Controversial Fr. Geraldo Zendejas, as Third “Resistance” Bishop
From: The TRADITIO Fathers

Bishop Richard Williamson has announced his third selection for episcopal consecration for the loose association of traditional Catholic clergy known as the “Resistance.” Previously, Williamson had consecrated Jean-Michel Faure (March 15, 2015) and Dom Tomas Aquin (March 19, 2016), known as staunch traditional priests. Now, in a somewhat controversial choice, Williamson proposes to consecrate Fr. Gerardo Zendajas on Thursday, May 11, 2017. Williamson and Faure reside in Europe, Tomas Aquin resides in South America, and Zendejas resides in the United States. Texas.

Williamson proposes to consecrate this priest on May 11, 2017, at St. Athanasius Church in Vienna, Virginia, the church of one of the founding members of a group of clergy known as the Vienna Five, who broke away from Bernie Fellay’s Neo-SSPX and founded on August 10, 2012, a new group. That date is odd, in view of the fact that the other two bishops were consecrated on St. Joseph’s feastday. May 11, 2017, is merely a ferial day in the Paschal season. The selection of this date violates the provisions of the traditional Pontificale Romanum, which requires ordinarily a Sunday, an Apostle’s feastday, or at least a feastday as the day of consecrating a bishop.

What do we know about Fr. Zendejas? First, he seems unusually young. Bishops Faure and Tomas Aquin are both bishops of mature years. Zendejas appears to be barely in midlife. One presumes that he meets the minimum traditional canonical requirements of having been a priest for at least five years and of being at least thirty years of age. Zendejas was ordained in 1988 in the SSPX. He left Bernie Fellay’s Neo-SSPX not even three years ago, this last September 15, 2014. Zendejas has recently been celebrating Mass in the United States from Boston to Washington, D.C.

On April 21, 2016, an Open Letter for Fr. Gerardo Zendjas from Traditional “Resistance” Catholics was published, indicating concerns about the degree of Zendejas’s commitment to uncompromising traditional Catholicism, for which Faure and Tomas Aquin had been known. The letter characterizes some of Zendajas’s writings as “liberalist” and “incoherent,” and criticizes him for his wishy-washy “stance on the problems in the [Neo-]SSPX and regarding the principal errors of our time.” The letter goes on: “Perhaps you think you are being clear and uncompromisingly traditional. You are not.” Zendejas never answered the Open Letter. A conclusion could be drawn from this incident that Zendejas has a problem communicating clearly and traditionally, just as Bishop Williamson himself has been accused of recently.

True Catholics, one hopes for the best, but Bishop Williamson’s selection of Fr. Zendejas raises troubling questions. Williamson has recently been much criticized by traditional Catholics because he has been reticent to affirm clearly and decisively the invalidity of the Novus Ordo service, aka “New Mess,” which is not a Mass at all, but a Protestant-Masonic-Pagan service. Zendejas seems to have a youthful exuberance, but is that enough? Traditional Catholics have had enough indecisiveness, and even perfidy, from Bernie Fellay, now Superior-Dictator of the Neo-SSPX, who is about to sell out his group, no longer the original traditional Catholic organization founded by the straight-talking and courageous Archbishop Lefebvre.
Fr. Gerardo Zendejas Has Been Announced
As “Resistance” Bishop Richard Williamon’s Third Selection
As an Independent Bishop for “The Resistance” on May 11, 2017
Unlike Williamson’s Other Two Selections, Faure and Tomas Aquin
Zendejas Is Somewhat Controverial
He Has Not Clearly and Forcefully Rejected the Principles of Fellay
And Has Been Criticized by Members of “The Resistance”
About the Degree of His Commitment to Uncompromising Traditional Catholicism
About His “Liberalist” and “Incoherent” Writings
And about His Wishy-washy “Stance on the Problems in the [Neo-]SSPX
And the Principal Errors of Our Time”
Criticisms that Have Recently Been Made about Williamson Himself