Traditionalist SSPX defy leader, reject terms of "reunion" with Rome

Walt started the week by reading the brief and totally unilluminating press release emanating from the General Chapter of the Society of St. Pius X which met at the SSPX HQ at Écone this past week.

In its entirety it says:
The General Chapter of the Society of Saint Pius X ended this Saturday, July 14, 2012, in Econe (Switzerland). Gathered near Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s tomb, the capitularies have given thanks to God for the profound unity that prevailed among them during all these workdays.

The General Chapter will soon make a common statement to Rome, which will then be made public. The General Superior, Bishop Fellay, thanks deeply all the priests and faithfuls for their fervent prayers.

What really happened
Word travels fast in these days of the Internet, and Walt's agents heard just after Mass yesterday that the group opposed to the General Superior, Most Rev. Bernard Fellay, has forced him to back down from his proposed sellout to the Vatican's Ecclesia Dei, the commission charged with getting the traditionalists to bend the knee to the errors of Vatican II.

Bishop Fellay has been ordered, my sources say, to send a communiqué to Benedict XVI
rejecting the Pope's demand for "full acceptance" of the modernist Council as the price of entrance into "full communion" with the mainstream not-so-Catholic Church.

Just before the General Chapter convened, Bishop Fellay had already started changing his tune. He is said to have stated publicly that he would not accept any deal with Rome "at this time", given the content of the Holy Father's latest "evaluations."

Could it be that the SSPX's Moses has seen that he's leading his people in the wrong direction -- further into the desert of the "new Faith" as proclaimed by Vatican II? Did the penny drop when the pope appointed the Marxist Gerhardt Muller as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and the hopeless modernist Joseph DiNoia as Vice-Prefect of Ecclesia Dei?

Or was the last straw the publication of the three SSPX bishops' letter criticizing Fellay's sellout programme, which was followed by some 30 of his own priests speaking out against him? Or how about the proposed canonization of Pope Paul VI, the pope who let "the smoke of Satan" into the Church?

Those were Paul VI's exact words: "The smoke of Satan has entered the Church." What Bishop Fellay is hearing from his fellow bishops, priests and faithful is that we prefer to remain outside... in the non-smoking section.

Recommended reading: "Archbishop Di Noia Admits:The Goal is to Convert SSPX to Conciliar Thinking", by John Vennari, in Catholic Family News.