[Theosis]

This is an outrage! L'Abbe Aulagnier was the first priest ordained by Archbishop Lefebvre for the SSPX. How dare they treat him like that!

[ultima ratio]

How do you know why he was transferred? It might just as well have been to have his side represented more strongly in America. Why assume the worst? And why accept this writer's biased view of things? It is biased because it assumes reconciliation is a good thing. Not so. There is no point in reconciling to a Rome that remains haughtily committed to the destruction of Catholic Tradition and stubbornly clings to the modernist agenda.

Both Williamson and Fellay represent two sides of the same coin, after all, not opposites: one is mistrustful and sees danger in being reconciled too soon with Rome; the other sees danger in staying out of touch too long. And yes, it is a dilemma. SSPX has stayed uncorrupted precisely because it has been separate and able to keep alive Catholic tradition--but its own strained relations with Rome brings along with it insults and persecution. This has been stressful--yet so is premature return to an ersatz Catholicism that is Catholic in name only--only to be silenced in the way FSSP has been silenced. Bishop Fellay has called this kind of promise, complete with its offer of a special apostolic status, a zoo--in which traditionalists would be treated as oddities gradually forced by the zookeepers, first to give up the missal of '62, then eventually the faith itself.

So in a way both Williamson and Fellay are equally correct. Williamson is highly suspicious--but he has every right to be when talking about the Vatican where the name of the game is bait-and-switch. Fellay is more prudent and more willing to deal with Rome respectfully and patiently. But he knows that since Rome wishes to achieve unity without dealing with core theological problems, nothing will happen and the end result will be what we have now--both sides waiting for a miracle.

[american colleen]

Thanks for posting this.

I have heard that there are many factions within the SSPX and all is not the unified front that is presented to the general public.

[Land of the Irish]

Vere adjusting his tin foil lined hat.

[Aloysius]

This is an outrage! L'Abbe Aulagnier was the first priest ordained by Archbishop Lefebvre for the SSPX. How dare they treat him like that!

Perhaps you are overreacting. He was transferred to North America, it's not exactly the equivalent of being transferred to Siberia.