NEO-SSPX WATCH: The Reason for Treason
Fr. Niklaus Pfluger, SSPX
(1st Asst. to the Superior General)
Christian LaSalle of the French news outlet Medias-Presse recently published an article which contains a wonderful explanation of why some SSPX priests and faithful, formerly strong and vigorous in their defense of Tradition, suddenly throw in the towel, and run to modernist Rome.
The article also explains why the acceptance of a purely practical accord is out of the question.
Surprisingly, the explanations are those of Fr. Niklaus Pfluger, arch-accordist, from a time before he was 1st Assistant to Bishop Fellay.
Here is a sample from the old Fr. Pfluger:
But more than the attacks from the
outside, it is our own inner weakness that we need to fear. Because a
prolonged fight is tiring. It is discouraging for a small group to
constantly have to fight against the all-powerful current of the masses
and of public opinion. For Monsignor Lefebvre, it seemed logical that
the church crisis would last for a long time and that we had to prepare
ourselves for a long battle against modernist doctrines. […] Today […]
we are tired, we are tired of always being different and we yearn for
unity, peace and tranquillity. It is for this reason that on a regular
basis, not only some priests, but also the faithful, who had stood firm
for a long time in turmoil, suddenly become weak and give up the fight
for tradition – whatever may be the reasons they give. This religious
fatalism leads to a gradual reduction of expectations… and a premature
agreement, i. e. a practical-only union with Rome, without tackling the
causes which are at the origin of the crisis of faith, would not only be
dangerous but also fake. To how many groups and communities did the
official hierarchy not make promises? And all of them became
disillusioned, and finally accepted the new Mass, accepted the Second
Vatican Council as a whole, and even justified “the spirit of Assisi”.
Obviously, Fr. Pfluger (like so many of his colleagues) has fallen victim to his own diagnosis.SOURCE
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