EWTN News portal reports that the so-called “Pope” Leo XIV, the current usurper of Peter’s throne, has issued a warning regarding the Society of St. Pius X’s (SSPX) plan to consecrate four priests as bishops on July 1, 2026, without his permission. The article frames this as a potential deepening of schism, with the Vatican warning that such an act would be “schismatic” and incur excommunication. The SSPX, which exclusively celebrates the Traditional Latin Mass and rejects certain teachings of the Second Vatican Council, is portrayed as the party causing division by refusing to accept “fundamental elements of the Church.” The article also touches on the pope’s comments about G7 diplomacy, future travel, and migration. This entire narrative, however, is a masterful exercise in misdirection, presenting the conciliar sect as the legitimate authority and the SSPX as the schismatics, while completely ignoring the foundational heresies and apostasy that have rendered the post-conciliar structures devoid of true Catholic authority.
The Illusion of Legitimacy: A Usurper’s Plea
The very premise of the article — that Leo XIV is the “Pope” and his warnings carry weight — is a foundational lie. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, the line of “popes” beginning with John XXIII are manifest heretics and apostates who have usurped the See of Peter. Their “teachings,” “warnings,” and “excommunications” hold no authority whatsoever. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, a manifest heretic ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church (De Romano Pontifice). The “Vatican” warning of excommunication for the SSPX is thus a hollow threat from a body that has itself long since excommunicated itself from the true Church by embracing Modernism, the synthesis of all errors (St. Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis). The article’s framing of Leo XIV as a concerned shepherd trying to prevent schism is a grotesque inversion of reality; it is the conciliar sect that has severed itself from the true Church by abandoning immutable dogma.
The SSPX: Schismatics or Schismatics Within a Schism?
While the article portrays the SSPX as the primary schismatics, a deeper analysis reveals a more complex, yet equally condemnable, reality. The SSPX, under the leadership of Archbishop Lefebvre, continuously acknowledged the validity of the usurpers in the Vatican, even while rejecting certain conciliar novelties. This contradictory stance — rejecting the fruits of Modernism while accepting its authors as legitimate — is a fundamental theological error. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file explains, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope, and therefore, any recognition of his authority is a denial of Catholic truth. The SSPX’s refusal to fully embrace sedevacantism, their willingness to engage in “dialogue” with the conciliar sect, and their acceptance of the New Mass (even if they primarily celebrate the old) place them in a perilous middle ground. They are, in essence, a schism within a schism of the neo-church, practicing contradictions and theological errors that align them more with the spirit of the conciliar revolution than with the uncompromising stance of true Catholic resistance. Their planned consecrations, while defiant of the usurper, are not an act of true Catholic restoration but rather an attempt to preserve a semblance of Catholic life within a framework that has already capitulated to Modernism.
The Hermeneutic of Continuity: A Modernist Smokescreen
The article’s mention of the SSPX rejecting “certain fundamental elements of the Church, beginning with various points of the Second Vatican Council” is a clear articulation of the modernist “hermeneutic of continuity.” This deceptive framework attempts to reconcile the irreconcilable: the immutable dogmas of the Catholic Church with the revolutionary teachings of Vatican II. The conciliar documents on religious freedom (Dignitatis Humanae), ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), and the Church’s relationship to non-Christian religions (Nostra Aetate) are not mere “points” but fundamental departures from defined Catholic doctrine. Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, explicitly condemned the idea that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). The SSPX’s selective rejection of these points, while still acknowledging the authority of the council that produced them, is a fatal compromise. It demonstrates a failure to grasp that the entire conciliar project is infected with Modernism, and that true fidelity requires a complete break, not a selective acceptance.
The Silence on Apostasy: The Gravest Omission
Perhaps the most damning aspect of the article is its profound silence on the true nature of the crisis. There is no mention of the systematic dismantling of Catholic doctrine, the introduction of syncretistic liturgies, the promotion of false ecumenism, or the public heresies propagated by the conciliar “popes.” The article reduces the entire crisis to a dispute over “communion” with the concilar sect, as if the problem were merely disciplinary rather than doctrinal and spiritual. This omission is not accidental; it is a deliberate strategy to obscure the reality of the abomination of desolation that has taken hold in the Vatican. The true Church, as Pius XI declared in Quas Primas, demands the public reign of Christ the King over all nations and every aspect of life. The conciliar sect, by contrast, has embraced secularism, religious indifferentism, and the cult of man, effectively dethroning Christ in favor of a humanistic, naturalistic counterfeit. The SSPX’s failure to explicitly and unequivocally denounce this apostasy, and their continued engagement with its architects, renders them complicit in the ongoing destruction of the Faith.
The False Dilemma: Communion with Heresy or Schism
The article presents a false dilemma: either the SSPX submits to the authority of Leo XIV and the conciliar sect, or they risk “deepening schism.” This framing ignores the only truly Catholic option: complete separation from the conciliar sect and a return to the immutable Tradition of the Church. True communion is not with a body that has embraced heresy, but with the true Church, which endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith and are led by bishops with valid sacraments and validly ordained priests. The SSPX’s planned consecrations, while a defiant act, do not constitute a true return to Catholic order because they are not accompanied by a clear and unambiguous rejection of the conciliar usurpers and their heresies. Until the SSPX fully embraces sedevacantism and explicitly condemns the entire conciliar project as a betrayal of Catholic truth, their actions remain within the orbit of the neo-church, a schism within a schism, rather than a true restoration of the Faith.
Conclusion: The Need for Uncompromising Fidelity
The EWTN News article, like all propaganda from the conciliar sect, serves to obscure the true nature of the crisis and to present the enemies of Christ’s Church as its legitimate guardians. The SSPX, while preserving some elements of Catholic practice, remains fatally compromised by its refusal to fully break with the conciliar revolution. True Catholic fidelity demands not merely the preservation of the Traditional Latin Mass, but an uncompromising rejection of all forms of Modernism, including the “hermeneutic of continuity” and the false ecumenism that has poisoned the Church. As St. Pius X warned, “the office of the Church is not to teach human doctrines, but to guard and teach the divine deposit of faith” (Lamentabili sane exitu). The conciliar sect has abandoned this office, and the SSPX, by its continued engagement with it, risks leading the faithful into a false sense of security. The only path to salvation lies in a complete return to the immutable Tradition, a total rejection of the conciliar abomination, and an unwavering profession of the integral Catholic faith, even if it means standing alone against the world and its false shepherds.
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Pope warns SSPX bishop ordinations risk deepening schism (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 16.06.2026