Bishop Huonder Has Died

Nope, it was an appointment:

“ he noted that he joined the SSPX as the request of Rome/Pope Francis [January 2015]. "... he [Bp. Huonder] frankly admits: «I fulfilled this mandate [of Holy See], and I'm still filling it out.» This is clear: Mgr Huonder works, even today, the integration of the Brotherhood into the Conciliary Church..." [taken from here].

Unfortunately, almost everyone in the SSPX pews fits your description of unsuspecting and trusting. When revelation of the secret GREC meetings of 1997-2000 were revealed in 2012 (at which Menzingen was secretly negotiating for a merely practical accord, because it didn’t want to be seen contradicting Lefebvre’s post-1988 position of “no accord until Rome converts” by its “faithful”), nobody batted an eye. Today, they can’t even bring themselves to say COVID shots are illicit, or Hounder holy oils are doubtfully valid. Like the communist citizens of Orwell’s 1984, they believe whatever they’re told to believe, even when it contradicts what they were previously told to believe (and people like me who point out the emperor’s new clothes are told were disobedient rebels). What do you call it when the real rebels accuse the true faithful of rebellion? Projection. But they all buy it, to assuage their own consciences. They love big brother.

@Slave of the Immaculata Apparently you like condescending to everyone, like many of your fellow SSPX-MC peers. I don't care about what Bishop Fellay or Bishop Williamson, or the TOOTH FAIRY of all things did or did not do. I care about the particular disrespect you give to a man just deceased. It's un-Catholic. Have a bit of charity.

I think it's fine and dandy that they allowed him to stay with the SSPX. Whether Francis sent him there or not, he still admitted that he enjoyed being with them. Truly the attempt to "bring them to the conciliar side" gave the SSPX an ability to bring him to the light of the truth on the tradition side. I understand the snark side of traditionalists and the doom and gloom. I hope his opinion was changed by his stay. I have hope that he rose up like a St. Paul and did not subvert like a Benedict Arnold.

Revisionist history: By his own words, Francis sent him to bring the SSPX into the conciliar church, and very obviously, the SSPX was very happy to have him for that purpose. Nowhere in Hounder’s video series does he condemn Vatican II, but only its abuses, and he foists the hermeneutic of continuity in an attempt to save it. Where real trads like +Lazo and +Vigano condemn it, Hounder defends it. But the sentimental and superficial spinsters will forget all that, and pretend Hounder was traditional, same as with BXVI.