Erroneous Vision
A leader of the Society seems to think
That Rome will make it float. ’Twill make it sink!
That Rome will make it float. ’Twill make it sink!
Father Schmidberger = FAIL
Fr. Franz Schmidberger, former Superior General of the Society of St
Pius X from 1982 to 1994 and present Rector of the Society’s German
Seminary in Zaitzkofen, Bavaria, has recently put into circulation
“Considerations on the Church and on the Society’s position within the
Church.” In three pages firmly promoting the acceptance by the Society
from Pope Francis of a Personal Prelature which would bring the Society
back into the official Church underneath the Pope, Fr Schmidberger shows
a very inadequate grasp of the problem in Conciliar Rome, hardly
mentioning Vatican II.
He begins by presenting the Catholic Church as containing human and
fallible elements which required Archbishop Lefebvre to found in 1970
the SSPX to save the priesthood, the Mass and the Social Kingship of
Christ the King. In 1975 the SSPX was condemned by the official Church,
but it thrived. The consecration of four Society bishops in 1988
manifested the contradiction between Rome and the SSPX, but the
Archbishop still strove, after as before, for a solution. From 2000
Romans, honest or dishonest, also sought for a solution. Now in 2016
they are easing up on their demands for the SSPX to accept the Council
and the New Mass.
COMMENT: This is a relatively superficial view of the utterly radical
attack launched against the Faith and Truth itself by Freemasonic
churchmen during and after Vatican II. Fr. Schmidberger sees merely
misguided Roman churchmen whose coming to their Catholic senses can be
seriously helped forward if only the SSPX is officially recognized. Does
he have any idea of that leprosy of the modernist mind which the SSPX
would much more likely catch than cure if it went in with these Romans?
Secondly, Fr Schmidberger presents half a dozen arguments in favour
of accepting the Personal Prelature. The SSPX must regain normality. It
must not by its present “exile” lose the sense of the Church. Doors w
ould open in Rome. The SSPX urgently needs Rome’s permission to
consecrate more bishops. A good sign is the anxiety of some modernists
at the prospect of the SSPX’s normalisation. And finally, how else can
the Church’s present crisis be solved than by the SSPX coming out of its
“exile” and converting the Romans?
COMMENT: The SSPX convert these Romans? What an illusion! Again, Fr
Schmidberger has little to no idea of the deep perversion of modernism
which he is up against. It is not “normal” for Catholics to submit to
modernists. “Exile” need not mean loss of the sense of the Church. No
important doors would open in Rome. The Faith does not need bishops
approved by modernists. Any anxious modernists are naive – the real
modernists know that they will convert the Society and not the other way
round, once they can close the trap. And finally the Church crisis will
certainly not be solved by a deluded SSPX joining Rome, but only by
God, whose arm is not shortened by the wickedness of men (Isaiah, LIX,
1).
Finally, Fr Schmidberger answers some objections: Pope Francis may
not be a good Pope, but he has the jurisdiction to normalize the SSPX.
The opinion of the “Resistance” does not matter since it has no sense of
the Church and is divided. The SSPX will not be muzzled because Rome
will “accept it as it is” (illusion), nor will it lose its identity, because with God’s help it will convert Rome (illusion).
Nor will it fail to resist like all other Traditional Congregations
have failed that have gone in with Rome, because it is Rome that is
begging while the SSPX is choosing (illusion), and because the SSPX has resistant bishops (illusion), and because it will be given a Personal Prelature (to bring it under modernists).
COMMENT: In other words the Roman trap will be lined with cushions.
What a series of illusions! Poor SSPX! Let us pray for the saving of
whatever can still be saved of it.
Kyrie eleison.
