The Pillar portal (October 21, 2026) reports on the ongoing canonical chaos within the conciliar sect following the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s July decree excommunicating the leadership of the Society of St. Pius X. The article obsesses over whether “faculties” granted by the antipope Francis (Jorge Bergoglio) in 2016 and 2017 remain technically intact for SSPX priests to hear confessions and witness marriages, citing a purported conflicting opinion from the Dicastery for Legislative Texts. This internecine legal wrangling exposes the absolute bankruptcy of the post-conciliar structure: a paramasonic bureaucracy arguing over the validity of simulated sacraments administered by schismatics who recognize the very usurpers destroying the Faith.
The Juridical Hallucination of the Conciliar Sect
The cited article treats the 1983 Code of Canon Law—the legislative fruit of the apostate Vatican II—as if it were binding divine legislation. It parses canon 1335 and the distinction between “declared” and “undeclared” excommunication with the fastidiousness of Pharisees straining at a gnat while swallowing a camel. The entire premise rests on the assumption that the “Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith,” headed by the manifest modernist Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, and the “Dicastery for Legislative Texts,” possess legitimate authority to bind or loose.
The faculty to validly hear confessions remains intact seems to be the consensus opinion among canonists, including those working in various Roman dicasteries, since the 2017 decree granting them faculties is a formal act of papal governance, and as such can only be amended or withdrawn by another direct act of the pope.
This is juridical positivism elevated to the level of idolatry. The “pope” Francis (Bergoglio) was a public heretic and apostate; therefore, ipso facto, he ceased to be Pope and head of the Church, sicut a corpore separatur membrum putridum (just as a putrid member is separated from the body). As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice: “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 non-Pope cannot grant faculties. All acts of governance by the usurpers since 1958 are null, void, and of no effect (nulla, irrita, et inania), as confirmed by Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio.
The SSPX: Schismatics Within the Schism, Validating the Usurpation
The article describes the SSPX as a group in “schism” relative to the “Vatican.” From the perspective of the integral Faith, the SSPX is not in schism from the Church, but in schism within the conciliar sect. By recognizing the claimants to the Holy See from John XXIII to Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) as legitimate Vicars of Christ, the SSPX adheres to the novus ordo religion. Their 1988 consecrations by Lefebvre—himself ordained by the freemason Liénart and consecrated in the doubtful new rite—were acts of rebellion against the Modernist hierarchy, not acts of fidelity to Tradition. They sought a “place” within the counter-church, demanding the “old Mass” as a privilegium from the very destroyers of the Mass.
The participation in a group which publicly sponsored an act of schism, and is led by schismatic bishops, would seem to be self-evidently schismatic.
The article’s “canonical” analysis ignores the theological root: the SSPX accepts the new ecclesiology of Vatican II (Lumen Gentium, Unitatis Redintegratio), which teaches the heresy that the Church of Christ “subsists in” the Catholic Church rather than is the Catholic Church. They accept the validity of the Novus Ordo Missae (a Protestantized fabrication) and the new sacramental rites (defective in form and intention). Priests ordained in the new rite or by bishops consecrated in the new rite lack the sacramental character of Orders (character indelebilis). No “faculty” from a false pope can supply what the sacrament itself fails to confer.
The Farce of “Supplied Jurisdiction” in a Vacant See
The canonists quoted in the article debate whether Ecclesia supplet (the Church supplies jurisdiction) applies to SSPX confessors. This doctrine applies only in the true Catholic Church under a true Roman Pontiff, for the salvation of souls in cases of common error or positive doubt of fact. It cannot operate within a sect that has severed itself from the Mystical Body. The “Vatican” of 2026 is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). There is no jurisdiction to supply because there is no legitimate authority in the conciliar hierarchy to derive it from.
The article notes:
Excommunication prohibits the exercise of faculties given, but doesn’t explicitly revoke them.
This legalistic hair-splitting is the hallmark of the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9). It replaces the salus animarum suprema lex (the salvation of souls is the supreme law) with the salus bureaucratiae suprema lex. The faithful are misled into thinking that a “valid” confession depends on a curial memo from Cardinal Fernández rather than on the priest’s valid Orders and jurisdiction from the true Church. In the current vacancy of the Holy See (Sedes Vacans since 1958), jurisdiction resides only in those bishops and priests who maintain the integral Faith, reject the conciliar errors, and possess valid Orders transmitted through the traditional rites—not in the SSPX, nor the FSSP, nor the “diocesan” clergy of the neo-church.
Linguistic Deception: The Vocabulary of the Antichurch
The article’s language reveals the naturalistic mindset of the conciliar establishment. Terms like “canonical non-man’s land,” “pastoral confusion,” “dueling interpretations,” “score canonically,” “reform of the Roman curia”—this is the jargon of a humanist NGO, not the Bride of Christ. There is zero reference to the state of grace, mortal sin, the Four Last Things, or the Social Kingship of Christ (Pius XI, Quas Primas: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ”).
The “marriage” debate is particularly grotesque. The article discusses “canonical form” witnessed by SSPX priests. In the conciliar sect, “marriage” has been reduced to a dissoluble civil contract via the annulment factory (c. 1672 et seq. of the 1983 Code). To worry about the “validity” of a simulated rite witnessed by a priest of doubtful orders in a sect that denies the indissolubility of marriage in practice is a diabolical distraction.
Symptomatic of the Great Apostasy
This “DDF vs. DCLT” conflict is not a mere administrative error; it is the necessary fruit of the conciliar revolution. When the authority of the living Magisterium is replaced by the “hermeneutic of continuity” (a contradiction in terms), when the Pope is a heretic who “reforms” the Curia to entrench Modernism, and when “traditionalists” beg for crumbs from the table of the money-changers, canonical chaos is the inevitable result.
The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the proposition: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The SSPX’s entire strategy for fifty years has been precisely this condemned error: seeking canonical recognition from Modernist Rome. The current “excommunication” theater is the inevitable collision of two falsehoods: the Modernist Rome that claims authority to bind, and the pseudo-traditionalist group that claims the right to be bound by it.
Conclusion: Return to the Catacombs of Truth
The Pillar’s article is a chronicle of the death throes of the counter-church. It offers no path to salvation, only a labyrinth of invalid canons, simulated sacraments, and usurped authority. No Catholic may approach the sacraments in the conciliar sect or its SSPX satellite without grave risk of sacrilege and spiritual ruin. The only safety lies in adhering to the immutable Tradition, the traditional rites of Orders and Mass, and the bishops and priests who have never accepted the conciliar errors, awaiting the restoration of the true Papacy by Divine Providence. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. Outside the true Church—hidden now in the remnant faithful to the pre-1958 Faith—there is no jurisdiction, no valid sacraments, and no salvation.
Source:
Are SSPX confessions and weddings still valid? (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 21.10.2026