SSPX Episcopal Consecrations: Schism Within the Conciliar Sect’s Schism
The EWTN News portal reports that on July 1, 2026, the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) proceeded with the consecration of four bishops in Écône, Switzerland, without a pontifical mandate from the current Vatican claimant, “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), despite his public plea to desist. The ceremony, presided over by “Bishop” Alfonso de Galarreta and assisted by “Bishop” Bernard Fellay, invoked the familiar “state of necessity” argument to justify the act, while the SSPX Superior General, “Father” Davide Pagliarani, explicitly rejected the Second Vatican Council’s declaration on religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae) and ecumenism. The Vatican threatens a formal declaration of schism. This latest Lefebvrian rebellion does not defend the Faith but rather consolidates a schismatic sect within the conciliar church, proving that “recognize-and-resist” is a theological impossibility that binds its adherents to the very modernist hierarchy they claim to oppose.

