Benevolent Ally?
A V II bishop wishes Tradcats well? –
But can he see how V II leads to
Hell?
Bishop
Athanasius Schneider, originally from Germany but now a Bishop of Astana in
Kazakhstan, has made himself known to Traditionalists in recent years for his
many statements at least apparently sympathetic to Catholic Tradition. For
instance last year he associated himself publicly with the four Cardinals’
questioning of Pope Francis’ doctrine in the papal document, Amoris Laetitia. When he himself does so much to criticize
the Church swinging “left,” he may not understand or appreciate coming under
attack from the “right,” but it is the Truth which is at stake, not our little
personalities. Your Excellency, thank you for much truth that you have had the
courage openly to defend, but do understand that the full Truth is much
stronger, and more demanding, than you think. You gave recently an interview to Adelante la Fe. Please do not take it personally if I
quote (in italics) a few of your answers and criticize them:—
I am convinced that in the present circumstances, Msgr. Lefebvre
would accept Rome’s canonical proposal of a Personal Prelature without
hesitation. Your Excellency, that is impossible. Archbishop Lefebvre
believed, and proved by argument from Church theology and history, that Vatican
II was an unprecedented betrayal, by the highest authorities in the Church, of
1900 years of unchangeable Church doctrine. But official Rome is still
following that objectively treacherous Council. Therefore to put the SSPX under
this Rome will be to put the fox in charge of the hen-coop. The Archbishop
always hoped Rome would come right. It has still not done so.
Msgr. Lefebvre was a man with a deep ”sensus ecclesiae,” or sense
of the Church. That is true, because above
all he had a deep and clear grasp of Catholic doctrine, or teaching, which is
at the heart of the Church. “Going, TEACH all nations,” was Jesus’ last
instruction to his Apostles (Mt. XXVIII , 20). Vatican II betrayed Catholic
doctrine, so the Archbishop’s very sense of the Church made him repudiate that
Council. Today’s Conciliarists in Rome can never rebuild the Church.
He consecrated four bishops in 1988 because he was convinced
that there was a real state of necessity. It was the objective crisis that gave rise to the subjective
conviction, and not the other way round. Our modern world is mentally sick with
subjectivism. The Archbishop was an objectivist.
If the SSPX remains canonically independent for too long, its
members and followers will lose their sense of the need to be subject to the
Pope, and they will end up ceasing to be Catholic. The Pope is Pope in order to “confirm his brethren” in the
Faith. See Luke XXII, 32.
If he is a Conciliar Pope with his faith corrupted by Vatican II, he can no
longer give what he has not got. It is by being subject to Conciliar Popes that
countless Catholics since the Council have lost the true Faith.
No Catholic can pick and choose which Popes he will or will not
be subject to. God guides His Church. The present crisis in the Church is unprecedented because never
before in Church history has there been a series of Popes out of line with the true Faith as we have seen
since Vatican II. This means that Catholics must – exceptionally – judge their
Popes, bishops and priests. By this crisis God is purifying His Church, and
when the purification is complete, He will grant to His Church a great and
truly Catholic Pope.
I have told Bishop Fellay, we in Rome need the SSPX in today’s
great battle for the purity of the Faith. Your Excellency, do believe that Conciliar Rome
will do its best to complete the SSPX’s corruption of the Faith. Already the
official SSPX has slidden far from the Archbishop’s objective Faith.
Kyrie eleison.
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