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The change of attitude of the General House
As we have said, this strong tension stems from a change of attitude of the highest authorities of the SSPX in the face of the crisis that the Church is going through. We are witnessing a triple repositioning:
- Relativisation of the harmfulness of the Second Vatican Council
- Silence on the errors and scandals of the Conciliar Church
- Relativization of the state of necessity
The distance traveled by the authorities of the SSPX in a few years becomes obvious if we listen to the preaching given by Bishop Fellay on 4 August 2009 at St Nicolas du Chardonnet:
Therefore, my dear brothers, do not be surprised if the Society remains practically unmoved when the invitations of Rome come to a new reconciliation after the publication of such a motu proprio. It will take time. It is a whole state of mind in the Church that must be changed and even more than a state of mind, these are principles. It is necessary that authority in the Church recognize those deadly principles which have paralyzed the Church for forty years. Until this is done, it is very difficult to think of a practical agreement. And why ? Because when these principles govern the life of the Church, as soon as there is the slightest difference, it will be settled in the name and by these evil principles. This means that a practical agreement in these circumstances is lost in advance. It is to question all the fight we are celebrating today, it would be a total contradiction with what we have been saying so far. This is not what we want, obviously we want a normal state of things. But it does not depend on us. If we are in this situation it is not because we wanted it. Again, it is out of necessity. And this necessity continues.
It must be noted that the bad principles so denounced by Bishop Fellay in 2009 have not changed in Rome, and that their application is becoming worse and worse under Pope Francis. But it is also true that if Rome has not changed, Menzingen has made its own revolution. But not by all of it’s priests, hence the present tensions.
In this turmoil that the SSPX is going through, the decisive moment will undoubtedly belong to the general chapter of this religious society, prescribed by statute for July 2018. It will first of all decide on this triple repositioning of the authorities of the SSPX to validate it or to nullify it. This will result in the perpetuation or the implosion of the SSPX.