Bishop Fellay's response to Bishop Williamson interview

[Robb]

Bishop Fellay's response to Bishop Williamson interview click here Posted at the Remnant:

[Gerard]

The enemies of the Church are pulling out all stops.  Now Bishop Fellay is coming under the gun for not throwing Bishop Williamson under the bus.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2009/01/23/head_of_sspx_refuses_to_condemn_bishop_williamson_for_holocaust_denial?com_num=20&com_pg=1

[Credo]

Why are there so many threads covering the same two topics: the charges against Bishop Williamson and the lifting of the excommunications? There really only needs to be one of each.

[newschoolman]

Perhaps the letter would have had greater impact were it addressed to +Williamson.  Sending it to a news outlet seems like shooting the messanger. 

[Credo]

Sending it to a news outlet seems like shooting the messanger

The messenger should be shot. As I brought up in another thread, the slimy reporter kept this interview close to his chest until this very time, a time when Rome will rescind their supposed "excommunication" of the four bishops. This interview was filmed in the opening days of November, not recently! Tell me one guileless press outlet that sits on an interview for us long. Tell me the release of the interview is a coincidence.

[StevusMagnus]

Why are there so many threads covering the same two topics: the charges against Bishop Williamson and the lifting of the excommunications? There really only needs to be one of each.

I agree, let's all discuss this matter here:

http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/apologia/vpost?id=3249871

[newschoolman]

The responsibility ultimately lies with +Williamson and he is accountable for his own words.  Bishop Williamson would not have granted the interview only to see it buried.  Intervirews are granted with the understanding that they will be broadcasted or published.  As I said, Bishop Fellay's rebuke would have been better directed at the source rather than the messenger.

[Gerard]

The responsibility ultimately lies with +Williamson and he is accountable for his own words.  Bishop Williamson would not have granted the interview only to see it buried.  Intervirews are granted with the understanding that they will be broadcasted or published.  As I said, Bishop Fellay's rebuke would have been better directed at the source rather than the messenger.

Rebuke for what?  Holding a different view of events that is not currently politically correct? 

Does anyone really think Abe Foxman and his ilk are going to be placated with some kind of punishment for Bishop Williamson?  No way!  They can't shut up about every perceived or invented insult that comes their way.  No post-Vatican II apologies ever "wipe the slate clean" with these merciless Christ-haters.

This attack against Bishop Williamson is no different in intensity than the attacks against Pius XII, the canonization of Edith Stein, Pope Benedict's "failures to adequately address the Holocaust." 

Abe Foxman can cram it with walnuts.  I have no interest in placating an anti-Catholic enemy of Christ that is Abe Foxman or those that think like that monster.  

The beautiful thing is that Bishop Williamson got to express his opinion on tape and not some contextually dishonest quotes. 

The rest of these nutjobs act so hysterically that they give away the fact that they look like people on the losing end of an argument. 

[newschoolman]

Gerard, +Fellay sharply pointed out the distinction between Faith and morals vs. opinions on historical and secular matters.

Bishop Williamson, on the other hand, does not share this view.  For him, everything is linked.  For example, the so-called "truth" about 911 involves the realm of Faith and morals.  That is why he can "authoritatively preach" these "truths" from the pulpit and in interviews. 

[maldon]

Bishop Fellay did the right thing, shooting the messenger and letting the world and Rome know that Bishop Williamson's insane opinions on secular matters do not reflect the views of the Society.

All kinds of clerics have insane opinions on secular matters. The Church encourages them to keep their secular ideas to themselves, but if they do not do so, teh Church can only remind the world that it has no bearing on their role as religious leaders. Some ranters are anti-semitic; others are anti-American.

The Church has never gone in for the weird witch-hunt mentality that attacks people for being foolish. Everyone has the right to be a fool, even bishops. They just don't have the right to be heretics, and holocaust-denial is not a heresy, though it is foolish. So the good bishop has done nothing that Rome should be worried about. They need to worry about the heretical bishops, not the ranting foolish ones who still know how to celebrate mass.