SSPX Illicit Consecrations: Pseudo-Traditionalists Cement Schism in Conciliar Sect
The National Catholic Register (CNA/EWTN) portal reports on the July 1, 2026, episcopal consecrations performed by the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) in Écône, Switzerland, in open defiance of the reigning antipope, “Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost). The ceremony, conferring the episcopate on four priests—Marc Hanappier, Michel Poinsinet de Sivry, Michael Goldade, and Pascal Schreiber—was conducted by the two surviving bishops of the 1988 illicit consecrations, Bernard Fellay and Alfonso de Galarreta, without the “pontifical mandate” of the Vatican claimant. The article details the “paternal plea” of the antipope, the “state of necessity” justification read by SSPX Superior General Davide Pagliarani, and the canonical implications of automatic excommunication for the consecrating and consecrated bishops. This event is not a defense of Tradition but the consummation of a schism within the schism: the SSPX, while recognizing the Modernist usurpers as legitimate Vicars of Christ, rebels against their disciplinary commands, thereby exposing its position as a canonical fiction devoid of true jurisdiction and missionary mandate.