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Open Letter to Fr. Yves le Roux
Regarding your 11-10-13 letter: “Subversion or Tradition?”
An anonymous letter from the Catholics at [email protected].
Dear Fr. le Roux,
We read carefully your November 10, 2013 letter “Subversion or Tradition?”. We
appreciate your condemnation of revolution and upholding the principle of the
proper exercise of authority (as distinguished from the abuse of authority).
We appreciate the fact that you carefully distinguish opposition to liberalism, from
rebellion against authority as such. You correctly say: “when the authority in
charge ceases to be faithful to its role of guardian of the common good, it falls to the
defenders of Tradition to remind authority of its role and to do this even publicly”.
By this principle, you correctly defend Archbishop Lefebvre (and all who oppose the
conciliar revolution) when he/they publicly warned the faithful against liberalism
and against the use of religious authority to promote liberalism.
Based on the correct understanding of authority, the Vatican was clearly wrong to
object to Archbishop Lefebvre publicly resisting Vatican statements and actions,
because the truth is/was on his side. Likewise, you should have no objection to
anyone acting similarly, against the liberalism creeping into the SSPX.
You lament the “distrust of authority” in “the ranks of defenders of the tradition of
the Church”. But based on your own principle, this is not the crux of the problem.
Just as the dispute between Archbishop Lefebvre and the Vatican, correctly
understood, was who speaks the truth, likewise, the correct focus of the dispute
between the current SSPX leadership, and the Resistance, is who speaks the
truth, not whether your authority is trusted.
Fr. Rostand has a similarly wrong focus regarding the crisis in the Church (and in
the SSPX). He says that it is a “given that the crisis came from the collapse of
Church authority”. June 2013 Regina Coeli Report. The truth is that the crisis is
primarily and fundamentally an attack on the truth through abuse of authority.
So when you attack those who resist the current SSPX’s liberalism, you resort to
name-calling. You call them “subversive” (for the same reason that the Vatican
would have called Archbishop Lefebvre “subversive”). You say that the current
SSPX’s liberalism is “non-existent and never proven”. Why don’t you address the
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countless specific examples given by those resisting the current SSPX liberalism?
For example, there is an open letter to your subordinate, Fr. Daniel Themann,
which is available on TrueTrad.com, on TheRecusant.com, and
EcclesiaMilitans.com.1 We challenge you to specifically identify a single
error in this 41-page open letter. We don’t think you can. Focus explicitly on
the specific points made! The dispute concerns the truth, not the lack of trust for
Bishop Fellay’s authority!
You assert that persons resisting the current SSPX liberalism only give
unsupported “opinions”. Notice that all of the liberalism analyzed in the
Open Letter to Fr. Daniel Themann, came from cited SSPX sources. Those
who expose SSPX liberalism need only the material which the current SSPX posts
on its own websites!
So rather than complain about lack of trust for authority (as the Vatican
complained, in the case of Archbishop Lefebvre), focus on the truth of the
specific arguments and evidence raised by those resisting the current
SSPX’s liberalism. See, e.g., the Open Letter to Fr. Daniel Themann.
Resisting the current liberalism is (as you say in your 11-10-13 letter): “far from
being a knee-jerk reaction to authority, [but instead] is a service to and defense of
authority. The opposition is only apparent, due to dramatic circumstances when
those who have received authority from God are themselves influenced by
revolutionary principles.”
We, also, want the road “of quiet dependence … [and] humble submission to the will
of God” (to quote your 11-10-13 letter), and this is why we resist the liberalism
in the current SSPX!
In Him Who is Truth and hates liberalism,
You can reach us at: [email protected]
http://www.truetrad.com/index.php/critical-articles/291-new-and-excellentanalysis-of-fr-themann-s-resistance-to-what-conference;
http://www.therecusant.com/apps/blog/show/39181193-fr-themann-resistance-to-whatanswered ; http://www.ecclesiamilitans.com/2013/11/27/the-recusant-issue-12december-2013-supplementary/
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