MMMM! Now all we need is some chocolate and graham crackers and we can have s'mores!
Yep.
Which is why he was sent to Argentina, at the bottom end of South America.
You mean to run a seminary in one of the larger Catholic populations of the world?
To prepare him for his stint as the next superior. Good call.
It's amazing how one letter from Williamson forced the Vatican to acknowledge the meeting. And of course he was really out of the way when he and Bishop Fellay both toured the U.S. over the last year.
The SSPX mainstream recognize him for what he is. A loose cannon.
No. That's just the spin machine from the Neo Catholics who are going nuts at the thought of the SSPX getting respect from a Pope. And it's also funny how suddenly there is a "SSPX Mainstream" it's the liberal idea of sowing discord.
Ironic really. We have the supposedly excitable French talking in calm and reasoned language while the supposedly urbane Englishman continues to churn out the inflammatory rhetoric.
Again comes the liberal neo attempt to set up "factions" in the SSPX.
What was it you said again? "Good cop, bad cop"? That's a keeper. I never realized Fellay and Williamson were a double act.
You never realized? That's why I'm here. To clear the confusion. Fellay and Williamson were together less than a week ago in Fatima with the other two bishops. Some factions. They were both being publicly abused by the Fatima staff of kooks and nutcases. They know who the real enemies are. You can buy into the "factions" fiction if you want. I'm actually being a bit of a spoiler by letting it out.
If Williamson is really going to be the Superior, then I'd think that it's SSPX which may want to "speed things up." There's no telling where Williamson would take your group.
Williamson is brilliant, charitable and saintly. Hopefully the situation will be resolved and Williamson will be available papabile for the next conclave.
As I suspected, your threat to abandon FR was short lived. Not much traffic over at Angelqueen, is there?
I don't want to give up on you. It's a trait I share with St. Francis of Assisi. And there's plenty of traffic over there. Less confusion about Catholicism though.
MMMM! Now all we need is some chocolate and graham crackers and we can have s'mores!
There you go again tossing around NEO and liberal epithets at Catholics who are anything but. Course, there are many catholics on this board who sympathize with SSPX, but then again, lets keep painting with a broad brush. Really, you do need to take a break from the keyboard to think.
Actually, several SSPX supporters have told me that they have serious reservations about Williamson. Honestly. They've also told me that his move to Argentina was definitely not a promotion.
So I doubt he's going to be your next Superior.
Disunity must be something of a concern for those associating with SSPX, however. It's not beyond the realms of possibility that at some future date the society's bishops may disagree on regularizing its situation with Rome and go in opposite directions. That poses a real dilemma for yourself. Williamson's public letter was not directed at Rome. It was directed at the SSPX leadership and his own supporters within SSPX. It was a rallying cry and a warning to Fellay to keep at arms length. Photo ops in Fatima can't disguise this breach.
Williamson is brilliant, charitable and saintly. Hopefully the situation will be resolved and Williamson will be available papabile for the next conclave.
Not really. Williamson's problem is not intellect. It's basic common sense and humility. His writings certainly betray a lack of charity also. He's also a confirmed conspiracy theorist which usually indicates a poor feeling for the truth and a tenuous grip on reality.
It's highly unlikely at this stage that he will ever be in communion with Rome, absent some miracle of grace, still less a participant in a conclave.