Archbishop Lefebvre Speaks!

[Dawn Marie]

You continue to represent the true Church,

the Catholic Church. I think you need to be

convinced of this: you really represent the

Catholic Church. I don’t say there is no

Church out of us, it’s not about that. But

recently, we are told that it was necessary

that Tradition enter into the visible Church.

I think a very, very serious mistake is

committed here.

Conference given by Archbishop Lefebvre to his priests at Ecône, September 9, 1988

(Fideliter N° 66, November-December 1988)

If you mean the Conciliar Church, then we who have struggled against the Council

for twenty years because we want the Catholic Church, we would have to re-enter

this Conciliar Church in order, supposedly, to make it Catholic. That is a complete

illusion. It is not the subjects that make the superiors, but the superiors who make

the subjects.

One Year after the Consecrations: An Interview with Archbishop Lefebvre

(US District website)

That is why what can look like a concession is in reality merely a maneuver to

separate us from the largest number of faithful possible. This is the perspective in

which they seem to be always giving a little more and even going very far. We must

absolutely convince our faithful that it is no more than a maneuver, that it is

dangerous to put oneself into the hands of Conciliar bishops and Modernist Rome.

It is the greatest danger threatening our people. If we have struggled for twenty

years to avoid the Conciliar errors, it was not in order, now, to put ourselves in the

hands of those professing these errors.

One Year after the Consecrations: An Interview with Archbishop Lefebvre

(US District website)

We must not be under any illusions. Consequently we are in the thick of a great

fight, a great fight. We are fighting a fight guaranteed by a whole line of Popes.

Hence, we should have no hesitation or fear, hesitation such as, "Why should we be

going on our own? After all, why not join Rome, why not join the Pope?" Yes, if

Rome and the Pope were in line with Tradition, if they were carrying on the work of

all the Popes of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, of course. But they

themselves admit that they have set out on a new path. They themselves admit that

a new era began with Vatican II. They admit that it is a new stage in the Church's

life, wholly new, based on new principles.

… And we must not waver for one moment either in not being with those who are in

the process of betraying us. Some people are always admiring the grass in the

neighbor's field. Instead of looking to their friends, to the Church's defenders, to

those fighting on the battlefield, they look to our enemies on the other side. "After

all, we must be charitable, we must be kind, we must not be divisive, after all, they

are celebrating the Tridentine Mass, they are not as bad as everyone says" —but

THEY ARE BETRAYING US —betraying us! They are shaking hands with the

Church's destroyers. They are shaking hands with people holding Modernist and

Liberal ideas condemned by the Church. So they are doing the devil's work.

Two Years after the Consecrations: We Must Not Waver, We May Not Compromise

(US District website)

The diffusion and adherence of the Roman authorities to the Masonic errors many

times condemned by their predecessors is a great mystery of iniquity which ruins

the Catholic Faith in its foundations.

This harsh and painful reality obliges us in conscience to organize on our own the

defense of our Catholic Faith. The fact of sitting in the seats of authority is no

longer, alas, a guarantee of the orthodoxy of the faith of those who occupy them.

The pope himself now ceaselessly spreads the principles of a false religion, the

result of which is a general apostasy.

Preface to the first volume of Documentation of the Revolution in the Church

compiled by Fr. Giulio Tam,

(the last published text of Archbishop Lefebvre before being called to his eternal reward)

In response we must say that to become part of these ordinary structures we would

have to place ourselves under the authority of ‘Modern Rome’ which destroys

Tradition. It would consequently be impossible to defend Tradition whilst at the

same time showing obedience to an authority which is itself undermining

Tradition… Today Rome may not even insist on doctrinal conditions as the price

for “reconciliation,” … Instead it suffices to place these groups in practical contact

with the Conciliar Church and to let time performs its work.

Fr. Paul Morgan, (May 2008 Newsletter of the SSPX British District)

We specifically exclude this possibility. We know that while there is no return to

Tradition on the part of Rome, any practical or canonical agreement is incompatible

with the public confession and defense of the Faith, and would mean our death.

Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta, (South America District magazine Iesus Christus, no. 121, May 2009)