The conciliar sect’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, under the antipope “Leo XIV,” has proposed a “theological dialogue” with the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), conditioning full communion on the suspension of episcopal ordinations scheduled for July 1, 2026. This maneuver, presented as a pastoral outreach, is in reality a sophisticated Modernist stratagem designed to absorb the SSPX into the doctrinal chaos of the post-conciliar “church” by demanding the surrender of Catholic integrity for a phantom “canonical status.” The proposal exposes the fundamental error of the SSPX’s position: recognizing the occupants of the Vatican as legitimate popes while attempting to preserve the faith they have systematically destroyed.
The Dialogue Illusion: A Modernist Trap Disguised as Reconciliation
The article reports that Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, met with Father Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of the SSPX, to propose a “path of theological dialogue” with a “well-defined methodology.” The stated goal is to establish “minimum requirements for full communion” and identify a “canonical status” for the Society. This language is a quintessential expression of Modernist relativism. The very notion of “minimum requirements” reduces the Catholic faith to a negotiable set of propositions, contrary to the integral and uncompromising nature of revealed truth. As Pope Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors:
Error #15: Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.
Error #16: Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation, and arrive at eternal salvation.
The Vatican’s proposal implicitly treats the Catholic faith as one option among many, subject to “dialogue” and “clarification” with those who hold to it. This is a direct repudiation of the exclusive salvific mandate of the Catholic Church, defined by the same Pius IX:
Error #21: The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion.
To “dialogue” on this point is to entertain the heresy that the Church’s unique claim is open to debate. The SSPX’s participation in such a process, even as a defensive measure, legitimizes the very indifferentism the Church has always anathematized.
Theological Subversion: Undermining the Integrity of the Faith
The specific topics proposed for discussion reveal the subversive intent. Cardinal Fernández suggested examining “the distinction between the act of faith and the obedience of faith,” as well as “the varying degrees of assent owed to different texts of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council.” These are not clarifications but Modernist innovations designed to erode the supernatural virtue of faith.
St. Pius X, in the decree Lamentabili sane exitu, condemned precisely this kind of distinction:
Proposition 25: Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities.
Proposition 26: The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief.
The Vatican’s framing separates intellectual assent from practical obedience, making faith a matter of personal interpretation and “degrees” of acceptance. This is the heresy of Modernism, which “regards dogmas as symbols of the primitive experience” (Lamentabili, Prop. 21) and subject to “continuous and indefinite progress” (Syllabus, Error #5). The SSPX’s letters from 2017-2019, referenced in the article, already show their entanglement with these errors by engaging with questions on “God’s will regarding religious pluralism”—a topic born from the council’s heretical declarations Dignitatis Humanae and Nostra Aetate, which the Syllabus had already condemned in advance:
Error #15-18: (Condemning liberty of conscience and worship, and the notion that Protestantism is a true form of Christianity).
By even entering this “dialogue,” the SSPX acknowledges the legitimacy of the conciliar magisterium’s errors, treating them as debatable rather than anathematized. This is a spiritual surrender.
The Schism Narrative Inverted: Who Has Broken Communion?
The Holy See’s statement warns that the SSPX’s planned episcopal ordinations “without papal approval” would entail “a decisive rupture of ecclesial communion,” namely “a schism,” citing Pastor Aeternus (1870) on the pope’s supreme power. This accusation is a grotesque inversion of reality. The SSPX, while gravely erroneous in its recognition of the post-1958 occupants, has never denied the doctrine of papal primacy. It is the conciliar sect that has ruptured communion by:
- Accepting the heretical council Vatican II, which contradicts the dogmas of the Church.
- Promoting ecumenism and religious liberty, condemned by Pius IX.
- Corrupting the Mass and sacraments, as condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili (Props. 39-51).
The true schism is the apostasy of the Vatican II “popes” and their sect. As St. Robert Bellarmine, cited in the Defense of Sedevacantism file, taught: a manifest heretic “by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian.” The current occupant, “Leo XIV,” and his predecessors since John XXIII, have manifestly held heretical positions (e.g., on religious liberty, collegiality, the nature of the Church). Therefore, the See is vacant (sede vacante). The SSPX’s error is in recognizing the vacant See’s usurpers as legitimate, thus sharing in their schism by acknowledging a false authority. The Vatican’s threat of “schism” is a bluff: the SSPX is already in a state of material schism by recognizing antipopes, but the conciliar sect is in formal schism and heresy. The dialogue proposal is a trap to formally incorporate the SSPX into the conciliar structure, making them officially complicit in the apostasy.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Modernist Obsession with Structures
The entire article revolves around “canonical status,” “ecclesial communion,” “theological dialogue,” and “episcopal ordinations.” There is a complete silence on the supernatural: the state of grace, the necessity of Catholic faith for salvation, the horror of mortal sin, the reality of hell, the propitiatory sacrifice of the Mass, the indissolubility of marriage, the exclusive mediation of Christ. This is the hallmark of the conciliar sect’s naturalistic humanism. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), established the feast of Christ the King precisely to combat this secularism:
“This plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors… When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.”
The Vatican’s proposal is a masterpiece of this secularism: it reduces the crisis to a canonical and theological “dialogue” about “degrees of assent,” while the souls of billions perish in heresy and idolatry. The SSPX’s focus on liturgical tradition and episcopal orders, while important, is insufficient if it does not confront the root cause: the apostasy of the Roman pontiffs and the denial of Christ’s social kingship. The article’s language is bureaucratic and pastoral, devoid of the prophetic denunciation found in Pius IX’s Syllabus or St. Pius X’s Pascendi. This tone itself is a symptom of the “smoke of Satan” infiltrating the sanctuary.
The Sedevacantist Reality: A Vacant See and a False Proposal
The foundational error of the entire scenario is the assumption that “the Holy See” and “the Pope” (here “Leo XIV”) possess any legitimate authority. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, the See of Peter has been vacant since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958. The subsequent “popes” have promoted heresy, thus automatically losing the papacy per the doctrine of St. Robert Bellarmine and Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code:
“Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact… if the cleric: … 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.”
The “dialogue” is therefore not with the legitimate Church but with a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. The SSPX’s mistake is to engage with this entity as if it were the Church. The only legitimate response to such a proposal is total rejection, as one would reject an offer from a heretic to “dialogue” on the nature of God. The conciliar sect’s “theological dialogue” is a euphemism for the imposition of Modernist errors. The SSPX’s suspension of ordinations would be a surrender of its minimal claim to orthodox episcopacy, leaving it defenseless against the next wave of doctrinal corruption.
Conclusion: The Vatican’s proposal is not a step toward reconciliation but a final Modernist offensive to neutralize the last visible resistance to the conciliar revolution. It demands the SSPX’s implicit acceptance of the heresies of Vatican II under the guise of “clarification,” while threatening schism for maintaining Catholic tradition. The SSPX must recognize the sedevacantist reality: the See is vacant, the conciliar “popes” are heretical usurpers, and any “dialogue” with them is a descent into apostasy. The only path is the repudiation of the entire post-1958 “church” and a return to the immutable faith of the centuries, outside of which there is no salvation.
Source:
Holy See proposes theological dialogue with Society of St. Pius X (vaticannews.va)
Date: 12.02.2026