April 6, 2016 – Ferial Day
From: The TRADITIO Fathers
Bernie Fellay & Richard Williamson in his latest bulletin Independent Traditional, Bishop Williamson (Right) lambastes Bernie Fellay, Superior-Dictator of the Neo-SSPX for spiritual blindness in selling out to the heretical Newchurch. Williamson says that Francis-Bergoglio has been “supremely struck with Conciliar Folly” and that thus true Catholics cannot belong to the Anti-Catholic Conciliar Church what is commonly called the Newchurch of the New Order.
We have recently been lambasting independent traditional Catholic bishop Richard Williamson, formerly senior bishop of the Neo-SSPX, for his pussyfooting about the invalidity the “New Mass” and Sacraments (except, in some cases, for Baptism and Matrimony). However, in his April 1, 2015, weekly bulletin, Williamson did get the Big Picture right. He rightly points to a division in our times between Truth and authority in the Catholic Church, a division imposed by the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965).
Williamson rightly states that God’s supreme shepherd, the pope, has, since that time, been “supremely struck” by Conciliar folly, and thus God’s sheep have been scattered. In such times, true Catholics cannot belong to the anti-Catholic Conciliar Church, what is commonly called the Newchurch of the New Order, headed by heretical Modernist Francis-Bergoglio. He denounces Bernie Fellay, head of the Neo-SSPX, for spiritual blindness in failing to understand this basic teaching of traditional Catholic theology.
Traditional Catholics long ago reached that conclusion, but Bishop Williamson restates the warning that we TRADITIO Fathers have frequently given, that in these times true Catholics should be neither surprised by betrayals nor disappointed by divisions. “The Devil is being given for the moment almost a free hand to cause bitter divisions,” Williamson says, between Catholics who are fighting for the true faith and those who have sold out heretics, as Fellay has.
As we TRADITIO Fathers have frequently cited, it has all happened before, particularly in the fourth century, when most of the bishops and several of the popes went into heresy, according to the Great Fathers of the Church. At that time it took more than one hundred years to clear the heretics out of the Church, and even now, 1500 years later, the heresy still remains. It will probably take longer than a century to cure the present Modernist heresy.
Bishop Williamson rightly concludes that from the Conciliar popes there can “no longer be the lifeblood of true Catholic authority flowing down into [so-called] Catholic institutions, and so Catholic persons can no longer depend upon Catholic institutions as they should normally be able to do. Says Williamson: “Catholics may naturally long for structure, hierarchy, superiors and obedience, but these cannot be fabricated out of thin air. Surely remnants are the order of the day. Patience.” We must consider Newchurch as equivalent to the Protestant heresy and treat its Newpopes as equivalent to the Arch-heretic Martin Luther. For further information, click on FAQ03: Should I Ever Attend Newchurch’s “Ordinary” or “Extraordinary” Messes? in the TRADITIO Network’s Library of Files: FAQs and Traditional Apologetics department.
True Catholics, you may well ask what we are to do in the interim. The answer is simple: we are to follow the well-known dictum of St. Paul in his Second Epistle to the Thessalonians (2/14/DRV: “State et tenete traditiones, quas didicistis” [Stand fast: and hold the traditions that you have learned]. We must accept the confusion of these times as just penance for the heresy of Newchurch and its Newpopes, just as Christ accepted His Cross for us.