Infovaticana portal reports on Pope Leo XIV’s address to the French bishops’ plenary assembly, in which he called for a “generous integration” of faithful attached to the traditional Roman Rite (Vetus Ordo). The article rightly acknowledges this rhetorical shift as “good news” but sharply contrasts it with the lived reality of systematic exclusion, surveillance, and persecution endured by traditional Catholics in Spain and elsewhere. The piece concludes by demanding concrete action: the abrogation of *Traditionis Custodes* and the restoration of the legal framework of *Summorum Pontificum*. This juxtaposition of conciliatory papal language with entrenched episcopal hostility exposes the fundamental duplicity of the post-conciliar regime—a regime that pays lip service to unity while enforcing a liturgical revolution that has severed the Church from her own sacred tradition.
The Illusion of Generosity: Words Without Deeds as Spiritual Fraud
The article rightly frames Leo XIV’s remarks as a “change of tone, not of substance.” This distinction is critical. In the modernist lexicon, tone is malleable; doctrine is fluid; only power remains constant. The call for “generous integration” is precisely the kind of vaporous, sentimental rhetoric that characterizes the conciliar sect’s approach to dissent—designed not to resolve conflict but to manage perception. As St. Pius X warned in *Pascendi Dominici gregis*, the modernist “wishes to be a believer and also a philosopher; he wishes to be a Catholic and also a scientist,” and thus speaks in ambiguities that satisfy neither faith nor reason. The faithful do not need “generosity”—they need justice. They need the recognition that the traditional Roman Rite is not a concession granted by ecclesiastical whim but an inherent right of the Catholic faithful, rooted in the unchanging liturgical patrimony of the Church.
The Persecution Is the Point: *Traditionis Custodes* as a Tool of Control
The article’s description of the situation in Spain—where the traditional Mass is “cornered, watched, and practically proscribed” in many dioceses—is not an aberration but the logical fruit of the conciliar revolution. The suppression of the traditional liturgy is not a disciplinary measure; it is an act of ideological purification. The 1962 Missal, with its explicit theology of propitiatory sacrifice, its prayers for the conversion of Jews and heretics, and its unambiguous affirmation of the Catholic Church as the one true Ark of Salvation, stands as a living indictment of every modernist innovation since 1958. Its continued existence is intolerable to a sect built on false ecumenism, religious liberty, and the democratization of worship.
Pope Benedict XVI’s *Summorum Pontificum* (2007) was a fragile, conditional concession—granted not because the conciliar authorities recognized the traditional Mass as a right, but because they believed it could be gradually absorbed and neutralized. *Traditionis Custodes* (2021) ripped away even that fig leaf, revealing the true face of the regime: the traditional liturgy is to be eradicated, not integrated. The article correctly identifies this as a “regime of suspicion, suffocation, and exclusion”—a description that echoes the language used by Pope Pius IX in *Quas Primas* to describe the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors.”
The Heresy of Suspicion: Treating Catholics as Enemies
The article’s observation that many bishops react to the mere mention of the traditional Mass with “panic” and “fear” is theologically significant. This is not prudence; it is the behavior of men who know, at some level, that their authority rests on a foundation of sand. The traditional Catholic, by his very existence, testifies to the continuity of the Faith—a continuity that the conciliar sect has explicitly repudiated. His presence is a walking refutation of the “hermeneutic of continuity,” the modernist fiction that Vatican II represented no rupture with the past.
The article’s comparison of the diocesan apparatus discovering a priest attracted to tradition to “a parent discovering a delinquent child” is devastating—and accurate. This is the logic of the Inquisition inverted: where the true Church once defended the faith against external enemies, the conciliar sect now persecutes its own faithful for clinging to that same faith. As Pope Leo XIII wrote in *Immortale Dei*, “the Almighty, therefore, has given the charge of the human race to two powers, the ecclesiastical and the civil, the one being set over divine, and the other over human, each the highest in its own kind.” The modernist “bishops” have inverted this order, making the Church’s divine mission subordinate to their own ideological agenda.
The Only Solution: Abrogation, Not Accommodation
The article concludes by calling for the abrogation of *Traditionis Custodes* and the restoration of *Summorum Pontificum*. This is a necessary but insufficient measure. The problem is not merely juridical; it is doctrinal and spiritual. The conciliar sect has no authority to grant or withhold the traditional liturgy, because it has no authority to exist. The “bishops” who enforce *Traditionis Custodes* are not successors of the Apostles but functionaries of a Masonic-inspired structure that has occupied the Vatican since 1958.
The true solution is not the restoration of a papal document but the restoration of the Catholic Church herself—the Church of all ages, which recognizes no rupture, no “new evangelization,” no “spirit of Vatican II.” The traditional Roman Rite is not a privilege to be granted or revoked; it is the liturgical expression of the unchanging Faith, the “lex orandi” that flows from the “lex credendi.” As Pope Pius XI declared in *Quas Primas*, “the annual celebration of sacred mysteries is far more effective than even the most serious proofs of the teaching Church; for these are usually accessible only to a small number of learned men, but those engage and instruct all the faithful.”
The Test of Sincerity: Facts, Not Words
The article’s final warning—that the faithful have a right to see words fulfilled—is a call to vigilance. History teaches that the conciliar sect is incapable of genuine reform. Every concession has been a tactical retreat; every gesture of “openness” has been followed by renewed persecution. The faithful must not be deceived by rhetoric. They must demand not “generosity” but justice—not integration into a corrupt system but the restoration of the true Church.
The traditional Catholic is not “a tolerated intruder” but “a Catholic with full right to live his faith in continuity with the liturgical tradition of the Church.” This right is not granted by Leo XIV or any other usurper; it is inscribed in the very nature of the Church, which is “one, holy, catholic, and apostolic”—not “one, modernist, ecumenical, and experimental.” The faithful must continue to resist, to pray, and to hope—not in the promises of men, but in the promise of Christ: “I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world” (Matt. 28:20). The gates of hell will not prevail—but neither will the gates of the conciliar sect.
Source:
Alegría y esperanza ante la llamada del Papa a los obispos a la generosidad con el Vetus Ordo (infovaticana.com)
Date: 26.03.2026