The point of the discussions is for the Church to restate what has always been taught to remove the errors that have plagued our age.

The SSPX also needs to obtain a regular position within the Catholic Church because they currently do not have faculties that are normally supplied by the ordinaries of each diocese. But I believe that truth must be reaffirmed first, otherwise diocesan bishops will have much conflict with the SSPX even if they are provided with a situation similar to Opus Dei.

John Paul II had already promised him bishops, but wanted to choose them himself, as he did not like the wonderful orthodoxy of the group of four which were chosen. It would have only been more dilution, of the same manner which currently penetrates and corrupts the church. We must be strong, united and orthodox, and the new mass does not lend to that. We must have a concrete and unchanging ideology, and much of Vatican II does not lend to that.

Poor Msgr. Lefebvre was serving a mission in Africa during the 1950′s, only to return to a Europe that had fallen off the rocker, so to speak. The modernism which His Holiness Pope Saint Pius X and his predecessors had warned of and forbidden had crept into Europe and into the church’s clergy. For those who are modernists, it cannot be described sufficiently the feeling of utter loneliness which accompanies finding an entire world gone mad.

Articles like this one are incredibly uncharitable to those people who are forcing the ecclesiastical hand, so to speak, at bringing a return to tradition. In a world which has thrown away its kings and committed every sort of detestable act, the church must be a bulwark against that pernicious modernism which is destroying the world. We must be loyal to her as she must be loyal to tradition, and to provide us with that majesty and esteem which our souls desire and crave. Our pontiff must resume the Tiara and rejoin his rightful place at the forefront of the world, as God’s Vicar on Earth. It is a terrible defeat of one’s spirit to support a king who is unwilling to rule; to see nobility in shambles. The world of today needs more than pastoralism; It needs strength and Tradition.

I am not a parishioner of the SSPX, but I do very much see the Church in crisis, and look to the Society as our modern world’s Athanasius, to some extent.

Sancta Maria Dei Genetrix, ora pro nobis peccatoribus.

That makes him an excellent Archbishop?
Direct and personal pleas from the greatest evangelizer of the century had no effect on him?
Is Traditional Catholic moral living our Salvation?

When the Holy Spirit moves the Church in a certain direction, those who don’t want to follow do so at their own peril.

1stly the SSPX do recognize the Pope’s from John XIII onwards as legitimate Popes, they are NOT sedevacantist

2ndly as Jayreilly says the SSPX practise Traditional Catholic morality – how many people in your average Parish can say that?

3rdly The SSPX (as nearly all traditionalists do) have questions regarding what the documents of the Second Vatican Council regarding religious liberty (lets face it ALOT of theologians and Bishops have gone down the all religions are equal line) and ecuminsm actually say, this is what the Holy Father has invited them to discuss.

4thly Mr Wiegel whose writings I generally respect has missed the ball on several points here. The SSPX in several of their documents notes that other christian sects do possess fragments of truth and that persuing the Truth i.e. Christ established the Catholic Church for the salvation of man and that outside of it there is NO SALVATION is a good thing, indeed +Tisser de mallarais recently received a former lutheren pastor into the Church, what they do not accept is what many bishops/priests have said i.e. it doesn’t matter what religion/christian sect you belong to, the same former lutheran said that the ‘professional ecuminists’ of the Catholic Church had lots of ncie words but nothing of substence in thier dicussions.
The SSPX has never said someone could be made to accept the faith at the point of the sword, the SSPX is not inherrently anti-semitic (+Williamson’s comments about the numbers killed in the holocaust do not constitute antisemitism).

The SSPX has also welcomed Summorum pontificum, they still have questions about the Novus Ordo, questions raised by Cardinals Ottivani and Baccai Forty years ago, however to my knowledge they do not deny that it is a valid Mass.

Mr Weigel’s article is ill-informed and bears little releation to much of his former reporting an example , I suggest that the next time he writes about the Excellent work of the FSSPX he checks his facts.

Full disclousure, all though I am not a parishionor of the FSSPX I regard the late Mgr Lefebrve as an excellent Archbishop and a man from who many Bishops today could learn a thing or two, the society which he founded has borne much good fruit and I wish them the best for the future and look foward to the speedy regluarisation of the FSSPX – Bishop Fellay for POPE!!!

Finally, all people, no matter their beliefs, need to be considered and treated with charity, above all.