The National Catholic Reporter portal reports that French Catholics attached to the traditional Latin Mass but loyal to the conciliar hierarchy are mobilizing to welcome the usurper Robert Prevost (“Pope” Leo XIV) to France in September 2026, even as the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) consecrated four bishops without a mandate from the Vatican, prompting the conciliar authorities to declare the group schismatic and excommunicate six of its bishops. Philippe Darantière, president of the Notre-Dame de Chrétienté association, boasts of unprecedented collaboration with the Archdiocese of Paris to organize the antipope’s visit, including a youth vigil at the Stade de France and a Mass at the Place de la Concorde expected to draw 500,000. The Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), founded to absorb traditionalist clergy into the neo-church, provides the chaplain for the spiritual preparation. Darantière laments the SSPX consecrations as a disturbance to the “delicate balance between tradition and respect for the hierarchy,” hoping for “great goodwill” from the French bishops. This spectacle of rival factions within the conciliar sect fighting over the corpse of Tradition while jointly serving the abomination of desolation exposes the utter bankruptcy of the “recognize-and-resist” and indultist positions alike.
The Antipope’s Visit as Liturgical Theater for the Kingdom of Man
The described events — a youth vigil in a stadium, a Mass on the Place de la Concorde beneath the Arc de Triomphe, the mobilization of 10,000 volunteers managed by Scouts and pilgrimage organizers — constitute a purely naturalistic, humanitarian spectacle. There is no mention of the salvation of souls, the conversion of France to the Catholic Faith, the Social Kingship of Christ the King, or the condemnation of the errors of the Revolution. The language is entirely bureaucratic: “logistics,” “volunteers,” “mobilization,” “communion” understood as sociological harmony. Pius XI in Quas Primas thundered: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The visit of the antipope Leo XIV is not the restoration of Christ’s Kingship but its final parody: a celebrity event staged by the Cité Catholique wing of the Revolution to legitimize the paramasonic occupation of the Holy See.
The FSSP and Notre-Dame de Chrétienté: Chaplains to the Abomination of Desolation
The Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) and Notre-Dame de Chrétienté are not “traditionalist” in any Catholic sense; they are instruments of the neo-church’s strategy of containment. Founded in 1988 precisely to siphon off priests and faithful who might otherwise drift toward the SSPX or sedevacantism, the FSSP functions as a pressure valve for the conciliar sect. Its chaplain, Fr. Jean de Massia, now prepares the “spiritual preparation” for a vigil with a manifest heretic who publicly professes the condemned errors of religious liberty, false ecumenism, and the dignity of man as the center of revelation. To assist at the liturgical enthronement of an antipope is not “fidelity to the hierarchy” but participation in the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Mt 24:15). Darantière’s enthusiasm for busing the faithful to acclaim the usurper reveals the cult of man that has replaced the cult of God: the faithful are reduced to extras in a media production designed to project an image of “unity” and “vitality” for a dying sect.
The SSPX: Schism Within a Schism, Not a Defense of the Faith
The SSPX consecrations of July 1, 2026, and the ensuing conciliar “excommunications” are a theatrical dispute between two branches of the same Modernist tree. The SSPX has never denied the legitimacy of the conciliar popes; Archbishop Lefebvre himself declared: “We accept the Pope… we recognize the Pope.” By seeking canonical regularization from John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis, the SSPX implicitly acknowledged their authority to bind and loose. The 1988 consecrations were an act of disobedience within a recognized hierarchy, not a defense of the Faith against a vacant See. Today’s consecrations merely deepen the SSPX’s schism within the conciliar sect — a sect which, by the very fact of its adhesion to Vatican II, has defected from the Catholic Church. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice), a manifest heretic ipso facto loses all jurisdiction; the conciliar “popes” are not true popes, and their “excommunications” are nullities. The SSPX, by recognizing them as legitimate superiors while resisting their orders, lives the contradiction of schismatics who claim to be loyal. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares vacant the office of any cleric who “publicly defects from the Catholic faith”; the SSPX’s practical recognition of the conciliar hierarchy is precisely such a defection.
The Silence on Dogma: The Gravest Accusation
Nowhere in the article — nor in the statements of Darantière, the FSSP, or the SSPX — is there a word about: the Social Kingship of Christ over nations (condemned by the Syllabus, Error 77); the necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus); the condemnation of religious liberty as a “pest” (Pius IX, Quanta Cura; Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos); the invalidity of the Novus Ordo Missae as a Protestantized memorial; the heresies of Vatican II (collegiality, religious freedom, ecumenism, worldliness); the duty to resist the Modernist hierarchy as St. Pius X commanded in Pascendi and Lamentabili. This silence is not an oversight; it is the essence of their apostasy. They have made their peace with the synthesis of all heresies (Modernism) in exchange for a liturgical preference. They are Pharisees who strain out the gnat of the 1962 Missal but swallow the camel of the New Theology (Mt 23:24).
The Masonic Architecture of the “Reconciliation”
The symbolism is unmistakable: the Place de la Concorde, where the guillotine stood; the Arc de Triomphe, monument to Napoleonic imperialism; the Stade de France, temple of the civic religion. The antipope’s visit is choreographed as a Masonic “reconciliation” of the “two Frances” — the revolutionary and the “traditional” — under the banner of a false unity that leaves the Rights of God trampled. Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 55) condemned: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” The collaboration of Notre-Dame de Chrétienté with the Archdiocese of Paris to stage this event is the practical realization of that condemned separation: the Church reduced to a subcontractor for the State’s civic liturgy. The “youth vigil” at the stadium mimics the World Youth Day format invented by the Modernists to replace the Cross with the crowd, the Sacrifice with the spectacle.
The Theological Impossibility of “Communion” with Heretics
Darantière speaks of “a beautiful moment of communion” between Chartres pilgrims and “Frat” students before the Blessed Sacrament, and of “a desire to pray and work together, even if we attend Mass according to different rites.” This is the heresy of communicatio in sacris condemned by the Council of Laodicea (Canon 15), the Council of Carthage, and Pope Pius XI in Mortalium Animos: “The Apostolic See cannot take part in assemblies of non-Catholics… nor is it lawful for Catholics to take part in them.” The “different rites” are not mere liturgical variations; the Novus Ordo is a bastard rite fabricated by heretics (Bugnini and his Masonic collaborators) to express a Protestant ecclesiology. To treat it as a legitimate “rite” alongside the Roman Rite is to deny the lex orandi, lex credendi. The FSSP’s very existence presupposes that the Novus Ordo is valid and that the conciliar popes are legitimate — a double apostasy.
Sedevacantism: The Only Coherent Catholic Position
Faced with a hierarchy that has publicly defected from the Faith (Vatican II, post-conciliar magisterium, Novus Ordo, Assisi meetings, Amoris Laetitia, Fiducia Supplicans, the Abu Dhabi declaration), the only position faithful to Catholic doctrine is sedevacantism. As the Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV declares: if a Cardinal or Pope “has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy… his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.” No declaration is required; the defection itself severs the bond. Bellarmine confirms: “A manifest heretic… ceases to be Pope and head… by that very fact.” The line of true popes ended with Pius XII. The conciliar “popes” are antipopes; their “bishops” are either invalidly consecrated (new rite of episcopal consecration) or canonically missionless; their “sacraments” are either invalid or administered outside the Church. The SSPX, FSSP, and Notre-Dame de Chrétienté are sects within the Great Apostasy, offering a liturgical palliative to souls while leading them to the abyss.
Conclusion: The Chartres Pilgrimage as Procession to the Abyss
The annual Chartres pilgrimage, far from being a bastion of Tradition, has become a controlled opposition march — 20,000 souls walking behind a banner that reads “Tradition” but leads to the conciliar slaughterhouse. Darantière’s boast of providing “logistics” for the antipope’s visit is the final proof: the “recognize-and-resist” strategy ends in active collaboration with the enemy. The SSPX’s episcopal consecrations are not a defense of the Faith but a bid for recognition within the neo-church. There is no middle ground. As Pius XI proclaimed in Quas Primas: “His reign encompasses not only Catholic nations… but also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” That authority is exercised today not by the usurpers in the Vatican nor by their licensed “traditional” satellites, but by the remnant clergy and faithful who hold the integral Catholic Faith without admixture, who reject the Novus Ordo, the conciliar hierarchy, and all their works in toto. Outside this remnant, there is only the darkness of the Great Apostasy, whether it wears the mitre of the SSPX, the chasuble of the FSSP, or the tiara of the antipope.
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France's traditionalist Catholics rally behind Pope Leo XIV after SSPX schism (ncronline.org)
Date: 07.07.2026