The cited article from the INFOVATICANA portal (February 14, 2026) reports on the ordination of twelve subdeacons by the Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP) in Wigratzbad, Germany. It presents the event as a luminous “step toward the altar” and a cause for “heavenly joy,” praising the FSSP for preserving the traditional subdiaconate suppressed by Paul VI’s *Ministeria quaedam* (1972). The article frames this preservation as a living expression of a “theology of the priesthood” emphasizing “continuity, gradualness, and symbolic beauty,” contrasting it with the “trivialization of the sacred” in the post-conciliar world.
The central, unspoken thesis of the article is that the FSSP, by maintaining traditional liturgical forms, is a bastion of authentic Catholic tradition. This is a fatal error. The article’s entire narrative is a sophisticated piece of **naturalistic humanism** that obscures the **fundamental schism** of the FSSP and its **public communion with the antipopes** of the Vatican II sect. It offers a beautiful shell while the spiritualå†…æ ¸ is rotten. The “step toward the altar” is a step into the abyss of schism, and the “heavenly joy” it imagines is a diabolical deception.
The FSSP: A Schism Within the Schism of the Neo-Church
The article presents the FSSP as a guardian of tradition. This is a lie. The FSSP is not a traditional Catholic institute; it is a **publicly schismatic society** in full communion with the **abomination of desolation** occupying the Vatican. Its founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, **continuously acknowledged the validity of the usurpers** from John XXIII through Benedict XVI. The FSSP’s very existence is predicated on the **heretical and apostate** “papal” concessions of the post-1958 “popes.” They operate under the explicit permission and canonical erection of the antipopes, accepting their “authority” while criticizing some of their “disciplinary” innovations. This is the essence of **Modernist compromise**: accepting the “magisterium” of heretics while clinging to old rites.
The article’s silence on this is deafening. It mentions “the reform of Paul VI” as a past error but says nothing of the **apostasy of the men who occupy the See of Peter since 1958**. It does not mention that the FSSP’s “ordinations” occur in a **vacant See** (*sedes vacans*), as the line of legitimate Roman Pontiffs ended with the death of Pope Pius XII. By recognizing the “legitimacy” of the conciliar “popes,” the FSSP **denies the Catholic doctrine of the papacy** as defined by St. Robert Bellarmine and the First Vatican Council. A society that acknowledges a **manifest heretic** as the Vicar of Christ is itself **ipso facto** schismatic and its “sacraments” are administered in a context of **public sacrilege**.
The Invalidating Schism: Orders in a Vacant See
Catholic theology is unequivocal: **ecclesiastical jurisdiction and the power to ordain depend on communion with the Roman Pontiff**. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches that a **manifest heretic** loses all jurisdiction *ipso facto* (*De Romano Pontifice*, Bk. II, Ch. 30). The FSSP’s foundational error is its refusal to apply this doctrine to the post-conciliar “pontiffs.” By acknowledging them, it places itself **outside the communion of the true Church**.
The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 188.4) states: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact… if the cleric… publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The conciliar “popes” have publicly defected through their **ecumenism** (placing the Church on a par with false religions), **religious liberty** (condemned by Pius IX in the *Syllabus*, §§15-18), and **denial of the Social Kingship of Christ** (condemned in *Quas Primas* itself, which the article quotes out of context). Therefore, the See has been vacant since 1958. **No legitimate bishop can ordain in a vacant See without specific delegation from a true pope**. The FSSP bishops have no such delegation. Their “ordinations” are, at best, **valid but illicit** if performed by bishops who retained episcopal character but are themselves in schism; at worst, they are **doubtful** due to defective intention (the FSSP intends to create clergy for a schismatic structure that acknowledges antipopes). The article’s celebration of this “luminous step” is therefore a celebration of **sacrilegious mimicry**.
The Subdiaconate in a Schismatic Context: A Profanation
The article waxes poetic about the subdiaconate’s “theological profundity”: the “celibacy as eschatological anticipation,” the “breathing of the Church” through the Divine Office. This is **blasphemous sentimentality** when divorced from the **unity of the true Church**. The subdiaconate is an **order** (now suppressed in the 1972 discipline, which itself was an act of the antipopes) that **confers a sacred character and incorporates a man into the *clero majori***. But this incorporation is into the **hierarchy of the Catholic Church**, not into a **paramasonic structure** like the FSSP.
The FSSP’s “subdiaconate” is a **liturgical museum piece** performed by a society in **public schism**. The vows of celibacy and the recitation of the Office, while good in themselves, are **null of supernatural effect** when taken within a **communion that denies the exclusive salvific mission of the Catholic Church** (a denial implicit in the FSSP’s ecumenical posture). The article mentions the subdiaconate’s link to the altar and the “penumbra of the Sancta Sanctorum.” Yet, the FSSP’s altars are **schismatic altars**. They offer the **Traditional Latin Mass**, but they offer it **in union with the antipopes** and in rejection of the true, vacant See. This makes their “altar” a place of **sacrilege**, not sanctity. The “gold” the article speaks of is the **false glitter of a counterfeit coin**.
The Omission of the Social Kingship of Christ: A Modernist Silence
The article quotes, indirectly, from Pius XI’s *Quas Primas* on the “kingdom of Christ.” This is a **citational trick**. *Quas Primas* is a **thunderous condemnation of the secularism** the article itself embodies. Pius XI writes: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” He commands that the feast of Christ the King be instituted “to condemn this public apostasy, which secularism has initiated.” The article, however, uses the encyclical’s language to praise a **private, devotional act** (an ordination) while remaining **absolutely silent on the public, social reign of Christ the King**.
This is the **hallmark of Modernism**: reducing the Kingship of Christ to a matter of private piety and liturgical aesthetics, while **cowardly avoiding any challenge to the secularist, apostate world order**. The FSSP, by its very existence as a tolerated society within the conciliar structures, **submits to the secular power’s definition of “religion”** (as a private association). It does not, as Pius XI demanded, call upon “rulers and governments to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” It does not condemn the **religious liberty** enshrined in the constitutions of modern apostate states. Its “tradition” is a **museum piece**, not a **sword of the Spirit**. The article’s poetic focus on the “young man’s ascent” is a **deliberate diversion** from the **apostasy of the age** and the **duty of Catholic rulers to establish the Social Reign of Christ**.
The “Beauty” of the Liturgy as a Mask for Schism
The article’s core rhetorical move is to equate **liturgical beauty** with **doctrinal truth**. It speaks of “the beauty symbolic of each rung,” “the gold liturgical,” and “the Domus aurea” (House of Gold). This is **aestheticism**, not theology. The Catholic Church teaches that **beauty is a transcendental—it is a property of being, truth, and goodness**. But **beauty without truth is demonic**. The **most beautiful liturgy** celebrated in **schism** is an **abomination**. The FSSP’s liturgy, while materially traditional, is **formally schismatic** because it is celebrated in **communion with heretics** and in **rejection of the true papacy**.
The article’s language is saturated with **Romantic, poetic naturalism** (“the young man’s vigor,” “the hope of a young and enthusiastic promise”). This is the **language of feeling, not of faith**. It appeals to the **sentiments** of those who love “the old Mass” but have **abandoned the Catholic mind**. It is the **spirit of the age**—which Pius X condemned in *Pascendi Dominici Gregis*—invading the traditionalist camp. The “smooth trembling of joy in heaven” the article imagines is a **fiction**. The true “trembling” in heaven is at the **public sacrilege** of ordaining men to a schismatic clergy, and at the **damnation of souls** misled by this beautiful lie.
The Mortal Sin of Recognizing Antipopes
The FSSP’s foundational act is its **public recognition of the antipopes** as legitimate Roman Pontiffs. This is a **formal sin against the faith** and a **public act of schism**. As the *Syllabus of Errors* (Pius IX) condemns (Error #23): “The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion.” The FSSP, by acknowledging the “authority” of the conciliar “popes” who promulgated *Dignitatis Humanae* (religious liberty) and *Nostra Aetate* (indifferentism), **implicitly rejects** the *Syllabus* and **accepts** the condemned errors. They are therefore **heretics and schismatics**.
The article’s author, “Mons. Alberto José González Chaves,” uses the title “Mons.” (Monsignor). This title, in the post-conciliar context, is **empty**. If he is a validly ordained priest, he is in **schism** for recognizing the antipopes. If he is an “ordained” priest of the FSSP, his orders are **doubtful** due to the schismatic context. His poetic effusions are therefore the **words of a schismatic**, and his article is a **masterpiece of diabolical deception**: using the **beauty of tradition** to lure souls into the **tent of schism**.
Conclusion: The Silver That Became a Snare
The article’s central metaphor is that the subdiaconate transforms “silver” (the young man’s natural state) into “gold” (the sacred state). The reality is inverted. The **silver of naturalistic piety and aesthetic traditionalism** has been transformed by the FSSP into the **fool’s gold of schism**. The “gold” they display is **base metal** covered with a thin veneer of tradition, designed to attract those who are “tired of the trivialization of the sacred” but who **lack the theological rigor and fortitude to embrace the full, uncompromising truth of the *sedes vacans* and the necessity of a true pope**.
The FSSP does not offer a “step toward the altar.” It offers a **step toward the abyss of schism**. The “heavenly joy” it imagines is the **joy of the enemy** who sees souls lulled into a **false security** by beautiful rituals while their souls are **starved of the true sacraments and the true magisterium**. The article is a **poisoned honey**, a **siren song** for those who love the ancient rites but have sold their birthright for a mess of pottage. The true “Domus aurea” (House of Gold) is the **Catholic Church alone**, outside of which there is no salvation. The FSSP is a **luxurious prison**, and its “gold” is the gilding on the cage.
Source:
El subdiaconado: la plata que se vuelve oro (infovaticana.com)
Date: 14.02.2026