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Who Gets the Money if the SSPX Sells Out?
From: Michael (SSPX)
Dear Fathers:
Thank you for this wonderful Apostolate that you provide. Also, thank you for your information and Commentaries on the current SSPX situation. I am a parishioner at an SSPX chapel, and without turning to your network, I would be totally in the dark concerning the « wheeling and dealing » that has been going on between the SSPX and Newchurch.
My question is as follows. If Bishop Fellay is foolish enough to take Newvatican’s bait and take the deal, which would surely destroy the SSPX (as per Newvatican’s wishes) and cause a schism within the Society, what would happen to the SSPX property and financial holdings? Would they be turned over to Newchurch? Although this is a minor issue compared to the potential loss of souls, I am very curious whether the faithful of the SSPX would have to begin footing the bill for Newchurch’s mafia-like network.
The Fathers Reply.
Newvatican would likely claim, after any « reconciliation, » that the SSPX assets are part of Newchurch. The « Campos-style » type of sellout would place the SSPX (with the proposed working name, the « Administration of the Holy Savior ») in the position of an « Apostolic Administration. » Well, that means that Benedict-Ratzinger, or whoever is the pope at the time, has direct administration of the SSPX, its property, and its money. Remember that Benedict-Ratzinger isn’t going to remain pope for much longer. The money could eventually come under the control of a Pope Kaspar or a Pope Martini. These are just some of many unknowns that make any « deal » with Newvatican so imprudent, to say the least.
Who knows? Under U.S. law, the Newchurch diocesan bishops could claim that the Society’s money and property in their diocese is under their control. Many of them have already made this argument in state and federal courts in other cases. It’s not a pretty picture. The SSPXers would be in the same position, then, as the Newchurch parishes, trying to defend their ownership.
Like the Newchurchers, SSPXers may see all the chapels and liturgical accoutrements that they had funded falling into the hands of the Modernists of Newchurch. They might see their statues sold off to adorn bars and pubs, their marble altars turned into butcher blocks, and their chalices turned into planters, just as has happened with any number of Newchurch locations. The legal controversy could go on for many years. There is no public indication by Fellay and the SSPX liberalist faction have given much thought to these consequences of a sellout.
As to a schism within the SSPX itself, the last time a schism occurred in the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), when the Society of St. Pius V (SSPV) broke off in 1983 to form a more traditional organization, the matter lingered in the courts for years. Things got very nasty indeed.
As we have cautioned before, SSPXers make sure that their donations are going into a local fund that is administered by their own local Board of Trustees for their chapel, not to the SSPX or Newchurch corporation. In case of « all Hell breaking loose » in an SSPX sellout, they had better be sure that they are the ones having the freedom of action to control their money and property, not some hand reaching over from Menzingen or Newchurch to pillage their local pockets.
The local Board of Trustees could then rent any local chapel property to the SSPX at $1 a month to provide the Mass. If the SSPX then sold out to Newrome, the local Board of Trustees could give the SSPX a month’s notice and then cancel the rental agreement. This arrangement leaves the control of local chapel assets locally, where they should be under the present conditions in the Church: outside the ultimate control of the SSPX or Newchurch corporation.
There are a lot of Newchurchers who now wish that they had segregated their money and property in the same way that the parishioners of St. Stanislaus Kosta, of St. Louis, Missouri, were prudent enough to do. As a result, they have been able to keep their church and $11,000,000 in assets from the clutches of Newchurch archbishop Raymond « Bully » Burke, who wanted to confiscate everything of theirs to pay of for sex crimes. Now they are able to take independent action from corporate masters who wish to bleed them dry.
SSPXers still have some time left, but not too much, to learn from the mistakes of the past, to make sure that their donations are made payable to a local fund managed by their own Board of Trustees, not to a Menzingen or Newrome corporation.