Virgo Maria is a traditional Catholic site in France, run by a man who was ordained through the SSPX and left it after discovering the SSPX's many strange inconsistencies and connections. The site is a treasure cache of information (in French) that every Catholic and every SSPX supporter should know about. If even one fact on that site is true, the SSPX should be completely avoided by good Catholics; if all of it is false, every detail on the site should be openly addressed and refuted.
But you will not see this information published or addressed anywhere else -- and especially not in the pages of Traditio, Catholic Family News or even by the "hard-liners" of the Most Holy Family Monastery.
Recently, a great deal of information has been published on Virgo Maria concerning the strong Rosicrucian connections of Richard Williamson, "bishop" of the SSPX.
The connections between the SSPX and anti-Catholic secret societies run very deep. Lefebvre himself, writing in the Angelus, chuckled off the possibility that his own priestly and episcopal ordinations were invalid (since they were performed by a devil worshiper) by saying that this devil worshiper surely had the "proper intent" of the Roman Catholic Church -- cleverly forgetting the fact that the question of proper intent is only reserved for members of the Catholic Church. A person who joins an anti-Catholic secret society for the purposes of worshipping Satan is not a member of the Catholic Church, so his intentions, as they were, are irrelevant. (Afterward, when approached by a real bishop who offered to clear up the matter by conditionally re-ordaining him, Lefebvre quickly declined -- he didn't want to mess with the chance of validity!)
The SSPV, Anthony Cekada, and others of their ilk will never address these issues, because it will raise the question of the validity of their own ordinations. Traditio will not write about it because it appears that their purpose is to encourage the so-called "conservative" wing of the SSPX (which includes none other than Richard Williamson himself).
Curiously, the Diamond Brothers of the Most Holy Family Monastery don't mention these facts in any of their works, not even in their special critiques of the SSPX, all of which oddly focus on the many un-Catholic influences and Novus Ordo practices of the SSPX's current activities, not in the validity of the SSPX's orders themselves. When questioned on this matter, they at first ignored our question but finally told us that they believe Marcel Lefebvre was a real priest and bishop because heretics can validly ordain -- when we pointed out that our contention was something very different, that we are not saying Lefebvre was ordained by a heretic but by a man who was never a member of the Catholic Church, their reply was quick and to the point and can be summarized as thus: it doesn't matter; people who were never members of the Catholic Church can validly ordain.
Yes, but ordain what? Can the acolytes of Lucifer validly make Catholic priests and bishops?
