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Télécharger En Virgo-Maria.org CAPITAL : Lettre ouverte solennelle des fidèles aux quatre évêques de la FSSPX http://www.virgo-maria.org/articles/2006/VM-2006-10-10-A-00-Appel_aux_quatre_eveques_de_la_FSSPX.pdf Qui et Pourquoi, depuis la mort de Mgr Lefebvre en 1991, a détourné la finalité surnaturelle de l’OPERATION-SURVIE des sacres de 1988, pour assigner à la FSSPX ce FAUX objectif prioritaire de la «ré-conciliation» avec la Rome conciliaire (en fait la «ré-conciliarisation» de la FSSPX) ? Qui a, depuis 2000, PROMU, et Pourquoi, le FAUX préalable de l’autorisation de la messe de Saint Pie V ? Pourquoi n’a-t-on pas posé la VRAIE question du rétablissement du VRAI Sacerdoce de VRAIS prêtres, ordonnés par des Evêques VALIDEMENT sacrés selon le rite VALIDE des Saints Ordres ? Qui a INVENTE, et POURQUOI, le faux préalable de la levée des «excommunications» ? Pourquoi n’a-t-on pas posé la VRAIE question de l’abrogation de Pontificalis Romani INVALIDE de 1968 et du rétablissement du vrai rite de la consécration épiscopale VALIDE d’avant 1968? A quoi servirait-il, en effet, de faire dire le VRAI rite de la messe par de FAUX prêtres ? Serait-ce donc qu’après avoir obligé de VRAIS prêtres à dire une FAUSSE messe, l’on veuille désormais faire dire la messe du VRAI rite par de FAUX prêtres ? Serait-ce que l’on veuille «concilier» les VRAIS prêtres qui disent encore la VRAIE messe avec un clergé aussi INVALIDE que le FAUX CLERGE ANGLICAN ? Gaude, Maria Virgo, cunctas hæreses sola interemisti. (Tractus Missæ Salve Sancta Parens) mercredi 28 avril 2010 Ce message peut être téléchargé au format PDF sur notre site http://www.virgo-maria.org/. Pour protéger Vatican II, l’abbé Lorans1 en vient à défendre les protecteurs2 de pédophiles : les abbés Ratzinger-Benoît XVI et Hoyos La pédophilie systémique véhiculée par Vatican II Système scandaleux de mœurs intrinsèques à Vatican II, mais extrinsèques à l’Église catholique Les causes systémiques et doctrinales de la pédophilie Photos de l’abbé Alain Lorans, porte-parole de Mgr Fellay, et de Mme Randy Engel qui a démontré l’explosion depuis Vatican II de la colonisation des milieux cléricaux par des réseaux homosexuels et pédophiles liés à la maçonnerie. 1 L’abbé Lorans, le pilier du GREC, cet organisme semi-secret fondé par l’abbé Celier et Mgr Fellay en 1998, depuis plus de 10 ans, pour organiser des contacts et échanges secrets entre la Fraternité et l’église [secte] Conciliaire maçonnique mondialiste néo-anglicane. Cf. en fin d’article les références VM sur les méfaits de ce clerc infiltré et protégé par Mgr Feallay au sein de l’œuvre de préservation du Sacerdoce sacrificiel catholique sacramentellement valide, fondée par Mgr lefebvre 2 Cf. les dossiers VM qui rappellent la sévérité des règles canoniques de la véritable discipline catholique et de la condamanation des clercs pédérastes ou protecteurs de pédérastes : http://www.virgo-maria.org/articles/2009/VM-2009-01-21-A-00-Sodomie_et_St_Pierre_Damien.pdf http://www.virgo-maria.org/articles/2009/VM-2009-01-09-A-00-Doctrine_sur_homosexualite.pdf 1 Derrière le discours fourbe de l’abbé Lorans sur le scandale pédophile qui accable l’abbé apostat Ratzinger- Benoît XVI : la défense de Vatican II, cause de cette pédophilie systémique. L’Église catholique n’est pas coupable d’un système de pédophilie, c’est Vatican II qui l’a développé. Ne laissons pas faire l’amalgame. Car l’église [secte] Conciliaire n’est pas l’Église catholique, mais en est la contrefaçon satanique. Unam, sanctam, catholicam et apostolicam Ecclesiam, mais Vatican II n’est ni saint ni catholique, ni apostolique. Les clercs conciliaires pédophiles sont protégés4 systématiquement depuis des décennies par l’« homme intègre » (sic) et l’ « ami très précieux3 » (re-sic) de Mgr Fellay, à savoir respectivement les abbés apostats Ratzinger4-Benoît XVI et Hoyos5 L’abbé Lorans1 vient de faire paraître le 17 avril 2010 sur Dici.org, un texte particulièrement fallacieux et trompeur. Rompant une longue période de silence de plus d’un mois (l’affaire des clercs conciliaires pédophiles mettant en cause l’abbé apostat Ratzinger-Benoît XVI a en effet commencé le 12 mars et la Direction de la FSSPX était depuis lors restée délibérément silencieuse sur le sujet), l’abbé Lorans est enfin sorti de l’ombre pour distiller subtilement, et sur des faits sélectionnés et tronqués, la théorie d’un « complot des médias » dont « le bon Benoît XVI », et l’« Église » (conciliaire) seraient prétendument les cibles, et dans laquelle les abbés apostats Ratzinger-Benoît XVI et Castrillón Hoyos ne seraient que des victimes parfaitement innocentes. Le but de ce « complot » serait, selon le pernicieux abbé Lorans, l’abandon du célibat ecclésiastique dont Ratzinger-Benoît XVI contituerait, paraîtrait-il selon lui, « l’intraitable gardien », sa prétendue fermeté sur le sujet ayant justement suscité contre lui l’ire et les prétendues « calomnies » actuelles des médias déchaînés. Prenons donc un peu de recul par rapport au dossier de la pédophilie qui alimente les journaux depuis plus d’un mois. Qu’est-ce qui est véritablement en jeu derrière cette énorme affaire de mœurs au sein de l’église [secte] Conciliaire ? Une simple affaire de mœurs ? Non, ce gigantesque scandale sans précédent révèle en réalité tout un système, un systéme de protections et de solidarités camouflées, remontant dans la hiérarchie ecclésiastique conciliaire. 3 http://www.virgo-maria.org/articles/2008/VM-2008-02-26-A-00-Flavigny.pdf 4 http://www.virgo-maria.org/articles/2010/VM-2010-04-14-A-00-Lettre_qui_accuse_Ratzinger.pdf 5 L’abbé Dario Castrillón Hoyos n’est qu’un simple prêtre catholique dévoyé, validement ordonné prêtre le 26 octobre 1952, mais invalidement soi-disant « consacré » « évêque » le 18 juillet 1971 selon la nouvelle pseudo-« consécration » épiscopale conciliaire « œcuménique » mondialiste du 18 juin 1968, totalement et radicalement invalide (et quelle que puisse être l’intention de l’évêque consécrateur), car en particulier hérétique et totalement inventée par les liturgistes conciliaires modernistes apostats Dom Botte et Lécuyer, placé sous l’autorité du Franc-Maçon Lazariste Annibale Bugnini(nom de code maçonnique BUAN) par l’évêque apostat homosexuel Montini-Paul VI ( cf www.rore-sanctifica.org ) http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcashoy.html http://www.virgo-maria.org/articles/2010/VM-2010-03-31-A-00-Hoyos_protege_pedophile.pdf http://www.virgo-maria.org/articles/2007/VM-2007-10-16-A-00-Hoyos_liberte_religieuse_Colombie.pdf 2 Rev. Paul J. Shaughnessy, S.J. : "The Gay Priest Problem – What Needs to Be Done, and Why it Won’t Be", Catholic World Report, (Novembre 2000), 54-58. http://www.hccns.org/Docs/GayPriestProblem.doc L’abbé Shaughnessy, un Jésuite, aumônier de la Navy et du Corps des Marines écrivait : "Je définis comme corrompue, au sens sociologique, toute institution qui a perdu la capacité de s’amender de son propre chef et grâce à ses propres ressources, une institution qui est incapable de découvrir et expulser ses propres mécréants. En ce sens, la raison principale pour laquelle l’action nécessaire à résoudre le problème ne sera pas entreprise est que l’épiscopat aux États Unis est corrompu, et c’est aussi vrai pour la majorité des communautés religieuses. Il est important de souligner que c’est une exigence sociale et non morale".6 Les « variations » opportunistes et carriéristes de l’abbé Lorans (FSSPX) en vue de sa propre promotion au sein de l’« église [secte] Conciliaire » et au détriment de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ et de son Église L’abbé Lorans à la gauche de Mgr Lefebvre vers la fin années 80 a totalement trahi le fondateur de la FSSPX qui disait : « Nous avons affaire vraiment à une mafia incroyable (…) nous ne savons pas la moitié de ce qui se passe à Rome (...) Si nous savions tout, nous serions épouvantés, épouvantés ». Le porte-parole de Mgr Fellay remet désormais avec joie des prix au pseudo-‘cardinal’ Poupard, représentant des pires ennemis de Mgr Lefebvre. Pour bien montrer l’opportunisme et le sens de l’intrigue de cet abbé Lorans, citons la lettre qu’il signa au lendemain des sacres de 1988 à destination du ‘cardinal’ Gantin : « Nous n'avons jamais voulu appartenir à ce système qui se qualifie lui-même d'Église Conciliaire, et se définit par le Novus Ordo Missae, l'œcuménisme indifférentiste et la laïcisation de toute la Société. Oui, nous n'avons aucune part, nullam partem habemus, avec le panthéon des religions d'Assise ; notre propre excommunication par un décret de votre Eminence ou d'un autre dicastère n'en serait que la preuve irréfutable. Nous ne demandons pas mieux que d'être déclarés ex communione de l'esprit adultère qui souffle dans l'Église depuis vingt-cinq ans, exclus de la communion impie avec les infidèles. Nous croyons au seul Dieu, Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ, avec le Père et le Saint-Esprit, et nous serons toujours fidèles à Son unique Epouse, l'Église Une, Sainte, Catholique, Apostolique et Romaine. 6 http://www.virgo-maria.org/Documents/Randy-Engel/2006_Engel_Le-Rite-de-Sodomie_Chap5_L-Homintern_et_les-espions-de- Cambridge.pdf 3 Être donc associés publiquement à la sanction qui frappe les six évêques catholiques, défenseurs de la foi dans son intégrité et son intégralité, serait pour nous une marque d'honneur et un signe d'orthodoxie devant les fidèles. Ceux-ci ont en effet, un droit strict à savoir que les prêtres auxquels ils s'adressent ne sont pas de la communion d'une contrefaçon d'Église, évolutive, pentecôtiste, et syncrétiste. » A Ecône, le 6 juillet 1988 Alain Lorans, directeur du séminaire d'Ecône7 Table des matières 1. Non pas des cas isolés, mais un système encouragé par Vatican II : une pédophilie systémique dans l’église [secte] Conciliaire ...................................................................................
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