OREMUS PRO PONTEFICE NOSTRO
I am grateful to New Catholic in Rorate caeli for the following initiative and its call for prayer,
which I hope all Catholic bloggers and columnists will follow and not take for granted:
Shame on you, "Liberal Catholics", Pharisees of the "New Springtime"! You proclaim to tolerate all, and
to respect diversity, but you loathe those whose only wish is to preserve the purity of what was always
taught and of the prayers that were always offered, because their continued presence in the Church
contradicts the new "house" you tried to build.
Shame on you, "Progressives", official Scribes of the "Spirit of the Council"! You build monuments to
the "Good Pope John", but reject all that he stood for, in traditional doctrine and in liturgical beauty.
You hail Paul VI, but have done all you could to ignore his greatest magisterial document, Humanae Vitae,
and discredit him in the eyes of the world.
You maligned John Paul II every single day of his pontificate, but now you praise him, for you have
found your new scapegoat - Benedict XVI, a man who, as his last work on earth, has accepted the heavy
burden of the Fisherman, trying to bring unity to the flock God entrusted him.
You crucify Peter in the global public square. You deliver him to the enemies of the Church of Christ.
You hate him for his struggle to rehabilitate what the Church has always believed and the way
the Church has always prayed. You persecute him for he removed the scarlet sign of "excommunication",
which you used to despise, but which you now view as good!
You hypocrites! You are accommodating towards abortionists and you pander to politicians dedicated
to the culture of death - but you misrepresent Peter's legitimate gesture of mercy as an act of
uninformed weakness. Liberal serpents, pseudo-Conservative vipers, you are "witnesses against
yourselves" for your relentless persecution of Peter.
Yet, Peter will keep working for unity with charity, charity in Truth.
Those who love the Vicar of Christ will keep praying daily for him, so that he "will not flee
for fear of the wolves", so that he may persevere in the mission he set out to accomplish.
What about you? "Your house shall be left to you, desolate."
NEW STATEMENTS FROM MONS. FELLAY
Let me add on this fresh item from
Posted by Shawn Tribe
This came into the NLM from Dr. Alcuin Reid this morning:
On Friday BBC Radio asked me to discuss recent events concerning the SSPX on 'The Sunday Programme' this morning.
Following that request I asked the SSPX for comment on the issues to be discussed. Unfortunately Bishop Fellay's reply
reached me only after the programme aired. His reply, written for publication, states:
The position of Bishop Williamson is clearly not the position of our Society.
Antisemitism has no place in our ranks. We follow fully God's commandments on justice and charity
and the constant teaching of the Church.
Antisemitism has been condemned by the Church. So do we condemn it.
I fully agree with Fr Schmidberger's statement about Bishop Williamson's words. (www.fsspx.info)
God bless you!
+Bernard Fellay
For those who may not be acquainted with Alcuin Reid, he is a recognized authority on liturgical reform, and has edited and published
a number of books, including Looking Again at the Question of the Liturgy with Cardinal Ratzinger (2003)(on the proceedings
of the Fontgombault Conferencee keynoted by the cardinal) and The Monastic Diurnal (2004). The second edition of his principal work,
The Organic Development of the Liturgy (Ignatius Press, 2005), carries a preface by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. His second
major liturgical work is Continuity or Rupture? A Study of the Liturgical Reform of the Second Vatican Council.
2/1/09
P.S.
Subsequently, 
reported the following, translated from a Le Croix account:
Bishop Bernard Fellay welcomed
Famille Chrétienne [French Catholic weekly] on January 31, in his General House of Menzingen,
Switzerland. He responded in particular to the accusations of Antisemitism cast at the Fraternity of Saint Pius X.
We evidently condemn every act of murder of the innocent. It is a crime that cries to heaven! Even more so when it is
related to a people.
We reject every accusation of Antisemitism. Completely and absolutely. We reject every form of approval of what happened
under Hitler. This is something abominable. Christianity places Charity at a supreme level.
Saint Paul, speaking of the Jews, proclaims, 'I wished myself to be an anathema [from Christ], for my brethren!" (Rom. 9, 3).
The Jews are "our elder brothers" in the sense that we have something in common, that is, the old Covenant. It is true that the
acknowledgment of the coming of the Messiah separates us.
It is very interesting to notice that the Church did not await for the Council to prescribe courses of action regarding
the Jews. Since the 30s, even during the war, several texts of Rome provide a very just position: the abominations
of the Hitlerist regime must be condemned!
'Spiritually, we are all Semites', Pope Pius XI had said. It is a truth which comes from Sacred Scripture itself,
'we are sons of Abraham,' Saint Paul also affirms.
It is very welcome that Mons. Fellay has been making these very explicit statements of the position of the FSSPX
regarding the Jews.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 03/02/2009 01:06]