Econe open in autumn

From a Special Correspondent
THE Seminary at Econe, Switzerland, will reopen in the autumn despite the rejection of Archbishop Lefebvre's appeals against the suppression of the Fraternity of St Pius X and all its foundations.
He has been informed by the Commission of three Cardinals, appointed to examine the question of the Fraternity, as well as by the Swiss bishops, that his foundations no longer have a juridical basis and hence lose the right to existence.
He has described the action taken against him as a "parody of a legal process".
Archbishop Lefebvre has disclosed that in the event of pressure being put on the Swiss Government to expel members of the Fraternity who arc not Swiss nationals, he has already had offers of suitable accommodation in other countries.
Providing that bishops can still be found to inacardinate the students into their dioceses, the young men trained at Econe can continue to be ordained.
Archbishop Lefebvre says he has complete confidence in the justice of his cause, and states that if he is doing God's work then it is impossible that God will abandon him. As a sign of the permission of the civil authorities to build a large and urgently needed chapel at Econe.
The Archbishop claims to have been deceived by the Commission of Cardinals by being given the impression that his interviews with the Cardinals were simply discussions to help them place the facts before the Pope, who would judge the issue himself, whereas the Cardinals were acting as his judges themselves and had reached their judgment in advance.
He had given his consent to having the discussions recorded and was assured by Cardinal Garonne that it was his right to have a copy of the recording. When he asked for the recording he was told he could only have a transcript, and when he asked for a transcript was told that he could not have one but would he allowed to read one.
Archbishop Lefebvre states that to comply with the judgment he would have had to "summarily turn out 104 seminarians, 13 professors, and all the employees of the seminary, and that two months before the end of the academic year."
The Archbishop lays great stress on the fact that the only specific complaint made against him concerns a declaration of principles which he made on November 21, and emphasises that not one word in writing has beenproduced by his accusers specifying any point in the declaration which is not compatible with the authentic Faith.
If anything in his declaration can be condemned, he slates,