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Thank you NYer for posting this article. I am unfamiliar with the thoughts of the bishops in the SSPX and it was good to read something firsthand.
I didn't find anything remotely unorthodox in this interview. It makes me wonder why hackles get raised at all. But I am still learning.
He strikes me as a very pious and very intelligent man.

I am unfamiliar with the thoughts of the bishops in the SSPX and it was good to read something firsthand. I didn't find anything remotely unorthodox in this interview. It makes me wonder why hackles get raised at all. But I am still learning. He strikes me as a very pious and very intelligent man.

He is, which is why the SSPX's General Council stripped him of his position on the SSPX's General Council. While some SSPX laity have disputed this interpretation, every SSPX cleric with whom I have spoken, whether for or against Fr. Aulagnier, has privately admitted to me that this is the case. (Although when it comes to his parallel removal as a European District Superior and his reassignment in Quebec, those SSPX clergy sympathetic to Aulagnier have told me that this was also part of the punishment, whereas those in the Fellay or Williamson camp deny that this is obviously the case.)

What was Fr. Aulagnier's crime that warranted such drastic measures? It appears that he dared to be vocal about the SSPX's need to reconcile with the Church or risk permanent schism, and that he also had the audacity to break ranks with the rest of the SSPX leadership and support the Campos traditionalists in their reconciliation with the Church.

It seems that Bishop Fellay will tolerate all sorts of kooky public opinions promulgated by Bishop Williamson on the one hand, while on the other going to severe lengths to silence those like Fr. Aulagnier whose only crime is to want the SSPX to reconcile with the Church.

Even in Argentina, which if I am not mistaken, is the SSPX's most powerful district in South America, Williamson will continue to hold a position of major authority as a seminary rector. So please pray for Fr. Aulagnier and those forces within the SSPX who support him, that they will see their wish of reconciliation with Rome -- although it may be without the (F)SSPX.

He strikes me as a very pious and very intelligent man.

Yes, which is probably why the SSPX stripped him of his position on the General Council as well as one of the European superiors, and shipped him off to be the chaplain of an old folks' home in Quebec. Fr. Aulagnier's crime? Breaking ranks with the rest of the SSPX leadership to support the Campos traditionalists in their reconciliation with the Church, and stating the SSPX needs to do the same or risk permanent schism. Of course, no similar action is taken against Bishop Williamson for promoting all sorts of kooky ideas, some of which he attempted to substantiate by favorably quoting the disreputable Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Even in Argentina, which if I am not mistaken is the SSPX's most powerful district in South America, Bishop Williamson will continue to hold a major position of authority as a seminary rector. This is the problem with the SSPX.