Fr. Hewko's "Mary, the Cause of Our Joy!" Oct/Nov 2020


To the Remaining Fighters for Catholic Tradition,

How frequently Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre warned and was forced to act against the posts of authority in Rome being occupied by anti-Christs (August 29, 1987, Letter to Future Bishops). How the years 1974, 1975, 1976 leave us with the memory of this incredible clash between Ecône and the Vatican, between the Pope and myself and of the absolute need to remain faithful to God and to His Church! (March 29, 1988, Statement of Msgr. Lefebvre: Can Obedience Oblige us to Disobey?).

This conflict is precisely what rallied all faithful Catholics around the world to the defense of the true Catholic Doctrine, to the True Mass of All Time, and to find the voice of Our Divine Good Shepherd echoed in the voice of Abp. Lefebvre, who suffered a veritable moral martyrdom for His honor!

But with Vatican II a spirit of adultery has been blowing through the church, a spirit which, in the Declaration of Religious Liberty, allows the principles of religious liberty of conscience for internal and external acts. … This is the principle of the Declaration of the Rights of Man against the Rights of God! … This Declaration provoked the laicization of Catholic States, which is an insult to God and to His Church, reducing the Church to the status of equality with false religions! This is exactly the spirit of adultery for which the people of Israel were so often rebuked! (Public Statement of Archbishop Lefebvre, October 19, 1983).

In this Statement, the Archbishop quotes the following: It is I Who am the Lord thy God, a mighty and jealous God, using the iniquity of fathers on their sons to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me (Exodus 20:5); and Adore not any strange god. The Lord His Name is Jealous, He is a jealous God! (Exodus 34:14).

The very fact that Abp. Lefebvre titles his greatest work, They have Uncrowned Him proclaims the fact that the entire fight for Tradition revolves around that central Dogma of the Faith: ‘Who are you with? Christ the King, or against Him? Are you with the Catholic Church of Tradition or the Man-centered Ecumenical Church of Assisi?’

It is no small significance that the Archbishop wrote to the four bishops he consecrated, almost a year previous to the 1988 Consecrations, saying: I will bestow this [episcopal] grace upon you, confident that without too long a delay, the See of Peter will by occupied by a successor of Peter who is completely Catholic, and into whose hands you will be able to put back the grace of your episcopacy so that he may confirm it (Letter to the Future Bishops, August 29, 1987).

Notice, again and again, the unbending condition for any agreement, canonical recognition, signing of any declarations, or approvals with Modernist Rome, is always that Rome must profess the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ and fall in line with all the predecessors before Vatican II, who had previously condemned all its errors!

Certainly by now, it is clearer than ever that Rome is gripped in the darkness of Modernism and moral corruption and that Pope Francis is trying to deal the deathblow. We are far from a perfectly Catholic Pope! His total backing of the Globalist Agenda and his latest approval of sodomite civil unions show Abp. Lefebvre was absolutely right!

But where are our four bishops now? Where are their voices trumpeting against these scandals and rebuking these false shepherds? Is it possible they have been reduced to silence by jumping the gun and giving tacit Agreement with Modernist Rome before Rome’s return to Tradition?

Wouldn’t such an action prove traitorous to the Catholic Faith and the clear uncompromising stand of our founder, Abp. Lefebvre? Didn’t Abp. Lefebvre repeatedly warn against any false 'recognitions' or 'canonical solutions or normalizations' with Modernist, unconverted Rome? Didn’t he PROPHETICALLY caution them not to seek any 'unilateral recognition' and 'agreement' until we have a perfectly Catholic Pope? What would Abp. Lefebvre say today, if he read the non-retracted, non-condemned, non-revoked Doctrinal Declaration of April 15, 2012 that publicly proclaims (in so many words) that the SSPX accepts the errors of Vatican II, the New Code, the New Mass, and the New Sacraments?

Now, it’s eight years since, and contrary to those who say: “There’s no agreement,” “There’s no change,” “Everything is the same,” the Conciliar-SSPX is now incardinated into several dioceses throughout the world, three Sacraments (i.e. Matrimony, Holy Orders, and Confessions) have “jurisdiction,” since 2015, from the local diocesan Modernist bishops and all marriages must now be submitted to them! And the Sacramental Records of some Concilar-SSPX priories are given to the local diocesan bishops!

Pope Francis has expressed hope to reconcile the differences and find solutions in the near future to recover full communion with the priests and superiors of the Fraternity [of the SSPX] (National Catholic Register, Joshua J. McElwee report, April 6, 2016).

Furthermore, with the “Great Reset” upon us, which is nothing other than Communist Global Domination, as foretold by Our Lady of Fatima, as a punishment for sin and for the Pope and clergy ignoring Her demands, we hear nothing but silence from the four bishops! (Three, absolute silence, mindful too of Bp. Tissier de Mallerais’ poor health, and one, who at least writes Comments, but too often weaved-in within them are promotions for the New Mass “miracles,” encouragement to find grace and nourishment from the New Mass, that Abp. Lefebvre made a mistake in setting up a structure with a Superior General at the head, etc., etc., etc. Such talk never came from Abp. Lefebvre and causes nothing but confusion for the already bewildered flock!)

We know Our Lord’s promise that He would never abandon His Church nor leave us orphans. Perhaps as a rebuke to their shameful silence and betrayal of Abp. Lefebvre, God has raised up out of nowhere a prelate who finally talks some Catholic sense and calls for the dumping of Vatican II altogether, with it’s phony New Mass and Reforms! Where did this incredible grace come from?

Granted, his priesthood is from the Traditional Rite, but Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò (79 years old) was consecrated a bishop in the New Rite (which means he should be conditionally re-consecrated because of the doubtfulness of the New Rite). But be that as it may, he is speaking and writing to the Pope, to President Trump, and to faithful Catholics all over the world, as a real Catholic bishop should! He frequently praises Abp. Lefebvre and is picking up the slack where the four left off. He is neither sedevacantist nor favoring some false “hermeneutics” to justify Vatican II and its Reforms (like Bishop Scheider).

Furthermore, what other prelate is there calling for the absolute necessity for the Pope to consecrate Russia with all the bishops to the Immaculate Heart of Mary?

Pray, that his example inspire the four bishops (plus the three consecrated by Bp. Williamson) to return to their duty of teaching fearlessly the Traditional Catholic Faith and once again, publicly, condemn the Second Vatican Council, the New Mass (with no soft nuances!), the New Code’s errors, the scandals and errors of Pope Francis with the throng of Modernist bishops!

How would we know this to be genuine? When they publicly condemn, loud and clear, the Doctrinal Declaration of 2012, the six Conditions for the Agreement and resume conditional ordinations for incoming Novus Ordo priests, as Abp. Lefebvre did (with few exceptions). They need to further retract the SSPX’s approval for vaccines derived from aborted baby cells.

Just as we know we can happily obey Rome and the Pope when they return to Tradition and proclaim the Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ, as Abp. Lefebvre said so many times; so too, the priests and faithful of the true Catholic Resistance can happily return to the Traditional-SSPX when the Conciliar-SSPX has returned to its first purpose!

Who knows the mysterious plans of God? But let us thank His Most Sacred Heart for giving us now, at least one prelate speaking as a bishop should!
I guess the real question is, how many will listen? God has sent the “emergency safety-net” of His own Virgin Mother in Fatima, and still not many listened. He sent an Abp. Lefebvre who left such clear guidelines for his sons to follow, and yet still was ignored since 2012 by those same sons, what more can Heaven do with us? Perhaps this recent voice of Abp. Viganò will be our last chance?

Never fear, fight on! God loves to shine forth His power and glory in the most desperate of cases, and it will shine again, through His Holy Virgin Mother Mary! “One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, I will save the world!” (Our Lady to St. Dominic).

“Who is She that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army arrayed for battle?” (Canticles 6:9). May Her Victory come soon!

In Christ the King,

Fr. Hewko