SSPX Schismatic Act Exposes Conciliar Complicity and False Traditionalism
The National Catholic Register reports that the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) has rejected the excommunication decree issued by the Vatican under “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) following the illicit episcopal consecrations of July 1, 2026, in Ecône. Father Davide Pagliarani, superior general of the Lefebvrian society, addressed a letter to the antipope justifying the ordinations as “an extreme measure to save souls” amidst “doctrinal and moral confusion,” employing a distorted Lucan analogy to portray the Holy See’s refusal of their demands as giving a “stone,” a “snake,” and a “scorpion” instead of bread, fish, and an egg. The article recounts the historical trajectory: the 1988 consecrations by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the 2009 “lifting” of excommunications by Benedict XVI, and the recent participation of the surviving 1988 bishops, Alfonso de Galarreta and Bernard Fellay, in the new schismatic act. “Pope” Leo XIV’s plea to “Turn back!” is noted as having been ignored. This latest Lefebvrian rebellion lays bare the fatal contradiction of pseudo-traditionalism: a claim to defend Tradition while recognizing and petitioning the very Modernist usurpers who have demolished it.