Showing posts with label Bishop Williamson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bishop Williamson. Show all posts

Friday, 9 May 2014

Bishop Williamson and the Ukraine

Before you read this post please understand that I hold no regard for Bishop Williamson.

In fact, about three years ago I walked out of a Sunday Mass because he was the celebrant and gave a most unsuitable sermon.

However, I do remember quite vividly the 1988 'excommunication' of the four SSPX bishops and Bishop Williamson's television interview afterwards, with startling clarity.

I cannot find it on Youtube but here is the critical sentence and I am pretty confident that it is word for word accurate.

Remember that he gave this interview after the news that he and the other three had been excised from the Holy Roman Church.....this is what he said:-

"People will remember the true Church when the fire and brimstone falls from the skies; they will remember the one true Faith when the tanks begin to roll across the borders....."

That soundbite has relevance today when we regard the situation in the Ukraine.

Although we have been sheltered from world news for almost a week in holy Lourdes, it would appear as if it is only a question of time before the tanks begin to move over the borders and fire and brimstone fall from the skies.

The question is....will people remember the one true Church?

And will the Holy Father consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

I suspect that Bishop Williamson was only half right in his predictions.

Here is a clip of the consecrations in 1988...and on Monday I hope to post on the effect the consecrations had on the traditional Catholic world and how we are now seeing a reappearance of that effect.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gAr0psfJGeg

I have not had time to view the complete clip, it is possible that the interview is included,


 

Monday, 22 November 2010

Bishop capitulates......an opportunity lost!

Following on from my post regarding the SSPX Bishop, Richard Williamson, it now appears (H/T http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/ ) as if he has agreed to Bishop Fellay's demand that he sack his newly appointed lawyer who has Neo Nazi links. This means that the expulsion order will no longer be enforced; I think most Catholics will be deeply disappointed, Bishop Williamson is the one man capable of wrecking the talks between Rome and Econe aimed at reconciling the SSPX back into the fold.


Prayers are needed for a positive outcome to talks
I have a great respect for the SSPX and, for many years, they provided my family with the main source of Masses, travelling, as we did, some 160 miles to our closest Mass centre. However, they have three big faults:-

1. The preoccupation of some SSPX priests regarding women's dress. The sermon at St Josephs and St Padarns  in London on a Sunday is frequently taken up with a 30 minute diatribe against women wearing trousers. Have they never been to Pakistan? I asked them once why they had this preoccupation, where was the theological sense in all this (provided that women dressed modestly, what is the problem?). I was told that women were required to dress as they dressed at the time of Christ. What about men then, I asked: they also wore long robes so why should they be excluded...no answer.

2. The lack of pastoral care offered by the Society. Their priests are always working at full stretch, taking the Mass around Great Britain and, as a result, the all important element of pastoral care just does not exist.

3. Bishop Williamson....long regarded by the media and the populace at large as a nutter.

I hope and pray that the talks have a successful outcome, Bishop Fellay is a very learned and saintly man but there are obstacles in both camps. Despite attending SSPX Masses (as is licit to do so) I have always felt that a prolonged separation from Rome would alter the nature of the Society until, at some stage, reconciliation would become impossible and the Society then become Protestant. Prayers are needed!

Sunday, 21 November 2010

SSPX to ditch Bishop Williamson?


Bishop Richard Williamson

H/T to http://australiaincognito.blogspot.com/ for news concerning the Bishop with extremist and undoubtedly bizarre views regarding the holocaust. Following on yesterday's resignation of his lawyer, Bishop Williamson has, apparently, taken one step too far by appointing a new lawyer with alleged Nazi sympathies.

Bishop Bernard Fellay, Superior General, SSPX

Superior
General of the Society for St Pius X, Bishop Bernard Fellay, has issued (20th November) a directive to Bishop Williamson demanding that he sacks his new lawyer 'or face expulsion' from the Order. News also reported by Chris   Gillibrand http://cathcon.blogspot.com/