Vatican News Laments FSSPX Schism While Conciliar Sect Implodes in Apostasy
The Vatican News portal (July 2, 2026) publishes an editorial by Andrea Tornielli lamenting the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X’s episcopal consecrations of July 1, 2026, branding them a “new schism” and citing a “Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith” note declaring the Fraternity’s confessions and marriages “invalid.” The piece recounts the 1988 Lefebvre consecrations, Benedict XVI’s 2009 lifting of excommunications, Francis’s 2016 “faculties,” and “Pope” Leo XIV’s dismissal of the traditionalists’ refusal to accept Vatican II. This theater of the absurd exposes two wings of the same Modernist bird: a conciliar sect demanding submission to its own apostasy, and a pseudo-traditionalist fringe recognizing the usurpers while simulating resistance.