Editorial in the above Issue #65:
“The truly Catholic press is altogether Catholic, that is to say, it defends Catholic doctrine in all its principles and applications; it opposes all false teaching (known as such) always and entirely,
opposita per diametrum [diametrically opposed], as St Ignatius says in that golden book of his exercises. Arrayed with unceasing vigilance against error, it places itself on the frontier, always faceto-face with the enemy. It never bivouacs with the hostile forces, as the compromising press loves to do. Its opposition is definite and determined; it is not simply opposed to certain undeniable manoeuvres of the foe, letting others escape its vigilance, but watches, guards, and resists at every point.”
- Liberalism is a Sin, p.140
FROM THE DESK OF THE EDITOR:
Dear Reader,
Here is some joyous news for which to thank God. Shortly before Christmas a priest left the Fake Resistance to be a part of the real thing. Fr. Joseph Onuorah was originally a
Novus Ordo diocesan priest who came to Tradition a decade or so ago. Having been told to stay in the
Novus Ordo by the SSPX (and who knows how many other Novus Ordo priests have been told the same in recent years? That alone is surely an untold scandal!) he ended up with the Fake Resistance, receiving some supplementary formation and a conditional ordination at the hands of Bishop Tomas Aquinas in Brazil.
Since becoming aware of Bp. Williamson’s teachings and their contradiction of all things Traditional, he has taken the brave and selfless step of volunteering to join Fr. Hewko, Fr. Ruiz, Fr. Rafael, Fr. Vargas, Fr. Srtenovic, you and I and all the others here in “outer darkness” - where the “respectable” and the self-interested fear to tread! God grant him many graces as a reward! The reader will find his introduction in his own words on page 8.
What Fr. Onuorah doesn’t say in that brief introduction is that his parish are in the middle of building a church for themselves in Nigeria and although he didn’t ask me to say this, let me encourage you all to support him in the form of prayers, encouraging messages and, for those able, donations. God reward your generosity.
Friedrichshafen - Then and Now!
As is usually the case, there is also a sermon from Archbishop Lefebvre, this time his 1990 sermon at Friedrichshafen - in Germany, on lake Constance. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, it is a great sermon in its own right. The remarks made by the Archbishop about the Indult / FSSP fake “Traditionalist” priests will be familiar to some of our readers (“They signed to say that they accept the spirit of the Council and the reforms of the Council. One cannot live in contradiction like that! … It’s a contradiction because the spirit of the Council is expressed in the New Mass.”). However the rest of the sermon touches on one of the most important and most forgotten truths of our time. Suffering. Hardship. The Mass is the cross, Our Lord’s work of Redemption is suffering. Without suffering, inconvenience, hardship, without deliberate and conscious self-sacrifice we can’t get to heaven. The Archbishop understood this all-important truth in a way that so many have since forgotten. Let the “TLM” Indultists, the SSPX, the Fake Resistance and everyone else take note: those of you who know better, your own convenient lifestyle will be your undoing.
The other reason why that particular sermon is relevant is the comparison which it affords with today’s SSPX. In December 2025, in the very same town of Friedrichshafen, Fr. Franz Schmidtberger celebrated his fiftieth anniversary of ordination before a crowd of faithful organised by the SSPX. Lots of senior SSPX clerics were there, including Fr. Christian “The-Jews-Did-Not-Commit-Deicide” Bouchacourt, Fr. Robert “Spreadsheet” Brucciani, Bishop Fellay and Fr Pagliarani. Following solemn high Mass, he was lauded on stage and amidst the speeches, was presented with a gift from all of them: a Papal Blessing parchment, presented to him in tones of awe and reverence. It is not very edifying, the less so when one realises just how ten-a-penny such a parchments are. We were given one as a wedding present: it lives in the cupboard under the stairs where no one risks seeing it! The video of the entire event is on youtube (
here and
here) and a comical send-up made by The Catholic Trumpet can be found on their channel (
here).
About half an hour into the speech-making (out of one hour, eighteen minutes, in German!), Bishop Fellay says that, from the 1990s, he took the SSPX into a period of “consolidation,” limiting the number of Masses said by each priest on Sunday. That confirms what we have pointed out here before. He then adds:
Quote:“But I think we didn’t go as far in those twenty years as we have now. Now it’s a question of - what’s the word I’m looking for? - institutionalisation, which is an even more solid consolidation.”
What could he mean by this? Your guess is as good as mine, but coincidentally he goes on immediately to talk about the SSPX’s “relationship with the authorities” - by which he means, of course, modernist Rome:
Quote:“Fr. Schmidtberger has gone to Rome countless times, he has visited countless cardinals, but there was no official relationship, so to speak, until the pilgrimage in the year 2000. The year 2000 really was such a cornerstone in this story.”
Compare this attitude with what Archbishop Lefebvre says about modern Rome in the sermon on page 4 and then ask yourself whether Rome today is better or worse than in 1990. The comparison speaks volumes.
Matthew McDevitt Owes Me $100
Elsewhere in these pages the reader will find further news about one-time Fake Resistance priest Fr. Kerry Moran, who already featured in these pages six months ago. He is the third Fake Resistance priest who is a danger to children and who had been justly suspended only to be rehabilitated by the Williamsonists. How hard is it simply not to have child-molesters amongst your priests? And how can any of those people possibly justify it? The answer lies in the “My-Bishop-Right-Or-Wrong” mentality which has them in its iron grip. Bishop Williamson may have gone to his reward, but many of his followers are still in the grip of the cult of his personality. Their favourite tactic is to attack and smear anyone who threatens their cosy existence: for them, lies and calumny are no obstacle in achieving that goal.
Speaking of using lies calumny to shoot the messenger, the following might prove amusing to the casual reader. This came up whilst the Kerry Moran article was being written. One of the websites which began to a wider audience about him is a conservative-Novus outfit called ‘The Lepanto Institute’. A google search for “Lepanto Institute Kerry Moran” renders the results one might expect, for the most part. But wait, look a little closer. Specifically, look at the fourth result down.
What’s this? Cathinfo? “$100 says it was Greg Taylor”…?! Surely not? ...but yes! Here, in all it’s cheap bravado, is what the owner of Cathinfo, Matthew McDevitt, wrote:
Quote:“Gee, I wonder who submitted the story/dossier to the Lepanto Institute. $100 says it was Greg Taylor or someone associated with him. I have moral certainty.”
Well Matthew, while you are massaging your bruised ego and asking yourself how your judgement could have let you down so badly (and, I hope, wondering in earnest whether this is the only such instance!), in the meantime I am very happy to claim my hundred dollars.
Please send it via paypal to: recusantsspx@hotmail.co.uk - thank you. At the time of writing, the current exchange rate puts that at a little over £75. That will come in useful on my next trip down the local. Cheers!
And don’t worry, Matthew. There are some sceptics out there who will doubtless say that you’re just an American loudmouth (don’t you just hate national stereotypes?), “all talk and no trousers” - or to use the more vulgar Scottish expression, “all fur coat and nae knickers!” - but not I, no not I, have no fear. I believe in you! Don’t let me down now…
In the meantime, while I am waiting for Matthew’s $100 to arrive, allow me to wish all our readers - friend and foe, indifferent, grateful or livid, those who own up to reading this newsletter and those who would rather die! - a Merry Christmas-tide
and a blessed 2026.
- The Editor
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