The Conciliar Sect’s Liturgical Tyranny Exposed
The Pillar reports that Archbishop Carlos Alberto Breis Pereira of Maceió, Brazil, has decreed that any Catholic attending an unauthorized Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) in his diocese incurs automatic excommunication for the canonical crime of schism. This decree, issued on February 11, 2025, enforces “Traditionis custodes” (2023), Pope Francis’ motu proprio restricting the Extraordinary Form. The archbishop authorizes only one TLM location in the archdiocese, framing it as a “concession” approved by the “Holy See.” He invokes canons 751 and 1364 §1 to define schism and attach latae sententiae excommunication. This action, unprecedented in its broad application to all TLM attendees (not just irregular groups like the SSPX), is likely to be challenged at the Vatican level.
This decree is not a defense of Catholic unity but a manifest act of schism itself—a violent expulsion of the immutable Roman Rite by the conciliar sect, in open contempt of the kingship of Christ and the infallible magisterium that preceded the apostate Second Vatican Council.
1. Canonical Distortion: The False Charge of Schism
The archbishop’s decree rests on a fundamental perversion of canon law. Canon 751 defines schism as “refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him.” However, this definition presupposes the existence of a valid Supreme Pontiff. The current occupant of the Vatican, “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), is a manifest heretic, as proven by his continuous promotion of heresies condemned by Pius IX’s *Syllabus of Errors* (e.g., Error 80: reconciliation with progress, liberalism, modern civilization) and Pius X’s *Lamentabili sane exitu* (e.g., Proposition 65: rejection of marriage as a sacrament). St. Robert Bellarmine, the authoritative source on papal loss of office, teaches: “A Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head… he may be judged and punished by the Church.” The 1917 Code of Canon Law, Canon 188.4, states that an office becomes vacant “by the mere fact” of “publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Therefore, attending a valid TLM is not an act of schism from a legitimate pope but an act of fidelity to the true faith and the true Church, which endures in those who reject the conciliar apostasy.
The archbishop’s reliance on “approval of the Holy See” is circular. The conciliar “Holy See” is occupied by antipopes, whose “approvals” are null. Pope Paul IV’s bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio declares that any cleric who has “defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy… his promotion… shall be null, void, and of no effect.” The archbishop’s decree thus attempts to use the authority of an antipope to punish Catholics for upholding the faith that antipope rejects—a diabolical inversion.
2. Liturgical Tyranny vs. Christ the King
Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925), instituting the feast of Christ the King, declares that Christ’s reign extends to all human societies and that “the state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… who contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom.” The encyclical condemns the secularist error that “the Church’s authority… was denied” and that “the divine religion should be replaced by a natural religion.” The archbishop’s action is the precise opposite: it is the conciliar sect, having replaced the divine religion with a naturalistic, man-centered liturgy (the Novus Ordo), now using state-like coercion to suppress the authentic worship of Christ the King.
The decree’s language—calling the TLM a “concession”—reveals the naturalistic mentality. The Traditional Latin Mass is not a “concession” but the immemorial right of Catholics, the very liturgy that formed the saints for centuries. Its suppression is a violation of the First Commandment. Pius IX’s *Syllabus* condemns Error 24: “The Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect.” The archbishop’s decree is a perfect example of the conciliar sect wielding “temporal power” to force conformity to its liturgical revolution, exactly the error Pius IX anathematized.
3. The Omission of Supernatural Reality: The Soul’s Destiny
The article, mirroring the archbishop’s decree, remains fixated on canonical penalties and “schism” while remaining utterly silent on the supernatural good at stake: the salvation of souls. This silence is the gravest accusation. The Novus Ordo Missae, promulgated by Paul VI in 1969, is a liturgical abomination that obscures the sacrificial nature of the Mass, the Real Presence, and the propitiatory value of the Holy Sacrifice. The Traditional Latin Mass, in contrast, is the unambiguous expression of Catholic doctrine on the Mass as a true sacrifice. To attend the TLM is to participate in the unbloody sacrifice of Calvary; to attend the Novus Ordo is to risk sacrilege and idolatry, given its ambiguous prayers and Protestantizing influences (cf. the intervention of six Protestant observers at the Consilium).
The archbishop threatens excommunication for attending the TLM but says nothing of the automatic excommunication incurred by those who receive “Communion” in the Novus Ordo while in a state of mortal sin, or the sacrilege of receiving in the hand, or the blasphemy of the new Eucharistic prayers that omit the sacrificial language. This selective outrage exposes the modernist priority: the preservation of the conciliar revolution’s structures over the salvation of souls. Pius X’s Lamentabili condemns Proposition 41: “The sacraments merely serve to remind man of the presence of the ever-benevolent Creator.” The Novus Ordo reduces the Eucharist to a “supper” and a “memorial,” precisely the error condemned. The archbishop defends this profaned liturgy while excommunicating those who flee it.
4. The Historical Context: A Pattern of Persecution
The archdiocese of Maceió has a history of episcopal hostility to the TLM. Archbishop Antônio Muniz Fernandes (Breis Pereira’s predecessor) reportedly banned all Extraordinary Form Masses after Summorum Pontificum (2007) and declared that families attending TLM in homes “are also barred from communion with our Holy Catholic Church.” This is the language of a sect, not the Church. It directly contradicts the 1917 Code of Canon Law, which never prohibited the ancient rite. The 1962 typical edition of the Roman Missal was the official missal of the Catholic Church until 1969. To forbid it is to forbid the Catholic Mass itself.
The current decree escalates this persecution by invoking the ultimate penalty—excommunication—for what was, until 1969, the universal and exclusive form of the Roman Rite. This is a satanic reversal: the faithful are excommunicated for practicing the faith of the centuries, while heretics and apostates who promote the Novus Ordo are rewarded with promotions and “canonizations” (e.g., the false “saint” John Paul II, a heretic who kissed the Quran and embraced all religions). The archbishop’s action is a fruit of the conciliar sect’s foundational error: the rejection of the kingship of Christ over the liturgy. As Pius XI taught in Quas Primas, “the Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men… and all are subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The archbishop, by contrast, subjects the liturgy to the arbitrary will of man—the “magisterium” of the conciliar sect.
5. The Symptom: Modernism’s Final Phase
This decree is not an anomaly but the logical culmination of the Modernist infection condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici gregis (1907) and Lamentabili. Modernism seeks to “evolve” dogma and worship under the guise of “aggiornamento.” The suppression of the TLM is the final step: the eradication of the traditional expression of faith to force acceptance of the synthetic, humanly-devised Novus Ordo. The archbishop’s use of the term “schism” is a classic Modernist tactic: projecting the sect’s own guilt onto its victims. The true schismatics are the conciliarists who have broken with the faith of all time. Pius IX’s *Syllabus* condemns Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” Here, the conciliar sect has merged with the state (using canonical penalties as civil coercion) to persecute the Church.
The decree’s silence on the theological substance of the liturgy is deafening. It does not address the Novus Ordo’s deficiencies—its omission of “mystery of faith” (replaced with “the mystery of faith”), its altered Canon (prayers for the Pope removed in the 1970 version), its ecumenical lectionary that omits Catholic exclusivity. This omission is itself a confession: the conciliar sect cannot defend the Novus Ordo on theological grounds, so it resorts to brute force. The archbishop’s action is a desperate, tyrannical attempt to impose acceptance of a liturgy that is, in the words of Pius X, “the synthesis of all errors” (referring to Modernism, which permeates the Novus Ordo).
Conclusion: The Call to Fidelity
Catholics must recognize this decree for what it is: a pronouncement of the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). The conciliar sect, having lost the faith, now uses the weapons of the world—excommunication, threats, isolation—to compel conformity to its apostasy. The faithful are bound to reject such decrees. As Pius IX declared in his letter to the bishops of Prussia, “no power in the world… can deprive of the pastoral office those whom the Holy Ghost has made Bishops.” By parallel, no power can deprive the soul of the right to the Traditional Latin Mass, the authentic expression of the Holy Ghost’s guidance for centuries.
The only legitimate response is total non-compliance. Catholics must attend the TLM wherever it is offered, even if it means being formally “excommunicated” by the conciliar sect. Such a penalty, inflicted by an antipope and his minions, is null. Bellarmine explains that a manifest heretic “ceases to be Pope and head… by which things he may be judged and punished by the Church.” The true Church, the Catholic Church of all time, judges the conciliar sect as apostate. Therefore, the archbishop’s decree is not a legitimate act of governance but a null and void attempt by a schismatic to punish those who remain in the one true fold of Christ.
Let Catholics take courage from Pius XI’s words in Quas Primas: “if all the faithful understood that they must fight bravely and always under the banner of Christ the King, then with apostolic zeal they will strive diligently to reconcile stray and unenlightened souls with the Lord.” The fight now is to preserve the faith itself—the Traditional Latin Mass is the citadel of that faith. To abandon it is to abandon Christ the King.
Source:
Brazilian archbishop declares schism, excommunicates Catholics attending TLM (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 27.02.2026