SSPX Episcopal Consecrations: Pseudo-Traditionalism’s Complicity in the Conciliar Usurpation
The EWTN News portal reports (July 2, 2026) that the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) consecrated four bishops on July 1 without a mandate from the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), prompting the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith to declare automatic excommunication and schism. The article recounts the history of the fraternity founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1970, its opposition to Vatican II reforms, the 1988 consecrations, the lifting of excommunications by Benedict XVI, and the expansion of faculties under Francis. It frames the event as a canonical crime against legitimate authority. This narrative inverts reality: the true schism is the conciliar sect’s apostasy from the Catholic Faith, and the SSPX, by recognizing the usurpers as legitimate popes, functions as a controlled opposition preserving the illusion of the neo-church’s legitimacy.
