Bishop Huonder to Consecrate an SSPX Church in Switzerland

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Taken from the Non Possumus blog [machine translated]:


Saturday, October 28, 2023

ONE MORE STEP INTO THE ABYSS: BISHOP(?) HUONDER WILL CONSECRATE AN SSPX CHURCH IN SWITZERLAND

The official German  website of the Neo-SSPX announces that Bishop (?) Huonder will consecrate the church of Oberriet Priory, Switzerland, on November 18.

This is a new step in the strategy of gradual rapprochement between the Fraternity and the official liberal clergy.

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As the above article notes, this is yet another step towards a reconciling with Rome, in this case, under a papacy infamous for quelling traditionalist communities. 

The SSPX has four of it's own bishops - why deliberately use a Novus Ordo bishop (literally, a bishop of the New Order - whose episcopal validity may well be doubtful) to consecrate a church? 

Just a few weeks ago, the SSPX Bishop Tissier de Mallerais performed Confirmations in an active Novus Ordo church. 

It is not hard to see a pattern here.

But cui bono? Who benefits? How does the SSPX benefit? How does Rome benefit? Rome obviously benefits by getting more and more control over yet another traditionalist group, who is then at it's mercy. And we all know the 'mercy' extended toward traditionalist groups under Pope Francis. Surely the SSPX is not ignorant of these actions.

But what does the Society gain? This is the puzzle. It almost leads one to believe that the SSPX authorities may be getting something personal from such a rapport? It certainly goes against the SSPX's preaching on the subject for the first several decades of their founding. 'No deals with Rome until Rome converts back to the traditional Faith.' That condition has most certainly not been met. And yet we see a closer and closer partnering between a progressive Rome and the SSPX over the last ten years (cf. The SSPX: Ten Years Ago). It is such a betrayal of the priests and laity who have stayed with the SSPX with the impression that they are remaining traditional.

But unfortunately, the recent Confirmations by Bishop Tissier de Mallerais in a New Order church and the Consecration of an SSPX church by a New Order bishop demonstrate once again that the SSPX is in effect, essentially an Indult community.

Archbishop Lefebvre strongly warned against such Indult compromises: “Availing ourselves of the Indult is tantamount to putting ourselves into a state of contradiction because at the same time that Rome gives the Fraternity of St. Peter, for example, or Le Barroux Abbey and other groups authorization to say the Mass of All Time, they also require young priests to sign a profession of faith in which the spirit of the Council must be accepted. It is a contradiction: the spirit of the Council is embodied in the New Mass. How is it possible to desire to preserve the Mass of all time while accepting the spirit that destroys this Mass of All Time? It is completely contradictory.” sspx.org/en/archbishop-lefebvre-indult-mass

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Meanwhile this is the SSPX clergy and faithful-

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It has been done...

Retired Diocesan Bishop Consecrates Pius X Church

gloria.tv | November 21, 2023

Vitus Huonder, 81, retired Chur Bishop (ordained a Novus Ordo bishop in 2007), consecrated the church of the Society of St. Pius X in the Swiss border town of Oberriet, on November 18.

Oberriet is one of the largest PiusX [SSPX] priories in the German-speaking world. Many of the faithful come from neighbouring Austria. The priory was founded in 1978 in a machine room of a former rubber factory.

The church has three altars and seats 300 people.

Video here.

As one commenter to the above article adroitly asked, "Has this bishop renounced the Novus Ordo heresy and has a valid episcopal consecration?"

As previously written here on The Catacombs:

"But when a Conciliar bishop, known to be a personal friend of a great modernist like Pope Francis, "retires" to live amongst traditionalists, as Bishop Huonder did in 2019 when he retired to live with the SSPX in Switzerland, this leaves one questioning if such an action is as innocent at it seems? 

"Archbishop Lefebvre repeatedly warned that the goal of modernist Rome was to re-absorb the traditional groups. They have done this many times already, with Fraternity of St. Peter, Institute of Christ the King, etc.:

Upon reflection, it appears clear that the goal of these dialogues is to reabsorb us within the Conciliar Church, the only Church to which you make allusion during these meetings.” (Letter of Archbishop Lefebvre to Cardinal Ratzinger, May 24, 1988)

"It is of paramount importance to note that this Conciliar Bishop Huonder has yet to formally renounce his Conciliar beliefs, as Archbishop Viganò has done many times, for example (see here and  here). Bishop Huonder did not come to the SSPX as a traditionalist, he came as a Conciliarist. When Bishop Lazo came to the SSPX in the 1990's, he fully converted to Tradition. (See #27 here). When Bishop Huonder arrived at the SSPX, it was with Pope Francis' express permission and without an abandonment of the errors of the Second Vatican Council. The phrases, Trojan Horse and Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, come to mind."

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A few words from Archbishop Lefebvre, founder of the SSPX, on how the Modernists cannot be trusted until there is a full conversion back to tradition:

• “When they say they [Dom Gerard and the Fraternity of St. Peter/Indult groups] don’t have to give anything up, that’s false. They have given up the ability to oppose Rome. They cannot say anything anymore. They must remain silent given the favours that have been granted them. It is now impossible for them to expose the errors of the Conciliar Church. Softly, softly they adhere, even be it only by their Profession of Faith that is requested by Cardinal Ratzinger. I think Dom Gérard is about to publish a small book written by one of his monks on Religious Liberty and which will try to justify it. From the point of view of ideas, they begin to slide ever so slowly and end up by admitting the false ideas of the Council, because Rome has granted them some favours of Tradition. It’s a very dangerous situation” (Fideliter No. 79, January-February 1991)
  

• “The bishops concerned - the supposedly conservative bishops - are wholly supportive of the Council and of the post-Conciliar reforms, of ecumenism and of the charismatic movement. Apparently, they are being a little more moderate and showing slightly more traditional religious sentiment, but it does not go deep. The great fundamental principles of the Council, the errors of the Council, they accept them and put them into practice. That is no problem for them. On the contrary, I would go so far as to say that it is these conservative bishops who treat us the worst. It is they who would the most insistently demand that we submit to the principles of the Council.” (One Year After the Consecrations, July-August, 1989)
  

• “For them there is no question of abandoning the New Mass. On the contrary. That is obvious. That is why what can look like a concession is in reality merely a maneuver 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. It is the greatest danger threatening our people. If we have struggled for twenty years to avoid the Conciliar errors, it was not in order, now, to put ourselves in the hands of those professing these errors.” (One Year After the Consecrations, July-August, 1989)