Richard Williamson, for example, also among the seminarians whom Lefebvre was able to know fairly well, was made a seminary rector seven years after ordination as a priest and was later consecrated by Lefebvre as a bishop.Īlmost exactly one year after Lefebvre's illicit episcopal consecrations, an eight-year search for the notorious war criminal Paul Touvier came to an end when police found the man at a French residence for priests of the SSPX, some of whose members had long aided his efforts to remain in hiding. War criminal Paul Touvier was given shelter Precise documentation of other cases in which Lefebvre overlooked such attitudes is hard to find, but the sheer multiplicity of their presence within the SSPX suggests a general attitude of indulgence. Post was ordained in 1972 as one of the first priests of the SSPX (and its first American priest) at a time when membership was small and its handful of seminaries personally known by Lefebvre.
Post showed him his collection of Nazi artifacts and that when he informed Lefebvre of the matter, the archbishop's response was to shrug and say "what can one expect, that's Gregory." Gregory Post, for wearing elements of a Nazi uniform at an airport, that when the two discussed the matter Fr. Thomas Case that he had once had to correct a priest of the district, Fr. Hector Bolduc, verified in a letter to a Mr. One former superior of the American district of the SSPX, Fr. Evidence shows such a contention to be a matter of fact rather than of speculation. Saying he was willing to turn a blind eye to such sympathies and saw "pragmatic" collaboration with Nazi Germany as legitimate is another matter. Simplistically tarring Lefebvre as a "Nazi sympathizer" would be inaccurate. Richard Williamson's notorious denial of the Holocaust is the tip of a larger iceberg. The WWII-era regimes he favored had been been "pragmatically" and sometimes informally aligned with Hitler, were authoritarian and quasi-fascistic while opposed to domestic Nazi takeovers and significant elements of Nazi ideology, unfavorable to German expansion into most regions but willing to accept it when it occurred, contributing forces to Hitler's war against Soviet Russia (freeing up German troops for use elsewhere) while refusing to initiate hostilities against the Western Allies.įather Angles' relatively little-known sympathy for the Nazis and former SSPX member Bp. Richard Williamson's notorious denial of the Holocaust is not just the tip of a larger iceberg but almost to be expected in an organization founded by Abp. Those with more extensive knowledge of the SSPX will not, however, find this omission shocking at all.įather Angles' relatively little-known sympathy for the Nazis and former SSPX member Bp. Angles suggests either that those who composed the response knew them to be accurate, that they unthinkingly disregarded the allegations due to a failure to appreciate their seriousness or worse. Flimsy as the response's defense of SSPX handling of sexual abuse might seem, it at least tried to give the impression that serious efforts are made to combat evil of such gravity.įailure to address the allegations against Fr. To call this omission the most shocking aspect of the SSPX response would not be unreasonable. Ramon Angles, a leading priest of the SSPX. In a text of no less than 14 paragraphs and nearly 1,000 words not so much as a single sentence even questions, let alone denies, the information which Church Militant provided on the Nazi sympathies of Fr.
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Those who attentively read the Society of Saint Pius X's (SSPX's) response to recent reports by Church Militant will, if they keep the full text of those reports in mind, be as struck by its failure to attempt a refutation of certain allegations as Sherlock Holmes was by the dog who didn't bark in the night, and whose passivity showed that the criminal wasn't a stranger to him.
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