Cardinal Darío Castrillón worked for nearly 10 years as the pope's mediator with Lefebvrian traditionalists. That is why he is happy about a possible solution to the existing conflict.
CARD. DARÍO CASTRILLÓN
"We
always agreed on one thing: they never entered down the path of heresy.
They had moments when they were away, but technically they never made
any complete schism or heresy. For example, they did not create a
separate jurisdiction, because to create a jurisdiction outside the
jurisdiction of the Church, that means you want to separate."
Although
the name is not correct, they are called "Lefebvrians." This is the
Fraternity of St. Pius X, a traditionalist movement founded in 1970 by
the most aggressive critical voice against the Second Vatican Council, the French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
Claiming
a crisis in the Church, in 1988 he created four new bishops on his own,
despite the expressed prohibition of John Paul II. Thus, he and the new
bishops were automatically excommunicated.(it was an invalid/illicit excommunication in reality)
In
2009, Benedict XVI withdrew the excommunication(cant withdraw something that never was) as a gesture of goodwill
to try to facilitate reconciliation. After the Jubilee year, Pope Francis then allowed them to confess validly within the Church.(didnt need such and Francis needs to repent)
At
present, they reject certain principles of the Second Vatican Council,
such as religious freedom or interreligious dialogue, and as a
consequence also some points of the later Magisterium.
Cardinal Castrillón insists that the majority of Lefebvrians want full union with the Church.(the majority want to compromise following Fellay and not follow Lefebvres principles yes) He justifies that some of their views are also due to incorrect
interpretations(bologna!) and implementations from what was decided in the Second
Vatican Council.
CARD. DARÍO CASTRILLÓN
"There
were points without total clarity. Many of the architects of a
post-council dealt with those points in a way that was not in line with
the Council, which has in itself all its value. They made
interpretations that were not in accordance with neither the Council nor
the Magisterium."
According to his
data, the Fraternity of St. Pius X is in 63 countries, and has about 600
priests and 200 seminarians, which serve around half a million people.
TCK: In order for real Catholics to be called Catholic by these modernists the Vatican II Revolution has to be made null and void. We do not have errorneous interpretations at all. Actually we can take interpretations of the Pope's to demonstrate it is not Catholic (i.e, Paul 6th calling Vatican II representative of the cult of man!). How is that misinterpreting? You will still get ignorant people saying those not accepting Vatican II are heretical and in schism but the reality is its the other way around( Vatican II- herertical/material schism) Vatican II equates to a new religion aka the Novus ordo religion of the New World Order. If you are in full communion with that you are the ones outside the Church.
Select Archbishop Lefebvre Quotes:
“Eminence, even if you give us
everything–a bishop, some autonomy from the bishops, the 1962 liturgy,
allow us to continue our seminaries–we cannot work together because we
are going in different directions. You are working to dechristianize
society and the Church, and we are working to Christianize them.”
(Archbishop Lefebvre to Cardinal Ratzinger, 1987)
“The pope stated on many occasions that
he was in favor of modernist ideas, in favor of a compromise with the
world. In his own words, it was ‘necessary to throw a bridge between the
church and the secular world.’
The pope said that it was necessary to attempt humanist ideas, that it
was necessary to discuss such ideas; that it was necessary to have
dialogs. At this stage, it is important to state that dialogs are
contrary to the doctrines of the Catholic faith. Dialogs presuppose the
coming together of two equal and opposing sides; therefore, in no way
could (dialog) have anything to do with the Catholic faith.
We believe and accept our faith as the only true faith in the world. All
this confusion ends up in compromises, which destroy the Church’s
doctrines, for the misfortune of mankind and the church alike.”
(Archbishop Lefebvre, interview, 1978)
“So by way of conclusion, either we are
the heirs of the Catholic Church, i.e., of Quanta Cura, of Pascendi,
with all the Popes down to the Council and with the great majority of
bishops prior to the Council, for the reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ
and for the salvation of souls; or else we are the heirs of those who
strive, even at the price at breaking with the Catholic Church and her
doctrine, to acknowledge the principles of the Rights of Man, based on a
veritable apostasy, in order to obtain a place as servants in the
Revolutionary World Government. That is it. They will manage to get
quite a good place as servants in the Revolutionary World Government
because, by saying they are in favour of the Rights of Man, religious
liberty, democracy and human equality, clearly they are worth being
given a position as servants in the World Government.” (Archbishop
Lefebvre, address to his priests at Econe, 1990)
“We consider as null…all the
post-conciliar reforms, and all the acts of Rome accomplished in this
impiety.” (Archbishop Lefebvre, Joint Declaration with Bishop de Castro
Mayer following Assisi, December 2, 1986)
“Two
religions confront each other; we are in a dramatic situation and it is
impossible to avoid a choice, but the choice is not between obedience
and disobedience. What is suggested to us, what we are expressly invited
to do, what we are persecuted for not doing, is to choose an appearance
of obedience. But even the Holy Father cannot ask us to abandon our
faith.
We therefore choose to keep it and we cannot be mistaken in clinging to
what the Church has taught for two thousand years. The crisis is
profound, cleverly organised and directed, and by this token one can
truly believe that the master mind is not a man but Satan himself. For
it is a master-stroke of Satan to get Catholics to disobey the whole of
Tradition in the name of obedience [...] St. Thomas Aquinas, to whom we
must always refer, goes so far in the “Summa Theologica” as to ask
whether the “fraternal correction” prescribed by Our Lord can be
exercised towards our superiors. After having made all the appropriate
distinctions he replies: “One can exercise fraternal correction towards
superiors when it is a matter of faith.” (Archbishop Lefebvre, “Open
Letter to Confused Catholics”, 1986)
John Paul II “now continually diffuses
the principles of a false religion, which has for its result a general
apostasy.”(Archbishop Lefebvre, Preface to Giulio Tam’s Osservatore
Romano 1990, contributed by the Archbishop just three weeks before his
death)
“It is not for me to know when Tradition
will regain its rights at Rome, but I think it is my duty to provide
the means of doing that which I shall call “Operation Survival,”
operation survival for Tradition. Today, this day, is Operation
Survival. If I had made this deal with Rome, by continuing with the
agreements we had signed, and by putting them into practice, I would
have performed “Operation Suicide”. There was no choice, we must live!
That is why today, by consecrating these bishops, I am convinced that I
am continuing to keep Tradition alive, that is to say, the Catholic
Church.” (Archbishop Lefebvre, sermon given at Consecrations of four
Bishops at Econe, June 30th, 1988)
Bishop Fellay has been taking up "Operation Suicide" for quite some time
