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| The Recusant 64: SSPX Watch |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-09-2025, 06:54 AM - Forum: The New-Conciliar SSPX
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The following is taken from pages 54-55 of this issue of The Recusant [slightly adapted and reformatted]:
SSPX Watch
Bishop de Galarreta: poor health - according to a very brief report from April 2025, Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta had to be admitted to hospital for surgery forcing the SSPX to cancel its Easter ordinations to the subdeaconate. Confirmations, also due to have taken place in April, were also postponed. In the weeks and months since then, word comes to us on the grapevine that he is still out of action and will be so for the foreseeable future due to poor health, meaning that he is effectively retired and the SSPX is effectively down to just one bishop from the original four.
Fr. Michel Simoulin RIP - in May 2025, the French District website reported the death of Fr. Michel Simoulin. One of the older SSPX priests who had known and worked with Archbishop Lefebvre, he later became a cheerleader for compromise with modernist in Rome and will be remembered by many for his disgraceful article in Le Seignadou, in May 2012, titled: ‘We cannot be 88-ers’. We will quote some extracts here but it is worth re-reading the whole thing (here) because it is a monument, an archetype of the 2012 SSPX internal revolution. It is all there: the misleading references to “the Church” without any distinction of the conciliar church, the appeals to authority and blind trust, the shameless discarding of Archbishop Lefebvre as being from a different era and therefore no longer relevant to us today.
“It is not an exaggeration,” he wrote, “to say that Bishop Fellay has achieved more than Archbishop Lefebvre asked for…” And he continued:
Quote:“Whatever the state of Rome may be, of all that still remains that is disturbing in Rome, plain common sense and honesty should lead us to consider the current situation with different eyes than those of 1988! Recalling the saying of one of our bishops, we cannot be ‘eighty-eighters’! … let it not be said that the state of things is the same as in 1988, or worse. This is contrary to the reality and to the truth, and it cannot but be the effect of a more or less secret refusal of any reconciliation with Rome, perhaps of a lack of faith in the holiness of the Church … Only Bishop Fellay and his assistants, who by definition hold all the cards, can most accurately judge the current situation. The question everyone must instead ask himself is our benevolence toward authority and, above all, our trust in it.”
Just bear in mind that the author of those words lived right through the pontificate of Pope Francis and yet it made not the slightest difference to him. Fr. Simoulin was far from being the only SSPX superior to tell everyone that Rome was far closer to Tradition than it had been in 1988, that things were getting better, and so forth. They all lived long enough to see their naïve ideas proved wrong a thousand times over - an honest man would have admitted as much, but none of them ever did. Quite the contrary, in January 2022 the very same Fr. Michel Simoulin wrote an article for the Indultist/Ecclesia Dei –alligned website Renaissance Catholique, entitled “What We Need in the Crisis in the Church is a bit of the true Roman spirit” [“Dans la crise de l’Église, un peu de romanité. La vraie.”], in which he repeated the same line about not being in 1988 any more and accused those of us who don’t see eye-to-eye with him of Manicheism. And of course, it goes without saying, he was never punished, much less expelled for publicly expressing his own view on the SSPX/Rome question and so forth. No, that only happens to a priest if he is against making friends with the modernists.
SSPX’s Pilgrimage to Rome - Advertised on the Vatican’s own Holy Year website - here: https://www.iubilaeum2025.va/it/pellegri...n-pio.html - can you for one moment imagine something like this when Archbishop Lefebvre was still alive? It is unthinkable. Go on, tell me again how nothing has changed...
Doesn’t rather confirm what we have long maintained, that the reconciliation of the SSPX with modern Rome took place, but in secret, with no big announcement and is being revealed slowly, a bit at a time, to minimise the reaction against it? How much more obvious does it need to be? Here, for instance, is the FAQ page of the SSPX chapel in Arcadia, California (https://fsspx.today/chapel/ca-arcadia/fsspx-faqs/). In answer to the question about what makes them different, they say: “We are a Catholic chapel in union with Rome.” No further distinctions, nothing, for instance, about being against the Council or the New Mass. They say that they are “in union with Rome” and then talk about how the Mass is in Latin and not facing the people. A conservative Novus Ordo parish wouldn’t say anything different. Consider: if the SSPX say they are “in union with” modern Rome, and if even the modern Vatican advertises their pilgrimage, what right has anyone to say that no agreement was ever reached?
No More Conditional Confirmations? - Holy Orders aren’t the only Novus Ordo Sacrament the SSPX are now trying to get us all to accept without question. In the May/June 2025 District Newsletter Ite Missa Est, Redemptorist Fr. Nicholas Mary pours scorn on the idea of faithful from the Novus Ordo seeking conditional confirmation from the SSPX. He takes the same line as Fr. Paul Robinson: unless you happened to spot something amiss during the ceremony itself, you are duty-bound to regard it as certain and it would be wrong to re-do it conditionally. What about the intention, what does a priest or bishop who doesn’t believe in the sacrament of confirmation actually think he’s doing? Fr. Nicholas doesn’t address this.
What about the fact that they can’t be relied on to use olive oil, the correct matter? “The use of chrism not made of olive oil is doubtless a rarity in Britain at least…” he says. “Doubtless”..! How can he be so sure? And even if it were a rarity, that still means it might have happened in any given case, you cannot be certain, hence positive doubt. “Be at peace,” the article concludes, “and accept that there are many things that God does not expect you to know with dogmatic certainty in this life.” In the old days, a significant number of the confirmations done by the SSPX were conditional. Those days, it seems, are now over.
Doubtful Priests Multiplying - don’t be tempted to think that this is an America-only problem. There are two Novus Ordo priests helping the SSPX in Germany, that we know of, neither of whom was conditionally ordained. Now, it seems, a Fr. Michael O’Reilly, ordained in the Novus Ordo in 1995, is joining the SSPX in Ireland. It is now happening everywhere.
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| Pope Leo’s Sacrilege at St. Peter’s |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-07-2025, 07:38 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Leo’s Sacrilege at St. Peter’s
While Tradition is Sidelined, Sodomy is Celebrated
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No More Benefit of the Doubt
The mask has slipped. For years, Catholic conservatives pleaded for “prudence,” urging us to give the papal revolutionaries the benefit of the doubt. Now there is no doubt left. This September, Leo XIV gave his blessing not to the 8,000-strong Latin Mass pilgrims who packed Rome with prayer, but to a handful of rainbow activists led by the ever-present Fr. James Martin.
As the pilgrims of Tradition were shunted to the margins, the Vatican rolled out the red carpet for Sister Lucy Caram, who has defended abortion and mocked the Holy Family, and for Martin, whose “bridge-building” means lowering the drawbridge for Gomorrah. This is apostasy dressed in the language of compassion.
The Porn Curator of St. Peter’s Academy
If you thought the Academy for Life was corrupted under Francis, wait until you meet the new head of the Vatican’s Academy of Fine Arts: Cristiana Perrella.
Her résumé is a parade of degeneracy. Exhibits celebrating nightclub culture as the beating heart of “queer identity.” Pornographic cinema posters from Italy’s red-light boom. Photographs of naked men urinating on other men, with plastic bags over their heads, described by Perrella as “poetic, elegant, and melancholic.”
This is who Leo XIV has chosen to “promote and preserve Catholic tradition in the arts.” The 16th-century founders of the Academy must be rolling in their tombs, watching their institution turned into a showcase for sodomy and sadomasochism.
The Dicastery for Culture and Education, steered by Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, made sure Perrella’s star kept rising. Once again, the same circle of “LGBT-friendly” prelates pushes their protégés into places once meant to guard the sacred.
The Abomination in the Gesù
September 6th, Rome’s Church of the Gesù, the mother church of the Jesuits, where St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Robert Bellarmine lie buried, hosted a spectacle unthinkable even a decade ago.
Bishop Francesco Savino, vice president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, presided over a Mass for an international LGBT pilgrimage. More than 1,000 people attended, waving rainbow flags and rainbow crosses. Religious sisters and brothers fanned themselves with rainbow-colored fans. The recessional ended in applause and embraces.
And there, in the sanctuary above the tomb of St. Robert Bellarmine, the great defender of the papacy against Protestant heresy, a rainbow cross was lifted high as if it were the new sign of salvation.
Savino’s homily preached “living truth over dead truth.” In other words, apostolic doctrine is lifeless dogma, while sodomy celebrated in public liturgies is “living truth.” He dared to pit “Peter and the Apostolic College” against what the Apostolic College has always taught, as though St. Paul’s condemnations of impurity now mean the opposite.
What would Ignatius say, whose Spiritual Exercises taught mortification of the senses to conquer sin? What would Bellarmine say, who bled for the defense of Catholic doctrine? Their silence in the grave thunders louder than Savino’s homily.
The Holy Door Profaned
The Associated Press captured the same scandal in glowing tones: “Over 1,000 LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families participated in a Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome, celebrating a new level of acceptance in the Catholic Church after long feeling shunned, and crediting Pope Francis with the change.”
Pilgrims marched through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica as if their defiance of the moral law were now sacramental. One participant, flanked by his “husband,” said the experience felt “epic, like I was able to touch the hand of God.” Another declared, “Pope Francis influenced me to return back to church. Pope Leo only strengthened my faith.”
The pilgrimage was not underground or marginal. It was listed in the Vatican’s official calendar of events for the Holy Year. Trans activists, American groups like DignityUSA and Outreach, Brazilian networks, even an Italian group of trans women, all took part in a procession that climaxed in rainbow crosses, rainbow chants, and rainbow tears of joy.
Twenty-five years ago, DignityUSA was detained in Rome as a threat to the Holy Year. Today, they are celebrated as honored pilgrims, openly thanked for their “gifts to the church.” What changed? Not doctrine, which still calls these acts intrinsically disordered. What changed was the will to enforce doctrine. What changed was Rome.
St. Peter’s Profaned
As part of the same LGBT pilgrimage, rainbow activists paraded into St. Peter’s Basilica itself. Some wore shirts declaring “F*ck the rules.” Others brandished rainbow accessories, making a mockery of the Holy Door and the basilica consecrated by the blood of martyrs.
The very space where Peter was crucified upside down for refusing to deny Christ is now used to flaunt sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance. And still Rome smiles. Still Rome applauds.
The Pattern and the Signs
The pattern is clear. Traditional Catholics are marginalized, their Masses restricted, their pilgrimages sidelined. Meanwhile, the revolutionaries are not only tolerated but enthroned in the very heart of the Church.
And yet, God has not abandoned His flock. Bishop Earl Fernandes of Columbus has spoken firmly for tradition. And in Naples, the blood of St. Januarius flowed once more.
The saints remain faithful. The martyrs still intercede. Miracles still erupt from the veins of Heaven’s defenders. Rome may have chosen rainbows over redemption, but Heaven still answers with blood.
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| Holy Mass in New Hampshire - September 14, 2025 |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-07-2025, 07:31 AM - Forum: September 2025
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
w/ Commemoration of the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
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Date: Sunday, September 14, 2025
Time: Confessions - 10:00 AM
Holy Mass - 10:30 AM
Location: The Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary
66 Gove's Lane
Wentworth, NH 03282
Contact: 315-391-7575
sorrowfulheartofmaryoratory@gmail.com
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| Vatican welcomes ‘LGBT pilgrims’ as it scrubs references to SSPX pilgrimage |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-02-2025, 07:06 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Vatican welcomes ‘LGBT pilgrims’ as it scrubs references to SSPX pilgrimage
In the very city of Rome, under the shadow of St. Peter's Basilica, a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance is celebrated under the name of 'inclusion.'
Aug 29, 2025
(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original]) — Friends, what does it mean when the Vatican welcomes open promoters of sexual perversion into its Jubilee celebrations?
That’s right, a group of over 1,000 so-called “LGBTQ Catholics” are about to descend upon Rome next week for the Jubilee year.
It’s organized by an Italian group called “La Tenda di Gionata” – the Tent of Jonathan, now that is likely a repugnant and disgusting reference to the friendship between Jonathan and King David – and this group has been very active over the years. It’s not the first time they’ve been to Rome as a group either. On their website, there are articles about their experiences at Pride festivals, including in Rome.
But before we can really dig into this pilgrimage, let’s begin as we always do with the Sign of the Cross – and consider another pilgrimage that’s just taken place over in Rome.
Many of us were delighted when we saw the Vatican Jubilee website include a listing for the Traditional Latin Mass SSPX pilgrimage to Rome, which just took place a few days ago.
Some said that such a listing wasn’t significant: that the Italian language Jubilaeum 2025 site just included everything that was happening, without regard for approval or disapproval on the part of the site.
Not so, said others. The Catholic Herald in the UK referred to it as “a rare moment of visible accord.”
The pilgrimage itself was an amazing sight. LifeSiteNews’ Dr. Maike Hickson was there, and witnessed nearly 8,000 Catholics and 680 priests and religious of the SSPX entering the Holy Doors of St. Peters Basilica there, singing the Creed and Te Deum and other beautiful hymns.
St Peter’s Basilica even put out seating for them, and let them use the microphone system. The day before, the SSPX pilgrims had Masses in the catacombs, and in the Park behind the Colosseum. [...]So, it’s understandable that many were also dismayed when the reference to the SSPX was removed from the Vatican Jubilee website.
Now, the point here is the LGBT “pilgrimage,” not the SSPX one – but stay with me. The removal definitely seemed like a de-legitimization, and undermined the idea, expressed by the Vatican office itself around the same time, that “inclusion” – on the website – “does not imply endorsement.”
But if that’s so, why delete the SSPX pilgrimage?
It’s also obviously false to say that inclusion doesn’t imply endorsement. If the KKK or the American Nazi Party were planning a Jubilee pilgrimage to Rome this year, with 8,000 pilgrims like that SSPX pilgrimage, do we really think they’d be included in the website event listings? Of course not.
Obviously I’m not comparing the SSPX to those groups. I’m just saying that, even if inclusion does not imply endorsement, it does imply something. It implies that a group is basically inside the Overton Window of acceptable thought. It means they’re “allowed,” while others are pushed out.
And that is why it is so troubling that this Tent of Jonathan, this La Tenda di Gionata group, is being listed on the Vatican Jubilee website.
While the SSPX is outside the window of acceptable thought, this homosexualist group is clearly inside it for the Leo XIV Vatican.
Alessandro Previti, one of the organisers of the event, told the “LGBTQ Catholic Ministry” Outreach:
Quote:“The core objective is to be there, to pray, to pray together and to feel part of the church, to be welcome as we are, for who we are.”
The Mass for this group – oh, yes, there is a Mass for them – will be celebrated inside the Church of the Gesù by Bishop Francesco Savino, vice president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference. Savino himself called the event:
Quote:“[an] irreversible sign reminding us that the Gospel is not a manifesto for chosen few, but a love letter addressed to the whole human family.”
This sort of event even got an endorsement from Cardinal Cobo, vice president of the Spanish bishops’ conference. Cobo wrote a letter to the Global Network of Rainbow Catholics – another LGBT group, which met in Madrid last week, and is supporting the Jubilee events.
Here’s what he said:
“In the context of the Jubilee Year, in which the Church opens its doors to those who journey together in hope, I hope that the event you are preparing will help prepare you more deeply to ‘enter the Holy Door’ and that it will lead to a deeper encounter with Christ.”
Here’s another interesting thing: last year, Tenda di Gionata was also deleted from the Vatican Jubilee website temporarily – before being reinstated. And when confronted with criticism over these listings, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the Vatican’s Jubilee coordinator, declared:
“We include all those who ask us to experience faith… Therefore, I don’t see why anyone should be excluded.”
What does it say about the so-called “Church of inclusion,” when the Society of Saint Pius X is first listed, then deleted, while LGBTQ activists are celebrated as honored pilgrims – and reinstated after they were deleted?
And as the SSPX News site asked: “Does Fisichella believe that the pilgrims who came with the Society of Saint Pius X were not there to experience faith? Why were they there then? What does he criticize them for?”
As I said before, this is really not about the SSPX. It’s not like we’re calling for the Jubilee website to relist their event, or for the Church to be like a circus or a zoo, made up of groups which hold diametrically opposed beliefs, and practice diametrically opposed religions. We’re not begging the Vatican to give the SSPX a corner in their big tent in which they can do their little thing.
No, it’s about us saying clearly: under Leo XIV, the Vatican is making space for homosexualist groups, and celebrating them as honored pilgrims, and treating their heterodoxy and heresy as if they were legitimate opinions – and this is unacceptable. [Emphasis The Catacombs] The treatment of the SSPX – and what I said about the KKK – simply makes that worse and more obvious.
It’s unacceptable, but it isn’t a surprise. Leo XIV himself said, as Cardinal Prevost in 2023, that his earlier condemnations of the “homosexual lifestyle” had shifted under Francis – “there’s been a development” he said, such that “we are looking to be more welcoming and more open, and to say all people are welcome in the Church.”
I’m sorry, we all know what that means. He even attributed this “development” to Francis and made clear that he had adopted it for himself.
No, friends. God does not bless sin – let alone one of the four sins that cry to heaven for vengeance. The Church does not hand over her altars to those who deny her moral teaching and publicly celebrate sin. As Saint Paul warned: “You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.” (1 Cor. 10:21)
Yet there, in the very city of Rome, under the shadow of St. Peter’s Basilica, a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance is celebrated under the name of “inclusion.”
All are included. Anyone can walk through the Holy Doors for the Jubilee. But the Holy Door of eternal life is not open to anyone who feels like it – it’s open only to those who have the supernatural faith, hope and charity of Christ, and persevere in the grace of God.
Whatever these churchmen do, let’s resolve for ourselves to walk through that door, whatever it costs us – and offer reparation for these sins and our own, and pray for the conversion of those involved in this sordid story.
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