Fr. Wegner Interview: Good relations with modernist bishops

Fr. Wegner Interview: Good relations with modernist bishops Jul 7, 2019 14:14:36 GMT

Post by Admin on Jul 7, 2019 14:14:36 GMT

INTERVIEW GIVEN BY THE SUPERIOR OF THE US DISTRICT FROM THE FSSPX

Non Possumus |Saturday, July 6, 2019

In an interview conducted by the website of the FSSPX of Germany with Fr. Jürgen Wegner, Superior of the United States District, he focuses his words on highlighting the good relations the Fraternity has in that country with the modernist bishops:

Since the publication of the document of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the Delegation for Marriages of the Fellows of the Fraternity, we have responded to the request of the Congregation and we have asked the local Bishops to send us the delegation for our marriages. Meanwhile, the Fraternity in the United States is in regular contact with more than 50 dioceses. Only two bishops rejected the delegation of our priests. Many bishops were surprised by the fruits of the work of the Fraternity: full churches, regular sacramental reception, especially confessions, catechism classes, growing schools, a large number of families, children and young people. I have traveled a lot and I have sought personal dialogue with the authorities.

Before our visit, the bishops saw in the Priestly Fraternity only a community of priests who criticized the Council and refused to celebrate the New Mass. From the beginning there were some bishops who supported us in our contacts and built bridges for us. Several bishops have since "discovered" the Fraternity and Tradition.

An archbishop invited all the traditional priests of his diocese to a common dinner at his residence on the occasion of a conference of the auxiliary bishop Athanasius Schneider. Two of our priests were among the guests. Both the Archbishop and Bishop Schneider clearly told all the traditional priests that they are indebted to Bishop Marcel Lefebvre and his priests and that without the priests of the Priestly Fraternity and without the bravery of the Archbishop, the Mass could not be celebrated. traditional today.

Some small examples: An American archbishop has announced to his faithful in his Diocesan Journal that he has given the priests of the Priestly Fraternity the Delegation for Marriage, and he has called the faithful of his Diocese to participate in the marriages of the Priestly Fraternity . Some bishops are considering offering churches and schools directly and officially for sale or putting these buildings at our disposal. On Sunday of the Good Shepherd, the Mass was celebrated, with the consent of the diocese, in a large diocesan Church with the seminarians and priests of the seminary and the entire priory of Syracuse.

More and more bishops recognize the positive fruits of tradition, and some bishops take very clear positions. One of the bishops has committed all his seminarians to learn the celebration of the Old Mass [along with the New Mass one can only assume?], another has told us clearly that the renewal of the Church is only possible through the study of St. Thomas Aquinas and the celebration of the Old Mass.

These few examples give a good idea of the work of the American district and show the vitality of the tradition. We entrust the district and all its concerns to the Virgin Mary.

Fr. Wegner Interview: Good relations with modernist bishops Sept 14, 2019 12:34:41 GMT

Post by Admin on Sept 14, 2019 12:34:41 GMT

I understand that this article was written four years ago now (2015) and could surely be updated. But it appears important to remind souls that unless there is a true conversion to Tradition by the conciliar bishops, any overtures to be accepted as 'traditional' are without foundation.

Forgive the sedevacantist source.

Bishop Athanasius Schneider will save the Church with interreligious dialogue!

“Anything that can bring about a mutual knowledge and respect between religions is a good thing.” -Bp. Athanasius Schneider, 5 July 2009

Schneider with his modernist co-religionists

"Let us be grateful to God that Pope Francis has not spoken in the manner that was expected by the media. Up to now, he expresses in all his official homilies the beautiful Catholic doctrine." - Bp. Schneider, 30 May 2014

Athanasius Schneider wrote in his 2013 article,

"In an interreligious meeting in Kazakhstan, in which I participated, we spoke about the most holy realities of each religion. An Imam said, that for the Muslims the holiest of holy is the book of the Koran in Arabic and he stressed saying: it would be an act of sacrilege when somebody will dare to touch the Arabic Koran with unwashed hands. Hearing this statement I suddenly was thinking about the scenes of the reception of Holy Communion in hand and without almost any clear sacral sign and surely without immediately preceding washing of the hands, which is the case in the vast majority of the Catholic churches all around the world. "

A quote from an interview he granted to a French newspaper, Présent, January 10, 2015,

"It is the Vatican II Council that gave a wider understanding of the Mystery of the Church according to the Teaching of the Fathers of the Church […]. Thus, the Church has been seen as “a people made one with the unity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit” (Lumen Gentium 4) "

In a Latin Mass Magazine interview,

"Ecumenism is necessary in order to be in contact with our separated brethren and in order to love them. From the depth of the challenge offered to us by the new paganism, we may and we must collaborate with non-Catholics who seriously wish to defend the revealed Divine Truth and the Natural Law that God created."

Here's what he said at a conference for bishops in Rome on 17 December 2010,

"Taking account of the experience of several decades since then, of interpretations doctrinally and pastorally confused, and contrary to the continuity, over two millennia, of doctrine and prayer of the faith, the necessity and the urgency rise for a specific and authoritative intervention by the pontifical Magisterium for an authentic interpretation of the conciliar texts with completions and doctrinal clarifications: a type of “Syllabus errorum circa interpretationem Concilii Vaticani II.” There is need for a new Syllabus, this time directed not so much against errors coming from outside the Church, but against errors spread within the Church on the part of those who maintain a thesis of discontinuity and rupture with its doctrinal, liturgical, and pastoral application. Such a Syllabus would consist of two parts: a part marking errors and a positive part with propositions of doctrinal clarification, completion, and precision."

Does he not understand he is one of the errors within of which he speaks?