EWTN News, the media arm of the conciliar sect, reports that Society of St. Pius X bishops Alfonso de Galarreta and Bernard Fellay have incurred a second automatic excommunication, this time from the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), following illicit episcopal ordinations performed on July 1, 2026. The first excommunication came from the antipope John Paul II in 1988 for the unauthorized consecrations by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre; the second, declared by the “Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith” on July 2, cites the canonical offense of schism. This theatrical double excommunication, trumpeted by the neo-church’s propaganda outlets, reveals the SSPX not as a bastion of Tradition but as controlled opposition legitimizing the very usurpers it claims to resist.
Theatrical Excommunications from a Usurper Are Canonically Null
The entire spectacle rests on the false premise that the current claimant to the See of Peter possesses jurisdiction. Robert Prevost, styling himself “Leo XIV,” is a manifest heretic who, by the very fact of his public adhesion to the conciliar errors of religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality, has ipso facto lost all ecclesiastical office. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice: “A Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” A non-Christian cannot be Pope; a manifest heretic is not a Christian; therefore a manifest heretic cannot be Pope. The “excommunication” issued by a non-Pope is nulla, irrita, et inanis — null, void, and of no effect.
Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio confirms this with unmistakable clarity: if any Cardinal or Roman Pontiff “has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy… his promotion or elevation, even if it shall have been uncontested and by the unanimous assent of all the Cardinals, shall be null, void, and of no effect.” The Bull requires no declaratory sentence; the defection from the faith itself severs the bond of jurisdiction. The line of usurpers began with John XXIII; every claimant since has publicly professed the heresies of Vatican II. Their “canonical penalties” are the empty gestures of a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican.
SSPX Recognizes the Usurpers, Making Their “Schism” Internal to the Neo-Church
The article notes that Benedict XVI “pardoned” Galarreta and Fellay in 2009, lifting the 1988 excommunications. This alone exposes the SSPX’s fatal compromise: they accept the jurisdiction of the very antipopes they claim to resist. One cannot be “excommunicated” by a false pope, “pardoned” by another false pope, and then “excommunicated” again by a third false pope, all while recognizing each as the legitimate Vicar of Christ. This is not resistance; it is collaboration in the great deception.
Archbishop Lefebvre’s own words condemn his society: “Give us the old Mass, that is enough for us.” This capitulation to the conciliar sect’s “indult” mechanism reveals the SSPX as a schism within a schism of the neo-church, not a remnant of the true Church. They practice the Traditional Latin Mass while acknowledging the authority of those who have abolished the Faith that Mass expresses. As the Syllabus of Errors condemns: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The SSPX embodies this condemned error, seeking terms with the destroyers of the Faith.
Doubtful Validity of Lefebvre’s Consecrations Undermines the Entire SSPX Episcopate
The article traces the SSPX episcopate to Lefebvre’s 1988 consecrations. But Lefebvre himself was ordained a bishop in 1947 by the Freemason Achille Liénart, Cardinal of Lille, using the new rite of episcopal consecration promulgated by the antipope Paul VI in 1968 — a rite stripped of the essential form for the transmission of the fullness of the priesthood. The Defense of Sedevacantism file notes: “Questionable ordinations render them invalid in the Church.” Without valid episcopal orders, the SSPX has no bishops, no priests, no sacraments. Their “excommunication” is a penalty imposed on a nullity by a nullity.
Christ’s Kingship Denied by Both Sides of This False Conflict
Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas declares: “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ.” The encyclical establishes that Christ’s reign extends over all men and all nations: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The conciliar sect denies this by its doctrine of religious liberty; the SSPX denies it by its practical recognition of the sect’s legitimacy. Both sides participate in the separation of Church and State condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 55): “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” The SSPX’s “resistance” operates entirely within the framework of the secular, Masonic order.
Modernist Evolution of Dogma Masquerading as “Canonical Regularization”
The “Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith” — the renamed Holy Office, gutted of its purpose by Paul VI — declares the SSPX “in a state of schism.” But Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemns the Modernist proposition that “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Prop. 57) and that “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (Prop. 58). The conciliar sect’s entire paradigm is evolutionary: doctrine changes, canon law changes, the Mass changes, the papacy changes. The SSPX’s demand for “canonical recognition” is a demand to be incorporated into this evolutionary process. They seek to freeze the revolution at 1962, not to restore the immutable Tradition.
Fatima Obsession as Masonic Diversion from the True Crisis
The SSPX’s spirituality centers on the false Fatima apparitions, which the False Fatima Apparitions file exposes as a “Masonic psychological operation” against the Church. The symbolism of dates (1717, 1917, 2017), the “Miracle of the Sun” as mass optical manipulation, and the three-stage disinformation strategy all point to a diabolical diversion from the real apostasy: the Modernist infiltration condemned by St. Pius X. The SSPX’s promotion of Fatima serves the ecumenical agenda — “conversion of Russia” without specification of the Catholic Church — and distracts the faithful from the vacancy of the Holy See. As the file concludes: “A call to reject Fatima and return to immutable Tradition.”
Symptomatic Level: The Controlled Opposition Playbook
This double excommunication farce follows the classic controlled opposition script:
- Stage a conflict between the “conservative” wing (SSPX) and the “progressive” wing (conciliar hierarchy) — both fully Modernist in their acceptance of the new ecclesiology.
- Offer false hope to traditional Catholics that “regularization” will restore Tradition.
- Absorb dissent into a canonical structure that requires recognition of the usurpers.
- Neutralize the threat by making the “resistance” dependent on the very authority it pretends to oppose.
The article’s language — “dubious distinction,” “illicit episcopal ordinations,” “canonical offense of schism” — is the bureaucratic newspeak of the neo-church, devoid of supernatural categories. No mention of salus animarum, no reference to the Social Kingship of Christ, no acknowledgment that the true crisis is the loss of the Faith in Rome. The silence about supernatural matters is the gravest accusation.
Conclusion: No Salvation in the Conciliar Sect or Its Satellites
The true Church of Christ subsists in those who hold the integral Catholic Faith without admixture, united to bishops with valid orders and jurisdiction derived from the last true Pope, Pius XII. The SSPX, by recognizing the antipopes, has placed itself outside this communion. Their “excommunications” are the sound and fury of a synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9) staging its own internal purification rites. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. The faithful must reject both the conciliar sect and its controlled opposition, cleaving to the Tradition that alone transmits the life of grace.
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2 SSPX bishops hold dubious distinction of being excommunicated twice (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 02.07.2026