From a file:
Marie Ryan (July 1998 AD2000) correctly observes that “CATHOLIC” is not a publication of the Society of St Pius X "; but she incorrectly wrote of Matthew Lisle (April AD2000) that: "Mr Lisle advised the SSPX to take note, as it were, that ‘the Fraternity of St Peter was arriving in Australia and New Zealand’ "; for it was Fr Violette who made that announcement in his own (Jan.-Feb. 1998) Bulletin. Mr Lisle’s intention, I believe, was to demonstrate Fr. Violette’s anti-Catholic verbiage, which included the assertion that such "evil " (e.g. the new Mass, Vatican II novelties, new Catechism, etc.) …’would have happened to the SSPX had the protocol of 1988 been accepted.’ "
Lefebvre Agreed To "One Mass"
The Protocol, however, was accepted! “The Cardinal informed us that we would now have to allow one New Mass to be celebrated at St Nicholas du Chardonnet. He insisted on the one and only Church, that of Vatican II. In spite of these disappointments, I signed the Protocol on May 5th…” (A Statement by Archbishop Lefebvre, signed June 19, 1988 - as recorded in Archbishop Lefebvre and the Vatican, p.207, by Fr. François Laisney, who was then Editor of The Angelus Press. It is to be noted here that Archbishop Lefebvre signed the protocol “to allow one New Mass to be celebrated…”- a Mass that Fathers Violette and Peek would later describe as “intrinsically evil”.
That he would allow himself to be almost immediately dissuaded, and the 1965 event be shown not to be an isolated event, is history. Fr. Harrison wrote (THE LATIN MASS of Spring 1997): “Those who remember the events of May-June 1988 will not find this sudden about-face on the part of Lefebvre to be out of character; after all, he retracted almost immediately the agreement he had signed on May 5 with Cardinal Ratzinger which would have given legitimacy to the SSPX. Also, it seems that former members of the SSPX have testified that in private, the Archbishop vacillated between a sedevacantist outlook and acceptance of John Paul II as being a true pope.”
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See also
“The Anything BUT Consistent Mind Of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre!”
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Trent anathematises anyone who would if he considers the normative liturgy of the Roman Rite - the liturgy of Pope Paul VI not to be a true and proper Sacrifice, or not to be a propitiary Sacrifice, or that the Canon contains errors, or the ceremonies are incentives to impiety, (Sess. XXII, Chapter IX On the Sacrifice of the Mass, Canons I, III, V and VII.) What then of the SSPX declaring the Pauline Liturgy to be “intrinsically evil” – that’s right: “intrinsically evil”!?
And, this is what the 1888 Catholic Encyclopedia has on the matter:
“Christians have a twofold duty. They are obliged to believe, first, that the doctrine so defined is true, and next that it is part of the Christian revelation received by the Apostles. Again, no Christian is at liberty to refuse assent to any dogma which the Church proposes. To do so involves nothing less than shipwreck of the faith, and no Catholic can accept the Protestant distinction between ‘fundamental and non-fundamental articles of faith.’ It is a matter of fundamental importance to accept the whole of the Church’s teaching. True, a Catholic is not bound to know all the definitions of the Church – but, if he knowingly and wilfully contradicts or doubts the truth of any one among them, he ceases to be a Catholic.” (DOGMA - “A Catholic Dictionary,” by William E. Addis and Thomas Arnold. M.A., Third Edition, Revised, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., 1 Paternoster Square, 1885).