Fraternity of St. Peter - A Betrayal Of Catholic Tradition
Two Years After the Consecrations:
We
must not waver, we may not compromise
Archbishop
Lefebvre's address to his priests, 6th September, 1990
A false charity
And we must not waver for one moment either in not being with those who are in the process of betraying us. Some people are always admiring the grass in the neighbor's field. Instead of looking to their friends, to the Church's defenders, to those fighting on the battlefield, they look to our enemies on the other side. "After all, we must be charitable, we must be kind, we must not be divisive, after all, they are celebrating the Tridentine Mass, they are not as bad as everyone says" - but THEY ARE BETRAYING US - betraying us! They are shaking hands with the Church's destroyers. They are shaking hands with people holding modernist and liberal ideas condemned by the Church. So they are doing the devil's work.
Thus those who were with us and were working with us for the rights of Our Lord, for the salvation of souls, are now saying, "So long as they grant us the old Mass, we can shake hands with Rome, no problem." But we are seeing how it works out. They are in an impossible situation. Impossible. One cannot both shake hands with modernists and keep following Tradition. Not possible. Not possible. Now, stay in touch with them to bring them back, to convert them to Tradition, yes, if you like, that's the right kind of ecumenism! But give the impression that after all one almost regrets any break, that one likes talking to them? No way! These are people who call us corpse-like Traditionalists, they are saying that we are as rigid as corpses, ours is not a living Tradition, we are glum-faced, ours is a glum Tradition! Unbelievable! Unimaginable! What kind of relations can you have with people like that?
This
is what causes us a problem with certain lay folk, who are very nice,
very good people, all for the Society, who accepted the Consecrations,
but who have a kind of deep-down regret that they are no longer with the
people they used to be with, people who did not accept the
Consecrations and who are now against us. "It's a pity we are divided",
they say, "why not meet up with them? Let's go and have a drink together, reach out a hand to them"
- that's a betrayal! Those saying this give the impression that at the
drop of a hat they would cross over and join those who left us. They
must make up their minds.
What
are we to think of the Fraternity of St. Peter?
An
expose on the Fraternity of St. Peter by former seminarians
By Father Peter Scott
Regarding
the FSSP's fiasco
A
commentary on the FSSP's public statement in 2000 (made under pressure from the
liberals in Rome) that their priests
cannot be prohibited from offering the New Mass
1984
Indult
The Indult Mass: Should One Attend it All?
By Fr. Marc Van Es
Titled "The
Attendance at Today's Sunday Masses", this article was originally featured in the June 1994
issue of The Angelus.Despite the motu proprio, this article continues to have pertinent points, particularly about fulfilling one's Sunday Obligation vis-à-vis the existing conciliarist environment
A
conference given by Archbishop Lefebvre in 1984 which despite the motu proprio
is still pertinent today.
Source: The Recusant & SSPX Article Archives
