what part is nonsense? they did want a new mass. they didnt want the tridentine mass anymore.
Appointed by
Pope John XXIII a member of the
Central Preparatory Commission[42] for the
Second Vatican Council, Lefebvre took part in the discussions about the draft documents to be submitted to the bishops for consideration at the Council.
[43] During the first session of the Council (October to December 1962),
[44] he became concerned about the direction the Council’s deliberations were taking.
[4]On 29 June 1976, Lefebvre went ahead with planned priestly ordinations without the approval of the local Bishop and despite receiving letters from Rome forbidding them. As a result Lefebvre was suspended
a collatione ordinum, i.e., forbidden to
ordain any priests. A week later, the Prefect of the
Congregation for Bishops informed him that, to have his situation regularized, he needed to ask the Pope’s pardon. Lefebvre responded with a letter claiming that the modernisation of the Church was a “compromise with the ideas of modern man” originating in a secret agreement between high dignitaries in the Church and senior
Freemasons prior to the Council.
On 30 June 1988, Archbishop Lefebvre, with Bishop Emeritus
Antônio de Castro Mayer of
Campos,
Brazil, as co-consecrator, consecrated four SSPX priests as bishops:
Bernard Tissier de Mallerais,
Richard Williamson,
Alfonso de Galarreta and
Bernard Fellay. The next day, 1 July, the
Congregation for Bishops issued a decree stating that this was a
schismatic act and that all six people directly involved had thereby incurred automatic excommunication.
[89]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Lefebvre#cite_note-88
On 2 July,
Pope John Paul II condemned the consecration in his apostolic letter
Ecclesia Dei, in which he stated that the consecration constituted a schismatic act and that by virtue of canon 1382 of the Code of Canon Law,
[90] the bishops and priests involved were automatically excommunicated.
[91]
Lefebvre declared that he and the other clerics involved had not “separated themselves from Rome” and were therefore not schismatic
[92] and that they “found themselves in a case of necessity”, not having succeeded, as they said, in making “Rome” understand that “this change which has occurred in the Church” since the Second Vatican Council was “not Catholic”.
[93] In a letter addressed to the four priests he was about to consecrate as bishops, Lefebvre wrote: “I do not think one can say that Rome has not lost the Faith.”
[94]
pope benedict XVI for this reason lifted the excommunication.
as im sure you know the mass vatican II came up with was called “novus ordo” meaning new order… they took the tridentine mass and put it into “new order” and have been carelessly tinkering with it since. so the intention was to not have what we know now as the tridentine mass available anymore. “novus ordo” was the “new” tridentine. lefebvre continued the mass anyway.
Lefebvre was notified that, since he had not apologised to the Pope, he was suspended
a divinis,
[77] i.e., he could no longer legally administer
any of the sacraments.
[78] Lefebvre remarked that he had been forbidden from celebrating the new rite of Mass.
[79] (This was clearly a joke,
citation needed] but Pope Paul VI apparently took it seriously and stated that Lefebvre “thought he dodged the penalty by administering the sacraments using the previous formulas.”)
[80] In spite of his suspension, Lefebvre continued to pray Mass and to administer the other Sacraments, including the conferral of Holy Orders to the students of his seminanary?
so how am i wrong?
