The following comes from an April 11 Crux article by Ines San Martin:
In what amounts to a category-bending gesture, Pope Francis, often seen as a progressive pontiff indifferent to the concerns of more traditionalist Catholics, reportedly has vowed to extend his recognition of the confessions heard by priests of a breakaway traditionalist group indefinitely.
Last September, Francis surprised many by extending an olive branch to the breakaway traditionalist group known as the Society of Pius X (SSPX) by decreeing that during his Holy Year of Mercy anyone who confesses their sins to a priest of the society will be considered validly forgiven.
Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior general of the society, said on Sunday that during a recent private conversation, Francis had confided that he wanted to extend this authorization.
According to the French blog Le Salon Beige, the first news outlet to report Fellay’s comments, in his homily the bishop also shared that Francis had said he’d never condemn the society, and that in his eyes, they were “part of the Church”.
The Vatican hasn’t released a statement confirming the report, but last week, through a one-sentence statement, they did confirm the private meeting between Francis and Fellay, which took place on April 1 at the pope’s personal residence in the Vatican.
An audio of Fellay’s homily, in French, was made available on Monday by the website of the society, which is called Dici. In the 30-minute recording, Fellay also speaks of Francis’ recent apostolic exhortation on the family, Amoris Laetitia.
The bishop says the document “makes us cry,” adding that its stance on access to the Sacraments for divorced and civilly remarried couples makes this a “terrible document which harms the Church.”
In the April 10 homily, Fellay expressed “happiness” over his encounter with Francis.
“You are Catholics, you’re not excommunicated, and we must continue to work towards full communion,” is what the bishop claims the pope told him.
Well, here you have a man — B. Fellay — unafraid to speak the truth: the document “makes us cry.” He says this even when working toward some level of “communion” with the Church. Compare him to even those once thought to be lions within the Church — Cardinal Burke (who dodged everything by saying that A.L. does not really count) — and without — Michael Voris (who simply shut down rather than permit, in his understanding, any criticism of the Pope).
Politically, the Pope is astute. He sees the need for some “Traditionalist” support. So, an olive branch here and there will happen. Pray for more: that even one so lost as Francis can be moved to listen to the Holy Ghost and embrace a group that seeks only to worship as the…
As soon as I read this, I prayed earnestly to God that no one would fall for this ruse. What on earth does this have to do with AL? It is nothing more than an effort to deceive the unwary faithful Catholics, who do not see the dangers of AL. It helps dampen the demand for a true exposition of the Church’s teaching on marriage and sexuality. As such it is a useful occurrence for those bent on fundamentally changing Church teaching.
(Part Deux) “Saints worshipped. Surely all Catholics will benefit from the SSPX being “recognized.” Time to rediscover what the Church is really about, Holy Father, using the sacraments to save souls.
The document “make us cry.”
Bishop Fellay, is apparently in very good company!
Messages of Our Lady in Akita, Japan
Serious Messages for the world, like at Fatima
“In 1973, the Blessed Virgin Mary gave Sister Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa in Akita, Japan, three Messages through a statue of Mary. This statue, from which the voice came, wept 101 times over a course of several years, from January 4, 1975, to September 15, 1981, the Feast of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows.”
Unity, without compromises, would be pleasing to the Mother of God!
“You are Catholics, you’re not excommunicated and we must continue to work towards full communion!” Excellent words from the Pope, to Bishop Fellay— at long last! This is also an excellent quote, to give to those who are confused, regarding the SSPX!
Well, of course, it acknowledges that SSPX is not in full communion.
Oh but it is…
WRONG. If SSPX were in full communion, why would the Pope say what he said? Why would the SSPX need to work towards full communion if they already were in full communion?
The SSPX is JUST FINE, Anonymous! Fully legitimate, in the eyes of God! Those not fully legitimate, in the eyes of God, are those who appear to “be in full communion” with the Church– but really are NOT– such as, religious orders that promote abortion and gay “marriage,” like at Notre Dame U., Georgetown U., Santa Clara U., USF etc.!!
LM, not in full communion with Rome, and therefore not “JUST FINE”.
“Anonymous”: The SSPX lacks a canonical assignment, a political posture only. The SSPX is in full communion with the Catholic Faith, and with the Holy Father. It is the Vatican that refuses — out of its pride to not face the devastating mistakes of Vatican II to this day — to simply recognize this and provide the needed ascent to the SSPX. Many think that the Pope has already decided to extend his confession/marriage recognition to all SSPX activities, thereby making their “irregularity,” regular.
WRONG AGAIN! If SSPX were in Full communion, the Pope would not have said, and I quote, “we must continue to work towards full communion”. If the Bridge-Builder says he is still working on building the bridge, perhaps you should listen to him before diving into the river!
Anonymous, even a bridge builder needs to build in the truth. So while you may pretend sorrow for others who do not glob onto your Simon-Says-Now, others understand how things work.
Leaping over the reality that Christ is Head of His Church is something you do with regularity. But no matter how often you do or how demonstrably and Pharisaically frustrated you get, you cannot change God’s laws by playing lawyer. Or sycophant God sees all and is not pleased.
Oh, you mean those who confessed their sins to a priest of the “breakaway traditionalist group known as the Society of Pius X” all those years have not been forgiven of their sins — until now? I mean, do we have to go back and recite the same transgressions again? What if we can’t remember them all? Perhaps Francis could show mercy and assure the recalcitrant Trads that all is forgiven.
SSPX confessions were not valid until the Jubilee year of mercy. How you handle your confessions is up to you, but this fact was mentioned many times here on CCD. Marriages are not valid either, even now.
Oh but they are…
Anonymous– can’t you see, that the suppression of the SSPX in the Vatican– is only a POLITICAL GAME??
It’s only a politcal game to entice the fallen away to come back to the Roman Catholic Church. Can’t you see?
No, Anonymous! It is a political game in the Vatican, to suppress Catholic Tradition and the Tridentine Mass, and all who value it, such as the SSPX, so the Vatican can politically promote Vatican II and the Nous Ordo Mass.
“Politcally promote Vatican II and the Nous Ordo Mass”. Are you really Catholic, Linda Maria? Do you know what an ecumenical council is? Do you know that the Pope has the authority to regulate the Mass, and that five popes have now celebrated one form or another of the Latin Rite promulgated after 1962?
Politically? Really???
A fact needs to be true to be a fact, Anonymous. So just because the construct of bashing the whole of canon law is trotted around the internet, even on CCD, doesn’t mean the fabrication must be accepted.
That last bit is what many seem to struggle against. Obedience in all but sin. And, Anonymous, it is sinful to go along to get along when what is being asked is unclear.
God bless.
There is no fabrication. It comes from the Vatican, which is a source you bash all the time. According to the Vatican and Canon Law, two sacraments require the permission of the ordinary to become valid: Reconciliation and Matrimony. Look it up. The Pope is now using his own authority to validate SSPX confessions in this Jubilee Year of Mercy, and reports are that he will extend that into the future. But marriages by SSPX priests are still invalid. FACT.
Again, Anonymous, take your bluster back to the kiddie table and sit still while the grownups talk. Your patrol here is little better than that of a junior hall monitor thinking he’s going to take the principal down in a student’s arrest.
Ann I’m so sorry you that you are so offended by the truth that you have to call it bluster and kiddie-table talk. But the truth is the truth. SSPX marriages are invalid.
What is invalid, Anonymous, is your pretense of knowing reality in its entirety. You seem to be suffering from “white-coat” syndrome, that’s where newly minted M.D.s get big heads and pretend that they’ve seen it all because perhaps – they go to Brown or have stepped a toe in the Greg in Rome.
As for your “sorrow”, please, refrain from outright sin, Anonymous. Granted, you may be very sorry. But it would appear you’re only sorry that you’re not being heeded and that other heads – and the fullness of doctrine – are prevailing. Continue to rock that Pharisee if you must, however, God will not be mocked.
We are told by Christ we will know them by their fruits – and His Holiness has already stated that he believes upward of…
… 50% of “Catholic” marriages are invalid. But Anonymous is hot on that gnat so it’s all holy. Gotcha ;^)
Ann Malley –
Please be More Specific, as to just Which ‘Anonymous’ Troll you are engaging with; or if more than one then how many different (paid or unpaid volunteers) Trolls are taking turns being ‘anonymous’.
If you don’t have an exact tally, we can always ask them, after all their reply will be kept ‘anonymous’ anyway.
Myself – I prefer ‘Mysteriously Anonymous’, as it provides an air of Mystery to the Anonymity of… who knows who?
Sorry, Michael, I had a previous post addressed to Vincente Roberto, (K)aritas, aka Anonymous. It likened in tone to that of our Brown University Student, you know that seeker of knowledge and wisdom, who has a demonstrable attraction to blowing things out dark places. CCD editors kindly edited the comment out, although the writing of it was duly cleansing ;^)
But, “Mysteriously Anonymous,” taken with all due sarcasm, hits the bulls-eye.
Ridiculous, Anonymous. Thank you Vatican II for the confusion.
The “recalcitrant” Trads, Barbara, have relied on the Church supplying as She does in states of necessity. Many may argue that there is no necessity, but the fruits all around us tell the tale.
God bless.
Barbara, Ann Malley speaks from the voice of SSPX adherants, not from a true Roman Catholic faith. Confessions before the year of mercy were not valid. They are now, and it seems from now on, are valid, because the Pope is himself acting in the place of the local Bishop, who conveys in the place of the local ordinary the validity of those confessions from the year of mercy forward.
Marriages, however, have never ever been valid in SSPX churches, not now, not ever.
YFC, your remarks are NOT VALID in the eyes of God!
YFC, Ann Malley, yes – that’s me, speaks with the voice of Catholic tradition and the fullness of truth and canon law. Your pretense about what is valid or not in a marriage solemnized in the SSPX is nothing but practical ignorance. You may want to check reality on the ground as dealt with by actual priests and bishops and the Church.
Sadly, you’re a letter man. Zero spirit. But that’s okay. We pray for you anyway.
I’m not sure what your post was supposed to mean, Ann Malley. Honestly. Either a sacrament is valid or it is not. Apparently, having said that, it makes me a “letter man”. The problem, Ann, is that sometimes you adore the law and sometimes you despise it. In this case, you are simply going against Canon law, old and new, which points out that weddings without the canonical permission of the bishop are invalid. Always have been. Probably always will be. Does that make me a “letter man”? As in Captain America?
Your problem is, YFC, you have no concept of the whole of the law or its spirit. That’s why you seemingly cannot understand. You’re in a state of perpetual swoon. Much like selective hearing with children. The same who would take advantage of a parent’s distraction or incapacity to gain “permission”.
With regard to marriage, you can look again to times of crisis and precedents set. Of course, you will “choose” not to do so because to you, apparently, a situation wherein the Holy Father himself declares his belief that upwards of 50% of Catholic marriages are invalid is normal. It isn’t.
So take that member of the Injustice League! Captian America? Hardly. A letter “man” – um – no. But swooning and seeking…
…to do what you will – absolutely.
Thank you again for posting, however, and for encouraging me to reassess my assertions regarding your love of the Alphabet etc.
YFC believes sodomy is part of Catholic tradition.
Indeed, YFC, is the vanguard of all things ambiguously legal due to official obfuscation of reality and truth. That’s the new and improved “Catholic” faith, not the original based on the Rock of Truth, but the remod that jumps off the cliff at the behest of Satan in the expectation that angels will catch one before being dashed upon the rocks.
There is NOTHING ambiguous about the fact that SSPX marriages are invalid. Unless you, Ann Malley, want to obfuscate the truth!
There is nothing ambiguous about the fullness of Catholic doctrine when it is not filtered through the obfuscation of doublespeak, YFC. And you pointedly do seek to obfuscate the truth. Same as the High Priests who thought themselves above the law, which is why they twisted it at liberty to their own purposes, delivered Truth over for crucifixion.
So rock on with the Pharisees, YFC. Christ does eventually come down off that Cross. Just not in the manner “you” would have Him do it.
Others choose not to hide out for fear of the anti-Christs, YFC. And Christ will not fault them for a lack of “official” betrayal. No Catch-22 here. Just a choice. If one doesn’t see, one cannot be held accountable. But for those who do see,…
…there is an obligation to act accordingly even if one is metaphorically thrown out of the Temple.
Thanks again for the exchange. A pleasure!
Ann Malley accuses others of “the obfuscation of doublespeak” because she is the one who engages in it. SSPX marriages are not valid. Period.
….and you have never had an SSPX marriage or any other, for that matter, validated or accepted as valid within the Diocese or without.
Period.
There are rules and guidelines about marriage, YFC. Ordinary jurisdiction is necessary, in ordinary times. Again, these are demonstrably extraordinary times. By their fruits you will know them.
What I accuse you of, YFC, is pure laziness and an unwillingness to pursue the canonical argument that is made and, despite what you believe, often upheld regarding Society marriages.
Always a pleasure ;^)
As she so often does, Ann Malley uses “ecclesia supplet” to justify the illegal intransigence of SSPX. The Church Supplies when, in a time of death, a penitent cannot be assured of the validity of the Sacrament. Or, if a penitent has no reason to doubt the validity of the Sacrament in the normal course of affairs – say as one is traveling through a region and confesses to an SSPX priest believing him to have the permission of the local ordinary to hear confessions, the Church Supplies. The Church does not, however, supply, when a penitent knows beforehand, that the Church has not approved the priest to hear confessions. She knows this perfectly well, yet misleads still. However, Thanks be to God, that the Pope has extended the mercy of…
why, while you prate on, others will simply continue to know what they have always known by way of the fullness of truth. It is good to see you so rigorously offended by reality, however, for it is proof that the poison is rising to the surface. Next step, expulsion from the body!
Always a pleasure, YFC ;^)
As he so often does, YFC justifies ONE of the TWO terrible sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance.
Matthew 23: [26-30] Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside may become clean. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men’ s bones, and of all filthiness. So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
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“Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; that build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the monuments of the just, And say: If we had been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.”
For some insightful comments re the benefits that the Pius X branch of The Church offers TO the Church, might I suggest the reading of H. J. A. Sire’s Phonenix from the Ashes: The Making, Unmaking. and Restoring of Catholic Tradition.
And, least we forget or never learned our Church history, saints who were excommunicated, St. Joan of Arc for a case in point, were later redeem BY the Church.
As Yogi said, “It ain’t over until it is over.”
And does that statement NOT experss the history of our Faith?
“In The End My Immaculate Heart Will Triumph!”
“As Yogi said, “It ain’t over until it is over.”
St. Athanasius –
“His refusal to tolerate the Arian heresy was the cause of many trials and persecutions for St. Athanasius. He spent seventeen of the forty-six years of his episcopate in exile. After a life of virtue and suffering, this intrepid champion of the Catholic Faith, the greatest man of his time, died in peace on May 2, 373. St. Athanasius was a Bishop and Doctor of the Church. ”
https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=336
Time and Holy Tradition along with True Mass of All Times is on our side, I say to Bishop Fellay accept the Popes offer and at least get our foot back in the Church and start by spreading the TLM to all corners of the earth . The S.S.P.X. has a great oppurtunity to do this albeit they may be worried about a trick up the sleeves of Rome which is not to far fetched but they should go for it! The Holy Ghost works wonders and this current Holy Father will not be here in the years to come, so get “those high altars” warmed up and throw out the “dinner tables”!!
What a laugh, “extend confessions”. The SSPX priests have been validly ordained and Francis knows that! They have the complete priestly powers received from them from their SSPX ordinations, just like it was done by the valid bishops and sacramental ceremonies prior to Vatican II. That is to say the way it was done for hundreds of years, before Vatican II changed all the sacraments, not in name of course, but in prayers and form.
Francis addresses Bishop Fellay and his fellow Bishops and Priests by their rightful titles, because he knows they are truly Roman Catholic Bishops and Priests. It wasn’t the SSPX that accepted protestant ways and worship, no the SSPX held on to and preserved what the lineage of Popes upheld the true…
Bruce, I’m sorry, you haven’t read canon law. The power to forgive sins and to marry does not automatically come with ordination. Every priest needs the permission of his Bishop to absolve sins and marry couples.
Anonymous, you need to apply canon law. Not just the portions you’ve been told negate the reality of the Church supplying in states of necessity. She does. I understand that this rocks your sense of security and it should. But that’s okay. Recognizing the fruits for what they are is critical in life and in saving one’s soul. Otherwise, Our Lord would have just said do whatever you are told and it will be perfectly all right. But He didn’t. And neither does canon law.
Extending the olive branch to breakaway SSPX? Hardly; who really broke away from Holy Mother the Church? (I’ll give you a clue, it was the modernists/liberals, that expected and got for the most part our allegiance and obedience, because we were told by Paul the VIth we had to obey.)
Also I don’t see this as the Vatican extending an olive branch, rather a rabbit trap.
Yes, Jerry, the modernist, liberal Vatican II Council Fathers are the ones who broke away from the true, traditional Church! The SSPX was ever-faithful! I, too, have feared this recent endeavor between the Pope and the SSPX, is only a rabbit trap— not an olive branch. However, the SSPX leaders who are steadfast and true, are very firm, and will not allow a rabbit trap to catch them!
Linda Maria, You may be correct, but … One of the bromides often written on this site is that we should all just buck up and do what the Magisterium tells us to do. I would suggest that Vatican II Council was made up of 2,500 plus Bishops from around the world. It wasn’t something congered up by a few miscreants in a smoked room. VII was the Magisterium and what it wrote in its many texts is what the Church teaches and we should follow. To do otherwise will put our souls in jeopardy, don’t you think?.
Yes Bob One and it is becoming clearer by the day the documents themselves were unclear and contradicted previous Church teachings …
A magisterium that backtracks on itself or covers up its otherwise clear teaching is not binding, Bob One. That’s why we’re given scriptural admonishment to judge by fruits, beware of blind guides and to understand that there will be “leaders” put into place by those with itching ears.
What you advocate is following the Scribes and Pharisees for fear of being put out of the temple. To act that way is to deny Christ and the cross, don’t ya think?
So yeah, just following ambiguity is a bromide – that is a useless remedy.
The S.S.P.X. never left the Church they never ceased be being Roman Catholics, Rome stopped.
Yes, Janek! The SSPX was ever-faithful! The SSPX never left the Church– the Church left her true Roman Catholic faith!
Wrong!
…are you stomping your foot with that exclamation point, Anonymous? I sure hope so. It lends so much to the visual. And on a Friday, too. Makes my weekend ;^)
Anonymous, the Pope will someday prove to you, that YOU ARE WRONG!! The SSPX problem– is a matter of modernist Catholic OBEDIENCE to “POLITICAL CORRECTNESS”— that is, a problem of the Vatican’s selfish demands, that all the Catholic world OBEDIENTLY conform to Vatican II and its Novus Ordo Mass, whether you like it, or not! All you want, is to be a “POLITICALLY CORRECT CATHOLIC,” OBEDIENT to the popular views of the current Pope!! So be it. The SSPX is extremely FAITHFUL to Canon Law– but the Vatican is not!
“Janek” and “Linda Maria” are correct. Archbishop Lefebvre was lied to and would not consent to being eliminated by the anti-Traditionalists of his day. God works as He will and now we have a deeply flawed Pope, who appears ready to incorporate the SSPX into some state of “full communion” with Rome. Sounds a bit like St. Athanasius, doesn’t it?
Anomynous,
Put the proof where your mouth is! Show us; recite in old pre-Vatican II Canon Law your comments/opinions and the exact reference please, not the unfounded, liberally changed new Vatican II version of canon law. We would all appreciate to see it.
The SSPX is EXTREELY FAITHFUL to the original 1917 Code of Canon Law, revised in the 1980’s, by Pope St. John Paul II. However, the Vatican herself– is EXTREMELY UNFAITHFUL, to even Pope St. John Paul II’s revised Code of Canon Law! The SSPX problem, is OBEDIENCE to “VATICAN II POLITICAL CORRECTNESS– that is all!!
Sorry, but due to time and space limitations in these posts– I now have some misspellings! My first sentence above, should read “The SSPX is EXTREMELY FAITHFUL…” Posters like Anonymous who are angry at the SSPX for being “disobedient,” and “politically incorrect” with the post-Vatican II Popes— ought to be even ANGRIER, with the casual disregard by Pope Francis and some of his top Churchmen, like Cardinal Kasper– of the true Catholic teachings, on the Sacrament of Marriage! The Pope himself— dislikes following Canon Law! He, himself, is disobedient! So, Anonymous is wasting his time, with useless criticisms!
Bishop Barron said:
FIRST THOUGHTS ON “AMORIS LAETITIA”
NOTE: Find more resources from Bishop Barron on “Amoris Laetitia”, including sharable quote graphics, at http://www.TheJoyOfLove.com
https://www.wordonfire.org/resources/article/first-thoughts-on-amoris-laetitia/5134
On a spring day about five years ago, when I was rector of Mundelein Seminary, Francis Cardinal George spoke to the assembled student body. He congratulated those proudly orthodox seminarians for their devotion to the dogmatic and moral truths proposed by the Church, but he also offered some pointed pastoral advice.
He said that it is insufficient simply to drop the truth on people and then smugly walk away. Rather, he insisted, you must accompany those you have…
FIRST THOUGHTS ON “AMORIS LAETITIA”
https://www.wordonfire.org/resources/article/first-thoughts-on-amoris-laetitia/5134
– Francis Cardinal George… offered some pointed pastoral advice.
He said that it is insufficient simply to drop the truth on people and then smugly walk away. Rather, he insisted, you must accompany those you have instructed, committing yourself to helping them integrate the truth that you have shared.
I thought of this intervention by the late Cardinal often as I was reading Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia.
If I might make bold to summarize a complex 264-page document, I would say that Pope Francis wants the truths regarding marriage, sexuality, and family to be unambiguously declared,…
HUMAN SEXUALITY POLICIES FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
by Denise Donohue, Ed.D., and Dan Guernsey, Ed.D. March 2016
The Cardinal Newman Society
Summary
A school’s specific policies related to human sexuality should be consistent with Church teaching and should be tied into the school’s overall mission. This guide provides examples of policy material at three levels:
1) a sample broad school vision/mission statement in which to situate human sexuality policies,
2) a statement regarding the school’s intent and interest in establishing policies related to human sexuality, and
3) examples of specific policies related to human sexuality. A series of appendices includes additional resources, Church teachings on human sexuality, and examples of…
The S.S.P.X. has upheld EVERY law and code of the Magisterium, they never changed, Rome did, and that is where the difference lies. Speaking as an adult male, I will not attend a service with dancing girls, altar girls, communion in the hand while standing, felt banners, drums, guitars, rock, mariachi, folk music, hand holding with strangers, kiss of peace, women running around the altar pretending to be priests, this is utter idiocy and childish.
Give me the REAL MASS with Latin, Gregorian chant, kneeling, silence, communion on the tongue, altar boys, Roman vestments, incense, organ, Mozart, Palestrina, Hayden, high altar, communion rail, proper attire, mantillas on ladies and young girls, this is Holy Mass my friends and it will one day return to us maybe not in our lifetime but it will return when Rome returns to the Holy Faith.
These heretics should be excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church. They mock the Popes and make absurd allegations about the state of the real Catholic Church led by Pope Francis. They operate like Hitler’s SS – condemning the Jews, etc. The Catholic Church…either love it or leave it you SSPXers!
Yes, friend, heretics should be excommunicated. And those who do love the Catholic Church and all Her teachings, like the SSPX do, and many others will never leave despite the politicking and lies of many right there at the Vatican.
The mockery of popes and the state of the Catholic Church are those who pretend that the modernist shills in office are actually Catholic. And, absolutely, they do behave like Hitler’s SS, complete with a propaganda machine that will brook no dissent.
…after all, DGPS1972, what more condemnation could there be for our Jewish brothers and sisters than to pretend that they have no need of Christ Jesus. So rock on with your zeal! Go tell it on the mountain – all of it!
DGPS1972, why not try to read a book about the life of Archbishop Lefebvre? You would be amazed! He was a simple, humble, holy man, yet beautifully educated, too. He was a wonderful catechist as a missionary priest (and later, Archbishop)– and he loved Our Lord so much, he wanted to carefully teach only the right and true teachings of our holy Faith, to those in his care! He was too horrified at the results of Vatican II, and felt a duty to Jesus, to return to the True Faith of his fathers, exactly as he was taught! Never to alter it, for the fancies of the ungodly modern world! I think Lefebvre will someday be viewed as a martyr and a Saint, for his deep and true devotion to our Tue Faith!
I think that if Pope Francis truly wanted to be humble, simple, and holy, like St. Francis of Assisi, he should imitate modern examples of holiness and Sainthood, such as Bl. Mother Teresa, St. Gianna Berreta Molla, and many others, who had a simple faith which they practiced and taught, and a simple daily religious discipline never wavering from it, always for Jesus. EVERYTHING for Him! And ignore the fancies of the ignorant, “fallen” world out there! Teach and uplift the ignorant, suffering world, teach them Jesus’ simple but hard Truths, with faithfulness, courage, and love! Millions of lives will be converted to Christ this way!
Something to contemplate, if a clergyman were to preach heresy, change and reverse historical doctrine and encyclicals, practice heretical acts publicly, allow the loss of millions of parishoners to protestant denominations, and worship with pagans, would that prevent his likely of being declared a saint?
Yes, Linda Maria His Grace Archbishop Lefebvre was a very humble and holy man and one day his name will be added to our altars as a saint who alone saved the TLM from destruction.