FAQ 4 SHOULD I HAVE ANY ASSOCIATION WITH THE SOCIETY OF ST. PIUS X (SSPX)? TRADITIO Traditional Roman Catholic Internet Site E-mail: traditio@traditio.com, Web: www.traditio.com Copyright 1994-2017 CSM. Reproduction prohibited without authorization. Last Updated: 10/31/17 Marcel Lefebvre, the courageous traditional archbishop who stood up to the Newchurch of the New Order and called it "not Catholic" died in 1991. In 1994 one of the bishops consecrated by the Archbishop, Bernie Fellay, was elected Superior General of the SSPX. Over the intervening years, particularly after 2000, Fellay hatched a plan, known as the "Hindenburg Plan," to turn the Archbishop's SSPX into a Neo-SSPX, which would sell out to what the Archbishop had called "Modernist Rome," that is the Newchurch of the New Order (Novus Ordo). Although the Archbishop had grave reservations about the "Mass of 1962," engineered by the same Freemason presbyter, Hannibal Bugnini, who fabricated the invalid Novus Ordo service of 1969 with his Committee of Six Protestant Ministers, Fellay openly embraced this corrupted version of the Mass, particularly after Benedict-Ratzinger's Great "Motu" Mess Hoax of 2007, which attempted to replace the Traditional Latin Mass with this corrupted New Latin "Mass of 1962+," sometimes erroneously termed the "Extraordinary Mess," in the minds of traditional Catholics. In its services Fellay's Neo-SSPX uses the Half Novus Ordo Vatican II "Motu" Mess of 1962+. Therefore, SSPX Messes are not really traditional, and traditional Catholics may wish to avoid them entirely as already to some extent associated with the Novus Ordo. Traditional Catholics must be areful to remain attached only to the Traditional Latin Mass and Sacraments. Fellay also took other steps to sell out his Neo-SSPX to the Novus Ordo. Around the world he replaced at various Neo-SSPX sites traditional Catholic priests with Novus Ordo presbyters merely "installed" under Bugnini's invalid New Ordinal of 1968, not ordained in the traditional Sacrament of Holy Orders with power to say the Mass. Fellay has also announced that he is essentially willing to accept all the anti-Catholic teachings of Vatican II (1962-1965), which were specifically condemned as being unCatholic by Archbishop Lefebvre. The Neo- SSPX under Fellay is clearly moving toward joining the Novus Ordo and can no longer be recommended as a traditional organization. The Neo-SSPX uses exclusively at its retreats the Ignatian Exercises. Of all the retreat methods available, this is this most controlling, most militaristic, method (St. Ignatius was a soldier, after all). This is the method used exclusively and regularly by Jesuits, who are historically the most troubled order in the Church, having gotten so far out of line that the popes had to suppress the order in the 18th century. In post-Vatican II times, Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust has taken over the Newjesuits far more than any other order. Moreover, the Newjesuits are known for violent "liberation theology," in which Jesuits in Latin America took up arms to fight the governments there. In the Neo-SSPX there appears to be a strong connection between the militaristic approach exemplified by the Ignatian Exercises and the consequences on individuals. These exercises involve lengthy enforced isolation from the world, which is also a technique used by modern cults, in which even parents are denied access to their children. The modern incarnation of the exercises is similar to EST, Mastery programmes, and other similar pseudo-psychological control methods. The TRADITIO Network has never had any connection with the SSPX or Neo-SSPX. In fact, our correspondents indicate that some (but not all) elements of the Neo-SSPX are inimical toward traditional Catholics outside its own organization and outside of its control. These elements of the Neo- SSPX leadership do not display the same good Catholic sense that the Neo- SSPX's Archbishop-founder. The following summary of the situation with respect to the Neo-SSPX was written by a member of an independent chapel that was taken over by the Fellay's Neo-SSPX and was essentially destroyed through calumny against the respected traditional Catholic priest who founded it: "I think that the basic problems with the Neo-SSPX are that they implicitly view themselves as the Church and the sole possessors of Tradition, and are very Jansenistic [militaristic, Calvinistic] in their attitudes and outlook. They are very negative and combative, always preaching and focusing on the negative aspects of our Faith and attacking those who do not wholeheartedly kowtow to and agree with them.... "The real problem is with their leadership. It is weak and political from the top down. There are many excellent priests within the Neo-SSPX, and I am friends with many of them, and they are fed up with the goings-on. They are not at fault, but their superiors are. Many of them will leave the Neo-SSPX if things continue as they are...." Thus, at some Neo-SSPX chapels, you may encounter a hostile or negative attitude and defamatory remarks about traditional Catholics, independent of the Neo-SSPX. That having been said, some of the local Neo- SSPX people and priests do not share the hostile attitude of Bernie Fellay and, in some cases, have been courageous enough to speak out against him at their own peril. TRADITIONAL CATHOLICS SHOULD NOT ASSOCIATE THEMSELVES TOO CLOSELY WITH ANY ORGANIZATION, EVEN TRADITIONAL ONES. THE BEST OPTION IS TO FIND A MASS SITE THAT IS INDEPENDENT OF ORGANIZATIONAL ENTANGLEMENTS. FIND A TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC PRIEST WHO IS SATISFIED TO CELEBRATE THE TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS, ADMINISTER THE TRADITIONAL LATIN SACRAMENTS, AND PREACH THE TRADITIONAL ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH, WITHOUT ALL THE ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS.