REX!
Interview with H. E. bishop Williamson (2013)
September 30th, 2013
Motto: Something is rotten in the
state of Denmark. (Shakespeare, Hamlet)
Your Excellency, let me first thank you very much for allowing me to ask
you a few questions which our readers may be interested in.
REX!: Many
people want to know your opinion on various things; however, it seems to me
that no-one asks you a plain question first: How do you feel a year later since
having been expelled from SSPX? And can you in connection with this tell our
readers how does your usual daily schedule look like now?
bpW: As for feelings, I do not blame anybody for not asking me about how I
feel. As the French would say, the problem is not there. The problem is global apostasy !
As for my daily routine, if I am not travelling, I am living for the moment
“under the radar” in London, looking after myself, occupied quite heavily with
writing for each week in French and English the “Eleison Comments”, and then
with vetting the German, Italian and Spanish translations. The “Comments” have a
number of devoted translators, and a Frenchwoman who vets my French !
REX!: I began
this interview with the motto as I usually do. In this case it seemed to me
quite appropriate to start with Shakespeare. First, I know you like the great
author; second, the quotation would quite precisely characterize the present
state of the Church and world itself, too. What in your opinion is rotten in
today´s Church and world, or let me be more specific, what is the principal root
of the rot?
bpW: The principal root of the rot is
that the mass of human beings alive on earth, created by God and for God, have
turned their backs on Him. It is a Luciferian worldwide revolt against our
Creator, and will be severely punished, because only a severe punishment can
still stop almost all souls alive from sliding into Hell. God punishes those
whom He loves, like any good father. See
Hebrews XII, 7. It is a revolt that has
built up over centuries, if not millennia, led by true Satanists who want every
single soul to fall into Hell.
REX!: You in
your Eleison Comments or in your conferences occasionally use the term “fiftiesism”
to describe a kind of Catholic mentality of 1950s. It seems you consider this
to be one of the precursors of what happened after Vatican II. Can you, please,
explain it?
bpW: “Fiftiesism”, as I call it, means
that form of Catholicism in the 1950’s which kept up many of the appearances
of the true Church, but inside was all ready to go with the modern world
in its apostasy. All that was needed for the appearances of the true Church to
collapse was churchmen who would disguise the collapse as a “renewal” or
“renovation” of the Church, just as Protestantism was disguised as a “reform”
or “Reformation”.
REX!: You
are often being accused of being a unity breaker; the Resistance blamed for
being sectarian. To me it on the contrary seems that Menzingen is right now
claiming much more jurisdiction than it really possesses. Can you, please,
comment on this?
bpW: Unity that is not unity in the
truth will be unity in a lie. Unity is always secondary in this respect. Around
what is the unity uniting ? That is the
question. Did Archbishop Lefebvre break
or uphold the unity of the true Church ?
Menzingen today, whatever it may pretend in words, is in reality wanting
to unite the Society of St Pius X around a policy of rejoining the mainstream
Church, which is Conciliar. Menzingen has no authority whatsoever to promote
such a compliance with the worldwide apostasy.
REX!: How
does it come, Your Excellency, that the same people who understand that
archbishop Lefebvre´s resistance to the Conciliar authorities was correct and
talk about the Revolution, nevertheless ask for blind obedience to their
condemnation of the Resistance? I
certainly understand that the fundamental problem is whose attitude is in fact
in line with the Archbishop´s one. We all, however, know that the Archbishop
signed the Protocol in 1988 only to cancel it the very next day. Bishop Fellay
was ready to sign even the worst version of it under the title Doctrinal
Preambule...
bpW: By his wisdom, faith, fidelity,
sanctity and personal charisma the Archbishop drew many young men to follow him
in the 1970’s and 1980’s who never really understood the fullness of his
reasons for resisting the Council, and fighting against it. This is because
they never understood just how far the modern world has gone wrong. Therefore
as long as the Archbishop was alive, they lined up behind him like ducklings
following Mother Duck on a pond. But within a few years of his no longer being
amongst them, they began to fall back into the ways of the modern world (see
for instance the story of GREC). It is a process all too natural for fallen
human nature. Exactly the same thing happened in the diocese of Campos in
Brazil when Bishop de Castro Mayer was no longer there amongst his priests,
only it happened there faster.
When you mention the Archbishop’s “attitude” and the very different
attitude of Bishop Fellay, you are correctly concentrating on the issues
which determine where are true unity and obedience, and where are false unity
and obedience. It is a shame that so many good SSPX priests and laity apparently
never understood the Archbishop’s fight for the Faith and for the Church, or
his “disobedience”, but such is the power of the world all around us to
distract and to mislead souls.
REX!: You
were close to archbishop Lefebvre and I suppose you knew him quite well. How do
you think he would hypothetically see things today? Ratzinger becoming the Pope
(only to retire after some time), then the new Pope Francis “no-number” etc.
And what do you think he would tell bishop Fellay?
bpW: I can remember the Archbishop
calling Cardinal Ratzinger, as he then was, the “Artful Dodger”, which was a
very kind way of putting it. The Archbishop would have had no illusions about
Pope Ratzinger. As for Pope Francis, I think the Archbishop would have shrugged
his shoulders in horror. Does that sound contradictory ? “What do you expect of the Conciliar Church ?”
he would have said. To Bishop Fellay I
am sure that – in private ! – he would have spoken very severely. I think even
Bishop Fellay would have been shaken. But would Bishop Fellay have changed his
ways if he had not had to ? I doubt it.
REX!: Your
Excellency, some people say, mostly in a derogatory way, that you are
interested in various conspiracies. Thus it is presupposed that anything you
say on the topic must be taken with a lenient smile: “The conspiracy nut, you
know...” In spite of this, can you give us your opinion on possible conspiracy
within SSPX? The Church has been infiltrated long before why should not be much
smaller and weaker SSPX at some time, too? Do you think there may be anything
true about it? How would such a conspiracy operate in reality?
bpW: As for conspiracies, many people
will swallow the absurd conspiracy theory, for instance, of 19 Arabs pulling
off the attacks of 11 September, 2001, while they refuse the mass of evidence
of the real conspiracy, namely that those attacks were an “inside job”. When
the peoples of the world want decadence while pretending not to want it,
politicians are two a penny who pretend to be conservative while in fact
serving the Revolution. Hence such politicians work in the dark. Hence
conspiracy becomes normal.
As for conspiracy within the SSPX, I have never wanted to believe that any
of my colleagues could be infiltrators or conspirators, but if I think about it,
I might name a few, because what has happened to the SSPX corresponds to the
fruits of a conspiracy. Certainly Bishop Fellay likes to work in the dark
because he does not like what he calls “leaks”.
However, in many a case, including that of the fall of the SSPX, I do not
think that a conspiracy is mainly to blame. Mainly to blame is not the match but the pile
of dry wood just waiting to be set on fire. With the SSPX that pile would be
too many bishops, priests and laity that have not a strong enough faith to have
understood what the SSPX was all about.
REX!: Menzingen´s
policy is sometimes described with a slogan, “Pay, pray, obey”. Do you think it
is fitting? And what do you think about the economic situation of SSPX? On one
hand, money is spent on the megalomaniac purposes such as the new oversized
seminary in the USA, on the second hand, the donations are undoubtedly
lessening. Do you think the time may come when SSPX ends up in bankruptcy?
bpW: “Pay, pray and obey” was a slogan
attributed to the leaders of the Church in the 1950’s. It is not Catholic, because Almighty God does
not want mindless and lukewarm robots in his Heaven. He spits “Fiftiesism” out
of his mouth. Menzingen has clearly fallen back into “Fiftiesism”.
As for the present finances of the SSPX, I have no reliable information,
one way or the other. But Americans have a saying, “No doctrine, no
dollars.” The mainstream SSPX is giving
up on doctrine. It would be most normal for it to lose the dollars.
REX!: What
would you tell someone who says that in fact all the present quarrels can be
traced far back, they are mostly personal, and have nothing to do with
principles although it is now presented so?
bpW: In a lecture given in Ireland last
spring, I am told that Bishop Fellay said half a dozen times that the problem
of Bishop Williamson is a purely personal problem, supposedly a personal
antagonism. Now it is true that I find highly distasteful what he has done to
the SSPX, but the problem is absolutely not personal. It is a problem of the
Faith. This is what he wants to disguise by pretending that the problem is
mine, a personal problem with him or with whoever. Nonsense ! My problem with Menzingen is ideological, and
it is not my problem, but Menzingen’s.
Just like Archbishop Lefebvre’s problem with the Newchurch.
REX!: We
have heard about the faithful being denied the Sacraments in SSPX chapels only
due to their previous assistance at the Mass celebrated by a Resistance priest.
In the Czech republic the situation is not as dramatic as in other countries in
the world. Yet we have seen the Czech prior´s Declaration issued a few months
ago with the approval of the then District Superior which in one of three
points (the other two being irrelevant for our purposes) says:
“The activity of Bishop Williamson after his
expulsion from SSPX is more and more directed against our Priestly society, he
speaks about us as of a “Newsociety”. He also returns to the thematization of
his revisionist theories which lead to the relativization of the Nazi crimes,
which is unacceptable. Thus all the future activities claiming to support Bishop
Williamson will be regarded as being hostile towards our Priestly Society.”
I think you
may share any opinions you wish in a case of a free matter but I do not want to
ask you about the historical questions because of the national law which is
almost identical to the German one. Nonetheless, would you please comment on the
Declaration´s point as to the term “Newsociety”? With this Declaration a few of us have become
enemies literally overnight...
bpW: Just as what Vatican II has made
of the Church is something so different from the true Church that it is
realistic to speak of a “Newchurch”, so what Bishop Fellay and his collaborators
have done to the Society of St Pius X is so different from what Archbishop Lefebvre
founded that it seems to me entirely realistic to speak of a “Newsociety”. The fall of the mainstream Church after
Vatican II and the recently manifest fall of the SSPX are entirely parallel. It
is the same malady – love of the modern world.
REX!: There
is a true story of a young man from the Czech republic who participated in the
Walsingham Pilgrimage in England. When he came back home the Czech SSPX prior
asked him simple yet surprising question: “Tell me on which side do you stand?
Are you with us or Bishop Williamson? You must decide!” In a small country where there are not many
possibilities other than attending the SSPX masses this question seemed rather
shocking. The prior even told him that the issue would have to be solved in the
district HQ in Jaidhof, Austria [Czech republic technically belongs to the
Austrian district]. The man also played an organ during the SSPX masses
regularly. He was asked to stop doing so because of what was mentioned above. Can
you comment on this?
bpW: What do you expect ? The SSPX has changed. I have been
consistently and openly opposed to that change. The promoters of the change are
bound to defend their change and so to attack anybody who opposes it. Many good
priests have been thrown out of the Newsociety for that reason, and any layfolk
that follow them are liable to be denied the sacraments. There is a well-known
saying: “Nobody is so sectarian as a
liberal”.
REX!: Now a
question of eminent interest for many. Did anything change that could push you
nearer to ordaining a bishop or bishops in the near future? Are you decided or
you wait for a sign of God?
bpW: I think that the consecration of a
bishop or bishops to ensure in the present circumstances, as best humans can,
the defence of the Faith, is simply a matter of time. I do not know when or
where, but I have no objection in principle, especially as it is becoming
inconceivable for any of the other three SSPX bishops to consecrate a candidate
who would not fit the Conciliar profile, as they say. In practice I am waiting
for Providence to show its hand, as I think it will. It is God’s Church. He
does look after it !
REX!: A very
debated topic recently: Do you think the time is coming when Russia will be
consecrated to the Immaculate Heart, i.e. the time when everything will seem
almost lost? If yes, why do you think so?
bpW: I am certain that Russia will
eventually be consecrated to the Immaculate Heart, because did not Our Lord say
to Sister Lucy in 1931 that it would be ?
But He also said that it would be late, in other words only when the
world situation will seem to be desperate.
REX!: Is
there anything special you would like to tell the readers in conclusion of this
interview?
bpW: Watch and pray, watch and pray,
Fifteen Mysteries every day. And may God
bless abundantly every reader that wishes to adore, love and serve Him.
Thank you, Your Excellency, for your time and for everything you do. May
God bless you!
Interviewer: D. Grof
Source: REX!