Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
Given that the present Newpope and his Newclergy are illegitimate beyond doubt, I have gone over to the sede-vacantist position (that the Apostolic See is vacant) and do not recognize Francis-Bergoglio as legitimate. As to Bernie Fellay, the Superior-Dictator of the Neo-SSPX, his machinations to sell out to the anti-Catholic Newchurch of the New Order have been going on for many years. If Archbishop Lefebvre were alive today, he would ignore the false "authorities" of what he called the anti-Catholic Modernist Rome. Yes, things are bad for the Church, but that is how God shows his anger -- by giving us the bad leaders that we deserve.
The TRADITIO Fathers Reply.
Archbishop Lefebvre was a wise and prudent man, who was personally present at the Vatican II Anti-council and knew all the Modernists, like Josef Ratzinger (later styled Benedict) and Hannibal Bugnini, who were scheming to replace the Catholic Church as the "institutional Church" with a Newchurch, which the Modernists in fact did accomplish in 1964.
In 1988, the Archbishop finally broke with the anti-Catholic Newchurch and talked about reverting to the Traditional Latin Mass (pre-1956) in place of the Half New Order Mess of 1962, which he never completely accepted. The Archbishop wrote in his last year, 1991, that if things got any worse, the sede-vacantist theory, which he never rejected completely as a theory, would become a probable conclusion.
We concur in that the current situation of the Church is a test, and the pseudo-traditional Catholics like Bernie Fellay and his Neo-SSPX (the Archbishop's SSPX doesn't exist any longer) are failing the test badly -- a good explanation for why the current intolerable situation will persist for a good long while.