11-01-2023, 07:32 AM
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
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
"So let us be confident, let us not be unprepared, let us not be outflanked, let us be wise, vigilant, fighting against those who are trying to tear the faith out of our souls and morality out of our hearts, so that we may remain Catholics, remain united to the Blessed Virgin Mary, remain united to the Roman Catholic Church, remain faithful children of the Church."- Abp. Lefebvre