Heretical Quotes of Marcel Lefebvre
Contradicting The Vatican Council, 1869-1870
Lefebvre Contra Christus
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Lúcio Mascarenhas
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This is part of a three document refutation of the Heresy of Lefebvrism
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Traditio.com, operated by a Mr. M.E. Morrison, a Protestant masquerading as a Traditionalist Catholic priest, published, in February 2006, three separate quotes of Marcel Lefebvre, with great approval and doctrinal agreement (
See http://www.traditio.com/comment/com0602.htm). Again, in March 2006, Traditio.com published another statement by Lefebvre (
See http://www.traditio.com/comment/com0603.htm). The four statements are reproduced here below:
- For Archbishop Lefebvre's exact words, click here (http://www.traditio.com/comment/com0602a.mp3). You must have an MP3 plug-in installed for your browser to play this recording.
French Text of the Recording (90 seconds):
"Je l'ai r�sum� au Cardinal Ratzinger en quelques mots, n'est-ce pas, parce que c'est difficile de r�sumer toute cette situation; mais je lui ai dit : '�minence, voyez, m�me si vous nous accordez un �v�que, m�me si vous nous accordez une certaine autonomie par rapport aux �v�ques, m�me si vous nous accordez toute la liturgie de 1962, si vous nous accordez de continuer les s�minaires et la Fraternit�, comme nous le faisons maintenant, nous ne pouvons pas collaborer; c'est impossible, impossible, parce que nous travaillons dans deux directions diam�tralement oppos�es: vous, vous travaillez � la d�christianisation de la soci�t�, de la personne humaine et de l'�glise, et nous, nous travaillons � la christianisation. On ne peut pas s'entendre.
"Rome a perdu la foi, mes chers amis. Rome est dans l'apostasie. Ce ne sont pas des paroles, ce ne sont pas des mots en l'air que je vous dis. C'est la v�rit�. Rome est dans l'apostasie. On ne peut plus avoir confiance dans ce monde-l�, il a quitt� l'�glise, ils ont quitt� l'�glise, ils quittent l'�glise. C'est s�r, s�r, s�r."
An English Translation of the Recording (90 seconds):
"I have summed it up to Cardinal Ratzinger in a certain words, of course, because it is difficult to sum up this whole situation; but I said to him: 'Eminence, see, even if you grant us a bishop, even if you grant us a certain self-government in relation to the bishops, even if you grant us all the liturgy of 1962, if you grant us to continue the seminaries and Society, as we do it now, we cannot collaborate; it is impossible, impossible, because we work in two diametrically opposed directions: you, you work for the de-Christianization of society, of the human person, and of the Church, and we, we work for its Christianization. They cannot be in agreement.'
Rome has lost the Faith, my dear friends. Rome is in apostasy. It is not just words, it is not just words in the air that I say to you. It is the truth. Rome is in apostasy. One cannot have confidence any more in this world. It has left the Church, they have left the Church, they are leaving the Church. It is sure, sure, sure."
- Letter to the Future Bishops "Adveniat Regnum":
To Fathers Williamson, Tissier de Mallerais, Fellay, and de Galarreta
Very dear friends,
The Chair of Peter and the offices of Rome being occupied by antiChrists, the destruction of the Reign of Our Lord proceeds rapidly at the very heart of His Mystical Body here, by the corruption of the Holy Mass, the splendid expression of the triumph of Our Lord by the Cross: "Regnavit a ligno Deus," and the source of the extension of His Reign in souls and in societies.
So is obvious the absolute necessity of the permanence and continuance of the adorable sacrifice of Our Lord so that "His Reign come."
The corruption of the Holy Mass brought the corruption of the priesthood and the universal decline of faith in the divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
God raised the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X for the maintenance and perpetuity of His glorious and expiatory sacrifice in the Church. He has chosen some true priests educated and convinced of these divine mysteries. God has given to me the grace of preparing these clerics and conferring upon them the sacerdotal grace for the perpetuation of the true sacrifice, according to the definition of the Council of Trent. It is this that was worth to us the persecution of the antiChrist Rome.
This Rome, modernist and liberal, following her destructive work against the Reign of Our Lord, as is proven by Assisi and the confirmation of the liberal propositions of the Second Vatican Council on religious freedom, I find myself forced by divine Providence to transmit the grace of the Catholic episcopacy that I have received, so that the Church and the Catholic priesthood may continue to exist for the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
That is why, convinced to fulfil only the Holy Will of Our Lord, I come by this letter to ask you to agree to accept the grace of the Catholic episcopacy, as I have already conferred it upon other priests in other circumstances.
I shall confer upon you this grace, confident that once the Chair of Peter shall be occupied by a successor of Peter perfectly Catholic, you will be able to deposit the grace of your episcopacy into his hands for him to confirm.
The main purpose of this transmission is to confer the grace of the priestly Order for the continuance of the true Sacrifice of the Holy Mass and to confer the grace of the Sacrament of Confirmation upon the children and upon the faithful who ask you for it.
I implore you to remain attached to the See of Peter, in the Roman Church, Mother and Teacher of all the Churches, in the complete Catholic Faith, expressed in the creeds of the Faith, in the catechism of the Council of Trent, in accordance with what was taught to you in your seminary. Remain faithful in the transmission of this Faith in order that the Reign of Our Lord may arrive.
Finally, I implore you to remain attached to the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, to remain soundly united amongst yourselves, subject to the Superior General in the traditional Catholic faith, remembering these words of Saint Paul to the Galatians (l:8 and 9): "sed licet nos aut angelus de caeli evangelizet vobis praeterquam quod evangelizavimus vobis, anathema sit. Sicut praedicimus et nunc iterum dico: si quis evangelizaverit praeter id quod accepistis, anathema sit."
Very dear friends, be my solace in Christ Jesus, remain strong in the Faith, faithful to the true Sacrifice of Mass, to the true and holy Priesthood of Our Lord for the triumph and glory of Jesus in Heaven and on the earth, for the salvation of souls, for the salvation of my soul.
In the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, I embrace you and bless you. Your Father in Christ Jesus.
Marcel LEFEBVRE
- Last public letter, issue March 4, 1991, from Econe, Switzerland, the Society's headquarters, 21 days before his death:
... This compilation [of the speeches of the pope and Roman officials] throws a so searing a light on the doctrinal Revolution inaugurated officially in the Church by the [Second Vatican] Council and continued until our days, that one cannot help but think of the Seat of Iniquity predicted by Leo XIII, or in the loss of the Faith of Rome predicted by Our Lady at LaSalette.
The publication and adherence of the Roman officials to Masonic errors condemned many times by their predecessors is a great mystery of evil that undermines the foundations of the Catholic Faith.
This hard and painful reality obliges us in conscience to organize by ourselves the defense and protection of our Catholic Faith. The fact of being seated in the seats of authority is no longer, alas!, a guarantee of orthodoxy in the Faith of those who occupy them. THE POPE HIMSELF HENCEFORTH PUBLISHES WITHOUT INTERRUPTION THE PRINCIPLES OF A FALSE
RELIGION, WHICH HAS AS ITS RESULT A GENERAL APOSTASY....
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre
Econe, March 4, 1991
- Traditio.com, March 2006, http://www.traditio.com/comment/com0603.htm
Archbishop Lefebvre condemned Cardinal Ratzinger by name as attempting to "dogmatize Vatican II," that is, to make its unCatholic content falsely take on the aspect of dogma, a bizarre interpretation that even Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI rejected! From Econe on January 29, 1986, he wrote in a letter to Jean Madiran:
Rome is no longer Catholic Rome. The prophecies of Our Lady of La Salette and of Leo XIII in his exorcism [of 1903] are coming true.... Cardinal Ratzinger tries one more time hard to dogmatize Vatican II. We are dealing with persons with no notion of the Truth. We shall consequently be more and more forced to act by considering this new conciliar Church as not being Catholic any more.
We can no longer, without failing gravely to tell the truth and in charity, allow those who listen to us or who read us to believe that the pope is irreproachable, that he is full of wishes to return to Tradition, and that it is only his entourage that is guilty....
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This is part of a three document refutation of the Heresy of Lefebvrism
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