1. The heads of the dicasteries [capi dicastero], in fact, were called to evaluate, together with the pope, the fastest and the most legally valid ways to arrive at what Benedict XVI wishes with all his strength: that is, the end of every disagreement with the Fraternity of Saint Pius X (the official name of that organization which assembles the followers of Lefebvre, that is, the four bishops, almost 500 priests and hundreds of thousands of faithful in the five continents). Actually, Ratzinger did not need consultants: he had been put in charge by John Paul II to look after this very delicate question for more than a decade. It is known, in fact, that Wojtila suffered immensely for having to impose the excommunications which signaled the birth of the only schism of contemporary times.

2. Benedict XVI, who, once elected pope, quickly decided to carry the matter forward to solve it in a short time, has chosen instead to assure a broad consensus and the input of legal-technical advice in taking the decision which he had always considered an absolute priority.

3. A document will be drafted to be presented to the Pope in another meeting, scheduled for March 23, which -- according to the news collected by us -- will signal not only the lifting of the excommunications, but the end of the schism

4. "The Holy Father", says one of his collaborators, "is so interested in finding a solution in a very short time that he is ready to find any legal way which pleases him. Naturally without disregarding the fundamental principles of the Church, of her history, and of the dispositions which concern her today."

5. Therefore, a compromise? "In such matters", responds the Pope's collaborator, "there are no compromises, at least not in the current and easily misleading sense of the word, but there are fruitful mediations, especially when both parts have the will to arrive at an objective".

6. Asked if March 23 will be the true date, it is answered: "For us, it will be."

7. Nobody in the Vatican admits it in clear terms, but the often recurrent news according to which Benedict XVI himself has, at least with a certain frequency, direct contacts with the Fraternity of Saint Pius X seems well founded. Repeated (extremely discrete) telephone conversations between Ratzinger and the Lefebvrian bishop Fellay are mentioned, from which has matured a disposition, from the part of Traditionalists, which is quite superior [more positive] than that which is expressed by the official communiqués.

8. Actually, the truly encouraging results of these contacts have induced Ratzinger to call the two meetings of [past] Monday and of March 23 and to bring the news to the outside, which would have been avoided if there had not been a feeling of justified optimism.

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02/25/06

Fellay's Summary reveals SSPX embrace of BOD & BOB heresies

Here is a link to for a summary of the conference given by Bishop Fellay in Colorado, 19 February 2006.

 

 

http://truerestoration.blogspot.com/2006/02/very-latest-about-sspx-rome-relations.html

 

 

Those who say they are "Traditional Catholics" worried about the SSPX move back toward Modernist Rome was bad enough. For me, however, this sentence in the summary jumped off the page:

 

 

"At this point [Bishop Fellay] also reaffirmed the Society’s belief in Baptism of Desire and Baptism of Blood. "

 

 

Well, I guess SSPX should be "in union" with the non-Catholic Novus Ordo since it, like the SSPX, does not hold the Catholic Church's dogmatic teaching on the necessity of Water Baptism for salvation.

In Cordibus Iesu et Mariae,
Fr. Dennis McCormack, S. I.

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02/26/06

Fr. Trytek explains why he left the Society of St. Pius X

Translated by Volunteer Translator --thank you
 
The Polish original is posted here: http://www.ultramontes.pl/deklaracja.htm

Declaration
Rev. Raphael Trytek

Cracow, February 2nd, 2006

For nearly half a century since, Christian life remains eclipsed under the propagation of what the Church has infallibly condemned over centuries as Modernistic errors and heresies, such as: 1) Religious freedom, essentially leading to the acceptance of state atheism; 2) falsely conceived Ecumenism -whether equalization of false religious doctrines to the One True Catholic Church, or acknowledgment of other religions, including even Judaism, Islam, and Paganism, as means leading to salvation; 3) the erroneous conception of the Church of Christ as not identical with the Catholic Church, but as a wider entity that includes the Catholic Church without being limited to it; 4) the advancement of one global syncretistic religion; 5) adherence to Masonic ideas, such as the propagation of alleged "natural" rights of man, which essentially becomes an expression of anthropocentrism.

It is impossible for the True Church of Christ and for Her Hierarchy -Pope and Bishops remaining in union with him- to subscribe to that apostasy! Whoever is willing to preserve and to confess the Catholic Faith, must acknowledge that the institution that insistently peddles and publicly proclaims so shameful errors, has nothing in common with the true Catholic Church, and that its ruler, currently Joseph Ratzinger, is no legal authority to Catholics and has no power of jurisdiction over them. This means that he is no true Pope, Vicar of Christ on Earth, Successor of Saint Peter in the primacy, but only a usurper and an occupier of Peter's See, even as his Modernistic predecessors who accepted, confirmed, decreed and brought to life the heretical teaching of the so-called Second Vatican Council. If the opposite were the case, the Church of Christ would prove fallible, destructible and stainable, which would be contrary to the promises of the Lord Jesus that "the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (Mt 16:18). Therefore, as I reject the apostasy of Modernism, I also reject the false answer to it that the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), whose member I was till recently, forces its priests and faithful to accept.

1) I reject as subversive and un-Catholic the SSPX assertion that the Church can voice heresy, promulgate or bring to life binding universal liturgical laws (the Novus Ordo Missae and new sacramental rites) and disciplinary laws (e.g. the 1983 Code of Canon Law) that contain contradictions, errors and heresies or are wholly invalid, hinder the salvation of souls and lead to Protestantism. I likewise reject the view that canonizations of Saints performed by the Church are open to doubt.

2) I reject the false alternative proposed by the SSPX -unity or confession of unadulterated Faith. The Unity of the Catholic Church is based upon one same faith, same sacraments, and obedience to one same Pope. There is no true unity where not even one of the aforementioned elements occurs. Moreover, it is not possible to confess the true faith against the unity of the Church.

3) I reject the SSPX system, where recognition of the Pope is merely illusory, where the Pope has a mere primacy of honor, and where the only noticeable expression of acknowledgment of papal primacy is to occasionally hang a picture of the current occupant of Peter's See, whom the SSPX erroneously holds to be the Pope, in sacristies of Society chapels and churches. However, the "proper and legal" authority for the Society, ultimately deciding what a Catholic must admit or reject in Church teaching, is the Superior General of the SSPX [currently Bishop Bernard Fellay --Editor]. Accordingly, the Society places his "authority" above the "authority" of the one erroneously held to be the true Pope.

4) I reject as hypocritical the SSPX stance of insisting on a game "at two fronts", of which, effectively, the real one, and concurrently the one most damaging to the souls of the faithful, is to protect and legitimize the culprits of the current universal apostasy by assigning them attributes of legality, and, what is more, of power of jurisdiction over Catholics. Such a stance is the result of backsliding from the holy duty of conveying the whole integral Deposit of the Catholic Faith.

My responsibility as a Catholic is the confession of the unadulterated Catholic Faith, the same what was universally practiced till the death of the Holy Father Pius XII. In particular as a Catholic priest I summon all lovers of Truth to reject any compromise with the Modernistic occupants, and to join the common battle for the Catholic cause in our hearts and in our Fatherland! This struggle will be hard and may seem hopeless from a human point-of -view, however, what greater honor than to take part in the struggle for the triumph of the Holy Church, which shall eventually be victorious!

We beseech the Queen of Poland not to forget her nation in her prayers before the throne of the heavenly King, and to obtain for us strength to persevere in the Truth, true holiness, and love of God and neighbor.

Rev. Raphael Trytek

Cracow, on the Feast of Candlemas

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03/07/06

SSPX in Farmingville follows Novus Ordo Fasting Regulations for Lent

This was not a bombshell when it reached my Internet mailbox. The one who brought it to my attention, a layman who attends the SSPX chapel, was shocked.

 

No shocker for me since, if SSPX accepts the Vatican II "Popes," it should be following the New Code of Canon Law, no?

 

Better yet: should they not also be "obedient" in requesting permission from the local Novus Ordo "bishop" to work on Long Island in the first place?

 

 

In Cordibus Iesu et Mariae,
Fr. Dennis McCormack, S. I.

 

 

SSPX on Long Island and the bulletin on Ash Wednesday stated the following:

 

            “All catholics ages 14 and up are obliged to abstain from meat this Ash Wednesday.  And all catholics between ages of 18 and 59 are obliged to fast this Ash Wednesday.  New Code Canons 1251 & 1252.  All Catholics are encouraged, though no longer under pain of Mortal Sin, to keep the fast throughout the remainder of lent excepting Sundays.  The fast of Lent is no longer obligatory under pain of Sin except Ash Wednesday and Good Friday which still oblige under pain of mortal sin.

            The obligation to abstain from meat on all Fridays of the year still obliges under pain of venial sin.”

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03/09/06

Senior SSPX Bishop Says in French Interview: Benedict-Ratzinger Is "Hopeless"

Traditio has posted some information regarding an interview that Bishop Williamson gave to a French newspaper, which printed the piece on 8 March.

 

Might he be the only SSPX bishop not willing to play ball with the Modernists in Rome? If so, he has a big decision to make that will set him apart from the other three SSPX bishops.

 

In Cordibus Iesu et Mariae,
Fr. Dennis McCormack, S. I.

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Exclusive Report to TRADITIO:

From: Francois (SSPX Correspondent from France)

 

Dear Fathers:

Here in France, Minute, a conservative periodical, has published on March 8 its interview with Bishop Williamson, the senior SSPX bishop, who is considered a "hard-liner" against Newrome. On the same day it was reported that that SSPX Superior General Bernard Fellay has invited to a meeting at Flavigny all the priors of SSPX chapels in France for a secret meeting. The topic of this meeting has not been made public.

Minute prefaced its interview, in French, with Bishop Williamson by a statement that "in a few weeks, according to its information, a substantive meeting would occur between Pope Benedict XVI and Bishop Bernard Fellay," as the sell-out may accelerate. The two U.S. traditionally-bent periodicals that recently called upon Fellay not to sell out to Newchurch, according to an earlier report on TRADITIO, can be worried. Here are some highlights of the Minute interview, in which Bishop Williamson stated that:

1. the SSPX Liberalist Faction's sell-out to Newrome seems to have faltered (hésité) in the last months (this essentially confirms TRADITIO's earlier reports that a sell-out was going full steam ahead until the apparent plan of Fellay & Schmidberger became known throughout the Society a few months via European periodicals, French web sites, and, of course, TRADITIO)
   
2. he was "very disappointed" (plutôt décevante) at a five-hour report given by Fellay on the latter's November 15 meeting with Newchurch Cardinal Hoyos, since Hoyos' position was "hardly better" (guère mieux) than what had been discussed in 2000/2001
   
3. Benedict has embraced Vatican II errors, as indicated in his speech of December 22, 2005, that "the Rome of the Council has not changed" (la Rome du concile n'a pas changé)
   
4. there is no hope for this pontificate, humanly speaking, short of a great miracle of God (un grand miracle de Dieu) returning the Conciliarists to a sense of the dogma of the Faith
   
5. Benedict is trying to de-Christianize the world while the Society is trying to Christianize it; thus, the opposition is "diametric" (diamétrale): "What is there to discuss?" (which has always been TRADITIO's point!)
   
6. dialogue with Benedict "is not itself without danger" (n'est pas sans danger)
   
7. some of the traditional faithful seem tired of the battle for Tradition (this has also been one of TRADITIO's explanations for the tendency toward a sellout on the part of Fellay & Schmidberger and their Liberalist Faction: they're growing weary of the battle)
   
8. the Society of St. Pius X would cease to exist (n'y serait plus) if it compromised with the dogma of the Faith, as the best of the Society's faithful would cease to follow the SSPX if it compromised with Newrome
   
9. the Society has "bent" (risé) since 1991, when Archbishop Lefebvre died
   
10. the Society must become "apostolic and missionary" against the universal apostasy since Vatican II (this call is similar to that issued by TRADITIO some time ago that Fellay & Co. should stop wasting their time in "negotiations" with the New Order and devote their resources on building traditional Catholicism as a whole, publicly taking on Newchurch and its officials, and educating the public about the Great Facade that is the Vatican II Newchurch)

This initiative of Bishop Williamson, who is known as a "hard-liner" against Newrome, is being understood here as an attempt to stop the final step of the sell-out of the SSPX by Fellay-Schmidberger to Benedict.

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03/19/06

Roman Curia to discuss SSPX on 7 April

What a fitting day for this to take place: Friday, 7 April: not only a First Friday but also, this year, the Feast of the Seven Sorrows of Our Blessed Mother.

 

Already two reasons for it to be a day of reparation - the THIRD would be what seems to be the SSPX's approach to formally uniting with the Usurpers of the Apostolic Throne.

 

Let us console the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Sorrowful Heart of Mary for the continued defection of so-called Roman Catholics to the Novus Ordo Establishment.

 

 

In Cordibus Iesu et Mariae,
Fr. Dennis McCormack, S. I.

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Vatican City, Mar. 17, 2006 (CNA) - According to Vatican sources, Pope Benedict XVI has scheduled an unplanned meeting with the presidents of the different Vatican dicasteries, at which he will discuss reforms of the Curia and relations with the Saint Pius X, Lefebvrist schism.

The extraordinary April 7th meeting announcement comes after an ordinary meeting which took place last month, at which the Holy Father asked the dicastery heads about universal approval of the Missal of St. Pius V, the rite which was in force prior to Vatican II.

During this unusual second meeting, the Pontiff is expected to solicit opinions about what to do with the Missal of St. Pius V and about a possible canonical formula for re-incorporating the followers of the schismatic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre into the Church.

The reorganization of the Roman Curia, which has already begun with the folding of four dicasteries into two, announced last weekend, is also expected to be discussed.

According to Vatican sources, the issue of reorganization of the Curia might also be discussed during the consistory that Pope has convened for March 23 and 24.

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03/24/06


Friday, March 24, 2006
The Traditionalist canonical package - Important
La Stampa also offers a few interesting notes on yesterday's meeting. We will translate the pertinent passage as soon as possible.


The essential information is that the pope's resoluteness prevailed over the small opposition of a few cardinals, historical opponents of the FSSPX. The result of the discussion was that, in general terms, the Pope was given "carte blanche" to pursue what he deems necessary to integrate the Traditionalists who are in irregular communion . The outline of a possible structure was introduced as part of a "canonical package" to be presented.

Source and translation of the relevant passage (5:30 PM GMT):

On the Lefebvrists, meanwhile, Benedict XVI has obtained a free way [via libera, the go-ahead] from the porporati [the Cardinals], even if some resistance from some cardinals, historical opponents of the Fraternity Saint Pius X, was noticed. Cardinal Kasper noticed the fact: "There are different approaches," he said. But the will of the Pontiff, who last August received Bishop Fellay and Father Schmidberger, has prevailed over the hesitations, even though the success of what is to come is not certain.

The "package" for the reintegration of the Lefebvrists is substantially ready, result of the work of Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos (Clergy) and of Cardinal Julian Herranz (Legislative Texts). A kind of worldwide super-diocese would be established, guided by a bishop named by the Pope, who would then delegate portions of his jurisdiction to vicars. Other than that, which would render Lefebvrists [Translator's note: actually, all Traditionalists] independent from the local bishops, the creation of a seminary, for the formation of future priests, is expected, keeping the future spiritual identity of the organization.

A secret two day meeting in Rome, in mid-November, between the leader of the "Fraternity Saint Pius X" and Cardinal Castrillon, had clarified some aspects; and bishop Fellay, and his right hand [man], Franz Schmidberger, seemed willing to [give] a definitive step, even if that would have cost the loss of some extreme fringe.

However, in that meeting, it had been agreed that the Fraternity would write the Pope a letter asking that, in view of the new situation which was being established, the excommunications issued when Marcel Lefebvre had illicitly ordained four bishops be eliminated. And the letter has not yet arrived. There was then a second point, observed yesterday by cardinal Kasper: "Each one of us wants the reconciliation, even if there are always signs of different experiences. The problem is knowing if the situation has already matured. If they are willing to recognize the Council, there is the possibility of a resolution". Cardinal Castrillon was even more optimistic: "The Church welcomes them with open arms. We are in the way, we need God's help, everything depends on the Lord, it is he who is in charge and who guides everything. In every family, there are many voices and many points of view." And the Lefebvrists would be, in the inside of the Church, one of those voices.

We would add that a few details are not precise, but the general tone is very similar to the information we had been receiving. Some other details regarding the November meeting had already been confirmed by Bishop Fellay in his most recent conferences.

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03/25/06