This Declaration dates back to the first episcopal consecration performed by the late Bishop Richard Williamson, in 2015. The same arguments we put in evidence, however, still apply to both the FSPX and the so-called Resistance, until they will hold their una cum stance.
From Sodalitium, issue no. 67
Declaration of the
“Mater Boni Consilii” Institute
On the Episcopal consecration
conferred by
Bishop Williamson
As is by now well known, Bishop Richard Williamson, one of the four Bishops consecrated by Archbishop Lefebvre on June 30, 1988, has in turn consecrated Bishop Jean-Michel Faure at Nova Friburgo in Brazil on March 19, 2015.
In a statement from the general house, the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X condemned this episcopal consecration with arguments and tones that, in 1988, were those of the priests who left Archbishop Lefebvre to found the Society of Saint Peter. The Society of Saint Pius X governed by Bishop Fellay accuses Bishop Williamson of practical ‘sedevacantism’, and of only verbally recognizing the authority of the Pope (a more serious accusation from the Society of Saint Peter, which submitted to John Paul II, than it is from the Society of Saint Pius X, which, for now, and at least in appearances, still habitually disobeys Francis I).
Many Catholics, therefore, who as such, oppose modernism and Vatican II, are tempted to place their hope in Bishop Williamson, and wonder why the episcopal consecration of Bishop Faure cannot be approved and recognized.
The episcopal consecration of March 19, 2015 explicitly harks back to the one of 1988, and just like in 1988, as today – with the reading of an apocryphal “Roman mandate” – declares openly and categorically that both Bishop Williamson and Bishop Faure (who repeated it in an interview of March 18), following in the example of Archbishop Lefebvre, recognize the authority and legitimacy of Francis 1 – Bergoglio.
For this reason, exercising our duty to publicly bear witness to the faith, we cannot fail to reiterate, as to the 2015 consecration, what we said regarding that of the 1988 one (see Sodalitium, n. 17, pp. 4-7), namely, that the action carried out by Bishop Williamson implies:
sacrilege and capital schism
a praxis of a schismatic nature
a living contradiction, a manifest sign of error because of the recognizing, in the very rite of the Mass, Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and Vicar of Jesus Christ on earth at the same time carrying out an epicopal consecration against his will and with the explicit intent of opposing his authority and teaching.
Our Institute, therefore, invites faithful Catholics who oppose the neo-modernism of Vatican II, to not allow themselves to be deceived by Bishop Fellay’s Society of Saint Pius X or Bishop Williamson’s ‘Society of Saint Pius X’: both, in fact, declaredly and programmatically wish to be part of the ranks of those who recognize Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the Vicar of Christ, thus giving full legitimacy to his work of destruction (if that were ever possible) of the Church and the Faith overtaken by modernism. “Finally, recent events confirm the very position that, in the present crisis, Bishop Guérard des Lauriers took, in a spirit of Faith” (our declaration of July 1988).
Verrua Savoia, March 20, 2015