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Fr. Girouard's Opinions and Reality

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It appears that Fr. Girouard is still in business, but he's just occupying himself in the real world as opposed to the MO of Fr. Pfeiffer et al.



Periodically, he sends out an email to his 'parish' and they sometimes show up on the intergnat.

Here's one with the appropriate Tradicat reality instilling counter-points:

  1. The April 2012 Letters from and to the 3 Bishops show the SSPX General Council's true opinions. 
    1. Well that's good because their true opinions are Catholic which is more than can be said for Fr. Girouard and the Resistance.
    2. It would be nice to have the whole intercourse to establish context - but that is the nature of leaked documents - only those elements that the 'leaker' believes supports his position are leaked and not the ones that undermine it.
  2. In 2012, Bishop Fellay has sent the AFD to Rome, and has not since sent another official document to Rome to repudiate it. 
    1. Why would he want to repudiate the words of Archbishop lefebvre?
    2. Plus I am confident that there are lots of documents going between Rome and the SSPX.  It is not required that they tell Fr. Girouard or anyone else of their contents.
  3. Bishop Fellay sent a letter to the Pope on June 17th, 2012, saying he would continue with all his strength to work for a recognition, and saying the only reason he cannot sign the Rome proposal of June 13th, was that too many people in the Society were not yet ready to accept it. 
    1. I see that Fr. Girourd has greatly embellished the content and intent of the letter.
    2. I know that he has to fabricate excuses for breaking his engagement in the SSPX so shortly after renewing it, but really - was that necessary???
  4. The General chapter of 2012 has abandoned the 2006 Chapter Resolution ("no practical agreement without the conversion of Rome"), which was in line with the Archbishop's latest position. 
    1. As usual he (and the rest of the resistance) ignore WHY this was done.
    2. I challenge Fr. Girouard to produce the citation for when and where the Archbishop said those exact words!
  5. Since the summer of 2012, Bishop Fellay and his cronies have punished severely anybody (clergy and lay) who publicly criticized his new policy, going even as far as expelling H.E. Bishop Williamson. 
    1. Duh!  Bishop Williamson broke a rule of the SSPX (not to mention his previous issues) that was the straw that broke the camel's back. It is insane to believe that any Superior General should tolerate a member of a religious order who flouts the rule of the organization. Anarchy would prevail - just like in the rest of the Church.
  6. On June 27th, 2013 the 3 remaining SSPX bishops (F, G, T) declared publicly that they would accept an unilateral recognition by Rome, even without its conversion. 
    1. See #4
  7. In October 2012, Fr. Wegner, then District Superior of Canada, admitted to me, and promoted, the new branding of the Society effected by a professional firm. This branding was summarized in one sentence: "If the Society is to grow, it has to cease criticizing Rome and the VII reforms, and focus rather on the beauties of Tradition." 
    1. First, I suspect that there was a lot more around this statement than Fr. Girouard is letting on.  
    2. In fact given his previous comments above, I am confident that the inclusion of context would be very useful and exonerate Fr. Wegner from the crime of wanting to help the SSPX to present itself as a Catholic congregation and not a rabid collection of theological misfits that makes up the 'resistance'.  
    3. Harsh words perhaps, but most resistors that I encounter harbour bizarre excuses for their decisions.  The best are simply misguided and scandalized by the crisis of the Church and its effects.  The worst have a malformed (heretical?) understanding of the Church and the Virtue of Obedience.
Pray to keep a good perspective on the crisis of the Church.

P^3
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