I Have Handed on What I Have Received
By Fr LW Gonzales On June 11th, 2009
On The Biography of Marcel Lefebvre
“A handful of seminarians at the time [1969] were dissatisfied with the priestly formation they were receiving: a formation both liberal and lax. Only four years after the close of the Council, the seminaries were already permeated by the modernist spirit of Vatican II: weekly liturgical experiments, seminarians concocting their own liturgies, seminarians going out at night, bad theology courses, no rule of life, no cassocks, no Latin, no discipline, contempt for Tradition, total collapse.”
Can one really be displeased about the reaction of the SSPX? Had the same Catholic lifestyle been retained, the Church would not today have to worry about dwindling numbers attending Mass, the fall in number of seminarians, or the watering down of the true Catholic identity.