Editor's Note: The following is His Excellency's Eleison Comment #309 from Saturday, June 15 in which he acknowledges that readers have prompted him to respond, no doubt even Griff Ruby's response of
Authority Misdirected and Mislead. It is good that Bishop Williamson is not close-minded to respectful criticism, unlike Bishop Fellay, and that he is taking Griff's advice to seek out worthy candidates to consecrate as Bishops to carry on the mission of the Church for since 1988, no SSPX Bishop has performed a consecration and it's well past due. What also is well past due is for the true Traditional Bishops to bury the hatchets and come together as one for the sake of souls. Yes, call it the "Resistance" as His Excellency does, but embrace both sedevacantist and non-sedevacantist in the mix for not only is there strength in numbers, but the goal remains the same, to rid the Church of any semblance of Vatican II. Rather than a farewell tour, we are happy to report his tour is for the welfare of souls. While Edward Snowden might be in hiding in China, Bishop Williamson is very visible and making the right moves on the board to avoid zugzwang.
A number of readers complained at the "Eleison Comments" of two weeks ago on authority being crippled. From its argument that on this side of the "imminent Chastisement" no further Catholic Congregation can be founded on a normal Catholic basis, they concluded that I believe there is nothing more for a bishop to do than to wait for God to intervene. But in that case why did I just spend two weeks in Asia, and why am I now in Ireland? Likewise they conclude that I will never consecrate another bishop. I say - God willing - just wait.
In fact there is a great deal for a bishop to do to visit and encourage souls striving to keep the Faith when Headquarters of the Society of St Pius X is obviously still intent upon taking it into the arms of Conciliar Rome. On June 17 Bishop Fellay wrote to Benedict XVI, "I do intend to continue to make every effort to pursue this path (of reconciliation with Rome) in order to arrive at the necessary clarifications". And in the same vein, "Unfortunately, in the present situation of the Society" Rome's counter-proposal of June 13 to his Doctrinal Declaration of mid-April "will not be accepted." Then it would have been fortunate if the Society had accepted Rome's terms?
Against this written evidence (made public by Headquarters) of Bishop Fellay's on-going determination to sell out the Archbishop's Society, we have quotes of his to the French District Superior that the "unfortunately" he only wrote "for the sake of the Pope", and to the Carmelite Mother Superior in Belgium that he "never intended to pursue a practical agreement with Rome." Alas, Bishop Fellay has such a track-record for adapting his words to his audience that quotes like these by no means disprove his intention to sell out the Archbishop's Society. His astonishing ability to move the mental furniture around in his mind deserves an "Eleison Comments" all on its own, but in the meantime is it any wonder if what is coming to be called the "Resistance" is rising spontaneously all over the world?
Between May 24 and June 6 I visited with Fr Chazal a good part of his flock of some 400 souls, and I gave over 50 Confirmations in South Korea, the Philippines and Singapore. Fr Chazal is a character. He has brilliant insights and is very funny into the bargain. If ever you meet him, ask him to do his imitation of an Indian politician ( he says the Indians are tough, and "can take it").
In South Korea the Society's change of direction caused a harsh split, with the result that the donor of the original chapel merely donated another. I had the pleasure of performing the marriage of the donor's daughter. In the Philippines, just as I arrived, an older priest who fled the Newchurch years ago to work with the Society was fleeing the Newsociety to work with the Resistance. He looks like being entrusted with the beginnings of a seminary which Fr Chazal wants to launch, and he will in addition have his work cut out for him in centres throughout the central Philippines. In Singapore, a show-case in the East of Western-style materialism, still a good Chinese family with their friends have a firm grip on the change from the Society to the Newsociety. Truth will undermine this ExSPX, as Fr Chazal calls it, just as truth is undermining the Newchurch of the Novus Ordo.
Here are many souls to sustain on their way to Heaven. Do I have any candidates offering themselves for consecration as bishops?
Kyrie Eleison.
+ Most Rev. Richard N. Williamson
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MITERS THAT MATTER
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Vol. 24, no. 167
Asian Journey
