In an explosive revelation, Fr. Patrick Girouard attested in his June 2, 2013 sermon that Fr. Jurgen Wegner, Canadian District Superior of the Society of St. Pius X, revealed to him during a conversation they had in October 2012 while Fr. Wegner was in British Columbia, that Bishop Fellay, with the assistance of Fr. Wegner, hired a company to change the image of the SSPX in order to attract more faithful. The conclusion of this company was that the SSPX had to tone down its fight against the Vatican II church. It had to focus more on the positive side of things and stop arguing so much. Is this not what we have been exactly seeing in the SSPX recently! The “branding” of the new image of the SSPX, then, has been masterminded by Menzingen! But at what cost? Unfortunately, it has been at the cost of the reduction, both in frequency and intensity, in condemning doctrinal errors and heterodox practices coming from Modernist Rome and the Modernist Bishops. Where, for example, did Bishop Fellay publicly condemn the Assisi III meeting hosted by Pope Benedict XVI? Unfortunately, this new image of the SSPX has made it become not much better than the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter or the Institute of Christ the King.
Fr. Giroud’s sermon can be seen, heard, and read at this link:
http://www.sacrificium.org/multimedia/video/solemnity-feast-corpus-christi-2-june-2013
Evidence to support Fr. Giroud’s claim can be found in the January/February 2012 issue of The Angelus. Fr. Wegner writes in the “Last Word” column of this issue that:
“A renowned European branding firm developed a corporate style for which the Society which is supposed to be used not only for The Angelus but for all kinds of publications, for correspondence as well as for the also renewed website. I’m very happy being closely involved in this work and honored writing these lines.”
On May 13, 2012 Fr. Wegner gave a sermon at the Church of the Transfiguration in Toronto where he spoke about this company and what an executive of this company said to him. You can listen to the recording at the link below. Start at the 22 minute mark.
https://ecclesiamilitans.com/2012_05_13_-_fr._jurgen_wegner_sermon.mp3
The very next day, I personally wrote to Fr. Wegner, via e-mail, the following:
“Dear Fr. Wegner,
I thank you for the sermon yesterday. You’ve raised some good points. One thing that I have been thinking about, however, is your statement that someone told you that the SSPX is fighting against an already ruined Church and that it is time to re-build. I think the SSPX has been re-building since the first day of its foundation and fighting at the same time. Nevertheless, one of the problems I find with your statement is that Pope Benedict XVI continues to praise the cause of the ruin, that is, Vatican II. I could understand if the pope was calling out for help to implement truly Catholic doctrine and morality, but his refusal to repent of the doctrinal and moral crimes that he has committed throughout his clerical career and his refusal to condemn the errors of Vatican deters me from accepting your statement as valid. The Church is in ruins indeed, but the cause of those ruins continues to be praised by this pope. He still sees Vatican II as the future of the Church! And we are to trust him?
Father, please understand that I am a baby when it comes to this fight for Tradition. I have only been with the SSPX for seven years. But when three Bishops of the Holy Roman Catholic Church consecrated by the saintly Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre write a letter to the Superior General of the SSPX that they are against a canonical deal, one has to really stop and think about Bishop Fellay’s wisdom in this matter. Bishop Fellay has still not even publicly explained why he has changed course from requiring a doctrinal agreement prior to a canonical one to now being willing to accept a canonical deal prior to a doctrinal resolution.
Trust me when I say that whatever decision Bishop Fellay makes, I pray and hope that everything will work out for the greater glory and honour of God and for the good of the Church, but I have a difficult time believing that making a canonical deal at this point in time is really the solution.
God bless.”
Tony, the article quoted above is from Father Girouard.
Donkath,
I don’t think your timing about Fr. Wegner’s branding is accurate. Fr. Wegner told Fr. Girouard in October 2012 that a couple of years ago I met with that president “again”. That would place the time in 2010. Therefore, the branding starting after that.
“Within this new scandal of the SSPX “branding”, I think that it is important to know when this (pagan) PR firm from Holland was hired to do the branding of a new image for the SSPX, and its relative timelines associated with other happenings throughout that time to put this all together.”
To begin:
• Fr. Patrick Girouard said in his June 2, 2013 sermon, that the “Branding” for the SSPX started when Fr. Jurgen WEGNER was the District Superior of Holland.
QUOTE
…So here, I don’t know… You know, normally, you brand a cow! But he(Fr. Jurgen WEGNER, district superior of Canada) tells me now that the Society has been branded! So I was able to keep walking, I did not drop dead but… And then he told me: “Yes Father, that is true, and I did it!” Oh! You did it. How did you do it? “Well, when I was in Holland, District Superior, I met with somebody, I became friend with the President of a company…” (and then he named me the name of the company, it is a Flemish name which uh… is too strange to remember) but he said: “This is the fifth most successful company in Holland, so it is a very important company, a very successful company, and a couple of years ago I visited them and I met again with this man, and I asked him to take care of the Society and to do the branding of the Society, because that company is specialized in branding.
And so Father Wegner asked that man of that company to do the branding of the Society, and so that man said: “I will look into the Society on the website; I will let you know.” A couple of weeks later he phones Father Wegner, and he says: “Father, I refuse; I refuse the contract, because I looked over your name SSPX, and you don’t have a good name out there, and I don’t want my company to have the blemish of having you as a customer.” So Father Wegner says: “Well, at least give us a chance! Let’s hear our own side, what we have to say. I will organize a meeting for you and Bishop Fellay in Menzingen, in Switzerland, and at least give us the chance to answer all of your questions, and after that you will decide!” So the man said : “Fair enough.” So they organize the meeting in Menzingen, and Father Wegner told me that the man went there and asked one hundred and fifty questions to Bishop Fellay, and Bishop Fellay answered all of these questions, and it lasted six hours! For six hours! And, at the end, that man said: “Okay, I will take the contract of the Society, and I will do your branding.”
• Fr. Jurgen Wegner was the District Superior of Belgium and Holland for 9-years (1999-2008).
• Then, he became the District Superior of Canada in 2008 taking the place of Fr. Arnaud Rostand.
Therefore, this “branding” happened sometime within that time line 1999-2008.
With the help of others, let’s figure this out by putting events together and see where it leads us.
I will start.
DURING 1999-2008:
• (1994 – GREC was established.)
• 2000 – SSPX Rome pilgrimage.
• 2006 – SSPX General Chapter with an excellent outcome –Doctrine first. Rome needs to convert.
• 2007 – The Motu Proprio happened in setting the Traditional Mass as second place – “Extraordinary”.
AFTER 2008:
• 2008 – Fr. Jurgen WEGNER becomes the District Superior of Canada. (What did he implement there to foster this “branding”?)
• 2008 – Fr. Rostand becomes the District Superior of the U.S. (What did he implement there to foster this “branding”?)
• 2009 – Bishop Fellay removes Bishop Williamson from the active apostolate; sending him into an attic in London, England.
• 2009 – The “lifting” of the excommunications happened without mentioning Archbishop Lefebvre or Bishop de Castro Mayer.
• 2011 – SSPX has exchanges with conciliar Rome for a “practical agreement”.
• 2012 – SSPX has secret workings with conciliar Rome.
• 2012 – Exchange letters of the 3-sspx Bishops, Bishop Fellay’s (scandalous) return letter to them.
• 2012 – Bishop Fellay’s (scandalous) Doctrinal Declaration.
• 2012 – SSPX General Chapter with the (scandalous) 6-conditions.
• 2012 – Major exposure of SSPX scandals.
• 2012 – Expulsions of many priests and Bishop Williamson who do not agree with the new “doctrines” of the new SSPX.
• 2012 – Fr. Rostand announces in his “Christmas appeal” that they have started updating with a new image.
• 2013 – sspx.org changes their website to a new “image” for the world.
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Original source articles:
Key sermon: http://www.sacrificium.org/multimedia/vide…sti-2-june-2013
BOMBSHELL Breaking News – Menzingen hires PR Firm, To re-brand SSPX: http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php?a=top…094&min=0&num=5
source:
http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php?a=topic&t=25132#p3