Bishop Williamson's connections

JMJ

Bishop Williamson has opined on Fr. Schmidberger's letter.

Three points became apparent as I read his 'reply' such as it may be.

It is clear that in the face of principles H.E. has no appropriate and cogent response and resorts to opinions and FUD. For example the requirement of distinguishing the person of the Pope from the office he holds (in other words - the Pope can issue a lawful/legitimate command that meets the conditions for Catholic obedience). Bishop Williamson does not answer this point instead offers a helping of FUD :"This is a relatively superficial view of the utterly radical attack launched against the Faith and Truth itself by Freemasonic churchmen during and after Vatican II". Nothing like the fear of Freemason lurking in the shadows of the Church to devour helpless little traditionalists.
Bishop Williamson's response misses the actual points of principle. Why? Because Fr. Schmidberger's position is based on principles that Bishop Willimaons has abandoned. Therefore he cannot contradict the principles of Fr. Schmidberger, without exposing his departure from these same principles. In short, he is trapped in a cage of his own construction.
One thing that I found interesting is that Bishop Williamson only commented on the letter when it became public (I think Fisheaters was the first spot ...). It shows that Bishop Williamson's reach and influence within the SSPX has waned, as it has with the 'resistors'.

This is what comes of abandoning the principles followed by Archbishop Lefebvre - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.

P^3

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