journey, p. 13, Angelus Press [English Edition], 1991:<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“Vatican II’s desire to integrate into the Church, non-Catholics ‘such as they are’, is a scandalous and adulterous desire. The Secretariat for the Unity of Christians by favoring the granting of mutual concessions - dialogue - leads to the destruction of the Catholic Faith, the destruction of the Catholic Priesthood, and the elimination of the power of Peter and the bishops. The missionary spirit of the apostles, the martyrs and the saints is eliminated! For as long as this Secretariat keeps the false Ecumenism as its orientation and Roman ecclesiastical authorities approve it, we can affirm that they remain in open, official rupture with all the past of the Church and with its official Magisterium. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">It is, therefore, a strict duty for every priest wanting to remain Catholic to separate himself from this Conciliar Church for as long as it does not rediscover the Tradition of the Church and of the Catholic Faith!</span>”</span><br />
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What here goes for priests, goes also for bishops and the faithful. As one believes (doctrine), so one acts (morals). Doctrine influences morals. Morals follow doctrine. For example, Billy won’t tell lies (morals) because he believes (doctrine) in the Ten Commandments of God.<br />
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But if the doctrine is false, the morals will necessarily be twisted. Luther rejected Holy Orders and celibate clergy, so he broke his vows as a priest and married an ex-nun who broke her vows to God.<br />
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So the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">doctrinal </span>heresies and errors of Vatican Council II necessarily lead to bad <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">morals</span>! Abp. Lefebvre understood this well, which is why he fought like a tiger to defend the true <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">doctrine</span>, because he saw the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">moral </span>consequences that would follow on the errors of, e.g. Religious Liberty, which are: contraception, abortion, pornography, legalized drugs, euthanasia, rotten public schools, etc., etc.<br />
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How farsighted he was, when we now see the horrors coming out of Modernist Rome! Recently, the Associated Press Agency commented: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“(Francis) called on Catholic bishops … to welcome LGBTQ people into the Church. Bishops need to <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">undergo a process of change </span>to recognize the dignity of everyone.” </span>That’s the new trend! The whole world has seen the images of Pope Francis in Rome openly receiving homosexual couples with embraces and smiles, encouraging them in their vice. Indeed, a scandal to the whole world! He has, like all his predecessors following the “spirit of Vatican II,” failed to punish, defrock and remove clergy found guilty of these crimes.<br />
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Can this really be happening? Modernist Rome is now plunging further and further into the pit of another Sodom and Gomorrah and Pope Francis is requiring the bishops to conform to his degenerate direction. This is a crime against God and His Commandments and any honest Catholic out there, must also separate himself from this Church of Apostasy. Rather than showing these poor souls the evil of their ways and seeking their conversion, which is the way of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Conciliar Rome now approves their wicked ways and supports the LGBTQ people on their road to Hell. It is indeed, what Our Lady of LaSalette warned about a “clergy polluted with impurity.”<br />
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On the other hand, how often Sacred Scripture warns against these vices of unrepentant sinners, who publicly flaunt and boast proudly of their debauchery! Here’s the mind of God:<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind, because it is an abomination … Every soul that shall commit any of these abominations, shall perish from the midst of his people”</span> (Leviticus 18:22,29).<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“If any one lie with a man as with a woman, both have committed an abomination, let them be put to death: their blood be upon them” </span>(Lev. 20:13).<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous … And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And He destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth” </span>(Genesis 18:20; 19:24, 25).<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“For professing themselves to be wise, they became fools … wherefore, God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves … Who changed the truth of God into a lie; and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator (<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">the New Mass!</span>),  who is blessed forever. Amen … For this cause God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature. And in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men, working that which is filthy … God delivered them up to a reprobate sense…” </span>(Romans 1:22-28).<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor liers with mankind (i.e., LGBTQ and the like), nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of God!"</span> (I Corinthians 6:9,10). <br />
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In the light of this, it is no surprise that the Popes of Vatican II: who received the mark of the goddess Shiva (John Paul II); gathered all religions at Assisi to get “together to pray” and face Mecca in a Mosque while praying with Muslims (Benedict XVI); who received the Devil “Pachamama” into St. Peter’s and planted a tree in its honor (Francis) are being blinded and plagued with vices of Sodom &amp; Gomorrah! It is a clear punishment for their “Vatican II religion” and the Man-centered New Mass! It contaminates the entire Conciliar Church!<br />
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Pope Francis demands that the bishops, in the name of “dignity”, approve all sexual perversions, including “Q” - perversions related to sadomasochism, necrophilia or sexual homicidal manias. If the Conciliar bishops don’t fall in line and approve LGBTQ perversions, then they will be removed from office. So, he calls for their “conversion” which is, in fact, the last step of apostasy, the thirtieth piece of silver in the betrayal of Christ the King, the New Age anti-Church. It is the logical conclusion of Vatican II, the New Mass and the New Code of Canon Law! Yes, bad <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">morals </span>do flow from bad <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">doctrine</span>!<br />
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This is why Abp. Lefebvre treated the Second Vatican Council as St. Polycarpe (who personally knew St. John the Evangelist) treated Marcion the heretic, who denied the Human Nature in Christ. Once, when they encountered each other in the streets of Rome around 150 A.D., Marcion asked whether he recognized him, St. Polycarpe replied: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“Yes, I recognize the one who is the firstborn of Satan.” </span>Truly, all Catholics faithful to Tradition can admit the same thing regarding the Revolutionary Council and New Mass! Hence, the Archbishop’s well-known phrase: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“I accuse the Council!”</span><br />
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It was the great Apostle of Charity, St. John, who warned early Catholics against the false charity of welcoming unrepentant LGBTQ people into the Church:<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"> “Receive them not into your home (church), nor say to him, God speed you. For he that saith unto him, God speed you, communicateth with his wicked works!” </span>[In other words, “whoever welcomes them has a share in their wicked activities!”]. <br />
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When Abp. Lefebvre said we must separate ourselves from this Conciliar Church, he was chiefly standing against the new <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">doctrines </span>of Religious Liberty, Ecumenism, Collegiality, the New Code, the New Mass &amp; sacraments. Consequently, those hellish doctrines have spawned their infernal “morals”, namely, every <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">im</span>morality</span>!<br />
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The answer then, as always, is to restore Catholic Tradition with no compromise, obey the Immaculate Heart of Mary and fight for Her triumph! The Divine Heart of Jesus wants His victory to come through Her’s! Come, O Queen of the Holy Rosary, come reign over us with thy Divine Son! At last, “...<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Only She can help you!</span> (Fatima).<br />
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Dear Confreres in the Church Militant,<br />
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It is normal for bullets to fly, bombs to drop and chaos to erupt at any time, in any given war. We are soldiers in the Great War between Christ the King and Satan; between His Holy Catholic Church of Tradition and Satan’s counterfeit Conciliar Church; between the Woman of Genesis with Her army and the serpent with his.<br />
<br />
It is also a strategy of Satan to deceive by cunningly making evil seem good, ugliness seem like beauty, and darkness seem as illuminating as light. As Liberalism avalanches and morphs with each decade, it has to appear as close as possible to an “angel of light” to deceive. The enemy must make the decoy look as real as possible to the genuine article. Hence, Pope St. Pius X warned in his Encyclical, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Pascendi</span>, the enemies will keep the same name of all the sacraments (e.g. “Baptism”), but cleverly gut out their true meaning and replace them with new ones (e.g. from “washing away original sin and infusing sanctifying grace into the soul” to the Modernist version of “initiation into the Christian community”). They will dare to change the most sacred of all sacraments, the Holy Eucharist, from the traditional “Body and Blood of Christ under the appearance of bread and wine” to the Modernist version of “the symbol of unity and ‘luv’ in the Christian community.”<br />
<br />
It stands to reason that Satan would invent a new Church which looks a lot like the real Catholic Church, and even has the same visible head, “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">one Pope over two Churches</span>”, but one of these churches is counterfeit. That is the Conciliar Church, which Abp. Lefebvre was asked to obey and be faithful to, by Msgr. Benelli and Modernist Rome, on June 25, 1976, to which the Archbishop replied:<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">What could be clearer? We must [according to Rome] henceforth obey and be faithful to the Conciliar Church, no longer to the Catholic Church. Right there is our whole problem: we are suspended by the Conciliar Church,<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"> the Conciliar Church, to which we have no wish to belong!</span> That Conciliar Church is a schismatic Church because it breaks with the Catholic Church that has always been. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">It has its new dogmas, its new priesthood, its new institutions, its new worship… the Church that affirms such errors is at once schismatic and heretical. The Conciliar Church, is therefore, not Catholic.</span></span>” (Abp. Lefebvre, Reflections on his suspension ‘<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">a divinis</span>’, July 29, 1976).<br />
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Never did Abp. Lefebvre want to break from the Catholic Church, nor be at odds with the Pope, but the dilemma he, and every Catholic faced, was that this new Conciliar Church was now like a monstrous cancer growing off the healthy body of the Catholic Church, that aggressively spreads, imposes itself and takes over! Modernist Rome is like a large parasite that lives on the body of Catholic Rome, which is similar in appearances but is rife with heresy and error.<br />
<br />
Bishop Tissier, in an excellent article that appeared in 2013 (<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Le Sal de la Terre</span>, no. 85) drew up this summary:<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">...It is clear that the Conciliar Church is not only a sickness, nor a theory, but it is an association of high ranking Catholic churchmen inspired by liberal and modernist thinkers,<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"> who want, according to the goals of the one-worlders, to bring to fruition a new type of Church</span>, with many Catholic priests and faithful won over by this ideal. It is not a pure association of victims. Formally considered, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">the Conciliar Church is a sect that occupies the Catholic Church</span>. It has its organized instigators and actors, as had the Modernism condemned by St. Pius X.</span>”<br />
<br />
Pope St. Pius X exposed these parasites penetrating inside the Church, who were often clergymen of the Masonic Lodges or at least imbued with their ideas. He writes in <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Pascendi</span>:<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">...Hence, the danger is present almost in the very veins and heart of the Church, whose injury is the more certain from the very fact that their knowledge of her is more intimate. Moreover, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">they lay the axe</span> not to the branches and shoots, but to the very root, that is, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">to the Faith and its deepest fibers</span>. And once having struck at this root of immortality, they proceed to diffuse poison through the whole tree. [...] What efforts do they not make to win new recruits! They seize upon professorships in the seminaries and universities, and gradually make of them thrones of pestilence</span>” (St. Pius X, September 8, 1907).<br />
<br />
These “seized seminaries” don’t exclude the new Conciliar-SSPX! The dilemma of all Catholics today is still the same, and the answer laid out by Abp. Lefebvre is still the same: <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">absolutely no compromise with the New Mass or Vatican II!</span> This means no acceptance of the revolutionary Doctrinal Declaration of 2012 and all accompanying adjustments and jurisdictions made for the Conciliar-SSPX ever since, and no acceptance of trying to justify the New Mass by proclaiming that, somehow, it “nourishes your faith” or promoting its so-called miracles!<br />
<br />
Once again, listen to the profound foresight and wisdom of Abp. Lefebvre:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“I hold that we are in the Church and that we are the true sons of the Church, and the others are not. They are not, because Liberalism is not a son of the Church. Liberalism is against the Church, Liberalism operates to destroy the Church, in that sense they cannot claim to be sons of the Church… Some are prepared to sacrifice the fight for the Faith by saying: ‘Let us first re-enter the Church! Let us first do everything to integrate into the official, public structures of the Church! Let us be silent about the dogmatic issues. Let us be silent about the malice of the [New] Mass. Let us keep quiet over the issues of Religious Liberty, Human Rights, Ecumenism. And, once we are inside the Church, we will be able to do this, we will be able to achieve that!’”<br />
<br />
“That’s absolutely false! You don’t enter into a structure, under superiors, by claiming you will overthrow everything as soon as you are inside, whereas they have all the means to suppress us! They have all the authority.<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">What matters to us first and foremost is to maintain the Catholic Faith. That’s what we are fighting for! So the canonical issue, this purely public and exterior issue in the Church, is secondary. What matters is to stay within the Church,... inside the Church. In other words, in the Catholic Faith of all time, in the true priesthood, in the true Mass, in the true sacraments, and the same catechism, with the same Bible. That’s what matters to us! That’s what the Church is. Public recognition is a secondary issue. Thus, we should not seek what is secondary by losing what is primary, by losing what is the primary goal of our fight!</span>” </span>(Abp. Lefebvre, Spiritual Conference at Écône, December 21, 1984).<br />
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So, fight on for the Holy Catholic Faith! …Battle on for the reign of Christ the King! Under Our Lady’s mantle we must not fear the enemy but fight courageously and prudently, avoiding the Liberal “prudence” of compromise at any cost in order to be recognized or receive favors from those compromising with or promoting Vatican II or the New Mass!<br />
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In Christ the King,<br />
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Fr. David Hewko]]></description>
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Dear Confreres in the Church Militant,<br />
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It is normal for bullets to fly, bombs to drop and chaos to erupt at any time, in any given war. We are soldiers in the Great War between Christ the King and Satan; between His Holy Catholic Church of Tradition and Satan’s counterfeit Conciliar Church; between the Woman of Genesis with Her army and the serpent with his.<br />
<br />
It is also a strategy of Satan to deceive by cunningly making evil seem good, ugliness seem like beauty, and darkness seem as illuminating as light. As Liberalism avalanches and morphs with each decade, it has to appear as close as possible to an “angel of light” to deceive. The enemy must make the decoy look as real as possible to the genuine article. Hence, Pope St. Pius X warned in his Encyclical, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Pascendi</span>, the enemies will keep the same name of all the sacraments (e.g. “Baptism”), but cleverly gut out their true meaning and replace them with new ones (e.g. from “washing away original sin and infusing sanctifying grace into the soul” to the Modernist version of “initiation into the Christian community”). They will dare to change the most sacred of all sacraments, the Holy Eucharist, from the traditional “Body and Blood of Christ under the appearance of bread and wine” to the Modernist version of “the symbol of unity and ‘luv’ in the Christian community.”<br />
<br />
It stands to reason that Satan would invent a new Church which looks a lot like the real Catholic Church, and even has the same visible head, “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">one Pope over two Churches</span>”, but one of these churches is counterfeit. That is the Conciliar Church, which Abp. Lefebvre was asked to obey and be faithful to, by Msgr. Benelli and Modernist Rome, on June 25, 1976, to which the Archbishop replied:<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">What could be clearer? We must [according to Rome] henceforth obey and be faithful to the Conciliar Church, no longer to the Catholic Church. Right there is our whole problem: we are suspended by the Conciliar Church,<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"> the Conciliar Church, to which we have no wish to belong!</span> That Conciliar Church is a schismatic Church because it breaks with the Catholic Church that has always been. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">It has its new dogmas, its new priesthood, its new institutions, its new worship… the Church that affirms such errors is at once schismatic and heretical. The Conciliar Church, is therefore, not Catholic.</span></span>” (Abp. Lefebvre, Reflections on his suspension ‘<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">a divinis</span>’, July 29, 1976).<br />
<br />
Never did Abp. Lefebvre want to break from the Catholic Church, nor be at odds with the Pope, but the dilemma he, and every Catholic faced, was that this new Conciliar Church was now like a monstrous cancer growing off the healthy body of the Catholic Church, that aggressively spreads, imposes itself and takes over! Modernist Rome is like a large parasite that lives on the body of Catholic Rome, which is similar in appearances but is rife with heresy and error.<br />
<br />
Bishop Tissier, in an excellent article that appeared in 2013 (<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Le Sal de la Terre</span>, no. 85) drew up this summary:<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">...It is clear that the Conciliar Church is not only a sickness, nor a theory, but it is an association of high ranking Catholic churchmen inspired by liberal and modernist thinkers,<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"> who want, according to the goals of the one-worlders, to bring to fruition a new type of Church</span>, with many Catholic priests and faithful won over by this ideal. It is not a pure association of victims. Formally considered, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">the Conciliar Church is a sect that occupies the Catholic Church</span>. It has its organized instigators and actors, as had the Modernism condemned by St. Pius X.</span>”<br />
<br />
Pope St. Pius X exposed these parasites penetrating inside the Church, who were often clergymen of the Masonic Lodges or at least imbued with their ideas. He writes in <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Pascendi</span>:<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">...Hence, the danger is present almost in the very veins and heart of the Church, whose injury is the more certain from the very fact that their knowledge of her is more intimate. Moreover, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">they lay the axe</span> not to the branches and shoots, but to the very root, that is, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">to the Faith and its deepest fibers</span>. And once having struck at this root of immortality, they proceed to diffuse poison through the whole tree. [...] What efforts do they not make to win new recruits! They seize upon professorships in the seminaries and universities, and gradually make of them thrones of pestilence</span>” (St. Pius X, September 8, 1907).<br />
<br />
These “seized seminaries” don’t exclude the new Conciliar-SSPX! The dilemma of all Catholics today is still the same, and the answer laid out by Abp. Lefebvre is still the same: <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">absolutely no compromise with the New Mass or Vatican II!</span> This means no acceptance of the revolutionary Doctrinal Declaration of 2012 and all accompanying adjustments and jurisdictions made for the Conciliar-SSPX ever since, and no acceptance of trying to justify the New Mass by proclaiming that, somehow, it “nourishes your faith” or promoting its so-called miracles!<br />
<br />
Once again, listen to the profound foresight and wisdom of Abp. Lefebvre:<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“I hold that we are in the Church and that we are the true sons of the Church, and the others are not. They are not, because Liberalism is not a son of the Church. Liberalism is against the Church, Liberalism operates to destroy the Church, in that sense they cannot claim to be sons of the Church… Some are prepared to sacrifice the fight for the Faith by saying: ‘Let us first re-enter the Church! Let us first do everything to integrate into the official, public structures of the Church! Let us be silent about the dogmatic issues. Let us be silent about the malice of the [New] Mass. Let us keep quiet over the issues of Religious Liberty, Human Rights, Ecumenism. And, once we are inside the Church, we will be able to do this, we will be able to achieve that!’”<br />
<br />
“That’s absolutely false! You don’t enter into a structure, under superiors, by claiming you will overthrow everything as soon as you are inside, whereas they have all the means to suppress us! They have all the authority.<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">What matters to us first and foremost is to maintain the Catholic Faith. That’s what we are fighting for! So the canonical issue, this purely public and exterior issue in the Church, is secondary. What matters is to stay within the Church,... inside the Church. In other words, in the Catholic Faith of all time, in the true priesthood, in the true Mass, in the true sacraments, and the same catechism, with the same Bible. That’s what matters to us! That’s what the Church is. Public recognition is a secondary issue. Thus, we should not seek what is secondary by losing what is primary, by losing what is the primary goal of our fight!</span>” </span>(Abp. Lefebvre, Spiritual Conference at Écône, December 21, 1984).<br />
<br />
So, fight on for the Holy Catholic Faith! …Battle on for the reign of Christ the King! Under Our Lady’s mantle we must not fear the enemy but fight courageously and prudently, avoiding the Liberal “prudence” of compromise at any cost in order to be recognized or receive favors from those compromising with or promoting Vatican II or the New Mass!<br />
<br />
In Christ the King,<br />
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Fr. David Hewko]]></content:encoded>
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<div style="text-align: right;" class="mycode_align">September 2022</div>
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Dear Faithful,<br />
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Cardinal Pie of Poitiers (d. 1886) used to say “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">The Catholic Church is <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">intolerant</span> when it comes to principles of the Faith, but tolerant and charitable in practice; while Liberals, on the contrary, are <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">tolerant</span> when it come to principles (e.g. “coexistence” of all beliefs), but intolerant in practice.</span>”<br />
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We can see this applied to Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, when it came to upholding principles of the Faith he was <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">intolerant</span> of error and boldly accused the Second Vatican Council of introducing novel principles against the Faith (e.g. Ecumenism, Pluralism, Religious Liberty, etc.) and stood opposed to them. But when it came to people, he was gentle and <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">tolerant</span> with their shortcomings, his kindness stands out in the memory of all who knew him.<br />
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But with Liberals, as an example, we can just look at Pope Francis who is <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">tolerant</span> of pagan idols (e.g. Pachamama) in the name of Vatican II’s teaching on “inculturation;” he tolerates Protestantism, divorce, sodomy, Modernism and just about every evil under the sun! But with Traditional Catholic people he is absolutely <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">intolerant</span>, calling them “backward,” “obstacle to the progress of Vatican II,” “blind bats,” and his favorite, “rigid.” He shuts down “conservative” <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Novus Ordo</span> religious houses and seminaries adopting the Latin Mass and punishes outspoken “conservative” Novus Ordo bishops. Pope Paul VI did the same by “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">intolerantly</span>” leveling a phony suspension on Abp. Lefebvre, while at the same time “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">tolerantly</span>” prostrating himself before a schismatic orthodox bishop. Then Pope John Paul II followed suit, by “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">intolerantly</span>” punishing Abp. Lefebvre with an illegal excommunication while at the same time “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">tolerantly</span>” receiving the pagan ritual-mark of Shiva on his forehead! Indeed, Liberals are <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">tolerant</span> with errors but <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">intolerant</span> when it comes to Truth and Catholics faithful to Tradition!<br />
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The same applies in civil society. Catholics and most honest men rooted in the Natural Law, defend the unborn and are <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">intolerant</span> of contraception and abortion; while, on the other hand, Liberals are <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">tolerant</span> of every error and vice under the label of “pro-choice”, but <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">intolerant</span> with unwanted babies, and resort to every sort of cruelty dripping with blood, in order to exterminate them by abortion! Indeed, LIBERALISM DRIPS WITH BLOOD!<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">FIRSTLY, UNITY IN THE FAITH!</span></div>
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This brings us to the absolute importance of the primacy of the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Faith</span>; the primacy of <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Doctrine</span>! To survive this apostate age, the Catholic must be unshakably rooted in the Truth! We must never give any attention to those incorrectly calling traditional Catholics “schismatics," in fact, after fifty-seven years since the Council, we should be used to it! Let us never forget that the profession of the Faith is always the first foundation for true unity! This bond of unity is built on the solid, unchanging principles of the Catholic Faith. All unity in the Catholic Church must first be founded on this rock on which Christ said to build. It is the rock on which St. Peter’s successors are commanded to stand and not build on the sands of Modernism!<br />
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Pope Leo XIII, in his Encyclical <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Satis Cognitum</span>, speaks about the true unity of the Church, saying: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Such great and such absolute concord among men must have as its necessary </span><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">foundation, the union of understanding and agreement of intelligences; from which will naturally flow the harmony of men’s wills and agreement in action. This is why, according to the Divine Plan, Jesus wanted the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">unity of the Faith</span> to exist in His Church; for Faith is the first of all bonds that unites men to God and it is due to this that we are called ‘faithful’</span>.”<br />
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Pope Pius XI repeated the same idea when he said in his Encyclical condemning false ecumenism, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Mortalium Animos</span>: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Since charity is founded on an honest and sincere faith, it is the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">unity of the Faith</span> which must be the principle bond uniting the disciples of Christ.</span>”<br />
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From this insistence of the traditional Magisterium, it is clear there is a much higher foundation for unity in the Church than just a nebulous “unity of communion” or “unity of luv”: it is the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">unity of Faith</span>! The foundation for all unity in the Catholic Church is firstly built on the Faith!<br />
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From this it is clear that Traditional Catholics are anything but “schismatics” or their own “marginalized church” because the first real schismatics are heretics. “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Heresy</span>," says Cardinal Billot, “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">is schism, for it directly opposes the unity of the Faith.” So, one can go against the “unity of communion</span>” without going against the unity of the Faith, but one cannot go against the unity of Faith without going against the “unity of communion,” since the former is the foundation for the latter. The unity of all members professing the Catholic Faith is the fundamental basis on which rests all other unity of the Pope, bishops, priests and laity.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">THOSE WHO DEVIATE FROM THE FAITH MAKE THE SCHISM</span></div>
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Now, looking closely at the situation of the Church since the Second Vatican Council, we see all those in positions of authority are imbued with Liberalism and Modernism; extending from Abp. Annibale Bugnini and Cardinal Ratzinger to Pope John XXIII and Pope Francis. They have imposed reforms that destroy the Church because they oppose the Traditional Faith, Mass, and Sacraments. Thus, they have broken with the Tradition of many centuries which is, ultimately, the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">unity of Faith</span>; and the “unity of communion” they are always trying to achieve is only a “pseudo-unity” because it has lost its true foundation.<br />
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The Modernist hierarchy, as Modernist, is heretical: it is opposed to the unity of Faith by the spreading of its errors and promotion of their pseudo-unity or “unity of communion.” In other words, as Abp. Lefebvre often repeated, it is the Conciliar Church that is truly schismatic, because it seeks a unity that is no longer a Catholic unity!<br />
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Abp. Lefebvre didn’t mince words when he said: “T<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">he Conciliar Church is practically schismatic. [...] It’s a virtually excommunicated Church, because it’s a Modernist Church” (Fideliter, 70, p. 8). Again, “The Pope wants to make a unity outside the Faith. It’s a communion. A communion with whom? With what? How?... it’s not a unity anymore. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">This can only be done in the unity of Faith</span></span>” (<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Fideliter</span>, 79, p.8).<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">AND THE POPE?</span></div>
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As Cardinal Journet explains, in his pre-Vatican II work, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Church of the Incarnate Word</span> (vol. II, p. 839 sq.), the Pope himself can sin against the ecclesiastical communion by breaking the unity of leadership. This would happen if he did not fulfill his duty and denied the Church the direction she is entitled to expect from him in the name of Someone greater than himself, namely, Christ, Her founder and invisible Head. And this is, unfortunately, the painful situation in which we find ourselves ever since the Council ended, in 1965. If Abp. Lefebvre stayed away from any agreement with the Modernist hierarchy and the Conciliar Church, it was out of fidelity to Tradition, by refusing to join the real schism and breaking with the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">unity of Faith</span>, as it has always been believed in the Church.<br />
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“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">The Church is not the Mystical Body ‘of the Pope’, but of Christ!</span>” (Fr. Roger-Thomas Calmel, OP, About The Church and the Pope, in <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Itineraires </span>173, May, 1973, p. 28). Fr. Calmel goes on to say that if it ever happens that the Pope is so deficient in his office as to promote heresy and schism, then it is better to obey Christ and remain faithful to the Church of all time, even if this means enduring the wrath of the current authorities. Abp. Lefebvre preferred to stay clear of this Modernist hierarchy with its false “unity of communion” saying: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">To leave, then, the official Church? To some extent, yes, of course! If the bishops are in heresy, it is necessary to leave this environment of the bishops if one does not want to lose his soul. If we move away from these people, it is absolutely the same as with people with AIDS. We don’t want to catch it. They now have ‘spiritual AIDS’, contagious diseases. If you want to stay healthy, we must not go with them</span>” (Conference at Écône, September 9, 1988, cited in <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Fideliter</span>, 66, p. 28).<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">CONCLUSION</span></div>
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"<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">So then, who are the real “schismatics”? It is not those who are attached to Tradition. Rather, in reality, it is those who distance themselves from it! If the traditionalists are not “in communion,” it’s only with the Conciliar Church with whom they are not in communion, and that is precisely, their badge of honor! True communion will be restored when Rome returns to Tradition and “re-crowns Our Lord Jesus Christ!</span>” (Abp. Lefebvre). But to seek union with Rome BEFORE the authorities have returned to the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">unity of the Faith</span> is to abandon our fight, it is - in a certain way - to betray the Truth, by mingling it in with the pluralist and indifferent system orchestrated by the unfaithful hierarchy in charge. This would be the triumph of the new ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council, with its “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">subsistit in</span>.” For us, it is not enough for Rome to declare: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">the Church of Christ subsists in Tradition;” it must declare: “the true Church of Christ is Tradition.</span>”<br />
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Finally, following in the line of Abp. Lefebvre, we never have, nor ever will have, any intention of forming some “parallel Church” or some “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">petite eglise</span>” (“small church”), independent from the one Christ founded. And that is why we do not seek to establish a parallel hierarchy (a veritable danger with the Thuc line) or to live withdrawn in our own circles and closed to others. We simply desire to steadfastly continue in our duty of professing the Faith and Mass of all time!<br />
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Only compromise or contacts endangering the Faith must be avoided. Our chapels and missions are open to all the faithful, the priests’ Mass schedules, sermons and catechisms are publicly available on-line and we are most willing to explain to anyone our position. We do not refuse to meet with others, with necessary prudence, in order to bring them back to Tradition, nor must we be shaken in the face of accusations, such as “being marginalized,” or being a “futile Resistance,” or “renegades” which are nothing but the result of our fidelity to the Faith of all time!<br />
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“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">We are neither schismatics nor excommunicated, we are not against the Pope. We are not against the Catholic Church. We do not have a parallel church. All this is absurd! We are what we have always been, Catholics who simply continue. That’s all! There’s no need to look for Noon when it’s 2:00 AM. We do not make a ‘small church’!</span>” (Abp. Lefebvre, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Fideliter</span>, 70, p. 8).<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">ONE FINAL PRECISION</span></div>
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It must be added that, while speaking of the authorities of the Church as “heretical” or “schismatic,” it does not mean in the canonical sense or that they have necessarily broken from the Church. For this, it would be necessary that their heresy or schism be declared notorious by canon law, which seems almost impossible, since the authorities of the Church must do this.<br />
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Nevertheless, their heresy and schism are no less true, they are breaking with Tradition, destroying the Faith and the Mass of all time, and influencing the damnation of many souls. Their schism and heresies continue unchecked and are spreading everywhere without them being publicly declared as notorious by law, which makes it a far more dangerous situation, since they continue ravaging souls within the Church, who, blinded by false obedience, do not even suspect the least danger! We have to just stay away from this Conciliar Church and those who compromise with it, and we must continue to denounce their errors. This was the conduct of Abp. Lefebvre and we maintain that position.<br />
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One last, crowning quotation from the very theologian who assisted Abp. Lefebvre during the Second Vatican Council, Fr. Victor-Alain Berto, who died in 1968, who said: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">What is a Modernist? He is a man, who no longer has the Faith (since by definition, Modernism is a heresy), but he has his own way of no longer having it! [...] He retains all dogmatic expressions but radically changes their meanings or accompanies them with contradictions - he is not embarrassed by his contradictions. He does not feel the need to leave the Church, on the contrary, his own style of being heretical implies he remains there. A Modernist outside the Church is no longer a Modernist! He is a ‘Liberal’ or a ‘rationalistic Protestant’, he is an ‘unbelieving philosopher’, or an ‘unbelieving exegete’, or an ‘unbelieving historian’, anything but a ‘Modernist!’ The specific mark of Modernism is to be a heretic inside the Church. The plan of action of Modernism is to undermine dogma from within, as termites in a tree [...] The more Modernist he is, the more difficult it is to recognize him, and all the more he knows how to hide and keep up appearances</span>” (Document of Fr. Berto extracted from the personal archives of Abp. Lefebvre).<br />
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Let us turn with all our hearts to our Queen of the Most Holy Rosary! To Her has been entrusted our final life preserver in this catastrophe. At Fatima, She said “Only She can help you!” Let us generously fight on, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">intolerant</span> with Error and <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">tolerant</span> with our neighbors’ faults, and always trusting in Her powerful assistance!<br />
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In Christ the King,<br />
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<div style="text-align: right;" class="mycode_align">September 2022</div>
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Dear Faithful,<br />
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Cardinal Pie of Poitiers (d. 1886) used to say “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">The Catholic Church is <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">intolerant</span> when it comes to principles of the Faith, but tolerant and charitable in practice; while Liberals, on the contrary, are <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">tolerant</span> when it come to principles (e.g. “coexistence” of all beliefs), but intolerant in practice.</span>”<br />
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We can see this applied to Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, when it came to upholding principles of the Faith he was <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">intolerant</span> of error and boldly accused the Second Vatican Council of introducing novel principles against the Faith (e.g. Ecumenism, Pluralism, Religious Liberty, etc.) and stood opposed to them. But when it came to people, he was gentle and <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">tolerant</span> with their shortcomings, his kindness stands out in the memory of all who knew him.<br />
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But with Liberals, as an example, we can just look at Pope Francis who is <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">tolerant</span> of pagan idols (e.g. Pachamama) in the name of Vatican II’s teaching on “inculturation;” he tolerates Protestantism, divorce, sodomy, Modernism and just about every evil under the sun! But with Traditional Catholic people he is absolutely <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">intolerant</span>, calling them “backward,” “obstacle to the progress of Vatican II,” “blind bats,” and his favorite, “rigid.” He shuts down “conservative” <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Novus Ordo</span> religious houses and seminaries adopting the Latin Mass and punishes outspoken “conservative” Novus Ordo bishops. Pope Paul VI did the same by “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">intolerantly</span>” leveling a phony suspension on Abp. Lefebvre, while at the same time “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">tolerantly</span>” prostrating himself before a schismatic orthodox bishop. Then Pope John Paul II followed suit, by “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">intolerantly</span>” punishing Abp. Lefebvre with an illegal excommunication while at the same time “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">tolerantly</span>” receiving the pagan ritual-mark of Shiva on his forehead! Indeed, Liberals are <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">tolerant</span> with errors but <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">intolerant</span> when it comes to Truth and Catholics faithful to Tradition!<br />
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The same applies in civil society. Catholics and most honest men rooted in the Natural Law, defend the unborn and are <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">intolerant</span> of contraception and abortion; while, on the other hand, Liberals are <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">tolerant</span> of every error and vice under the label of “pro-choice”, but <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">intolerant</span> with unwanted babies, and resort to every sort of cruelty dripping with blood, in order to exterminate them by abortion! Indeed, LIBERALISM DRIPS WITH BLOOD!<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">FIRSTLY, UNITY IN THE FAITH!</span></div>
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This brings us to the absolute importance of the primacy of the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Faith</span>; the primacy of <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Doctrine</span>! To survive this apostate age, the Catholic must be unshakably rooted in the Truth! We must never give any attention to those incorrectly calling traditional Catholics “schismatics," in fact, after fifty-seven years since the Council, we should be used to it! Let us never forget that the profession of the Faith is always the first foundation for true unity! This bond of unity is built on the solid, unchanging principles of the Catholic Faith. All unity in the Catholic Church must first be founded on this rock on which Christ said to build. It is the rock on which St. Peter’s successors are commanded to stand and not build on the sands of Modernism!<br />
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Pope Leo XIII, in his Encyclical <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Satis Cognitum</span>, speaks about the true unity of the Church, saying: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Such great and such absolute concord among men must have as its necessary </span><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">foundation, the union of understanding and agreement of intelligences; from which will naturally flow the harmony of men’s wills and agreement in action. This is why, according to the Divine Plan, Jesus wanted the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">unity of the Faith</span> to exist in His Church; for Faith is the first of all bonds that unites men to God and it is due to this that we are called ‘faithful’</span>.”<br />
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Pope Pius XI repeated the same idea when he said in his Encyclical condemning false ecumenism, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Mortalium Animos</span>: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Since charity is founded on an honest and sincere faith, it is the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">unity of the Faith</span> which must be the principle bond uniting the disciples of Christ.</span>”<br />
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From this insistence of the traditional Magisterium, it is clear there is a much higher foundation for unity in the Church than just a nebulous “unity of communion” or “unity of luv”: it is the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">unity of Faith</span>! The foundation for all unity in the Catholic Church is firstly built on the Faith!<br />
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From this it is clear that Traditional Catholics are anything but “schismatics” or their own “marginalized church” because the first real schismatics are heretics. “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Heresy</span>," says Cardinal Billot, “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">is schism, for it directly opposes the unity of the Faith.” So, one can go against the “unity of communion</span>” without going against the unity of the Faith, but one cannot go against the unity of Faith without going against the “unity of communion,” since the former is the foundation for the latter. The unity of all members professing the Catholic Faith is the fundamental basis on which rests all other unity of the Pope, bishops, priests and laity.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">THOSE WHO DEVIATE FROM THE FAITH MAKE THE SCHISM</span></div>
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Now, looking closely at the situation of the Church since the Second Vatican Council, we see all those in positions of authority are imbued with Liberalism and Modernism; extending from Abp. Annibale Bugnini and Cardinal Ratzinger to Pope John XXIII and Pope Francis. They have imposed reforms that destroy the Church because they oppose the Traditional Faith, Mass, and Sacraments. Thus, they have broken with the Tradition of many centuries which is, ultimately, the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">unity of Faith</span>; and the “unity of communion” they are always trying to achieve is only a “pseudo-unity” because it has lost its true foundation.<br />
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The Modernist hierarchy, as Modernist, is heretical: it is opposed to the unity of Faith by the spreading of its errors and promotion of their pseudo-unity or “unity of communion.” In other words, as Abp. Lefebvre often repeated, it is the Conciliar Church that is truly schismatic, because it seeks a unity that is no longer a Catholic unity!<br />
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Abp. Lefebvre didn’t mince words when he said: “T<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">he Conciliar Church is practically schismatic. [...] It’s a virtually excommunicated Church, because it’s a Modernist Church” (Fideliter, 70, p. 8). Again, “The Pope wants to make a unity outside the Faith. It’s a communion. A communion with whom? With what? How?... it’s not a unity anymore. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">This can only be done in the unity of Faith</span></span>” (<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Fideliter</span>, 79, p.8).<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">AND THE POPE?</span></div>
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As Cardinal Journet explains, in his pre-Vatican II work, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Church of the Incarnate Word</span> (vol. II, p. 839 sq.), the Pope himself can sin against the ecclesiastical communion by breaking the unity of leadership. This would happen if he did not fulfill his duty and denied the Church the direction she is entitled to expect from him in the name of Someone greater than himself, namely, Christ, Her founder and invisible Head. And this is, unfortunately, the painful situation in which we find ourselves ever since the Council ended, in 1965. If Abp. Lefebvre stayed away from any agreement with the Modernist hierarchy and the Conciliar Church, it was out of fidelity to Tradition, by refusing to join the real schism and breaking with the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">unity of Faith</span>, as it has always been believed in the Church.<br />
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“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">The Church is not the Mystical Body ‘of the Pope’, but of Christ!</span>” (Fr. Roger-Thomas Calmel, OP, About The Church and the Pope, in <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Itineraires </span>173, May, 1973, p. 28). Fr. Calmel goes on to say that if it ever happens that the Pope is so deficient in his office as to promote heresy and schism, then it is better to obey Christ and remain faithful to the Church of all time, even if this means enduring the wrath of the current authorities. Abp. Lefebvre preferred to stay clear of this Modernist hierarchy with its false “unity of communion” saying: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">To leave, then, the official Church? To some extent, yes, of course! If the bishops are in heresy, it is necessary to leave this environment of the bishops if one does not want to lose his soul. If we move away from these people, it is absolutely the same as with people with AIDS. We don’t want to catch it. They now have ‘spiritual AIDS’, contagious diseases. If you want to stay healthy, we must not go with them</span>” (Conference at Écône, September 9, 1988, cited in <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Fideliter</span>, 66, p. 28).<br />
<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">CONCLUSION</span></div>
<br />
"<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">So then, who are the real “schismatics”? It is not those who are attached to Tradition. Rather, in reality, it is those who distance themselves from it! If the traditionalists are not “in communion,” it’s only with the Conciliar Church with whom they are not in communion, and that is precisely, their badge of honor! True communion will be restored when Rome returns to Tradition and “re-crowns Our Lord Jesus Christ!</span>” (Abp. Lefebvre). But to seek union with Rome BEFORE the authorities have returned to the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">unity of the Faith</span> is to abandon our fight, it is - in a certain way - to betray the Truth, by mingling it in with the pluralist and indifferent system orchestrated by the unfaithful hierarchy in charge. This would be the triumph of the new ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council, with its “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">subsistit in</span>.” For us, it is not enough for Rome to declare: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">the Church of Christ subsists in Tradition;” it must declare: “the true Church of Christ is Tradition.</span>”<br />
<br />
Finally, following in the line of Abp. Lefebvre, we never have, nor ever will have, any intention of forming some “parallel Church” or some “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">petite eglise</span>” (“small church”), independent from the one Christ founded. And that is why we do not seek to establish a parallel hierarchy (a veritable danger with the Thuc line) or to live withdrawn in our own circles and closed to others. We simply desire to steadfastly continue in our duty of professing the Faith and Mass of all time!<br />
<br />
Only compromise or contacts endangering the Faith must be avoided. Our chapels and missions are open to all the faithful, the priests’ Mass schedules, sermons and catechisms are publicly available on-line and we are most willing to explain to anyone our position. We do not refuse to meet with others, with necessary prudence, in order to bring them back to Tradition, nor must we be shaken in the face of accusations, such as “being marginalized,” or being a “futile Resistance,” or “renegades” which are nothing but the result of our fidelity to the Faith of all time!<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">We are neither schismatics nor excommunicated, we are not against the Pope. We are not against the Catholic Church. We do not have a parallel church. All this is absurd! We are what we have always been, Catholics who simply continue. That’s all! There’s no need to look for Noon when it’s 2:00 AM. We do not make a ‘small church’!</span>” (Abp. Lefebvre, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Fideliter</span>, 70, p. 8).<br />
<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">ONE FINAL PRECISION</span></div>
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It must be added that, while speaking of the authorities of the Church as “heretical” or “schismatic,” it does not mean in the canonical sense or that they have necessarily broken from the Church. For this, it would be necessary that their heresy or schism be declared notorious by canon law, which seems almost impossible, since the authorities of the Church must do this.<br />
<br />
Nevertheless, their heresy and schism are no less true, they are breaking with Tradition, destroying the Faith and the Mass of all time, and influencing the damnation of many souls. Their schism and heresies continue unchecked and are spreading everywhere without them being publicly declared as notorious by law, which makes it a far more dangerous situation, since they continue ravaging souls within the Church, who, blinded by false obedience, do not even suspect the least danger! We have to just stay away from this Conciliar Church and those who compromise with it, and we must continue to denounce their errors. This was the conduct of Abp. Lefebvre and we maintain that position.<br />
<br />
One last, crowning quotation from the very theologian who assisted Abp. Lefebvre during the Second Vatican Council, Fr. Victor-Alain Berto, who died in 1968, who said: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">What is a Modernist? He is a man, who no longer has the Faith (since by definition, Modernism is a heresy), but he has his own way of no longer having it! [...] He retains all dogmatic expressions but radically changes their meanings or accompanies them with contradictions - he is not embarrassed by his contradictions. He does not feel the need to leave the Church, on the contrary, his own style of being heretical implies he remains there. A Modernist outside the Church is no longer a Modernist! He is a ‘Liberal’ or a ‘rationalistic Protestant’, he is an ‘unbelieving philosopher’, or an ‘unbelieving exegete’, or an ‘unbelieving historian’, anything but a ‘Modernist!’ The specific mark of Modernism is to be a heretic inside the Church. The plan of action of Modernism is to undermine dogma from within, as termites in a tree [...] The more Modernist he is, the more difficult it is to recognize him, and all the more he knows how to hide and keep up appearances</span>” (Document of Fr. Berto extracted from the personal archives of Abp. Lefebvre).<br />
<br />
Let us turn with all our hearts to our Queen of the Most Holy Rosary! To Her has been entrusted our final life preserver in this catastrophe. At Fatima, She said “Only She can help you!” Let us generously fight on, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">intolerant</span> with Error and <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">tolerant</span> with our neighbors’ faults, and always trusting in Her powerful assistance!<br />
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Dear Faithful battling in the Trenches!<br />
<br />
April was absorbed in the magnificence of Holy Week and Paschaltide, and may the graces of this Easter time fill your souls with joy and hope in Christ the King, Who conquered death, Satan and the chains of sin! “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">The Good Shepherd, Who laid down His life for His sheep, has Risen again, Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!</span>” (Matins antiphon, Easter).<br />
<br />
But April also marked a significant event that happened ten years ago in 2012, which cannot be overlooked; the Vatican II Revolution <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">within </span>the Society of St. Pius X! This Revolution was embodied in the General Chapter Statement of July, 2012, the horrendous Doctrinal Declaration of April 5, 2012, the Six Conditions for an Agreement with unconverted Rome and the Letter of Bishop Fellay in response to the three bishops in April 2012.<br />
<br />
Since the Faith always comes first and we are obliged to believe and profess the Holy Catholic Faith “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">without which it is impossible to please God</span>,” we are, consequently, obliged to publicly profess and defend the Faith when it is publicly compromised or attacked. The Truth must always be defended! This is what Our Lord did before Caiphas, this is what St. Sebastian did before Emperor Diocletian, this is what St. John Fisher did before the King, and this is what Abp. Marcel Lefebvre did before the Pope himself, in the wake of the Revolution of Vatican Council II!<br />
<br />
After analyzing the Doctrinal Declaration, which has never been officially rejected, condemned or made void by the Society superiors, it is dumbfounding to observe that they, through this document, have officially accepted what Abp. Lefebvre and faithful Catholics have always fought against: the Second Vatican Council, the New Mass, and the New Code of Canon Law.<br />
<br />
Here is a summary of the compromises of the Doctrinal Declaration:<br />
<br />
In <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">paragraph I</span>, Bp. Fellay and leaders promise fidelity to “the Conciliar Church” and to the Pope, head of both the Catholic Church and Conciliar Church, at the same time.<br />
<br />
In <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">paragraph II</span>, they accept submission to the teachings of the Conciliar and post-Conciliar “Magisterium”, according to the doctrine of no. 25 of <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Lumen Gentium</span>.<br />
<br />
In <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">paragraph III</span>, they accept all of the major points of controversy:<ul class="mycode_list"><li>the collegial authority of the Pope <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">and</span> the bishops (i.e. a “two-headed Church” by collegiality!);<br />
</li>
<li>the authority of the present “magisterium” and the “Conciliar Church” with all their errors;<br />
</li>
<li>the “progress” of Tradition according to the neo-modernists;<br />
</li>
<li>the criteria for interpreting between Tradition and the texts of Vatican II, in general, i.e. the “hermeneutics of continuity” of Pope Benedict XVI; the “hermeneutics of continuity” used as the criteria for interpreting between Tradition and Vatican II, on Ecumenism and Religious Liberty;<br />
</li>
<li>postponing the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">doctrinal </span>discussions until later;<br />
</li>
<li>accepting the “validity” and “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">legitimacy</span>” of the New Mass and sacraments; and<br />
</li>
<li>acceptance of the New Code of Canon Law (1983) with no distinctions.<br />
</li>
</ul>
<br />
By signing this Doctrinal Declaration, Bp. Fellay and the superiors approving it made serious <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">doctrinal compromises</span>, crumbling down the bastions of Tradition and caving in on every point that was opposed by Abp. Lefebvre! Bp. Fellay confirmed his “new attitude towards Rome” when he signed this as his “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">new position</span> with respect to the official Church,” as he said in his own words in the <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Cor Unum</span>, no. 101 of March 2012.<br />
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Let us zero in, this time, on the New Code of Canon Law. As Pope John Paul II admitted, when he signed the New Code in 1983, this New Code is the Second Vatican Council put into practice! It puts all the Conciliar errors into “legal” language. Would it not be a contradiction to claim that one rejects the Council and at the same time accepts the very “legislation” that put the Conciliar errors in place? In this sense, the New Code can be more dangerous than the Council itself!<br />
<br />
Here is what Abp. Lefebvre said numerous times about the perversity of the New Code:<br />
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>"<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">So what are we supposed to think about this? Well, it’s that this [New] Canon Law is <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">unacceptable</span>.</span>”  (Spiritual Conference given at Écône, 99B, March 14, 1983).<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">The New Code no longer asks a married Protestant / Catholic couple to sign a commitment to baptize the children Catholic. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">It is a serious violation of the Faith, a serious violation of the Faith!... In the New Code of Canon Law there are two supreme powers of the Church</span>: there is the power of the Pope, who has the supreme power, and then the Pope <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">with </span>the bishops...that has never been seen in the Church...it is thus to limit the power of the Pope. So, the explanatory note [nota praevia] of the Council, practically, has no effect under the New Canon Law</span>.” (Spiritual Conference given at Écône, 100A, May 20, 1983).<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">The Apostolic Constitution introducing the New Canon Law explicitly says on page 11 of the Vatican Edition: ‘The work, namely the Code, is in perfect accord with the nature of the Church, especially as been <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">proposed by the Second Vatican Council</span>. Moreover, this New Code can be conceived as an effort to expose this doctrine, i.e., Conciliar Ecclesiology, in canonical language.’ ...It is the authority of the Pope and the Bishops that is going to suffer; the distinction between the clergy and the laity will also diminish; <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">the absolute and necessary character of the Catholic Faith will also be extenuated to the profit of heresy and schism; and the fundamental realities of sin and grace will be worn down</span></span>.” (Letter to Friends &amp; Benefactors, no. 24, March 1983).<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">However, when one reads this New Code of Canon Law one discovers <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">an entirely new concept of the Church</span>...This is the definition of the Church (New Code canon 204): ‘The faithful are those who, inasmuch as they are incorporated into Christ by baptism are constituted as <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">the people of God</span>, and who for this reason, having been made partakers in their manner in the priestly, prophetic and royal functions of Christ, are called to exercise the mission that God entrusted to the Church to accomplish in the world.’...There is no longer any clergy. What, then, happens to the clergy?...It is consequently easy to understand that <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">this is the ruin of the priesthood and the laicization of the Church!...This is precisely what Luther and the Protestants did</span>, laicizing the priesthood. It is consequently very grave...you know that the New Code of Canon Law [Canon 844] <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">permits a priest to give Communion to a Protestant</span> . It is what they call ‘Eucharistic hospitality.’ These are [given to] Protestants who remain Protestant and do not convert! <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">This is directly opposed to the Faith!</span></span>” (Conference at Turin, Italy March 24, 1984).<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">We find this doctrine already suggested in <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">the Council document </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Lumen Gentium<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">, according to which, the college of Bishops, together with the Pope, exercise supreme power in the Church in a habitual and constant manner. This is not a change for the better; this doctrine of double supremacy is contrary to the teaching and Magisterium of the Church. It is contrary to the definitions of Vatican Council I and to Pope Leo XIII’s Encyclical </span>Satis Cognitum</span>.” (Open Letter to Confused Catholics, Angelus Press, 1985, ch.13, p.95).<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Our cry of alarm was rendered more urgent by <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">the errors in the New Code of Canon Law, not to say its heresies</span>...</span>” (Open Letter to Confused Catholics, Angelus Press, 1985, ch. 21, p. 150).<br />
</li>
</ul>
Therefore, by accepting the New Code of Canon Law as it is, with no distinctions as presented in the Doctrinal Declaration, the leaders of the Conciliar-SSPX implicitly accept all its <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">errors </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">deviations </span>concerning:<br />
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>a Protestant concept of the Church defined now as “the People of God”; <br />
</li>
<li>two supreme universal powers in the Church (Christ established a monarchical<br />
</li>
<li>structure for His Church, not democratic);<br />
</li>
<li>the error of Collegiality at all levels;<br />
</li>
<li>a laicization of the Church (i.e. more and more “active participation” of the laity);<br />
</li>
<li>Ecumenical practices, such as giving Holy Communion to heretics, called<br />
</li>
<li>“Eucharistic hospitality.”<br />
</li>
<li>new causes for nullity of marriages;<br />
</li>
<li>easy granting of annulments in Marriage Tribunals;<br />
</li>
<li>new regulations in contracting marriages;<br />
</li>
<li>suppression of the Major Order of Subdiaconate, minor orders (Porter, Lector,<br />
</li>
<li>Exorcist and Acolyte) and tonsure;<br />
</li>
<li>new “canonizations”;<br />
</li>
<li>relaxing of disciplinary laws;<br />
</li>
<li>etc., etc.<br />
</li>
</ul>
<br />
As it stands with the SSPX’s acceptance of the New Code of Canon Law as expressed in the Doctrinal Declaration of 2012, this is one of the greatest practical obstacles for the Society in defending Tradition and fighting Conciliar errors. How well Abp. Lefebvre understood the wily deceits of Modernist Rome! This last quote is the Archbishop speaking about the religious communities that had surrendered to Vatican II, sadly this would now include the Conciliar-SSPX:<br />
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“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">When they say they didn’t compromise, it’s not true. They abandon the possibility of opposing Rome. They can’t say anything anymore. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">They must be silent, given the favors they have been granted. It is now impossible for them to denounce the errors of the Conciliar Church. </span>They are slowly adhering to them, if only by the Profession of Faith requested by Cardinal Ratzinger. I think Dom Gerard is about to publish a ‘little’ book written by one of his monks, trying to justify Religious Liberty [of the Council] (N.B: In fact, the book written by Fr. Basile of La Barroux took 2,960 pages to try to reconcile the irreconcilable!)...From the point of view of ideas, they change very slowly, and end up accepting the Council’s false ideas, because Rome had granted some favors for Tradition. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">This is a very dangerous situation. They have practically abandoned the fight for the Faith. </span>They cannot attack Rome anymore!</span>” (Abp. Marcel Lefebvre, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Fideliter</span>, 79, p. 5-6).<br />
<br />
There is much talk that Fr. Pagliarani, the reigning Superior General, is steering things back to the old SSPX. His skirting the vac*#***#ion question as being exclusively “a medical and political issue,” when they do, in fact, directly involve abortions which are violently performed while the children are still alive(!), is not a good sign. Let him condemn the Doctrinal Declaration of April 5, 2012 in no uncertain terms and then,maybe, we can hold hopes of the Conciliar-SSPX finally dropping the “Conciliar” in the Conciliar-SSPX!<br />
<br />
Persevere in the Catholic Resistance! Great will be your crown in Heaven if we persevere, and greater still, the shining bruises and scars, earned in this Battle for the Holy Faith! ...Fight on, little flock!<br />
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Fr. David Hewko]]></description>
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Dear Faithful battling in the Trenches!<br />
<br />
April was absorbed in the magnificence of Holy Week and Paschaltide, and may the graces of this Easter time fill your souls with joy and hope in Christ the King, Who conquered death, Satan and the chains of sin! “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">The Good Shepherd, Who laid down His life for His sheep, has Risen again, Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!</span>” (Matins antiphon, Easter).<br />
<br />
But April also marked a significant event that happened ten years ago in 2012, which cannot be overlooked; the Vatican II Revolution <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">within </span>the Society of St. Pius X! This Revolution was embodied in the General Chapter Statement of July, 2012, the horrendous Doctrinal Declaration of April 5, 2012, the Six Conditions for an Agreement with unconverted Rome and the Letter of Bishop Fellay in response to the three bishops in April 2012.<br />
<br />
Since the Faith always comes first and we are obliged to believe and profess the Holy Catholic Faith “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">without which it is impossible to please God</span>,” we are, consequently, obliged to publicly profess and defend the Faith when it is publicly compromised or attacked. The Truth must always be defended! This is what Our Lord did before Caiphas, this is what St. Sebastian did before Emperor Diocletian, this is what St. John Fisher did before the King, and this is what Abp. Marcel Lefebvre did before the Pope himself, in the wake of the Revolution of Vatican Council II!<br />
<br />
After analyzing the Doctrinal Declaration, which has never been officially rejected, condemned or made void by the Society superiors, it is dumbfounding to observe that they, through this document, have officially accepted what Abp. Lefebvre and faithful Catholics have always fought against: the Second Vatican Council, the New Mass, and the New Code of Canon Law.<br />
<br />
Here is a summary of the compromises of the Doctrinal Declaration:<br />
<br />
In <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">paragraph I</span>, Bp. Fellay and leaders promise fidelity to “the Conciliar Church” and to the Pope, head of both the Catholic Church and Conciliar Church, at the same time.<br />
<br />
In <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">paragraph II</span>, they accept submission to the teachings of the Conciliar and post-Conciliar “Magisterium”, according to the doctrine of no. 25 of <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Lumen Gentium</span>.<br />
<br />
In <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">paragraph III</span>, they accept all of the major points of controversy:<ul class="mycode_list"><li>the collegial authority of the Pope <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">and</span> the bishops (i.e. a “two-headed Church” by collegiality!);<br />
</li>
<li>the authority of the present “magisterium” and the “Conciliar Church” with all their errors;<br />
</li>
<li>the “progress” of Tradition according to the neo-modernists;<br />
</li>
<li>the criteria for interpreting between Tradition and the texts of Vatican II, in general, i.e. the “hermeneutics of continuity” of Pope Benedict XVI; the “hermeneutics of continuity” used as the criteria for interpreting between Tradition and Vatican II, on Ecumenism and Religious Liberty;<br />
</li>
<li>postponing the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">doctrinal </span>discussions until later;<br />
</li>
<li>accepting the “validity” and “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">legitimacy</span>” of the New Mass and sacraments; and<br />
</li>
<li>acceptance of the New Code of Canon Law (1983) with no distinctions.<br />
</li>
</ul>
<br />
By signing this Doctrinal Declaration, Bp. Fellay and the superiors approving it made serious <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">doctrinal compromises</span>, crumbling down the bastions of Tradition and caving in on every point that was opposed by Abp. Lefebvre! Bp. Fellay confirmed his “new attitude towards Rome” when he signed this as his “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">new position</span> with respect to the official Church,” as he said in his own words in the <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Cor Unum</span>, no. 101 of March 2012.<br />
<br />
Let us zero in, this time, on the New Code of Canon Law. As Pope John Paul II admitted, when he signed the New Code in 1983, this New Code is the Second Vatican Council put into practice! It puts all the Conciliar errors into “legal” language. Would it not be a contradiction to claim that one rejects the Council and at the same time accepts the very “legislation” that put the Conciliar errors in place? In this sense, the New Code can be more dangerous than the Council itself!<br />
<br />
Here is what Abp. Lefebvre said numerous times about the perversity of the New Code:<br />
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>"<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">So what are we supposed to think about this? Well, it’s that this [New] Canon Law is <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">unacceptable</span>.</span>”  (Spiritual Conference given at Écône, 99B, March 14, 1983).<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">The New Code no longer asks a married Protestant / Catholic couple to sign a commitment to baptize the children Catholic. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">It is a serious violation of the Faith, a serious violation of the Faith!... In the New Code of Canon Law there are two supreme powers of the Church</span>: there is the power of the Pope, who has the supreme power, and then the Pope <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">with </span>the bishops...that has never been seen in the Church...it is thus to limit the power of the Pope. So, the explanatory note [nota praevia] of the Council, practically, has no effect under the New Canon Law</span>.” (Spiritual Conference given at Écône, 100A, May 20, 1983).<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">The Apostolic Constitution introducing the New Canon Law explicitly says on page 11 of the Vatican Edition: ‘The work, namely the Code, is in perfect accord with the nature of the Church, especially as been <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">proposed by the Second Vatican Council</span>. Moreover, this New Code can be conceived as an effort to expose this doctrine, i.e., Conciliar Ecclesiology, in canonical language.’ ...It is the authority of the Pope and the Bishops that is going to suffer; the distinction between the clergy and the laity will also diminish; <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">the absolute and necessary character of the Catholic Faith will also be extenuated to the profit of heresy and schism; and the fundamental realities of sin and grace will be worn down</span></span>.” (Letter to Friends &amp; Benefactors, no. 24, March 1983).<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">However, when one reads this New Code of Canon Law one discovers <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">an entirely new concept of the Church</span>...This is the definition of the Church (New Code canon 204): ‘The faithful are those who, inasmuch as they are incorporated into Christ by baptism are constituted as <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">the people of God</span>, and who for this reason, having been made partakers in their manner in the priestly, prophetic and royal functions of Christ, are called to exercise the mission that God entrusted to the Church to accomplish in the world.’...There is no longer any clergy. What, then, happens to the clergy?...It is consequently easy to understand that <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">this is the ruin of the priesthood and the laicization of the Church!...This is precisely what Luther and the Protestants did</span>, laicizing the priesthood. It is consequently very grave...you know that the New Code of Canon Law [Canon 844] <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">permits a priest to give Communion to a Protestant</span> . It is what they call ‘Eucharistic hospitality.’ These are [given to] Protestants who remain Protestant and do not convert! <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">This is directly opposed to the Faith!</span></span>” (Conference at Turin, Italy March 24, 1984).<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">We find this doctrine already suggested in <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">the Council document </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Lumen Gentium<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">, according to which, the college of Bishops, together with the Pope, exercise supreme power in the Church in a habitual and constant manner. This is not a change for the better; this doctrine of double supremacy is contrary to the teaching and Magisterium of the Church. It is contrary to the definitions of Vatican Council I and to Pope Leo XIII’s Encyclical </span>Satis Cognitum</span>.” (Open Letter to Confused Catholics, Angelus Press, 1985, ch.13, p.95).<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Our cry of alarm was rendered more urgent by <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">the errors in the New Code of Canon Law, not to say its heresies</span>...</span>” (Open Letter to Confused Catholics, Angelus Press, 1985, ch. 21, p. 150).<br />
</li>
</ul>
Therefore, by accepting the New Code of Canon Law as it is, with no distinctions as presented in the Doctrinal Declaration, the leaders of the Conciliar-SSPX implicitly accept all its <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">errors </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">deviations </span>concerning:<br />
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>a Protestant concept of the Church defined now as “the People of God”; <br />
</li>
<li>two supreme universal powers in the Church (Christ established a monarchical<br />
</li>
<li>structure for His Church, not democratic);<br />
</li>
<li>the error of Collegiality at all levels;<br />
</li>
<li>a laicization of the Church (i.e. more and more “active participation” of the laity);<br />
</li>
<li>Ecumenical practices, such as giving Holy Communion to heretics, called<br />
</li>
<li>“Eucharistic hospitality.”<br />
</li>
<li>new causes for nullity of marriages;<br />
</li>
<li>easy granting of annulments in Marriage Tribunals;<br />
</li>
<li>new regulations in contracting marriages;<br />
</li>
<li>suppression of the Major Order of Subdiaconate, minor orders (Porter, Lector,<br />
</li>
<li>Exorcist and Acolyte) and tonsure;<br />
</li>
<li>new “canonizations”;<br />
</li>
<li>relaxing of disciplinary laws;<br />
</li>
<li>etc., etc.<br />
</li>
</ul>
<br />
As it stands with the SSPX’s acceptance of the New Code of Canon Law as expressed in the Doctrinal Declaration of 2012, this is one of the greatest practical obstacles for the Society in defending Tradition and fighting Conciliar errors. How well Abp. Lefebvre understood the wily deceits of Modernist Rome! This last quote is the Archbishop speaking about the religious communities that had surrendered to Vatican II, sadly this would now include the Conciliar-SSPX:<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">When they say they didn’t compromise, it’s not true. They abandon the possibility of opposing Rome. They can’t say anything anymore. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">They must be silent, given the favors they have been granted. It is now impossible for them to denounce the errors of the Conciliar Church. </span>They are slowly adhering to them, if only by the Profession of Faith requested by Cardinal Ratzinger. I think Dom Gerard is about to publish a ‘little’ book written by one of his monks, trying to justify Religious Liberty [of the Council] (N.B: In fact, the book written by Fr. Basile of La Barroux took 2,960 pages to try to reconcile the irreconcilable!)...From the point of view of ideas, they change very slowly, and end up accepting the Council’s false ideas, because Rome had granted some favors for Tradition. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">This is a very dangerous situation. They have practically abandoned the fight for the Faith. </span>They cannot attack Rome anymore!</span>” (Abp. Marcel Lefebvre, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Fideliter</span>, 79, p. 5-6).<br />
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There is much talk that Fr. Pagliarani, the reigning Superior General, is steering things back to the old SSPX. His skirting the vac*#***#ion question as being exclusively “a medical and political issue,” when they do, in fact, directly involve abortions which are violently performed while the children are still alive(!), is not a good sign. Let him condemn the Doctrinal Declaration of April 5, 2012 in no uncertain terms and then,maybe, we can hold hopes of the Conciliar-SSPX finally dropping the “Conciliar” in the Conciliar-SSPX!<br />
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Persevere in the Catholic Resistance! Great will be your crown in Heaven if we persevere, and greater still, the shining bruises and scars, earned in this Battle for the Holy Faith! ...Fight on, little flock!<br />
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In Christ the King,<br />
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Dear Faithful, Soldiers of the Church Militant,<br />
<br />
The Holy Ghost warns us not to be deceived by vain words but to stand firm in the profession and practice of the Holy Catholic Faith!<br />
<br />
The Masonic Revolution, both in politics and the Conciliar Church, loves to swim in ambiguous terms and seemingly harmless-sounding phrases that tickle the ears and deceive many souls. A handful of examples are:<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Pro-choice</span>” which means the cruel slaughtering of millions of babies, backed by the Supreme Court laws since 1973 in the USA.<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Comfort Care</span>” which means injecting patients with numbing drugs that often hastens their death.<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Brain Death</span>” which is a deliberately misleading term. The signs of death are the following: no breathing, no blood circulation and no reaction to pain or to light shined in the pupils. “Brain Death” was a term invented to justify the murder of patients who are still breathing, still have blood circulation and react to light and pain, but are often unconscious or in a coma. Under these conditions, the highly paid murderers extract the patients’ vital organs while they are still living... What? While still alive?... Yes! because as Dr. Paul Burns said, “No one can receive dead organs as an ‘organ donation’.”<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Family Planning</span>” or “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Responsible Parenting</span>” are more deceitful phrases to justify the use of birth control, contraception, NFP and denying Almighty God the number of children that He wants and has grand plans for!<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">End Terrorism</span>” or “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Safety First</span>” are often slogans used to imperceptibly pass the gun control laws and abolish the Second Amendment.<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Liberty of Education</span>” which really means the horrors of scandalizing the innocent by teaching explicit immorality, Evolution, Atheism, validity of other “faiths,” transgenderism, no absolute truths, etc., etc.<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Economic Prosperity</span>” a term used by Joseph Stalin and the Pulitzer Prize Winner, Walter Duranty, who wrote in 1932 for the New York Times. Duranty hailed as “Economic Prosperity” the thousands of Gulag internment camps and the mass starvation of over fourteen million people in Ukraine and Russia. Over thirty million people were starved and executed under Mao Tse-Tung in China, all in the name of “Economic Prosperity!”<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Full Communion</span>” is another buzzword marking those trying to reconcile Christ with Belial and Truth with Error, by accepting the Second Vatican Council, the Modernist Magisterium, the New Mass and sacraments as “legitimately promulgated” (cf. Doctrinal Declaration, April 2012). In other words, betraying Our Lord Jesus Christ and simultaneously being swallowed by the Conciliar Church!<br />
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“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Recognition</span>” or “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Justice For Tradition</span>” are phrases which the Conciliar-SSPX leaders have coined to rally support for the Agreement with Modernist Rome before Rome converts to Tradition, contrary to the warnings of Abp. Lefebvre!<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Establish a Climate of Trust, Mutual Respect and Dialogue</span>” means not first to convert Modernist Rome back to the Catholic Faith, but rather, dilute the Truth in order to be acceptable into the New Pluralistic Conciliar Church! This “dialogue-fever” has succeeded to seduce “many Traditional groups to abandon their rigid positions” (Pope Benedict XVI) and accept compromise by shaking hands with Modernists! This is why Pope Francis could say, about Bishop Fellay: “Now that’s a man we can dialogue with!”<br />
<br />
(No wonder Abp. Lefebvre insisted: “They are betraying us - betraying us! They are shaking hands with the Church’s destroyers! They are shaking hands with people holding Modernist and Liberal ideas condemned by the Church! So they are doing the devil’s work! They are now saying: ‘As long as they grant us the Old Mass, we can shake hands with Rome, no problem.’ But we see how it works out! They are in an impossible situation! Impossible! One cannot both shake hands with Modernists and keep following Tradition! Not possible! Not possible!” (Abp. Lefebvre, Address To His Priests, Écône, September 6, 1990 - just six months before his death).<br />
<br />
Words are the new tools for Revolution. Words are meant to express Truth, but the Father of Lies uses them to trip-up and deceive souls. Let us examine briefly some of the words recently being used by the SSPX to make the agreement with Modernist Rome look more favorable. Firstly, the word “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Agreement</span>” which comes from “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">con-cordia</span>” meaning a “harmony of hearts.” It means to have the same opinion, same view or the same intention while sharing the same common cause and walking united, as one person, in concord of thought or action. In an agreement each side makes accommodations for a perceived outcome. In the case of the Conciliar-SSPX with Modernist Rome, the concessions for the agreement (or rather, the thirty pieces of silver) were made in the Doctrinal Declaration of 2012, the “Six Conditions For An Agreement With Rome” and the “new attitude towards Rome” called for by Bp. Fellay among the members of the SSPX.<br />
<br />
Since the Second Vatican Council, there has been a widening divergence between those faithful to Tradition and those adhering to the Council. Abp. Lefebvre saw that an agreement with Modernist Rome was absolutely impossible until Rome re-crowns Christ the King and returns to Catholic Tradition. Until that doctrinal conversion happens, it is clear that Rome is determined to destroy Tradition. Therefore, no agreement is possible!<br />
<br />
Secondly, the dangerous phrase “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">canonical recognition</span>”, which is the conferring of a canonical structure by the ecclesiastical authority to an entity without it. This is now hailed by the Society leaders as the solution to our “abnormal situation.” In other words, “canonical recognition” means the Pope recognizes the legal existence of communities which already existed. This means the Holy See considered the SSPX as unlawful and illegal before, and now, after granting the “lifting” of the excommunications (which didn’t exist), the granting of jurisdiction for confessions, marriages, extreme unction and holy orders, it is now “canonically recognized,” even if partially.<br />
<br />
The danger of this “canonical recognition” is that, implicitly, it is to disclaim the state of necessity which had justified our resistance to Modernist Rome and the auto-demolition of the Church. The focus is now shifted from the real state of emergency and the survival of the Catholic Faith to getting canonical recognition. It’s putting the cart before the horse. A victory for the Devil!<br />
<br />
The consequence of this new “canonical recognition” for the Conciliar-SSPX is the inevitable cooperation and submission to the local Modernist bishops, which Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre warned was the greatest danger to the faithful! It necessitates canonical dependency on the Modernist bishops for the priestly apostolate, since the bishop is responsible for all the faithful of his territory. Already, it is a fact that the Society priests have to submit all marriages to them.<br />
<br />
From this flows the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Personal Prelature</span> which Bp. Fellay had introduced to the faithful in 2011 and 2012. The idea of a Personal Prelature first appeared with the document <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Ad Gentes</span>, in the Second Vatican Council. Personal Prelatures are defined as “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">jurisdictional entities established by the Holy See, as instruments of the pastoral hierarchy of the Church, for the realization of particular or missionary activities</span>.” Now, the snare hidden in all this is that the Personal Prelatures have to agree with the Episcopal Conferences before their erection and coordinate all their apostolates with the bishop’s approval (cf. New Code of Canon Law #294).<br />
<br />
Since the Personal Prelature must have the prior consent of the local bishops to exercise their apostolate, it therefore becomes a mere “assistant” to the diocesan clergy and under the auspices of the Modernist bishops! Even if Bp. Fellay and the leaders of the SSPX try to defend it as having “freedom for apostolate,” nevertheless, it cannot be completely independent, since the Personal Prelature given to him is still subject to the diocesan bishops, who have canonical jurisdiction over their territories. In sum, the Personal Prelature of Bishop Fellay or the Superior General, will still be subject to the local bishops, who in turn, are subject to the Roman Congregation for the Bishops!<br />
<br />
How well Abp. Lefebvre spotted this trap and sounded the alarm!<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">We would have to re-enter this Conciliar Church in order, supposedly, to make it Catholic?<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"> That is a complete illusion!</span> It is not the subjects that make the superiors, but the superiors who make the subjects...Amongst the whole Roman Curia, amongst all the world’s bishops - who are progressives - I would have been completely swamped! I would have been able to do nothing! [As for the Pope appointing ‘conservative’ bishops] ...I don’t think it is a true return to Tradition. Just as in a fight, when the troops are going a little too far ahead, one holds them back - so they are slightly putting the brakes on the impulse of Vatican II, because the supporters of the Council are going too far…The supposedly ‘conservative bishops’ are wholly supportive of the Council and of the post-Conciliar Reforms… <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">No! All of that is tactics</span>, which you have to use in any fight! You have to avoid excesses… [When asked about ‘signs of benevolence to Tradition’, he replies] There are plenty of signs showing us that what you are talking about is simply exceptional and temporary … So I do not think it is opportune to try contacting Rome. I think we must still wait. Wait, unfortunately, for the situation to get still worse on their side. But, up till now, they do not want to recognize the fact … <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">That is why what can look like a concession is, in reality, merely a maneuver</span> to separate us from the largest number of faithful possible. This is the perspective in which they seem to be always giving a little more and even going very far. We must absolutely convince our faithful that it is no more than a maneuver, that it is dangerous to put oneself into the hands of Conciliar bishops and Modernist Rome! <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">It is the greatest danger threatening our people! </span>If we have struggled for twenty years [ now, in 2022, fifty-three years!] to avoid the Conciliar errors, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">it was not in order to, now, put ourselves in the hands of those professing those errors!</span></span>” (Abp. Lefebvre, Interview, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Fideliter</span>, July-August 1989).<br />
<br />
So again, the Revolution always succeeds by avoiding clear expressions. The Conciliar Church abandoned clarity of words, definitions and language. This was one of the accusations made by Abp. Lefebvre at the Council. So we must not be deceived when the leadership of the Conciliar-SSPX speaks of “canonical recognition”, when it really means an Agreement with Modernists!<br />
<br />
In 2003, when Bishop Rifan of Campos signed the agreement with Rome, he confused the faithful with vague words and led them to believe it was a victory for Tradition when in fact, it was the opposite. He led the whole Traditional movement in Campos, Brazil into compromise with the Conciliar Church, who, ever since, accepts Vatican II and the New Mass! When signing the agreement, Bp. Rifan tried to camouflage his betrayal by saying “It’s not an agreement, it’s a recognition.” He tried to imply that Rome at last recognized the importance of Tradition, when it is obvious Rome has been trying to crush Tradition!<br />
<br />
We must not be deceived by the novelty of words and vagueness of language. Call it what it is, both for Bp. Rifan and Bp. Fellay, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">this betrayal by “canonical recognition in gradual steps” or “proceeding slowly” is already the agreement with Modernist Rome!</span><br />
<br />
Bp. Fellay recently boasted (in a Spanish Interview) of his frequent meetings with Pope Francis who promised him he would not condemn the New-SSPX and to “take it slowly towards Rome.” Who could possibly doubt the Pope’s good will? His epithets for the Traditional Catholics show his true colors: “nostalgics,” “imbalanced,” “moralistic debaters,” “Christians like bats who prefer darkness to the presence of the Lord!” etc., etc.<br />
<br />
How is it that Abp. Lefebvre warnings seem to have fallen on deaf ears?<br />
<br />
Persevere, little flock of the Lord! Our Lady has the victory!!<br />
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In Christ the King,<br />
<br />
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<div style="text-align: right;" class="mycode_align">February / March 2022</div>
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Dear Faithful, Soldiers of the Church Militant,<br />
<br />
The Holy Ghost warns us not to be deceived by vain words but to stand firm in the profession and practice of the Holy Catholic Faith!<br />
<br />
The Masonic Revolution, both in politics and the Conciliar Church, loves to swim in ambiguous terms and seemingly harmless-sounding phrases that tickle the ears and deceive many souls. A handful of examples are:<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Pro-choice</span>” which means the cruel slaughtering of millions of babies, backed by the Supreme Court laws since 1973 in the USA.<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Comfort Care</span>” which means injecting patients with numbing drugs that often hastens their death.<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Brain Death</span>” which is a deliberately misleading term. The signs of death are the following: no breathing, no blood circulation and no reaction to pain or to light shined in the pupils. “Brain Death” was a term invented to justify the murder of patients who are still breathing, still have blood circulation and react to light and pain, but are often unconscious or in a coma. Under these conditions, the highly paid murderers extract the patients’ vital organs while they are still living... What? While still alive?... Yes! because as Dr. Paul Burns said, “No one can receive dead organs as an ‘organ donation’.”<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Family Planning</span>” or “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Responsible Parenting</span>” are more deceitful phrases to justify the use of birth control, contraception, NFP and denying Almighty God the number of children that He wants and has grand plans for!<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">End Terrorism</span>” or “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Safety First</span>” are often slogans used to imperceptibly pass the gun control laws and abolish the Second Amendment.<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Liberty of Education</span>” which really means the horrors of scandalizing the innocent by teaching explicit immorality, Evolution, Atheism, validity of other “faiths,” transgenderism, no absolute truths, etc., etc.<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Economic Prosperity</span>” a term used by Joseph Stalin and the Pulitzer Prize Winner, Walter Duranty, who wrote in 1932 for the New York Times. Duranty hailed as “Economic Prosperity” the thousands of Gulag internment camps and the mass starvation of over fourteen million people in Ukraine and Russia. Over thirty million people were starved and executed under Mao Tse-Tung in China, all in the name of “Economic Prosperity!”<br />
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“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Full Communion</span>” is another buzzword marking those trying to reconcile Christ with Belial and Truth with Error, by accepting the Second Vatican Council, the Modernist Magisterium, the New Mass and sacraments as “legitimately promulgated” (cf. Doctrinal Declaration, April 2012). In other words, betraying Our Lord Jesus Christ and simultaneously being swallowed by the Conciliar Church!<br />
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“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Recognition</span>” or “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Justice For Tradition</span>” are phrases which the Conciliar-SSPX leaders have coined to rally support for the Agreement with Modernist Rome before Rome converts to Tradition, contrary to the warnings of Abp. Lefebvre!<br />
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“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Establish a Climate of Trust, Mutual Respect and Dialogue</span>” means not first to convert Modernist Rome back to the Catholic Faith, but rather, dilute the Truth in order to be acceptable into the New Pluralistic Conciliar Church! This “dialogue-fever” has succeeded to seduce “many Traditional groups to abandon their rigid positions” (Pope Benedict XVI) and accept compromise by shaking hands with Modernists! This is why Pope Francis could say, about Bishop Fellay: “Now that’s a man we can dialogue with!”<br />
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(No wonder Abp. Lefebvre insisted: “They are betraying us - betraying us! They are shaking hands with the Church’s destroyers! They are shaking hands with people holding Modernist and Liberal ideas condemned by the Church! So they are doing the devil’s work! They are now saying: ‘As long as they grant us the Old Mass, we can shake hands with Rome, no problem.’ But we see how it works out! They are in an impossible situation! Impossible! One cannot both shake hands with Modernists and keep following Tradition! Not possible! Not possible!” (Abp. Lefebvre, Address To His Priests, Écône, September 6, 1990 - just six months before his death).<br />
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Words are the new tools for Revolution. Words are meant to express Truth, but the Father of Lies uses them to trip-up and deceive souls. Let us examine briefly some of the words recently being used by the SSPX to make the agreement with Modernist Rome look more favorable. Firstly, the word “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Agreement</span>” which comes from “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">con-cordia</span>” meaning a “harmony of hearts.” It means to have the same opinion, same view or the same intention while sharing the same common cause and walking united, as one person, in concord of thought or action. In an agreement each side makes accommodations for a perceived outcome. In the case of the Conciliar-SSPX with Modernist Rome, the concessions for the agreement (or rather, the thirty pieces of silver) were made in the Doctrinal Declaration of 2012, the “Six Conditions For An Agreement With Rome” and the “new attitude towards Rome” called for by Bp. Fellay among the members of the SSPX.<br />
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Since the Second Vatican Council, there has been a widening divergence between those faithful to Tradition and those adhering to the Council. Abp. Lefebvre saw that an agreement with Modernist Rome was absolutely impossible until Rome re-crowns Christ the King and returns to Catholic Tradition. Until that doctrinal conversion happens, it is clear that Rome is determined to destroy Tradition. Therefore, no agreement is possible!<br />
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Secondly, the dangerous phrase “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">canonical recognition</span>”, which is the conferring of a canonical structure by the ecclesiastical authority to an entity without it. This is now hailed by the Society leaders as the solution to our “abnormal situation.” In other words, “canonical recognition” means the Pope recognizes the legal existence of communities which already existed. This means the Holy See considered the SSPX as unlawful and illegal before, and now, after granting the “lifting” of the excommunications (which didn’t exist), the granting of jurisdiction for confessions, marriages, extreme unction and holy orders, it is now “canonically recognized,” even if partially.<br />
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The danger of this “canonical recognition” is that, implicitly, it is to disclaim the state of necessity which had justified our resistance to Modernist Rome and the auto-demolition of the Church. The focus is now shifted from the real state of emergency and the survival of the Catholic Faith to getting canonical recognition. It’s putting the cart before the horse. A victory for the Devil!<br />
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The consequence of this new “canonical recognition” for the Conciliar-SSPX is the inevitable cooperation and submission to the local Modernist bishops, which Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre warned was the greatest danger to the faithful! It necessitates canonical dependency on the Modernist bishops for the priestly apostolate, since the bishop is responsible for all the faithful of his territory. Already, it is a fact that the Society priests have to submit all marriages to them.<br />
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From this flows the <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Personal Prelature</span> which Bp. Fellay had introduced to the faithful in 2011 and 2012. The idea of a Personal Prelature first appeared with the document <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Ad Gentes</span>, in the Second Vatican Council. Personal Prelatures are defined as “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">jurisdictional entities established by the Holy See, as instruments of the pastoral hierarchy of the Church, for the realization of particular or missionary activities</span>.” Now, the snare hidden in all this is that the Personal Prelatures have to agree with the Episcopal Conferences before their erection and coordinate all their apostolates with the bishop’s approval (cf. New Code of Canon Law #294).<br />
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Since the Personal Prelature must have the prior consent of the local bishops to exercise their apostolate, it therefore becomes a mere “assistant” to the diocesan clergy and under the auspices of the Modernist bishops! Even if Bp. Fellay and the leaders of the SSPX try to defend it as having “freedom for apostolate,” nevertheless, it cannot be completely independent, since the Personal Prelature given to him is still subject to the diocesan bishops, who have canonical jurisdiction over their territories. In sum, the Personal Prelature of Bishop Fellay or the Superior General, will still be subject to the local bishops, who in turn, are subject to the Roman Congregation for the Bishops!<br />
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How well Abp. Lefebvre spotted this trap and sounded the alarm!<br />
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“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">We would have to re-enter this Conciliar Church in order, supposedly, to make it Catholic?<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"> That is a complete illusion!</span> It is not the subjects that make the superiors, but the superiors who make the subjects...Amongst the whole Roman Curia, amongst all the world’s bishops - who are progressives - I would have been completely swamped! I would have been able to do nothing! [As for the Pope appointing ‘conservative’ bishops] ...I don’t think it is a true return to Tradition. Just as in a fight, when the troops are going a little too far ahead, one holds them back - so they are slightly putting the brakes on the impulse of Vatican II, because the supporters of the Council are going too far…The supposedly ‘conservative bishops’ are wholly supportive of the Council and of the post-Conciliar Reforms… <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">No! All of that is tactics</span>, which you have to use in any fight! You have to avoid excesses… [When asked about ‘signs of benevolence to Tradition’, he replies] There are plenty of signs showing us that what you are talking about is simply exceptional and temporary … So I do not think it is opportune to try contacting Rome. I think we must still wait. Wait, unfortunately, for the situation to get still worse on their side. But, up till now, they do not want to recognize the fact … <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">That is why what can look like a concession is, in reality, merely a maneuver</span> to separate us from the largest number of faithful possible. This is the perspective in which they seem to be always giving a little more and even going very far. We must absolutely convince our faithful that it is no more than a maneuver, that it is dangerous to put oneself into the hands of Conciliar bishops and Modernist Rome! <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">It is the greatest danger threatening our people! </span>If we have struggled for twenty years [ now, in 2022, fifty-three years!] to avoid the Conciliar errors, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">it was not in order to, now, put ourselves in the hands of those professing those errors!</span></span>” (Abp. Lefebvre, Interview, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Fideliter</span>, July-August 1989).<br />
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So again, the Revolution always succeeds by avoiding clear expressions. The Conciliar Church abandoned clarity of words, definitions and language. This was one of the accusations made by Abp. Lefebvre at the Council. So we must not be deceived when the leadership of the Conciliar-SSPX speaks of “canonical recognition”, when it really means an Agreement with Modernists!<br />
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In 2003, when Bishop Rifan of Campos signed the agreement with Rome, he confused the faithful with vague words and led them to believe it was a victory for Tradition when in fact, it was the opposite. He led the whole Traditional movement in Campos, Brazil into compromise with the Conciliar Church, who, ever since, accepts Vatican II and the New Mass! When signing the agreement, Bp. Rifan tried to camouflage his betrayal by saying “It’s not an agreement, it’s a recognition.” He tried to imply that Rome at last recognized the importance of Tradition, when it is obvious Rome has been trying to crush Tradition!<br />
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We must not be deceived by the novelty of words and vagueness of language. Call it what it is, both for Bp. Rifan and Bp. Fellay, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">this betrayal by “canonical recognition in gradual steps” or “proceeding slowly” is already the agreement with Modernist Rome!</span><br />
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Bp. Fellay recently boasted (in a Spanish Interview) of his frequent meetings with Pope Francis who promised him he would not condemn the New-SSPX and to “take it slowly towards Rome.” Who could possibly doubt the Pope’s good will? His epithets for the Traditional Catholics show his true colors: “nostalgics,” “imbalanced,” “moralistic debaters,” “Christians like bats who prefer darkness to the presence of the Lord!” etc., etc.<br />
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How is it that Abp. Lefebvre warnings seem to have fallen on deaf ears?<br />
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Persevere, little flock of the Lord! Our Lady has the victory!!<br />
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In Christ the King,<br />
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<div style="text-align: right;" class="mycode_align">Christmas Season/Epiphany Season 2022</div>
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Merry Christmas and Blessed Epiphany to All!<br />
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We are now ten years since the revolution within the Society of St. Pius X took place in 2012 by a well-organized <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">coup d’etat</span>, however, not from the bottom, but from the top!<br />
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Remember the phrases?<br />
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“The fact of going to Rome doesn’t mean that we agree with them. But it’s theChurch! And it’s the true Church!” (Bishop Fellay, Flavigny, 09/02/2012).<br />
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</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“The Religious Liberty of the Council is limited, very limited.” (Bp. Fellay 5/11/12).<br />
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</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“We are in the process of making the Council’s errors into super-heresies, as though it is becoming absolute evil, worse than anything,...this is serious, because such a caricature no longer corresponds to reality” (Bp. Fellay 10/07/12).<br />
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</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“The Priestly Society of St. Pius X rejoices to see the Church regain her liturgical tradition...the Priestly Society of St. Pius X extends its <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">deep gratitude</span> to the Sovereign Pontiff for this great spiritual benefit “ (Bp. Fellay 07/07/2007 On the occasion of “<span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Summorum Pontificum</span></span>”).<br />
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<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“Anyway, the Pope said that it is only a problem of canonical discipline. An act of Rome will suffice to say it is finished and we will return to the Church. It will come. I am very optimistic!” (Bp. Fellay, Interview with <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Les Nouvelles Caledoniennes</span>, 12/27/10).<br />
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</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Unfortunately</span>, in the present situation of the Society (i.e. the Society members’ resistance to the steps of making an Agreement with Modernist Rome) the new Declaration will not be accepted...<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">I committed myself</span>, despite rather strong opposition within the ranks of the Society, and at the expense of significant troubles. And<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"> I intend to continue to make every effort to pursue this path </span>in order to arrive at the necessary clarifications… May Your Holiness deign to believe my filial devotion and dearest desire to serve Holy Church.” (Bp. Fellay Letter to Pope Benedict XVI, 06/17/2012).<br />
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</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“There was a questioning of authority [by priests in the Society loyal to Archbishop Lefebvre], a radical challenge, because it accused it of no longer leading the Society towards its end.” (Bp. Fellay, Cor Unum, November 2012).<br />
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</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“The entire Tradition of the Catholic Faith must <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">be the criterion and guide for understanding the teachings of the Vatican Council II which Council in turn clarifies— i.e., deepens and make more explicit over time— certain aspects of the life of the Church that are implicitly present in them or not yet conceptually formulated</span>” (<a href="https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=298" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Doctrinal Declaration</a> April 15, 2012).<br />
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</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“We declare that we acknowledge the validity of the Sacrifice of the Mass and of the Sacraments when celebrated with the intention of doing what the Church does according to the rites indicated in the typical editions of the Roman Missal and of the Rituals of the Sacraments <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">legitimately </span>promulgated by Popes Paul VI and John Paul II” (Doctrinal Declaration 04/15/12).<br />
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</ul>
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These are just a few highlights proving the new direction of the “hermeneutics of continuity” regarding Vatican II and the “new attitude” that Bishop Fellay called for towards Modernist Rome. Did this new thinking just suddenly pop up out of nowhere in desperation for an Agreement? No. It was long prepared. Let us not forget GREC!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">Reduction to Silence</span></span><br />
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G.R.E.C. is an acronym meaning in French: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Groupe de Reflexion Entre Catholiques </span>(<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">A Group for Reflection Among Catholics</span>), which was a monthly gathering of priests of the SSPX, of <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Ecclesia Dei</span> and of the official hierarchy, and some laymen with the goal to soften the Catholic Resistance of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. One of its founders was Fr. Michel Lelong, who wrote a book titled: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">For The Necessary Reconciliation</span>. It reveals the results of twelve years of discussions from 1998 to 2010. Fr. Lelong who was deeply attached to the Second Vatican Council and prompted the Society to request the lifting of the “excommunications” in order to facilitate a reconciliation with Modernist Rome, had these weasel words to say:<br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>At that time, all too often aggressive and polemical points-of-view were being expressed both on the part of the Catholics attached to Tradition, as well as on that of those who claim to follow the spirit of the Council. These were not contributing to bring about the climate of peace and mutual confidence which is necessary in the search for a true reconciliation. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The Society of St. Pius X must understand that, even if it has much to bring to the Church of Rome, it also has much to receive from it. Therefore it must stop rejecting Vatican II in its entirety</span>. </blockquote>
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The leaders of GREC also called for a ceasefire:<br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>We ask the leaders of the Society <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">to cease </span>declarations and polemical articles which criticize the Holy See.</blockquote>
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Abp. Lefebvre warned his sons about this slippery trap!<br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>When they say that they (i.e. those joining Conciliar Rome) have lost nothing, it is false. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">They have lost the possibility of refuting Rome. They can no longer say anything! Having been given the favors that have been accorded to them, they must keep quiet. It is now impossible for them to denounce the errors of the Conciliar Church</span> (Abp. Lefebvre, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Fideliter</span>, no. 79, p. 3).</blockquote>
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So, for those who try to say “nothing has changed in the SSPX since 2012” and insist "it's the exact same old SSPX,” are deluded! The shower of favors from Popes Benedict &amp; Francis (i.e. “lifting” of the excommunications, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Summorum Pontificum</span>, jurisdiction for confessions, marriages and holy orders, etc.) explains the reason for the overly-subdued position of the Conciliar-SSPX against the scandals of Pope Francis honoring the pagan idol “Pachamama” in St. Peter’s Basilica, the scandalous neutrality of Fr. Pagliarani &amp; leaders on the immoral vaccinations derived from hundreds of murdered babies, the toned down denouncement of Vatican II &amp; the New Mass, the absence of any endorsement of the clear statements of Abp. Vigano, etc., etc. Again, as Abp. Lefebvre forewarned: <br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>Having been given the favors that have been accorded to them, they must keep quiet! (<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">ibid</span>.)</blockquote>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">Lay Down the Weapons</span></span><br />
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Does anyone remember the <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Angelus </span>editorial letter of Fr. Wenger in 2012? It called for a less militant spirit and the new, branded version of the <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Angelus </span>would, from then on, focus<br />
on Gregorian Chant, architecture and non-abrasive subjects. In other words, off with the boxing gloves! On with the ballerina slippers!<br />
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Let us refresh our minds with some more of the great counter-Revolutionary statements of Archbishop Lefebvre, who died with his boxing gloves on!<br />
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First, he highly praised the <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Si Si No No </span>articles that warred courageously against the scandals of Modernist Rome and constantly exposed the Liberalism of the <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">periti</span> at the Council. The <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Angelus </span>stopped publishing these great works in 2012. No more to be found!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">Drop Distinction of Two Churches</span></span><br />
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Bishop Fellay proceeded to blur the distinction of the “Conciliar Church” from the Catholic Church which Abp. Lefebvre constantly maintained, for truth and clarity. This distinction of “Neo-Modernist Rome” and “Catholic/Eternal Rome” is the first sentence in his <a href="https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=192" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">1974 Declaration</a>! If this distinction does not exist then of course, the Society must seek recognition and get approval from Rome as did the Fraternity of St. Peter, the Institute of Christ the King, etc.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">Religious Liberty Limited?</span></span><br />
As for the Error of Religious Liberty of Vatican II (<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Dignitatis Humanae</span>) being “very limited”, this is one point Abp. Lefebvre fought, vehemently! Do these words of his give any impression of mitigating this monstrous error?<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>Neither God nor truth changes. What the Church has defined or solemnly condemned for centuries cannot change. That is why<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"> we absolutely reject this new doctrine which demands an agnostic civil society</span> as if it were a liberty of man in religious matters when, at the most, it should be a <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">tolerance </span>on the part of civil authorities and can <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">never be a natural right</span>. (Abp. Lefebvre, Econe, May 22, 1987).</blockquote>
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Do the following adjectives that the good Popes repeatedly used to denounce Religious Liberty as taught by Vatican II sound “limiting?”<br />
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“Most pernicious,” <br />
“absurd,”<br />
“erroneous,”<br />
“insanity,” <br />
“contrary to the doctrines of the Church, Scriptures, &amp; the Fathers, ”<br />
“reproved,”<br />
“proscribed,” <br />
and “condemned.” (<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">cf</span>. <a href="https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=357" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Quanta Cura</a> of Pius IX). <br />
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Do they sound like they are downplaying or limiting this Error?<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">The Kingship of Christ</span></span><br />
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For the leadership of the SSPX (i.e. Fr. Pagliarani and Bp. Fellay), the Mass is now the exclusive focus of the Battle. But Abp. Lefebvre never lost sight of the proper order of things:<br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>...That’s what makes our opposition [ to current Rome ], and that’s why we cannot get along. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">This is <span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">not</span> primarily the issue of the Mass</span> , because the Mass is just one consequence of the fact that they wanted to get closer to Protestantism and thus transform worship, sacraments, catechism, etc. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The real fundamental opposition is the Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ!</span> “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Oportet Illum regnare</span>,” St. Paul tells us, “He must Reign!” They say: “No!” We say: “Yes!” with all the Popes! ( Abp. Lefebvre, “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Fideliter</span>” p. 70, 1993).</blockquote>
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Bp. Fellay signed the <a href="https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=298" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Doctrinal Declaration</a> in 2012 (never yet retracted) in order to solve the canonical problem and gain “unilateral recognition,” attaching to it the infamous “Six Conditions For An Agreement With Rome” regardless of Modernist Rome’s refusal to convert to Tradition. This was never the case with our Founder:<br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>It is not surprising that we have not come to an understanding with Rome. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">That will not be possible as long as Rome does not return to the Faith in the Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ! </span>[...] We are in opposition on a point of the Catholic Faith! (Abp. Lefebvre, Conference at Sierre, Nov., 27, 1988, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Fideliter</span>, no. 68, p. 12).</blockquote>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">New Mass Legitimately Promulgated?</span></span><br />
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Regarding the word “legitimate” when applied to the New Mass and New Sacraments, the Conciliar-SSPX accepts that they are “legitimately promulgated.” Abp. Lefebvre thought otherwise:<br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>We are not saying that the New Mass is heretical, nor that it is invalid, but <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">we refuse to say that it is legitimate, that it is perfectly orthodox</span> (<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Communicantes</span>, August, 1985).</blockquote>
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Now, “legitimate” means conformity to rule or principle; lawfulness. If then “legitimacy” is the quality of what is in conformity with the law, a thing is also “lawful” when it is in conformity with the law. In other words, the expressions “legitimate,” “lawful,” and “licit” are synonymous. A Resistance priest of the Society concluded the following in his study on the Doctrinal Declaration, called <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Proof of Treason</span>:<br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>If we move into <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">canonical </span>language, as is the case here, we see that there is no difference in the meanings of “legitimate” and “licit” because the liceity of a sacramental act is based on the “legitimacy” of the liturgical law which promulgates it. Thus, one time admitting, as Bishop Fellay has done, that the New Rites have been “legitimately promulgated,” thereby implies that the laws which have “promulgated” them are good, because in Canon Law, for a law to be legitimate, it must be good! And if their promulgation is “legitimate,” nothing prevents their celebration from being licit and good as well [...] All the traditional communities who have rejoined Modernist Rome have passed that way...<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">They began by recognizing the “legitimacy” of the promulgation of the New Rites, then their superiors did not hesitate to concelebrate the New Mass with the Pope, as Dom Gerard, Bishop Rifan, Fr. Wach (Institute of Christ the King), and other have done publicly!.... So, when will Bp. Fellay concelebrate the New Rite with the Pope, if he asks him to do so?</span> (p. 57, no. 7).</blockquote>
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Let the truth be told; to call the New Mass “legitimately promulgated” is only a few steps from saying it! It was Abp. Lefebvre, who predicted that the Monastery of La Barroux in France, would celebrate the New Mass in five years after their “Agreement” in 1988. He was proven right! Even worse than that, they took up the defense of the Error of Religious Liberty of Vatican II, writing a thick book in its favor!! They too obviously agreed that Religious Liberty was indeed "limited."<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">Summorum Pontificum</span></span></span><br />
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Bp. Fellay celebrated this “Motu Proprio” in 2007 which blasphemously placed the Catholic Tridentine Mass of two thousand years <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">on an equal level</span> with the New Mass of Abp. Bugnini and stated that the two Rites were “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">mutually enriching!!</span>” What have been the effects of the New Mass? Thirty-eight years (now in 2022 - fifty-three years) of watering down the Faith - utter catastrophe and apostasy! (<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">cf</span>. See “<a href="https://catacombs.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/Recusant/The%20Recusant%2056.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">The Recusant</a>” Issue 56, Autumn 2021, Commentary on “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Summorum Pontificum</span>”, p. 31). <br />
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Ten years ago, Vatican II, Part 2 became visible in the ranks of the SSPX. This was a lamentable tragedy! With the help of Our Lady of the Rosary, recovery is possible if the Society leaders:<ul class="mycode_list"><li>Abolish the ambiguities.<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>Condemn the Doctrinal Declaration of April 15, 2012 and the “Six Conditions” &amp; return to the principle of the General Chapter Decision of 2006 ( No practical/canonical agreement without <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">first the Doctrinal agreement</span>!).<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>Hold the position of Abp. Lefebvre, our Founder: No discussions with Rome until Rome returns to Tradition (in accord with the Papal condemnations of Modernism &amp; Liberalism) and proclaims the Kingship of Christ.<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>No deals with Rome “until we have a perfectly Catholic Pope.”<br />
</li>
</ul>
The Archbishop gave all the necessary guidelines for his Society, if only we had abided by them!<br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>Archbishop Lefebvre transmitted all that he had received; all the heritage of Fr. LeFloch, from the French Seminary in Rome, all his experience - <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">he left all that to the Society, and it still works, but on condition that we continue the same spirit of combat! It is out of the question of laying down our arms in the middle of the battle</span>. We are not going to look for a treaty while the war is raging, with Assisi III or IV, with the beatification of a false “Blessed” Pope John Paul II; and with Benedict XVI’s continuous demand to accept the Council and the Reforms and the Magisterium after the Council ( Bp. Tissier de Mallerais, Conference at the Gastines Priory in France, September 16, 2012).</blockquote>
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If only Bishop Tissier de Mallerais and the Society lived up to these words! <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Its far worse now</span>. Compromise on doctrine leads to compromise on morals, which explains the Society's failure to condemn the link between abortion and the vaccines. They have indeed laid down their arms. Continue the Catholic Resistance! "<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Viva Cristo Rey!</span>"<br />
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Fight on, little flock!<br />
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In Christ the King,<br />
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<div style="text-align: right;" class="mycode_align">Christmas Season/Epiphany Season 2022</div>
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Merry Christmas and Blessed Epiphany to All!<br />
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We are now ten years since the revolution within the Society of St. Pius X took place in 2012 by a well-organized <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">coup d’etat</span>, however, not from the bottom, but from the top!<br />
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Remember the phrases?<br />
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“The fact of going to Rome doesn’t mean that we agree with them. But it’s theChurch! And it’s the true Church!” (Bishop Fellay, Flavigny, 09/02/2012).<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“The Religious Liberty of the Council is limited, very limited.” (Bp. Fellay 5/11/12).<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“We are in the process of making the Council’s errors into super-heresies, as though it is becoming absolute evil, worse than anything,...this is serious, because such a caricature no longer corresponds to reality” (Bp. Fellay 10/07/12).<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“The Priestly Society of St. Pius X rejoices to see the Church regain her liturgical tradition...the Priestly Society of St. Pius X extends its <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">deep gratitude</span> to the Sovereign Pontiff for this great spiritual benefit “ (Bp. Fellay 07/07/2007 On the occasion of “<span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Summorum Pontificum</span></span>”).<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“Anyway, the Pope said that it is only a problem of canonical discipline. An act of Rome will suffice to say it is finished and we will return to the Church. It will come. I am very optimistic!” (Bp. Fellay, Interview with <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Les Nouvelles Caledoniennes</span>, 12/27/10).<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Unfortunately</span>, in the present situation of the Society (i.e. the Society members’ resistance to the steps of making an Agreement with Modernist Rome) the new Declaration will not be accepted...<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">I committed myself</span>, despite rather strong opposition within the ranks of the Society, and at the expense of significant troubles. And<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"> I intend to continue to make every effort to pursue this path </span>in order to arrive at the necessary clarifications… May Your Holiness deign to believe my filial devotion and dearest desire to serve Holy Church.” (Bp. Fellay Letter to Pope Benedict XVI, 06/17/2012).<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“There was a questioning of authority [by priests in the Society loyal to Archbishop Lefebvre], a radical challenge, because it accused it of no longer leading the Society towards its end.” (Bp. Fellay, Cor Unum, November 2012).<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“The entire Tradition of the Catholic Faith must <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">be the criterion and guide for understanding the teachings of the Vatican Council II which Council in turn clarifies— i.e., deepens and make more explicit over time— certain aspects of the life of the Church that are implicitly present in them or not yet conceptually formulated</span>” (<a href="https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=298" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Doctrinal Declaration</a> April 15, 2012).<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>“We declare that we acknowledge the validity of the Sacrifice of the Mass and of the Sacraments when celebrated with the intention of doing what the Church does according to the rites indicated in the typical editions of the Roman Missal and of the Rituals of the Sacraments <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">legitimately </span>promulgated by Popes Paul VI and John Paul II” (Doctrinal Declaration 04/15/12).<br />
</li>
</ul>
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These are just a few highlights proving the new direction of the “hermeneutics of continuity” regarding Vatican II and the “new attitude” that Bishop Fellay called for towards Modernist Rome. Did this new thinking just suddenly pop up out of nowhere in desperation for an Agreement? No. It was long prepared. Let us not forget GREC!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">Reduction to Silence</span></span><br />
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G.R.E.C. is an acronym meaning in French: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Groupe de Reflexion Entre Catholiques </span>(<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">A Group for Reflection Among Catholics</span>), which was a monthly gathering of priests of the SSPX, of <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Ecclesia Dei</span> and of the official hierarchy, and some laymen with the goal to soften the Catholic Resistance of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. One of its founders was Fr. Michel Lelong, who wrote a book titled: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">For The Necessary Reconciliation</span>. It reveals the results of twelve years of discussions from 1998 to 2010. Fr. Lelong who was deeply attached to the Second Vatican Council and prompted the Society to request the lifting of the “excommunications” in order to facilitate a reconciliation with Modernist Rome, had these weasel words to say:<br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>At that time, all too often aggressive and polemical points-of-view were being expressed both on the part of the Catholics attached to Tradition, as well as on that of those who claim to follow the spirit of the Council. These were not contributing to bring about the climate of peace and mutual confidence which is necessary in the search for a true reconciliation. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The Society of St. Pius X must understand that, even if it has much to bring to the Church of Rome, it also has much to receive from it. Therefore it must stop rejecting Vatican II in its entirety</span>. </blockquote>
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The leaders of GREC also called for a ceasefire:<br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>We ask the leaders of the Society <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">to cease </span>declarations and polemical articles which criticize the Holy See.</blockquote>
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Abp. Lefebvre warned his sons about this slippery trap!<br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>When they say that they (i.e. those joining Conciliar Rome) have lost nothing, it is false. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">They have lost the possibility of refuting Rome. They can no longer say anything! Having been given the favors that have been accorded to them, they must keep quiet. It is now impossible for them to denounce the errors of the Conciliar Church</span> (Abp. Lefebvre, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Fideliter</span>, no. 79, p. 3).</blockquote>
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So, for those who try to say “nothing has changed in the SSPX since 2012” and insist "it's the exact same old SSPX,” are deluded! The shower of favors from Popes Benedict &amp; Francis (i.e. “lifting” of the excommunications, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Summorum Pontificum</span>, jurisdiction for confessions, marriages and holy orders, etc.) explains the reason for the overly-subdued position of the Conciliar-SSPX against the scandals of Pope Francis honoring the pagan idol “Pachamama” in St. Peter’s Basilica, the scandalous neutrality of Fr. Pagliarani &amp; leaders on the immoral vaccinations derived from hundreds of murdered babies, the toned down denouncement of Vatican II &amp; the New Mass, the absence of any endorsement of the clear statements of Abp. Vigano, etc., etc. Again, as Abp. Lefebvre forewarned: <br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>Having been given the favors that have been accorded to them, they must keep quiet! (<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">ibid</span>.)</blockquote>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">Lay Down the Weapons</span></span><br />
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Does anyone remember the <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Angelus </span>editorial letter of Fr. Wenger in 2012? It called for a less militant spirit and the new, branded version of the <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Angelus </span>would, from then on, focus<br />
on Gregorian Chant, architecture and non-abrasive subjects. In other words, off with the boxing gloves! On with the ballerina slippers!<br />
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Let us refresh our minds with some more of the great counter-Revolutionary statements of Archbishop Lefebvre, who died with his boxing gloves on!<br />
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First, he highly praised the <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Si Si No No </span>articles that warred courageously against the scandals of Modernist Rome and constantly exposed the Liberalism of the <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">periti</span> at the Council. The <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Angelus </span>stopped publishing these great works in 2012. No more to be found!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">Drop Distinction of Two Churches</span></span><br />
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Bishop Fellay proceeded to blur the distinction of the “Conciliar Church” from the Catholic Church which Abp. Lefebvre constantly maintained, for truth and clarity. This distinction of “Neo-Modernist Rome” and “Catholic/Eternal Rome” is the first sentence in his <a href="https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=192" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">1974 Declaration</a>! If this distinction does not exist then of course, the Society must seek recognition and get approval from Rome as did the Fraternity of St. Peter, the Institute of Christ the King, etc.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">Religious Liberty Limited?</span></span><br />
As for the Error of Religious Liberty of Vatican II (<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Dignitatis Humanae</span>) being “very limited”, this is one point Abp. Lefebvre fought, vehemently! Do these words of his give any impression of mitigating this monstrous error?<br />
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<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>Neither God nor truth changes. What the Church has defined or solemnly condemned for centuries cannot change. That is why<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"> we absolutely reject this new doctrine which demands an agnostic civil society</span> as if it were a liberty of man in religious matters when, at the most, it should be a <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">tolerance </span>on the part of civil authorities and can <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">never be a natural right</span>. (Abp. Lefebvre, Econe, May 22, 1987).</blockquote>
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Do the following adjectives that the good Popes repeatedly used to denounce Religious Liberty as taught by Vatican II sound “limiting?”<br />
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“Most pernicious,” <br />
“absurd,”<br />
“erroneous,”<br />
“insanity,” <br />
“contrary to the doctrines of the Church, Scriptures, &amp; the Fathers, ”<br />
“reproved,”<br />
“proscribed,” <br />
and “condemned.” (<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">cf</span>. <a href="https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=357" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Quanta Cura</a> of Pius IX). <br />
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Do they sound like they are downplaying or limiting this Error?<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">The Kingship of Christ</span></span><br />
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For the leadership of the SSPX (i.e. Fr. Pagliarani and Bp. Fellay), the Mass is now the exclusive focus of the Battle. But Abp. Lefebvre never lost sight of the proper order of things:<br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>...That’s what makes our opposition [ to current Rome ], and that’s why we cannot get along. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">This is <span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">not</span> primarily the issue of the Mass</span> , because the Mass is just one consequence of the fact that they wanted to get closer to Protestantism and thus transform worship, sacraments, catechism, etc. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">The real fundamental opposition is the Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ!</span> “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Oportet Illum regnare</span>,” St. Paul tells us, “He must Reign!” They say: “No!” We say: “Yes!” with all the Popes! ( Abp. Lefebvre, “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Fideliter</span>” p. 70, 1993).</blockquote>
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Bp. Fellay signed the <a href="https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=298" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Doctrinal Declaration</a> in 2012 (never yet retracted) in order to solve the canonical problem and gain “unilateral recognition,” attaching to it the infamous “Six Conditions For An Agreement With Rome” regardless of Modernist Rome’s refusal to convert to Tradition. This was never the case with our Founder:<br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>It is not surprising that we have not come to an understanding with Rome. <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">That will not be possible as long as Rome does not return to the Faith in the Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ! </span>[...] We are in opposition on a point of the Catholic Faith! (Abp. Lefebvre, Conference at Sierre, Nov., 27, 1988, <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Fideliter</span>, no. 68, p. 12).</blockquote>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">New Mass Legitimately Promulgated?</span></span><br />
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Regarding the word “legitimate” when applied to the New Mass and New Sacraments, the Conciliar-SSPX accepts that they are “legitimately promulgated.” Abp. Lefebvre thought otherwise:<br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>We are not saying that the New Mass is heretical, nor that it is invalid, but <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">we refuse to say that it is legitimate, that it is perfectly orthodox</span> (<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Communicantes</span>, August, 1985).</blockquote>
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Now, “legitimate” means conformity to rule or principle; lawfulness. If then “legitimacy” is the quality of what is in conformity with the law, a thing is also “lawful” when it is in conformity with the law. In other words, the expressions “legitimate,” “lawful,” and “licit” are synonymous. A Resistance priest of the Society concluded the following in his study on the Doctrinal Declaration, called <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Proof of Treason</span>:<br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>If we move into <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">canonical </span>language, as is the case here, we see that there is no difference in the meanings of “legitimate” and “licit” because the liceity of a sacramental act is based on the “legitimacy” of the liturgical law which promulgates it. Thus, one time admitting, as Bishop Fellay has done, that the New Rites have been “legitimately promulgated,” thereby implies that the laws which have “promulgated” them are good, because in Canon Law, for a law to be legitimate, it must be good! And if their promulgation is “legitimate,” nothing prevents their celebration from being licit and good as well [...] All the traditional communities who have rejoined Modernist Rome have passed that way...<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">They began by recognizing the “legitimacy” of the promulgation of the New Rites, then their superiors did not hesitate to concelebrate the New Mass with the Pope, as Dom Gerard, Bishop Rifan, Fr. Wach (Institute of Christ the King), and other have done publicly!.... So, when will Bp. Fellay concelebrate the New Rite with the Pope, if he asks him to do so?</span> (p. 57, no. 7).</blockquote>
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Let the truth be told; to call the New Mass “legitimately promulgated” is only a few steps from saying it! It was Abp. Lefebvre, who predicted that the Monastery of La Barroux in France, would celebrate the New Mass in five years after their “Agreement” in 1988. He was proven right! Even worse than that, they took up the defense of the Error of Religious Liberty of Vatican II, writing a thick book in its favor!! They too obviously agreed that Religious Liberty was indeed "limited."<br />
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<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="mycode_u">Summorum Pontificum</span></span></span><br />
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Bp. Fellay celebrated this “Motu Proprio” in 2007 which blasphemously placed the Catholic Tridentine Mass of two thousand years <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">on an equal level</span> with the New Mass of Abp. Bugnini and stated that the two Rites were “<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">mutually enriching!!</span>” What have been the effects of the New Mass? Thirty-eight years (now in 2022 - fifty-three years) of watering down the Faith - utter catastrophe and apostasy! (<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">cf</span>. See “<a href="https://catacombs.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/Recusant/The%20Recusant%2056.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">The Recusant</a>” Issue 56, Autumn 2021, Commentary on “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Summorum Pontificum</span>”, p. 31). <br />
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Ten years ago, Vatican II, Part 2 became visible in the ranks of the SSPX. This was a lamentable tragedy! With the help of Our Lady of the Rosary, recovery is possible if the Society leaders:<ul class="mycode_list"><li>Abolish the ambiguities.<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>Condemn the Doctrinal Declaration of April 15, 2012 and the “Six Conditions” &amp; return to the principle of the General Chapter Decision of 2006 ( No practical/canonical agreement without <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">first the Doctrinal agreement</span>!).<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>Hold the position of Abp. Lefebvre, our Founder: No discussions with Rome until Rome returns to Tradition (in accord with the Papal condemnations of Modernism &amp; Liberalism) and proclaims the Kingship of Christ.<br />
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mycode_list"><li>No deals with Rome “until we have a perfectly Catholic Pope.”<br />
</li>
</ul>
The Archbishop gave all the necessary guidelines for his Society, if only we had abided by them!<br />
<blockquote class="mycode_quote"><cite>Quote:</cite>Archbishop Lefebvre transmitted all that he had received; all the heritage of Fr. LeFloch, from the French Seminary in Rome, all his experience - <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">he left all that to the Society, and it still works, but on condition that we continue the same spirit of combat! It is out of the question of laying down our arms in the middle of the battle</span>. We are not going to look for a treaty while the war is raging, with Assisi III or IV, with the beatification of a false “Blessed” Pope John Paul II; and with Benedict XVI’s continuous demand to accept the Council and the Reforms and the Magisterium after the Council ( Bp. Tissier de Mallerais, Conference at the Gastines Priory in France, September 16, 2012).</blockquote>
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If only Bishop Tissier de Mallerais and the Society lived up to these words! <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Its far worse now</span>. Compromise on doctrine leads to compromise on morals, which explains the Society's failure to condemn the link between abortion and the vaccines. They have indeed laid down their arms. Continue the Catholic Resistance! "<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Viva Cristo Rey!</span>"<br />
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Fight on, little flock!<br />
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In Christ the King,<br />
Fr. David Hewko]]></content:encoded>
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<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“PUT AWAY YOUR TOYS!” </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">- Bp. Williamson, November 2014</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: right;" class="mycode_align">August-October 2021 </div>
<br />
<br />
Dear Faithful Followers of Christ the King!<br />
<br />
If Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre were still on earth, what would he say? What would he do? What advice would he now give to the four bishops he consecrated in order to preserve Catholic Tradition?<br />
<br />
The answer is not just in the clouds, mere speculation. He clearly laid down the direction he would take in the future, both in words and action. We have the treasure of his many quotes opposing any further (fruitless) dialogue with Modernist Rome. And not just words, he also founded five seminaries to form the future priests to be holy, sanctifiers of souls through the Mass and sacraments, and battlers against Modernism, the Second Vatican Council and the New Mass.<br />
<br />
Never would this great prelate of the Church, Abp. Lefebvre, shoot down the zeal of the faithful, preserving in the Catholic Tradition! On the contrary, he was the one encouraging them to fight harder, to think bigger, to give more generously, to spread the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ everywhere; in politics, economics, arts, laws, nations, cities, towns, everywhere, without exception! His spirit was exactly the opposite of the one who said to those faithful, desirous to see Catholic Tradition revive and continue, “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Put away your toys!</span>”<br />
<br />
Quite the opposite! <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Abp. Lefebvre never looked with scorn or called “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">toys</span>” the zeal and Catholicity of the faithful, or their desire to see a new generation of priests and making new Traditional apostolates, to replace the compromised ones of the Conciliar-SSPX</span>. Furthermore, rather than tell them to “put away” such thoughts and desires, he encouraged his priests and faithful to fight wholeheartedly for the restoration of Christendom!<br />
<br />
Step back nine years ago, after the Revolution of 2012 within the Society of St. Pius X, Catholics clinging to Tradition sought desperately for at least one of the bishops to simply continue the work of Abp. Lefebvre and maintain his sound position. Seeing Bp. Fellay was set on the course of compromise, many hoped that Bp. Williamson would fill-in the gap. But, on the contrary, they were told by him “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Put away your toys!</span>” <br />
<br />
However, if the tables were turned, how would the Archbishop apply these words to his own sons?<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">First to Bishop Fellay</span>. He would tell him to “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Put away your toys!</span>”  - put away these dreams of recognition and acceptance from Modernist Rome. Abp. Lefebvre would tell him to absolutely burn the following: the Doctrinal Declaration of April 15, 2012, the Six Conditions For An Agreement With Rome, the General Chapter Statement of 2012, the delusional praise for the slippery document “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Summorum Pontificum</span>” in 2007 (which equates the Tridentine Mass with the <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Novus Ordo</span>!), the begging that the badge of honor of excommunication of ‘88, be lifted in 2009, the acceptance of jurisdiction for Confessions (in 2015), Holy Orders and Marriages, thus partially inserting the Society under the Modernist bishops which the Archbishop warned is the greatest danger to the faithful, as well as the priests! He would order him to rehabilitate the many good standing priests he expelled, silenced and unjustly punished. God only knows what punishment he would give to the very one responsible for the highest treachery, by compromising Catholic Tradition with the Conciliar Church, contrary to all his warnings!<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Second, Bp. Williamson</span>. “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Don’t be under any illusion: it’s not going to be me who puts together a new SSPX. No way! The time for that is over. Put away your toys everybody and get with it. Grow up!</span>” Abp. Lefebvre rather would strongly reprimand him, rather than the faithful, to whom this scandalous phrase was directed! What exactly are these “toys”? They are the following: misleading souls by teaching that the New Mass is a source of grace, that it can nourish your faith, that it’s dubious “miracles” should be believed and promoted, seminary vocations should be discouraged as well as seminaries themselves! Choosing the “least contaminated” Masses to attend, even the least dogmatic sedevacantist Masses. Further errors are: the problem with Vatican II is that it’s ambiguous, you can attend Mass at the Indult /<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"> Motu Proprio</span>, the Conciliar-SSPX and Feeneyite chapels, no problem. Abp. Lefebvre opposed him on all these points, and saved souls by the clarity of the Truth, not muddling them with confusion and cushioning the New Mass, called by Our Lord the “abomination of desolation standing in the Holy Place!” (St. Matthew 24:15). (See list of his errors  here on <a href="https://www.therecusant.com/bishop-williamsons-teaching" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">The Recusant</a>).<br />
<br />
Bishops Bernard Tissier de Mallerais &amp; Alphonso de Galerreta, lastly. These two were strongly opposed to the Liberal direction of Bp. Fellay, at first. Many do not know of the excellent rebuttal Bp. de Galarreta made against the proposed Doctrinal Declaration in 2011 (then called the “Doctrinal Preamble”). He warned Bp. Fellay: “We must refuse this path because we cannot do evil that good may come from it (a good that is, moreover, uncertain!) and because this would necessarily also bring about certain evils against the common good that we possess, namely that of the Society and the Family of Tradition...If we make an agreement we will lose freedom of speech, we will have to silence our criticisms of the facts, of the authorities and even some texts of the Council and post-Conciliar magisterium!...For the good of the Society and Tradition, this ’Pandora’s Box’ must be closed as quickly as possible, to avoid the stigma and the demolition of authority, disputes, dissensions and divisions, perhaps with no return!” (cf. Is This Operation Suicide? By Stephen Fox. See entire document <a href="https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=2456" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">here</a> p. 193-197).<br />
<br />
There was a time when Bp. Tissier de Mallerais consistently held Archbishop Lefebvre’s position in his words, interviews and books. In the Interview he had on June 1, 2012, with “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Rivarol</span>”, the following exchange occurred.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Rivarol</span>: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Some believe that the proposed statute of the personal prelature to the Society will provide a sufficient guarantee against the danger of abandoning the fight for the Faith.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Bp. Tissier</span>: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">That is incorrect. According to the project of the personal prelature, we <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">would not be free</span> to open new priories without the permission of the local bishops and, additionally, all our recent foundations would have to be approved by these same bishops. It would consequently mean subjugating ourselves unnecessarily to an overall Modernist episcopate.</span><br />
<br />
Unfortunately, Bp. Tissier has not taken concrete steps to oppose the undermining of Abp. Lefebvre’s work, perhaps due to ill health or weakness. Bp. Galarreta unfortunately changed positions and was heard to say publicly that if the Superior General decides to seek normalization with Modernist Rome, “Too bad, we will just have to go with it.” This is, moreover, substantiated by his own inaction.<br />
<br />
So how would Abp. Lefebvre apply to these two, the notorious phrase “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Put away your toys?</span>” He would ask them to abandon their inaction and silent compromise and come back to their former position, and to act upon it! He would remind them that we can never put the organization or institution of the Society or any congregation, above the Faith! “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">But I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first charity!</span>” (Apocalypse 2:4). They should be leading the Catholic Resistance by simply continuing the position and work of Abp. Lefebvre, which is what the true Catholic Resistance is all about!<br />
<br />
So many faces dropped and hearts were soured by the retort made by one bishop to the faithful when he said “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Put away your toys!</span>” The scattered sheep, scandalized by the Modernist direction of the New-SSPX, were hoping that at least one of Abp. Lefebvre’s sons would continue the Fight for Tradition, simply, as he had done! Just continue! No new doctrines, no new methods, no new smiling approaches with Modernist Rome, just continue what Abp. Lefebvre passed down to us faithfully, until Rome comes back to Tradition! The graces, growth and good fruits were all there!<br />
<br />
So, it is not too far-fetched to conjecture that Abp. Lefebvre, rather than hurl such sarcasm at the struggling souls who expect leadership, and rightly so, from their bishops of Tradition, would on the contrary, direct this phrase to his own bishops and priests in the most severe time of crisis, and say: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Follow what I laid down, continue the work of Tradition without compromise, don’t make excuses for the sterile, fruitless New Mass, sanctify souls and, rather than please men and seek approval from the anti-Christs in Rome, ‘Put away your toys!’ and continue the Combat for the Faith!</span>!” Here are his own words:<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">My Dear Friends, The See of Peter and the posts of authority in Rome being occupied by anti-Christs, the destruction of the Kingdom of our Lord is being rapidly carried out even within His Mystical Body here below, especially through the corruption of the Holy Mass…The corruption of the Holy Mass has brought the corruption of the priesthood and the universal decadence of Faith in the Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“...This is what has brought down upon our heads persecution by the Rome of the anti-Christs. Since this Rome, Modernist and Liberal, is carrying on its work of destruction of the Kingdom of Our Lord, as Assisi and the confirmation of the liberal theses of Vatican II on Religious Liberty prove, I find myself constrained by Divine Providence to pass on the grace of the Catholic episcopacy which I received, in order that the Church and the Catholic priesthood continue to subsist for the glory of God and the salvation of souls.</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“That is why...I will bestow this grace upon you, confident that without too long a delay the See of Peter will be occupied by a successor of Peter who is perfectly Catholic, and into whose hands you will be able to put back the grace of your episcopacy so that he may confirm it.</span>” (cf. Letter to the Future Bishops, by Abp. Marcel Lefebvre, August 29, 1987). <br />
<br />
Take note, this was 34 years ago! Things are far worse and we seem to be miles away from a perfectly Catholic Pope!<br />
<br />
Let us pray for our prelates of Tradition, they can easily reignite the fire of the Faith and prepare Our Lady’s victory if they just do what our Founder did!<br />
<br />
O’ Queen of the Holy Rosary, help us!<br />
<br />
In Christ the King,<br />
Fr. David Hewko]]></description>
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<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align">The text of Father's Newsletter follows below.</div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align">✠ ✠ ✠</div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">“PUT AWAY YOUR TOYS!” </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">- Bp. Williamson, November 2014</span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: right;" class="mycode_align">August-October 2021 </div>
<br />
<br />
Dear Faithful Followers of Christ the King!<br />
<br />
If Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre were still on earth, what would he say? What would he do? What advice would he now give to the four bishops he consecrated in order to preserve Catholic Tradition?<br />
<br />
The answer is not just in the clouds, mere speculation. He clearly laid down the direction he would take in the future, both in words and action. We have the treasure of his many quotes opposing any further (fruitless) dialogue with Modernist Rome. And not just words, he also founded five seminaries to form the future priests to be holy, sanctifiers of souls through the Mass and sacraments, and battlers against Modernism, the Second Vatican Council and the New Mass.<br />
<br />
Never would this great prelate of the Church, Abp. Lefebvre, shoot down the zeal of the faithful, preserving in the Catholic Tradition! On the contrary, he was the one encouraging them to fight harder, to think bigger, to give more generously, to spread the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ everywhere; in politics, economics, arts, laws, nations, cities, towns, everywhere, without exception! His spirit was exactly the opposite of the one who said to those faithful, desirous to see Catholic Tradition revive and continue, “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Put away your toys!</span>”<br />
<br />
Quite the opposite! <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Abp. Lefebvre never looked with scorn or called “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">toys</span>” the zeal and Catholicity of the faithful, or their desire to see a new generation of priests and making new Traditional apostolates, to replace the compromised ones of the Conciliar-SSPX</span>. Furthermore, rather than tell them to “put away” such thoughts and desires, he encouraged his priests and faithful to fight wholeheartedly for the restoration of Christendom!<br />
<br />
Step back nine years ago, after the Revolution of 2012 within the Society of St. Pius X, Catholics clinging to Tradition sought desperately for at least one of the bishops to simply continue the work of Abp. Lefebvre and maintain his sound position. Seeing Bp. Fellay was set on the course of compromise, many hoped that Bp. Williamson would fill-in the gap. But, on the contrary, they were told by him “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Put away your toys!</span>” <br />
<br />
However, if the tables were turned, how would the Archbishop apply these words to his own sons?<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">First to Bishop Fellay</span>. He would tell him to “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Put away your toys!</span>”  - put away these dreams of recognition and acceptance from Modernist Rome. Abp. Lefebvre would tell him to absolutely burn the following: the Doctrinal Declaration of April 15, 2012, the Six Conditions For An Agreement With Rome, the General Chapter Statement of 2012, the delusional praise for the slippery document “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Summorum Pontificum</span>” in 2007 (which equates the Tridentine Mass with the <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Novus Ordo</span>!), the begging that the badge of honor of excommunication of ‘88, be lifted in 2009, the acceptance of jurisdiction for Confessions (in 2015), Holy Orders and Marriages, thus partially inserting the Society under the Modernist bishops which the Archbishop warned is the greatest danger to the faithful, as well as the priests! He would order him to rehabilitate the many good standing priests he expelled, silenced and unjustly punished. God only knows what punishment he would give to the very one responsible for the highest treachery, by compromising Catholic Tradition with the Conciliar Church, contrary to all his warnings!<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Second, Bp. Williamson</span>. “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Don’t be under any illusion: it’s not going to be me who puts together a new SSPX. No way! The time for that is over. Put away your toys everybody and get with it. Grow up!</span>” Abp. Lefebvre rather would strongly reprimand him, rather than the faithful, to whom this scandalous phrase was directed! What exactly are these “toys”? They are the following: misleading souls by teaching that the New Mass is a source of grace, that it can nourish your faith, that it’s dubious “miracles” should be believed and promoted, seminary vocations should be discouraged as well as seminaries themselves! Choosing the “least contaminated” Masses to attend, even the least dogmatic sedevacantist Masses. Further errors are: the problem with Vatican II is that it’s ambiguous, you can attend Mass at the Indult /<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i"> Motu Proprio</span>, the Conciliar-SSPX and Feeneyite chapels, no problem. Abp. Lefebvre opposed him on all these points, and saved souls by the clarity of the Truth, not muddling them with confusion and cushioning the New Mass, called by Our Lord the “abomination of desolation standing in the Holy Place!” (St. Matthew 24:15). (See list of his errors  here on <a href="https://www.therecusant.com/bishop-williamsons-teaching" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">The Recusant</a>).<br />
<br />
Bishops Bernard Tissier de Mallerais &amp; Alphonso de Galerreta, lastly. These two were strongly opposed to the Liberal direction of Bp. Fellay, at first. Many do not know of the excellent rebuttal Bp. de Galarreta made against the proposed Doctrinal Declaration in 2011 (then called the “Doctrinal Preamble”). He warned Bp. Fellay: “We must refuse this path because we cannot do evil that good may come from it (a good that is, moreover, uncertain!) and because this would necessarily also bring about certain evils against the common good that we possess, namely that of the Society and the Family of Tradition...If we make an agreement we will lose freedom of speech, we will have to silence our criticisms of the facts, of the authorities and even some texts of the Council and post-Conciliar magisterium!...For the good of the Society and Tradition, this ’Pandora’s Box’ must be closed as quickly as possible, to avoid the stigma and the demolition of authority, disputes, dissensions and divisions, perhaps with no return!” (cf. Is This Operation Suicide? By Stephen Fox. See entire document <a href="https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=2456" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">here</a> p. 193-197).<br />
<br />
There was a time when Bp. Tissier de Mallerais consistently held Archbishop Lefebvre’s position in his words, interviews and books. In the Interview he had on June 1, 2012, with “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Rivarol</span>”, the following exchange occurred.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Rivarol</span>: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Some believe that the proposed statute of the personal prelature to the Society will provide a sufficient guarantee against the danger of abandoning the fight for the Faith.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Bp. Tissier</span>: <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">That is incorrect. According to the project of the personal prelature, we <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">would not be free</span> to open new priories without the permission of the local bishops and, additionally, all our recent foundations would have to be approved by these same bishops. It would consequently mean subjugating ourselves unnecessarily to an overall Modernist episcopate.</span><br />
<br />
Unfortunately, Bp. Tissier has not taken concrete steps to oppose the undermining of Abp. Lefebvre’s work, perhaps due to ill health or weakness. Bp. Galarreta unfortunately changed positions and was heard to say publicly that if the Superior General decides to seek normalization with Modernist Rome, “Too bad, we will just have to go with it.” This is, moreover, substantiated by his own inaction.<br />
<br />
So how would Abp. Lefebvre apply to these two, the notorious phrase “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Put away your toys?</span>” He would ask them to abandon their inaction and silent compromise and come back to their former position, and to act upon it! He would remind them that we can never put the organization or institution of the Society or any congregation, above the Faith! “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">But I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first charity!</span>” (Apocalypse 2:4). They should be leading the Catholic Resistance by simply continuing the position and work of Abp. Lefebvre, which is what the true Catholic Resistance is all about!<br />
<br />
So many faces dropped and hearts were soured by the retort made by one bishop to the faithful when he said “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Put away your toys!</span>” The scattered sheep, scandalized by the Modernist direction of the New-SSPX, were hoping that at least one of Abp. Lefebvre’s sons would continue the Fight for Tradition, simply, as he had done! Just continue! No new doctrines, no new methods, no new smiling approaches with Modernist Rome, just continue what Abp. Lefebvre passed down to us faithfully, until Rome comes back to Tradition! The graces, growth and good fruits were all there!<br />
<br />
So, it is not too far-fetched to conjecture that Abp. Lefebvre, rather than hurl such sarcasm at the struggling souls who expect leadership, and rightly so, from their bishops of Tradition, would on the contrary, direct this phrase to his own bishops and priests in the most severe time of crisis, and say: “<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">Follow what I laid down, continue the work of Tradition without compromise, don’t make excuses for the sterile, fruitless New Mass, sanctify souls and, rather than please men and seek approval from the anti-Christs in Rome, ‘Put away your toys!’ and continue the Combat for the Faith!</span>!” Here are his own words:<br />
<br />
“<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">My Dear Friends, The See of Peter and the posts of authority in Rome being occupied by anti-Christs, the destruction of the Kingdom of our Lord is being rapidly carried out even within His Mystical Body here below, especially through the corruption of the Holy Mass…The corruption of the Holy Mass has brought the corruption of the priesthood and the universal decadence of Faith in the Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“...This is what has brought down upon our heads persecution by the Rome of the anti-Christs. Since this Rome, Modernist and Liberal, is carrying on its work of destruction of the Kingdom of Our Lord, as Assisi and the confirmation of the liberal theses of Vatican II on Religious Liberty prove, I find myself constrained by Divine Providence to pass on the grace of the Catholic episcopacy which I received, in order that the Church and the Catholic priesthood continue to subsist for the glory of God and the salvation of souls.</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">“That is why...I will bestow this grace upon you, confident that without too long a delay the See of Peter will be occupied by a successor of Peter who is perfectly Catholic, and into whose hands you will be able to put back the grace of your episcopacy so that he may confirm it.</span>” (cf. Letter to the Future Bishops, by Abp. Marcel Lefebvre, August 29, 1987). <br />
<br />
Take note, this was 34 years ago! Things are far worse and we seem to be miles away from a perfectly Catholic Pope!<br />
<br />
Let us pray for our prelates of Tradition, they can easily reignite the fire of the Faith and prepare Our Lady’s victory if they just do what our Founder did!<br />
<br />
O’ Queen of the Holy Rosary, help us!<br />
<br />
In Christ the King,<br />
Fr. David Hewko]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sorrowful Heart of Mary Newsletter - February/March 2021]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2021 10:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b"><span style="color: #71101d;" class="mycode_color">Sorrowful Heart of Mary Newsletter - February/March 2021</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align">To view the Newsletter in your browser and/or to download, click <a href="https://catacombs.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/SHM/SHM_2021/SHM%20February-March%202021.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">HERE</a></div>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sorrowful Heart of Mary Newsletter - December 2020/January 2021]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2021 23:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align">To view the Newsletter in your browser and/or to download, click <a href="https://catacombs.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/SHM/SHM_2021/SHM%20December%202020-January%202021.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">HERE</a></div>]]></description>
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<div style="text-align: center;" class="mycode_align">To view the Newsletter in your browser and/or to download, click <a href="https://catacombs.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/SHM/SHM_2021/SHM%20December%202020-January%202021.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">HERE</a></div>]]></content:encoded>
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