These questions are posed in sincerity and with filial love for Holy Mother Church.
The responses are actual statements of His Excellency from a talk he gave in August of 2016.
1. Why
is a personal prelature beneficial?
“All the sacraments the
faithful will belong to this body will have the strict right to receive all the
Sacraments from the priests of the Society. All the Sacraments, marriage included.”
2. But doesn't the Society already profess to have all of these things under Supplied Jurisdiction? I was married in a Society chapel. Do you say it is invalid?
[No answer available]
3. What
will change if Rome gives the SSPX a personal prelature?
“At the head, a bishop. This
bishop, chosen by the Pope, with three names which are presented by the Society
and taken in the Society. This bishop will have authority above the priests,
above the religious who want to be members, and above the faithful. This bishop
will have the right to have schools, seminaries, ordinations, even to make NEW
religious congregations and accept inside others who like to join. It is
something like a superdiocese, autonomous from the local bishops.
No change for you [faithful]
now, the only thing will be with the recognition that you are Catholics.”
4. What
are the risks of a Personal Prelature?
“You can imagine that will
cause a lot of problems with the local bishops, so we have to remain prudent
there.
“[But] You cannot imagine anything
better than what is offered there. And such a thing that you cannot think, ‘That’s
a trap.’ It’s NOT a trap. And if somebody is offering something like that, it
can be only because he wants good to us. He wants the good of Tradition. He
wants Tradition to, we say, spread in the Church. It is impossible to think
that such a thing could be invented by enemies. The enemies have many other
ways to crush us down; but not that one.”
5. Why
do you not, then, accept the Personal Prelature that is being offered?
“Because I want to be sure
that this is true. I do not have the right to live in a dream, and so I have to
check every step. "
6. But
didn’t you say it cannot possibly be a trap? Why do you need to be sure it is
true that it is not a trap if it is not possible that it is a trap?
“I myself am surprised. I
myself say, ‘What’s going on?’”
7. What
is the condition of accepting a Personal Prelature?
“That we do not change. We
are what we are, and we remain as we are.”
8. But
what about the condition that Archbishop Lefebvre laid out that the discussions
must be placed at the doctrinal level and that Rome (Pope especially) must
acknowledge that they profess what their predecessors have taught? What about
the need that Conciliar Rome convert back to the true faith before we have any
part with them?
[No answer available]
9. What
about the quote from the Archbishop in 1989 that “It is a strict duty for every priest wanting to
remain Catholic to separate himself from this Conciliar Church for as long as
it does not rediscover the tradition of the Church and of the Catholic Faith?”
[No answer available]
10. Why
has the SSPX not issued its own formal Dubia to Pope Francis? Or why do you not
ask him to his face specifically what he believes? Wouldn’t that be prudent?
[No answer available]
11. What
does it mean when you say that there are many in Rome supportive of the
Society?
“They say to us, ‘You must
resist. Why don’t you accept the proposal from Rome?’ Yes, and I say to them, ‘And
tomorrow they will say we must say the New Mass.’ And they say to us, ‘No no
you must resist!’
Is that the language you
have ever heard in the Church? Bishops who start to say to us, ‘You must
resist?’ Of course they are not all like that, but now they exist and they grow
in number. So for me, it’s really not impossible that we are at a determining
point at the history of Council Vatican II.”
12. How
many Cardinals knowingly support the Society?
“We are NOT alone…even in
the hierarchy of the Church. We are not alone.”
13. How
many bishops knowingly support the Society?
“I do not give you the name,
but I just want to make you aware of what is going on in the Church. We have a
bishop who says, ‘We are many bishops.’ He says stay firm. I can really tell
you, he is not the only one.”
14. Why,
if these cardinals and bishops support the Society, do they not come forward
and speak up? Is it not their responsibility to be courageous?
[No answer available]
15. Do
the same cardinals and bishops who support the society also support Vatican II
and believe JPII and John XXIII were saints? Or do they hold the exact same position as the Society in these matters?
[No answer available]
16. On
April 27, 2015, an article appeared on the SSPX US web site stating that Msgr
Pozzo’s actions
speak louder than his words, specifically that “he pretends to hold out to
us a smooth hand in the hope that we will believe that all is well in the
Vatican, and that everyone is waiting for us with wide-open hearts and no
second thoughts!” In essence, the article suggested that he cannot be trusted. Do you
agree?
“The same Msgr Pozzo told
me, ‘You should think to open a seminary in Italy.’ He says that now! He asks
us to open a seminary in Italy…now! We don’t even have an agreement. That’s not
a trap! It’s because they need priests! That’s why they say that.”
17. Do
you not believe this could be because it would be easier for them to send in
infiltrators into that seminary to try to slowly subvert and destroy the
Society, and it would be easier for them to mentor those moles if they were
closer in proximity to Rome? Or possibly that he is just trying to appease you to make you think he is your ally only to later stab you in the back?
“Such a thing that you
cannot think, ‘That’s a trap.’ It’s NOT a trap…[they] have many other ways to
crush us down; but not that one.”
18. Why
would Rome offer a personal prelature to the Society, sine qua non? What do
they stand to gain from this?
“Once again, the only answer
I have is that this is happening because some people [who] still have a
conscience are horrified by what is happening in the Church.”
19. So
you believe that Pope Francis, Cardinal Müller and Archbishop Pozzo are all
horrified by their own actions?
“It’s something…chaotic. Because
you have the Pope who is not on the right side. That’s the big problem.”
20. But
didn’t you say that if he is offering the Society such a deal that it can only
be because he wants the good of Tradition?
“I have, for the time being,
nothing. No decision. I cannot say it is happening tomorrow or in one year. I
have no clue. I want to be in the reality.
But if we are recognized, I
can tell you, that will be the start of a big fight. Not the struggle we are
already in, but let’s say it would become even more intense.”
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