Mons Lefevbre and four IF questions

IF Mons. Lefevbre was all that his devotees say he is - another Saint Athanasius - then why did he not stand for the truth?

IF Mons Lefevbre was as courageous as his devotees says he was, then why did he not threaten to leave the Council he later described as being in error?

IF Mons Lefevbre was the champion of Tradition, then why did he vote to accept every single Vatican Two Document.

IF Mons. Lefevbre was as reliable a champion of truth that his devotees say he was, then why did he spend decades after the end of the Council telling anyone who would listen that he did not vote to accept the very documents he signed?

There an be no doubt that Mons Lefevbre said and did many things that are defensible, admirable. and praise-worthy, but he is not the hero his devotees make him out to be.

You know who are heroes?  The four Archbishops who threatened to walk out of Vatican I when it took decisions they opposed;


It was in the second month of the council, January 1870, that the "infallibilist" bishops began to move, various groups sending in petitions to the pope that the question be added to the agenda. In all, nearly five hundred bishops signed one or another of these petitions. There were five petitions in the contrary sense, signed by 136 more. The pope sent the petitions to the deputation For Requests, and after some debate the deputation, by a vote of 25 to 1, advised the pope on February 9 to add a statement about the infallibility to the draft On the Church already given out to the bishops on January 21. 

On March 1 Pius IX accepted their advice, and five days later the new addition was in the hands of the bishops. It was not a satisfactory text at all. Drawn up months before the council met, in case some such draft would be needed, it was inevitably not suited, from its extreme tone and indefinite terminology, to the hour in which it now appeared. And almost simultaneously rumours began to spread among the bishops that the extremists were working for a decision "by acclamation," and without any debate. Four bishops, thereupon, sent in a protest to the presidents, saying that if this were to be allowed they would immediately leave the council "and make public the reason of our departure." To whom the presidents replied that the "acclamation" scheme none but madmen (insensati) would even think of, while the text now sent out was but a draft for the bishops to shape as they chose. But it is a fact that some of the madmen had actually sent in petitions to this effect.



The four were the archbishops of Cincinnati, Purcell and St. Louis , Kenrick, the bishops of Little Rock, Fitzgerald, and Kerry , Moriarty


http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/03d/sine-data,_Hughes._Philip,_A_History_Of_Church_Councils._From_325_To_1870,_EN.pdf

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