Derail Drive
The Society is
sinking, not yet sunk.
Pray for its
leaders reeling, as though drunk.
A number of Catholics who love the Church and
understand what the Society of St Pius X could and should be doing for it, were
encouraged by recent words of one of its bishops. They thought that maybe yet
it can be pulled back from the brink of an agreement by which it would put
itself under the control of some of the Church’s (objectively) worst enemies in
all its history – the neo-modernist officials of today’s Rome. Indeed there
were many good things said by Bishop de Galarreta in his Ordinations sermon on
June 3 at the last priestly Ordinations to be held in Winona, Minnesota, before
its move to Virginia, but no friend of the Catholic Faith should raise his
hopes too high.
His sermon began by connecting the Catholic priesthood
to Our Lord Jesus Christ as the one and only Way, Truth and Life. But, he went
on, there is today in the Church a relativism in doctrine which opens the door
to relativism in morals and to such scandals as the recent Roman Synod’s even
just considering the giving of Holy Communion to couples divorced and
“remarried.” The bishop said these scandals were rooted in Vatican II, and he
castigated the Council as being a bad tree of which they are merely the logical
bad fruit. Now Mgr Pozzo raised hopes several weeks ago that the Society in
order to obtain official recognition from Rome might not have to accept the
Council, but the Bishop rightly pointed out that both Pope Francis and Cardinal
Mueller have since dashed such hopes, by making clear that their recognition of
the Society will still require that acceptance.
The Bishop concluded, “Therefore it is also clear that
the (Society’s) fight continues. As our Superior General, Bishop Fellay, has
said, if we have to choose between faith and a compromise, the choice is
already made – no compromise.”
Fighting words, but the Bishop immediately added
a possible escape-hatch of a kind familiar to us from him: “God may certainly
change the circumstances and put us in a different situation, which is what we
all hope for.” For could not “changed circumstances” include some clever
understanding agreeable to both Rome and the Superior General, which the latter
would accept? (Nor was it any use Bishop de Galarreta’s quoting just beforehand
words of the Superior General against his own policy, because his own words do
not normally pin down this Superior General.)
What strongly suggests that the fighting words do not
in fact correspond to the Superior General’s own intentions is the speed with
which the text including them was taken down (to be doctored or trashed?) so
soon after it was put up on the official website of the Society in the USA.
What lesser official of the Society could have given the order virtually to
disown words of one of its own bishops? Such an idea is rather confirmed by a
conference given on June 5 by the Society’s second-in-command to parishioners
of the Society’s church in Houston, TX, and not since disowned by Headquarters
(comments in italics):—
Fr Pfluger said that there is nothing wrong in going
with Rome (illusion); that the Society will go as it is (illusion): that we
must move with the times, and now is the time to be in Rome (illusion); that
Archbishop Lefebvre also contradicted himself many times in his time (illusion
– see June 11’s “Eleison Comments”), and finally that here and now we must
trust Bishop Fellay (after all his “terminological inexactitudes”? –
illusion!). But the Society’s First Assistant is more than free to say such
things, because they are faithful to the Society’s drive at the very top to put
itself under Roman control.
In conclusion, dear readers, for the sake of all the
good that the true Society could and should be doing for the Universal Church,
by all means pray for a miracle to derail that drive towards Rome, and put any
pressure you can on Superiors taking part in the end of June meeting (not yet a
General Chapter, but preparing the fatal one) that they make themselves the
instruments of God in the derailing of that drive.
Kyrie eleison.
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