Catholic Identity Conference 2019
Jul 1, 2019 12:38:53 GMT
Post by Admin on Jul 1, 2019 12:38:53 GMT
The SSPX appears to be making a bigger show of force at this year's trad-ecumenical "Catholic Identity Conference 2019" in November. They are not necessarily sending in more priests to represent the SSPX at the Conference but they are sending in the District Superior of the United States, Fr. Jürgen Wegner. Some of you might recall that at last year's Conference, the SSPX was represented by Fr. Johnathan Loop.
The lineup of speakers this year's includes Conciliar bishop Athanasius Schneider, Chorbishop Anthony Spinosa, [former Ecclesia Dei] FSSP priest Fr. Gregory Pendergraft, Fr. Wegner, as mentioned above, as well as several lay speakers.
Unlike last year's write-up on their website, the Catholic Identity Conference website did include the word 'traditional' in this year's brief description:
Catholic Identity Conference 2019
TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC RESTORATION: The World’s Last Chance
Featuring the most exciting Catholic activists from both sides of the Atlantic.
November 2-4, 2018 | Pittsburgh, PA
Calling all faithful Catholics who’ve had enough of the madness and want their Church back!
TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC RESTORATION: The World’s Last Chance
Featuring the most exciting Catholic activists from both sides of the Atlantic.
November 2-4, 2018 | Pittsburgh, PA
Calling all faithful Catholics who’ve had enough of the madness and want their Church back!
These Conferences are a kind of traditional 'GREC' meeting, where the traditionalists, semi-traditionalists, and Conciliar clergy come together to discuss what unites them rather than what divides them. Last year, the focus was on Pope Francis: "Defending Catholic identity – in the reign of Pope Francis". The horrors brought out in a near-constant flow from the current Pope's mouth are an easily unifying topic amongst even Conciliar clergy.
But what did Archbishop Lefebvre warn about those who try to find common ground with the Church's enemies:
Archbishop Lefebvre considered collaboration with the rallied/approved once-traditional groups like the FSSP or IBP impossible:
But today's Society no longer sees any problem in this regard (after all, a "regularized" SSPX needs to learn how to play well with the other children in the "ecumenical zoo"). - Taken from the Catalog of Compromise, Change, and Contradiction, #19
"And we must not waver for one moment either in not being with those who are in the process of betraying us. Some people are always admiring the grass in the neighbor's field. Instead of looking to their friends, to the Church's defenders, to those fighting on the battlefield, they look to our enemies on the other side. "After all, we must be charitable, we must be kind, we must not be divisive, after all, they are celebrating the Tridentine Mass, they are not as bad as everyone says"—but they are betraying us—betraying us! They are shaking hands with the Church's destroyers. They are shaking hands with people holding modernist and liberal ideas condemned by the Church. So they are doing the devil's work.
Thus those who were with us and were working with us for the rights of Our Lord, for the salvation of souls, are now saying, "So long as they grant us the old Mass, we can shake hands with Rome, no problem." But we are seeing how it works out. They are in an impossible situation. Impossible. One cannot both shake hands with modernists and keep following Tradition. Not possible. Not possible.
Now, stay in touch with them to bring them back, to convert them to Tradition, yes, if you like, that's the right kind of ecumenism! But give the impression that after all one almost regrets any break, that one likes talking to them? No way! These are people who call us corpse-like traditionalists, they are saying that we are as rigid as corpses, ours is not a living Tradition, we are glum-faced, ours is a glum Tradition! Unbelievable! Unimaginable! What kind of relations can you have with people like that? sspx.org/en/two-years-after-consecrations
Thus those who were with us and were working with us for the rights of Our Lord, for the salvation of souls, are now saying, "So long as they grant us the old Mass, we can shake hands with Rome, no problem." But we are seeing how it works out. They are in an impossible situation. Impossible. One cannot both shake hands with modernists and keep following Tradition. Not possible. Not possible.
Now, stay in touch with them to bring them back, to convert them to Tradition, yes, if you like, that's the right kind of ecumenism! But give the impression that after all one almost regrets any break, that one likes talking to them? No way! These are people who call us corpse-like traditionalists, they are saying that we are as rigid as corpses, ours is not a living Tradition, we are glum-faced, ours is a glum Tradition! Unbelievable! Unimaginable! What kind of relations can you have with people like that? sspx.org/en/two-years-after-consecrations