Letter to Friends and Benefactors
Archbishop Lefebvre's Racism Charge
August 1990
Dear Friends and Benefactors,
A number of you know that on June 21 Archbishop Lefebvre was tried in front of a French civil court on a charge of "racism" for remarks he had made last November concerning the flow of Mohammedans into France. Judgment was given on July 12: the Archbishop was acquitted of "racism", but was condemned to pay a 5,000 franc fine (about $850), and to publish the court's judgment in two newspapers, because he had "defamed" the Muslim community. (Probably his sharpest remark referred to the Mohammedans' practice of kidnapping European girls for their harems in cities which they dominate).
This judgment, apparently a compromise, may or may not satisfy the parties to the law-suit. On the one hand the plaintiff, Licra (International League Against Racism and Antisemitism), may appeal in an attempt to make its accusation of racism stick; on the other hand Archbishop Lefebvre could counter-appeal by proving that what he said about the Mohamoedans was not defamatory but factual.
Now, given that Archbishop Lefebvre spent over thirty of the best years of his life in service of the Catholic Church in black Africa, why should Licra, whose President is a Jew of the same venerable age as the Archbishop, wish to prove him a "racist"? Cardinal Thiandoum, Archbishop Lefebvre's French African colleague and successor as Archbishop of Dakar, wrote a public letter before the June 21 trial to a well-known French editor, Jean Madiran, to encourage him in his defense of the Archbishop's cause:
"Dear Mr. Madiran,
"Let me firstly greet you in Jesus Christ and express my fraternal communion with you in his. I was truly "disgusted" to learn of the decision taken by Licra to haul Msgr. Marcel Lefebvre, Archbishop, in front of the law-courts on a trumped-up charge of racism! I wish you to activate your talents as a man of letters, writer and Catholic to bring to naught such a perverse enterprise. I hope that the lawyer chosen by Msgr. Lefebvre will nullify the action being undertaken by Licra.
"I rejoiced profoundly at the way in which you refuted the charge of so-called racial discrimination leveled at Msgr. Lefebvre. If such a suit were filed in Africa, its authors would have been made to suffer for it!..... in truth, as you have so well written, this trial is being directed, through Msgr. Lefebvre, at your country's Catholicism.
"I shall be grateful if you will keep me informed on this question. Meanwhile, since we are at the end of Holy Week, I wish you a Joyful Easter, thanking you in advance for all you will do to stop Licra's suit against a bishop".
+Hyacinth Cardinal Thiandoum, Archbishop of Dakar.
So in black Africa, says the African Cardinal, it is the "anti-racist" Licra which would have got into trouble for attacking the Archbishop, whereas in white France Licra gets a hearing and half a victory! What is going on?
A gigantic religious war is being waged for the hearts and souls of Frenchmen between two radically opposed views of life and of the world, both religious but one pretending not to be: Catholicism and Secular Humanism. On this side of the Atlantic, columnist Patrick Buchanan admirably brings into focus the same clash behind many events in the USA; but in France, "eldest daughter of the Catholic Church", the clash is still sharper than here.
On the one side is the Catholic world-view: God exists, and He created a world of varied creatures, with order and inequality in their variety. That inequality in all creatures, as issuing from God's hand, is not punishment of any sins of theirs, but the variety in order and order in variety are designed to show forth the infinitely varied goodness of God Himself a little less inadequately than would a creation without any such inequality or variety (imagine a garden with only roses, an aviary with only eagles, a zoo with only lions, etc.). Wisdom therefore consists in working with this order of God and not against it; in acknowledging the differences and not denying them; in synchronizing the variety and not in leveling down the inequality.
On the other side is the Secular Humanist world-view: all inequality is injustice, so if any God exists who created such inequality, he or she deserves to be kicked out of his (or her) creation, and mankind must correct God's handiwork by leveling down all inequality and by denying all differences, for instance, of age, sex, class or race. Hence from ages 15 to 75, all will pretend to be 25; between man and woman all will pretend there is no difference; all social classes will be abolished; all racial differences will be ignored.
Now a minimum of common sense tells us that this latter world-view will be continually flying in the face of facts, but such common sense forgets that that is just what this world-view wishes to do; it wishes to re-write the charter of the universe, and it would turn everything of God's upside down if it could – universal Revolution.
Hence behind the beautiful ideal of universal "equality", as preached today, stalks Luciferian revolt (not even in heaven will all men be equal, but all of us will be graded according to the degree of our charity). Similarly, behind the media's preaching of "antiracism" stalks the diabolical desire to discredit and dissolve those nations which have in the past best served the Church, so making way for the world-triumph of those racists (sic) who have most fought the Church!
Hence the moment a Catholic prelate sets out to rally his fellow countrymen against the dissolution of their race or nation and the dilution of their Faith by the poisonous falsehoods of their politicians and their media, he must for the purposes of the Antichrist be immediately struck down, regardless of the facts. Hence Licra's accusations against Archbishop Lefebvre. Cardinal Thiandoum is right, but it took an African to see it, or at least to say it: Licra's real target is France's Catholicism. Again, that the poor secular humanists should be blind is normal, so to speak. What is grave is when Catholics every day ingurgitate their poison, for instance from the media. Readers, if you regularly frequent the media, do not be surprised if "anti-racism" seems to you the next best thing to patriotism – Televisio ejicienda est! Throw out that television set!
Then the Society of St. Pius X is racist, you will say? Tele-idiot! Go back to Cardinal Thiandoum's remarks about Archbishop Lefebvre! Just two months ago the Archbishop flew down to his old stomping-ground in Gabon, the heart of French Equatorial Africa, to bless the Society's newly-built church in Libreville where the Society has a thriving mission. The ceremony was attended by 1,200 Africans. It takes a tele-idiot, or a maker of tele-idiots, to accuse anyone or anything Catholic of "racism"!
Dear readers, keep looking for a convent. As of now, the Society's Sisters in the U.S.A. have still not found a suitable building, and they have been looking. Remember, 35-50 rooms, with a measure of isolation, in about 10-20 acres if possible, with Refectory and Chapel, and preferably with neither prolonged winter nor enervating summer. But beware of the incorrect number I gave you last time: the Sister's correct number in Michigan is (313) 784-5591.
And may God bless you and give you and your families sane time of vacation.
Most sincerely yours in Christ,
August 1990
Dear Friends and Benefactors,
A number of you know that on June 21 Archbishop Lefebvre was tried in front of a French civil court on a charge of "racism" for remarks he had made last November concerning the flow of Mohammedans into France. Judgment was given on July 12: the Archbishop was acquitted of "racism", but was condemned to pay a 5,000 franc fine (about $850), and to publish the court's judgment in two newspapers, because he had "defamed" the Muslim community. (Probably his sharpest remark referred to the Mohammedans' practice of kidnapping European girls for their harems in cities which they dominate).
This judgment, apparently a compromise, may or may not satisfy the parties to the law-suit. On the one hand the plaintiff, Licra (International League Against Racism and Antisemitism), may appeal in an attempt to make its accusation of racism stick; on the other hand Archbishop Lefebvre could counter-appeal by proving that what he said about the Mohamoedans was not defamatory but factual.
Now, given that Archbishop Lefebvre spent over thirty of the best years of his life in service of the Catholic Church in black Africa, why should Licra, whose President is a Jew of the same venerable age as the Archbishop, wish to prove him a "racist"? Cardinal Thiandoum, Archbishop Lefebvre's French African colleague and successor as Archbishop of Dakar, wrote a public letter before the June 21 trial to a well-known French editor, Jean Madiran, to encourage him in his defense of the Archbishop's cause:
"Dear Mr. Madiran,
"Let me firstly greet you in Jesus Christ and express my fraternal communion with you in his. I was truly "disgusted" to learn of the decision taken by Licra to haul Msgr. Marcel Lefebvre, Archbishop, in front of the law-courts on a trumped-up charge of racism! I wish you to activate your talents as a man of letters, writer and Catholic to bring to naught such a perverse enterprise. I hope that the lawyer chosen by Msgr. Lefebvre will nullify the action being undertaken by Licra.
"I rejoiced profoundly at the way in which you refuted the charge of so-called racial discrimination leveled at Msgr. Lefebvre. If such a suit were filed in Africa, its authors would have been made to suffer for it!..... in truth, as you have so well written, this trial is being directed, through Msgr. Lefebvre, at your country's Catholicism.
"I shall be grateful if you will keep me informed on this question. Meanwhile, since we are at the end of Holy Week, I wish you a Joyful Easter, thanking you in advance for all you will do to stop Licra's suit against a bishop".
+Hyacinth Cardinal Thiandoum, Archbishop of Dakar.
So in black Africa, says the African Cardinal, it is the "anti-racist" Licra which would have got into trouble for attacking the Archbishop, whereas in white France Licra gets a hearing and half a victory! What is going on?
A gigantic religious war is being waged for the hearts and souls of Frenchmen between two radically opposed views of life and of the world, both religious but one pretending not to be: Catholicism and Secular Humanism. On this side of the Atlantic, columnist Patrick Buchanan admirably brings into focus the same clash behind many events in the USA; but in France, "eldest daughter of the Catholic Church", the clash is still sharper than here.
On the one side is the Catholic world-view: God exists, and He created a world of varied creatures, with order and inequality in their variety. That inequality in all creatures, as issuing from God's hand, is not punishment of any sins of theirs, but the variety in order and order in variety are designed to show forth the infinitely varied goodness of God Himself a little less inadequately than would a creation without any such inequality or variety (imagine a garden with only roses, an aviary with only eagles, a zoo with only lions, etc.). Wisdom therefore consists in working with this order of God and not against it; in acknowledging the differences and not denying them; in synchronizing the variety and not in leveling down the inequality.
On the other side is the Secular Humanist world-view: all inequality is injustice, so if any God exists who created such inequality, he or she deserves to be kicked out of his (or her) creation, and mankind must correct God's handiwork by leveling down all inequality and by denying all differences, for instance, of age, sex, class or race. Hence from ages 15 to 75, all will pretend to be 25; between man and woman all will pretend there is no difference; all social classes will be abolished; all racial differences will be ignored.
Now a minimum of common sense tells us that this latter world-view will be continually flying in the face of facts, but such common sense forgets that that is just what this world-view wishes to do; it wishes to re-write the charter of the universe, and it would turn everything of God's upside down if it could – universal Revolution.
Hence behind the beautiful ideal of universal "equality", as preached today, stalks Luciferian revolt (not even in heaven will all men be equal, but all of us will be graded according to the degree of our charity). Similarly, behind the media's preaching of "antiracism" stalks the diabolical desire to discredit and dissolve those nations which have in the past best served the Church, so making way for the world-triumph of those racists (sic) who have most fought the Church!
Hence the moment a Catholic prelate sets out to rally his fellow countrymen against the dissolution of their race or nation and the dilution of their Faith by the poisonous falsehoods of their politicians and their media, he must for the purposes of the Antichrist be immediately struck down, regardless of the facts. Hence Licra's accusations against Archbishop Lefebvre. Cardinal Thiandoum is right, but it took an African to see it, or at least to say it: Licra's real target is France's Catholicism. Again, that the poor secular humanists should be blind is normal, so to speak. What is grave is when Catholics every day ingurgitate their poison, for instance from the media. Readers, if you regularly frequent the media, do not be surprised if "anti-racism" seems to you the next best thing to patriotism – Televisio ejicienda est! Throw out that television set!
Then the Society of St. Pius X is racist, you will say? Tele-idiot! Go back to Cardinal Thiandoum's remarks about Archbishop Lefebvre! Just two months ago the Archbishop flew down to his old stomping-ground in Gabon, the heart of French Equatorial Africa, to bless the Society's newly-built church in Libreville where the Society has a thriving mission. The ceremony was attended by 1,200 Africans. It takes a tele-idiot, or a maker of tele-idiots, to accuse anyone or anything Catholic of "racism"!
Dear readers, keep looking for a convent. As of now, the Society's Sisters in the U.S.A. have still not found a suitable building, and they have been looking. Remember, 35-50 rooms, with a measure of isolation, in about 10-20 acres if possible, with Refectory and Chapel, and preferably with neither prolonged winter nor enervating summer. But beware of the incorrect number I gave you last time: the Sister's correct number in Michigan is (313) 784-5591.
And may God bless you and give you and your families sane time of vacation.
Most sincerely yours in Christ,
