 
"Truth Prevails, Times Five"
Rome wants Tradition to Transition. It cannot be so. There must be a Transition by Rome back to Tradition. That is the only way Truth will prevail.
"Nevertheless, a third indicator suggests there is perhaps - perhaps - more
to this approach by Cardinal Castrillón than meets the eye. It is reported
by a Dominican priest from Rome that around the end of last July and the
first part of August, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared some dozen times to
Pope John Paul II to warn him that the crisis in the Church is going to grow
alarmingly worse. The Pope was hurt. She said nothing about events in the
world. All prominent figures in the curia and the Vatican know about these
apparitions, but nobody is saying a word. Apparently the apparitions are a
serious affair, and not to be shrugged off lightly.
Again, few things are made so plausibly deniable as apparitions of the
Blessed Mother of God, but again, an alarming intensification of the crisis
in the Church is, in the present situation, all too likely. If then Cardinal
Castrillón 's apparent desire to re-open dialogue with the SSPX is at all
motivated by any such warning from the Blessed Virgin, then we are no longer
dealing merely with Roman politics, but we are hearing a stifled call for
help.
To which the reply still remains that the SSPX cannot provide the solution
by joining in the problem. If anybody thinks - correctly - that the SSPX has
its hand on the solution, that is precisely because it has now for decades,
without ceasing to belong to the Church, stood away from the Newchurch."
St Thomas Aquinas says it is easier for God to create a new galaxy than to
move a human being's free will. Since the second Vatican Council in
particular, churchmen have used their free will almost to destroy the
Catholic Church, Surely God is now in the process of allowing souls of
goodwill to learn the hard way that His Church cannot be destroyed. Let us
give here a few indications of how the new Conciliar religion is slowly but
surely grinding to a halt, while the true religion is slowly regaining
strength.
Firstly, the congress held in Rome one month ago by, mostly, Society of St.
Pius X priests and laity, to study the religion coming out of the Second
Vatican Council, was an undoubted success. Some 60 priests were in
attendance, with some two dozen layfolk, and the large majority contributed
a more or less important paper examining some aspect of Vatican II.
It is impossible to pull together in one brief summary the variety of
contributions on such a huge subject as, in effect, the wrecking of God's
Church by God's Own churchmen. What was interesting was the remarkable unity
of thinking about Vatican II amongst the variety of contributors. The
Society's new French District Superior had been afraid before the Congress
that his French priests might all start arguing with one another - where
could he have come by such and idea? - but it was the opposite that
happened. Everybody agreed that Vatican II was introducing a new humanistic
religion, unacceptable to Catholics.
Of course, in a way it was not surprising that priests of that Society which
was raised by God in the wake of Vatican II to defend the true Faith, should
find themselves all in agreement as to the profound harmfulness of that
council. Nevertheless, the priest's interest and unity in dismantling the
Council were reassuring. In particular, the SSPX faithful in France, like, I
think, a number of yourselves, were glad to know that their priests were
attacking Vatican II, and coming to no soft conclusions about it.
A second indicator of the weakness of the Conciliar churchmen is their
on-going interest in talking with the Society of St. Pius X. For decades now
they have been pretending that we are "divisive", "disobedient",
"schismatic", and, since 1986, "excommunicated", so one would think that our
goose had long been cooked, as the expression goes. However, it must be that
the Romans still see the goose waddling around, because here is an instance
of their coming back to the attack, but with "plausible deniability",. i.e.
by such channels as will enable them at any time to deny they ever did any
such thing. Here is the approach.
"A crisis is coming in the Church. Things cannot go on like they are now. We
want to avoid another long freeze, or war for another 40 years. We want a
solution within a very short time. The SSPX has also made its mistakes, but
it is in the best situation it has ever been in (!). However, it needs to
move a little, from Tradition to transition. Realism requires dialogue,
dialogue requires that the two sides meet. Providence will help, if only
they do so.
"Pope John Paul II wants a solution. He can make a deal with the SSPX, as
his successor will not be able to do. Perhaps Cardinal Castrillón will be
the next Pope, but if he becomes Pope he will no longer be able to make the
same offer, of a deal which even Archbishop Lefebvre would not have refused.
"Cardinal Castrillón wants to do what is right. He has power, and he has
access to Pope John Paul. He can get for the SSPX all it wants, but he
cannot change the Newchurch overnight. Let the SSPX visit the new
Traditional bishop in Campos, approved by Rome, Bishop Rifan, to see how
Tradition can obtain anything it wants from Rome. The offer to the SSPX now
is of unconditional approval within weeks."
Now Rome may absolutely - plausibly - deny that it made any such approach to
anyone in the SSPX. However, it seems to me also plausible that such a
sell-constructed approach is entirely what might have come from Rome. In
which case I would reply for my own part to the eminent Cardinal that the
one thing which the SSPX wishes for from Rome is the one thing which his
channels took care to say he could not provide - an end to the Newchurch
cuckoo's occupying the Catholic Church nest.
Nevertheless, a third indicator suggests there is perhaps - perhaps - more
to this approach by Cardinal Castrillón than meets the eye. It is reported
by a Dominican priest from Rome that around the end of last July and the
first part of August, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared some dozen times to
Pope John Paul II to warn him that the crisis in the Church is going to grow
alarmingly worse. The Pope was hurt. She said nothing about events in the
world. All prominent figures in the curia and the Vatican know about these
apparitions, but nobody is saying a word. Apparently the apparitions are a
serious affair, and not to be shrugged off lightly.
Again, few things are made so plausibly deniable as apparitions of the
Blessed Mother of God, but again, an alarming intensification of the crisis
in the Church is, in the present situation, all too likely. If then Cardinal
Castrillón 's apparent desire to re-open dialogue with the SSPX is at all
motivated by any such warning from the Blessed Virgin, then we are no longer
dealing merely with Roman politics, but we are hearing a stifled call for
help.
To which the reply still remains that the SSPX cannot provide the solution
by joining in the problem. If anybody thinks - correctly - that the SSPX has
its hand on the solution, that is precisely because it has now for decades,
without ceasing to belong to the Church, stood away from the Newchurch. As
the Newchurch flounders and drowns in mid-stream of the modern world, the
greatest service that the SSPX can render to the many victims which it is
sweeping away to perdition is to run alongside them on the bank of
Tradition, but in no way to jump off that bank into the perilous waters.
With all due respect, Your Eminence, you need to move more than a little,
from transition to Tradition.
A fourth indicator of the weakness of Conciliarism , or the danger of
Vatican II, is the recently appeared book, "Animus Delendi II" by Atila
Sinke Guimarães. This is the fifth volume in his eleven-volume series, "Eli,
Eli, Lam Sabacthani", documenting the betrayal of the Catholic Faith by the
thinkers, writers and leaders of Vatican II. The first and fourth volumes,
"The Murky Waters of Vatican II" and "Animus Delendi I" are the only other
volumes of the series so far to have appeared. If Mr. Guimaraes, after Volume
I, jumped to Volumes IV and V, it is because he wished to denounce in public
as soon as possible the desire to destroy ("animus delendi" in Latin) which
truly animated the master spirits of the Council.
Volumes I and IV were briefly presented in this seminary Letter in July of
last year. I would like to come back to Volume V in a future letter, because
while charity "rejoiceth not in iniquity", it does "rejoice with the truth"
(I Cor. XII, 6) and Mr. Guimaraes has rendered great service to the truth by
piling quotation upon quotation to prove how far from the truth Vatican II
was pulled by minds seeking to be modern.
The fifth indicator is more positive, giving us the Catholic answer to the
apostasy implicit in the ambiguities of Vatican II. It is the book "Marcel
Lefebvre" written in a chaste and noble French by Bishop Tissier de
Mallerais, one of the Society's four bishops consecrated by Archbishop
Lefebvre in 1988.
Bishop Tissier was an intimate collaborator of the Archbishop from the
beginning of the SSPX in the late 1960's through to the Archbishop's death
in 1992. It might be thought that Bishop Tissier was too close to the
Archbishop to have been able to write an objective story of his life.
However, this monumental book, fruit of ten years hard labour, seems liable
to remain the most complete biography of the Archbishop for some time to come. It
certainly presents the Archbishop as I knew him, with those supreme
qualities of godliness, selflessness and objectivity which enable him to
stand up to the raging subjectivism of the modernize churchmen. I will
certainly return to this noble book, as soon as the English translation
appears.
Dear readers, God's Truth will win. Let us only pray that as many free wills
as possible allow it to win them over before they are lost for ever.
With all good wishes and blessings, in Christ
+ Richard Williamson
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WEDNESDAY
November 20, 2002
Exspectans exspectavimus Ecclesia Dei
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