Moran declares Fr. Hewko "excommunicated"
Apr 8, 2019 16:47:46 GMT
Post by Admin on Apr 8, 2019 16:47:46 GMT
In his latest "sermon," Ambrose Moran has began another round of attacks.
First, he once again attacks the SSPX. But as per his usual he does not attack the new Conciliar-SSPX but he attacks the foundation of the SSPX founded by Archbishop Lefebvre by attacking the Archbishop's priestly and episcopal Orders, declaring them invalid. He has done this many times over in the last few weeks. In doing this, Moran has 'declared' that all the SSPX priests are invalid, the four bishops consecrated by the Archbishop are invalid, all their sacraments are invalid, etc. Fr. Hewko has noted that the basis for these accusations is just bad moral theology, long ago refuted. (See here and here for solid Catholic refutations of Moran's groundless accusations against Archbishop Lefebvre.)
After his admonition to avoid all things SSPX, Moran proceeds in this 'sermon' to repeat his "excommunications" of Tony la Rosa and Greg Taylor. Remember how Greg Taylor wrote of this a few weeks ago:
I would like to publicly thank Ambrose Moran for the very great honour he has done me by declaring me not in communion with him. Just when I was about to write him a 1988-SSPX-Superiors style "please excommunicate me too" letter, I now no longer need to feel jealous of Tony La Rosa. Not only that, but anyone associated with the two of us is outside the Church too! What a breadth of generosity.
Finally, the fact that his Royal Highness Metropolitan Beatitude uses the sermon to trash Archbishop Lefebvre is perhaps the greatest honour of all. Tony and I are in very good company.
Finally, the fact that his Royal Highness Metropolitan Beatitude uses the sermon to trash Archbishop Lefebvre is perhaps the greatest honour of all. Tony and I are in very good company.
But Moran has now decided that Fr. Hewko too is deserving of an 'excommunication':
06:23 - In addition, because of lies and misleading the faithful we must tell you that you may attend the Masses and receive the sacraments of Fr. Possant [Poisson] whom we have certified and guaranteed as being a valid priest due to conditional ordination. You may not attend the sacraments of those where there is a doubt. And most especially David Hewko is deposed, defrocked, and excommunicated by us. He actually excommunicated and defrocked himself according to the most ancient canons of the Holy Apostles.
One can only assume that this is because Fr. Hewko has warned the faithful, with true priestly solicitude, against the many dangers to the faith in affiliating with or receiving sacraments from 'garage bishops,' who cannot be trusted.
We all remember how Moran came to OLMC making grandiose claims of being royalty, of being consecrated by the great Cardinal Slipyj, of being made an Archbishop, of being appointed a Metropolitan, of being a successor to Slipyj, etc., etc., etc. Yet, he has been unable to substantiate any of these claims. Instead only fraud and deceit have been uncovered in his story instead of simple and reliable facts. The first words of anyone, those who have worked or interacted with Moran have been, "Charlatan!" Yet Moran has the audacity and pertinacity to falsely condemn Archbishop Lefebvre and his bishops and priests (who all have clear Apostolic succession going back to the St. John the Apostle) for the exact problem he himself has: questionable priestly and episcopal orders.
Some of you will recall the following announcement by an Orthodox priest warning local Catholic clergy against a certain married janitor posing as a bishop, warning the Catholics to avoid Ilnyckyj and anyone who supposedly received 'Holy Orders' from him. This is the same who supposedly consecrated Moran:
... letter, dated July 24, 1975, is authored by Fr. William Ischie, an archpriest of an Orthodox Church in New York, to the Eastern Catholic Bishop Duddick, who was then the Eparch of Passaic.
The purpose of the letter is to warn Bp. Duddick against a certain Nicholaus Ilnyckyj, whom the Orthodox considered to be a layman, but who was claiming to be a bishop.
This appears to be the one and same Nicholaus Ilnyckyj who was the consecrating 'bishop' of Ambrose Moran's ordination to the priesthood. Ordination_Certificate_May_19_1974.pdf (760.86 KB)
Fr. Pfeiffer refers to this same bishop in a conference given a few months ago:
The purpose of the letter is to warn Bp. Duddick against a certain Nicholaus Ilnyckyj, whom the Orthodox considered to be a layman, but who was claiming to be a bishop.
This appears to be the one and same Nicholaus Ilnyckyj who was the consecrating 'bishop' of Ambrose Moran's ordination to the priesthood. Ordination_Certificate_May_19_1974.pdf (760.86 KB)
Fr. Pfeiffer refers to this same bishop in a conference given a few months ago:
Some of you will also recall that Moran's episcopal orders (if indeed they are valid since we don't know if he was even a priest when he received them, as noted above) were done by the schismatic Orthodox. Any which way we look at Moran's case, as Catholics we can have nothing to do with him.
I guess we can apply Greg's words about being in good company with Archbishop Lefebvre by the 'excommunications' of Moran to Fr. Hewko now too. What an honor to be disavowed by someone who has had to use fraud to promote himself and maliciously cites erroneous theology to denounce the great Archbishop Lefebvre...our dear Archbishop Lefebvre, who warned specifically against such "false shepherds":
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre referred several times to the report that several individuals including some claiming to be "traditional" priests had attempted to have themselves consecrated bishops. Archbishop Lefebvre totally condemned their actions and warned all Catholics to have nothing to do with them. "They will bring ruination and scandal on the Church," Archbishop Lefebvre replied when asked his opinion of the scandal-ridden "consecrations."
These excommunications do nothing more than highlight the petty kingdom Moran rules in his own mind, condemning and sentencing with Draconian measures anyone who disagrees with him or who demonstrates the falsehoods he is promoting. God have mercy on him and anyone who is falling for this charade.
