Archbishop Lefebvre on FreeMasonry
During a retreat that took place in Ecône, on September 22 1988, Archbishop Lefebvre commented on the “number of encyclicals about Freemasonry”.
Archbishop Lefebvre 22 September 1988
| Why talk about those things in a seminary, as if this be the
knowledge needed to be acquired in a seminary, as if this be what was
needed to be taught to the faithful? But if one does not know the source
of errors, of what destroys societies, souls and the Church, we would
be incompetent shepherds …it is an absolute requirement to study
liberalism and to understand it well, and I believe that many of those
that left us 'to rejoin Rome' so-say, did not understand what liberalism
is and how Roman authorities since the Council are infested with these
errors. If they had understood it, they would have fled it and would
have stayed with us. This is serious, because by coming close to these
authorities, one is necessarily contaminated. They represent the
authority and we are subordinates … they impose on us their principles …
so long as they do not rid themselves of these errors of liberalism,
there is no way one can find an agreement with them, it is just not
possible. If only you knew what a night I passed after signing that infamous agreement! Oh! How I wanted morning to come so that I could give Fr. Du Chalard my letter of retraction which I had written during the night.p. 555, Marcel Lefevbre |