The Catholic News Agency portal reports on a Jan. 19, 2026 meeting between antipope Leo XIV and leaders of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), describing it as a “cordial half-hour meeting” where FSSP superiors presented their “foundation and history” while discussing “misunderstandings and obstacles” faced under Traditionis Custodes restrictions. The article frames this encounter as significant given the ongoing apostolic visitation of the FSSP, noting antipope Leo XIV’s “willingness to listen” represents “pragmatic leniency” toward traditionalist groups while maintaining the liturgical crackdown initiated by Bergoglio. The FSSP statement concludes with plans to renew their consecration to the “Immaculate Heart of Mary” on Feb. 11. This theatrical display of dialogue masks the FSSP’s fundamental betrayal of Catholic ecclesiology.
Schismatic Submission to Antichurch Structures
The FSSP’s continued recognition of conciliar sect authorities constitutes formal cooperation with apostasy. Despite their claim to have broken with Abp. Marcel Lefebvre in 1988 “to remain fully under the Roman pontiff,” they submit to usurpers who publicly deny Christ’s social kingship. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas definitively established that “the Church, constituted by Christ as a perfect society, has an innate and legitimate right to perfect freedom and immunity from the power of the state” (n. 32). Yet the FSSP voluntarily places itself under the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life – a bureaucratic arm of the Vatican II sect that promotes religious indifferentism condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 15).
Their complicity reaches sacrilegious dimensions when reporting how antipope Leo XIV “gave his blessing, which he extended to all members of the fraternity.” The article omits that such “blessings” from manifest heretics lack all supernatural validity, as St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A manifest heretic is not capable of jurisdiction, nor can he exercise any act of jurisdiction” (De Romano Pontifice). The FSSP’s gratitude for this blasphemous gesture reveals their alignment with the conciliar revolution.
Liturgical Fraud Amid Doctrinal Bankruptcy
The article boasts of the FSSP’s “well-attended liturgies” and “steady flow of vocations,” yet these natural phenomena cannot sanctify souls when divorced from submission to integrally Catholic authority. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 188.4) establishes that offices become vacant “by the mere fact” when clerics defect from Catholic faith. Since the FSSP recognizes antipopes who publicly deny the necessity of Catholic membership for salvation (contra Mortalium Animos, Pascendi), their sacraments – even if valid – are administered in schism.
Their planned “consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary” constitutes theological fraud. True consecration requires union with the Immaculate Heart’s perfect Fiat to divine will, yet the FSSP remains yoked to leaders who promote syncretism forbidden by Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos: “The Catholic Church alone is preserving true worship. This is the fount of truth, this the house of faith, this the temple of God” (n. 10). The conciliar sect’s “Mary” is an ecumenical puppet stripped of her prophetic warnings against heresy – a stark contrast to Our Lady’s true messages at La Salette condemning Rome’s overthrow.
Apostolic Visitation as Modernist Enslavement Tool
The article whitewashes the Vatican’s apostolic visitation as non-punitive oversight to “know who we are…and provide us with any help we may need.” This bureaucratic doublespeak hides the conciliar sect’s systematic eradication of Tradition. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane condemned the very notion that “Ecclesiastical judgments and censures imposed for too free and explicit exegesis prove that the faith of the Church is contrary to history” (Proposition 3). Yet FSSP willingly submits to judges who reject the immutability of doctrine – an act of intellectual and spiritual suicide.
Their 2014 visitation foreshadowed today’s crisis, having failed to extract them from communion with modernists. Now they return like slaves begging chains from Pharaoh, ignoring St. Paul’s warning: “What fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial?” (2 Cor 6:14-15). The FSSP’s Denton seminary becomes a training ground for conciliar collaborationists when it should be forming priests for the catacombs.
Pseudo-Traditionalism’s Death Rattle
The article’s reference to antipope Leo XIV’s “American” background subtly reinforces nationalist sentimentalism alien to Catholic universality. True shepherds defend Una Fides regardless of nationality, as Pius XII warned: “The mystery of the Church’s unity cannot be measured by merely numerical standards, for its essence lies in the union of hearts and wills” (Mystici Corporis 70). The FSSP’s pragmatic survivalism sacrifices principle for institutional access – the very “evolution of dogma” condemned by Pius X’s Pascendi (n. 26).
Their Novena prayers to Mary are empty theatrics while recognizing usurpers who desecrate her sanctuaries. As the true Church endures in those preserving integral faith outside conciliar structures, the FSSP’s Denton seminary stands as a monument to compromised Tradition. Until they break entirely with the Vatican II sect, their liturgies merely gild the cage of modernist captivity.
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Pope Leo XIV meets FSSP leaders amid visitation, ‘Traditionis Custodes’ fallout (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 20.01.2026