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The National Catholic Register portal reports that on May 14, 2026, the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), through its superior general Father Davide Pagliarani, published a “Declaration of Catholic Faith” addressed to the antipope Leo XIV, in response to a May 13 warning from Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith that the SSPX’s planned consecration of bishops without papal mandate on July 1 would constitute a “schismatic act” resulting in excommunication. The SSPX statement claims to articulate “the minimum necessary to be in communion with the Church,” reaffirming the unicity of faith and Church, the sole mediatorship of Christ, Mary’s intimate association with the work of Redemption (including an apparent rejection of the DDF’s 2025 caution against the title “Co-Redemptrix”), the necessity of the Catholic Church for the salvation of all humanity without exception, the binding mandate to convert every man to the Catholic Faith until the end of time, and the impossibility of blessing couples living in “sins of impurity” — an apparent reference to the heretical declaration *Fiducia Supplicans*. The Register notes that the declaration also addresses contested questions tied to the interpretation of post–Second Vatican Council teaching, including God’s will regarding the plurality of religions and differing levels of assent required by various Vatican II texts. This declaration, far from being a genuine profession of Catholic faith, is the latest act of diplomatic theater by a group that has for over five decades served as a controlled opposition within the conciliar sect, simultaneously professing Catholic doctrine and recognizing the legitimacy of the very antipopes who destroyed it.