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Rejecting Pius XII's Reforms: A Reflection

1) The speaker acknowledges risk in rejecting reforms of Pius XII but says they have a right to do so without being bound by a need for self-defense, allowing them to say reforms went too far and leave judgement to God and future popes. 2) If one is bound by self-defense, rejecting reforms could lead to further questioning and rejecting of past changes and figures, eventually rejecting even St. Peter. 3) Archbishop Lefebvre pondered his decision carefully as a learned theologian and holy bishop, and while the speaker dislikes the 1962 rite, they will not criticize priests using it as instructed by Lefebvre.

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Rejecting Pius XII's Reforms: A Reflection

1) The speaker acknowledges risk in rejecting reforms of Pius XII but says they have a right to do so without being bound by a need for self-defense, allowing them to say reforms went too far and leave judgement to God and future popes. 2) If one is bound by self-defense, rejecting reforms could lead to further questioning and rejecting of past changes and figures, eventually rejecting even St. Peter. 3) Archbishop Lefebvre pondered his decision carefully as a learned theologian and holy bishop, and while the speaker dislikes the 1962 rite, they will not criticize priests using it as instructed by Lefebvre.

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You see, when I reject the reforms of Pius XII, I submit myself to a certain risk, and I

admit this publicly because I pronounce a judgement, even though I do not extend the
judgement to anybody else, on something which eventually will have to be judged by
the pope.
Now generally speaking, when I discuss this question with members of the Society of St
Pius X, they acknowledge my right in rejecting the reforms of holy week and the reform
of 62 because I am not bound to the law of self defense. I may indeed say hey hey you
went too far. And God will judge me for what I do, not men, and at the moment no pope.
But if you are strictly under the law of self-defense you cannot do that bc then you open
the doors to new judgements, further modifications to further modifications to further
modifications to the point that we have people running around talking about the mass of
pius v and saying that st pius x was no saint pius x but antipope pius x, bc antipope pius
x changed the breaviary around which was against the will of pius v, well soon they’d be
back to st peter.

And this is what happens if youre not very circumspect and very careful with your
judgement. First you will say that the reform of pius xii is unacceptable and you go
futyher in ur studies and you see st pius x changed things—unacceptable and he was
an antipope. You go back and you find that Urban VIII changed things—he was an
antipope too. And you go back to pius v and you see (where’s the old sequence of st
Augustine, where’s the beautiful preface of st dominic) so many things lost over the
centuries and by the time they’re back to st peter they wouldn’t have anything. See this
is the point abp Lefebvre did not accept the 1962 rite bc it was beautiful but bc the next
one after that was definitely unacceotable. And I resist people who think that they are
the judges of all these things. You think Abp Lefebvre was an idiot? A man who didn’t
know what he was doing? A man who had never studied theology? Or liturgy? He
pondered over his decision. He was not the man he proved that he was thinking before
he decided. He has given ample proof of that. He was a very learned theologian, he
was a very holy bishop and as much as I dislke the 1962 rite, I have no right whatsoever
to criticize priests who use it they are just doing what abp Lefebvre has said and it’s no
good that we have a lot of priests running around this country who decide everything on
their own and who say that abp Lefebvre was wrong

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