Opinion: Pope Francis Has Fully Regularized the SSPX

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Pope Francis Has Fully Regularized the SSPX

Ecce Agnus [slightly adapted and reformatted] | February 6, 2025

As it is said, when one body part confirms identification with the whole, the rest is confirmed.  So too when part of the Constitutional/Doctrinal body of the SSPX confirms Legal/Doctrinal status to the whole, the rest is confirmed.

St. Thomas Aquinas explains the principle:

“The operation of the parts, is through each part, attributed to the whole.” (Summa Theologiae, I, q. 75, a. 2)

This was and is true for Mgr. Lefebvre having the reasonable expectation on Nov. 1, 1970 from the local Diocesan Bishop in Fribourg Switzerland Canonically Legalizing, and under the same authority, granted the SSPX to be Canonically erected allowing them to function as a fully Catholic and Traditional organization [1] .

A few years later, modernist Rome applied illicit pressure to destroy and remove that legal perennial status.  Mgr. Lefebvre necessarily and lawfully disobeyed such illegal censures from: being illegal in itself, as with, not being granted its warranted Canonical process, and ignored appeal from the modernist Curators amassing against the Traditional Faith [2] .  Saint Thomas Aquinas teaches, as does St. Augustine, that an unjust law is no law at all.

It is here where the world took notice when Mgr. Lefebvre made his famous 1974 Declaration [3] .

Not having the Canonical process to appeal the illegal censures, the SSPX was, and is, still provided for in rightful existence as a Branch of the Perennial Catholic Church [4] ; though Bp. Fellay’s administration tries hard to wash over this reality so to enter the realms of Conciliarism.

And they succeeded.  On April 9, 2015 the new-SSPX had become a new and different Canonical erection as an ASSOCIATION OF DIOCESAN RIGHT within the Conciliar Dioceses of Buenos Aires Argentina [5] .  Enabling thus, after the death of Mgr. Lefebvre, the new-SSPX ’s desired acceptance of neo-Rome’s illegal censure to remove the already once legal status granted in 1970, to a new entity under and within conciliar-Rome.

What many would have expected to come through the front doors, had taken place In Jure through the back doors, and secretly declared from the Conciliar Dioceses of Buenos Aires Argentina, became a simple matter of Canon Law: What is done in Part, is done in Whole.

We will see no matter what the surface motive given for public consumption was; the new-SSPX had placed themselves under the full communion and obedience with the Conciliar sect of Vatican II.

To give credit, this back door is what Fr. Chazal said within the 2012 betrayal believing Bp. Fellay’s administration would use clever piecemeal ways to enter the conciliar church than the front door everyone was expecting.

For public consumption however, the new-SSPX administration placed as a red-herring, a view different for others to see as only a gain from the Argentina state to recognize crossing boarders and Visas [6] .  Yet there is more, a lot more, and quite deceitful not to share in face of the Canonical Document itself, and in reasons of law.  [7] [8] [9]

To appease the Argentinean State is one of Diplomacy.  This was easy to fulfill by the neo-SSPX if wanting to provide a “religious” status given from its 1970 Diocesan decree of legal existence as an institution of the Catholic Church (provided above).  As too, this Diplomacy could have been provided by the conciliar Diocese with a simple “religious” document recognizing the same would have sufficed (as too could be done politically in other ways), WITHOUT need of using Canon 298 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law giving a new existing status, a Judicial person, recognized and provided in an ASSOCIATION OF DIOCESAN RIGHT; which also declares and provides for mutual Doctrinal and Liturgical adherence in all practice of (conciliar) worship and discipline.  But it’s here, in using this Canon 298 to erect OFFICIALLY the new-SSPX into the conciliar-church, is the aim and conciliar existence the liberal new-SSPX wanted, intended, and designed for their secret reconciliation.

It is also important to note the gravity of what Bishop Fellay had done putting in jeopardy the Traditional Catholic missions in Argentina for him to receive his new status as a LEGAL incorporation of the SSPX into and Canonically legal through the conciliar church to be registered as a Religious-Catholic status within the Argentinian government.

As disclosed above, the legal consequence of that act is now an ALL or NOTHING status for the new-SSPX. In other words, the new-SSPX  has been operating in that country of Argentina in status as a civil entity, NOT as a religious or even a Catholic entity; because the conciliar church has always stated to the Argentinian government that the SSPX is NOT Catholic and NOT a part of the [conciliar] catholic church (in schism).

The SSPX Dici had also verified that in their Response:

“…It is important to know that in Argentina, Catholic religious congregations can only exercise their apostolate within an administrative and juridical framework conditioned by their inscription in the register of the Institutes of Consecrated Life, on the [conciliar church’s] ecclesiastical authority’s recommendation.”

And the U.S District superior validated that also in their Response in referencing and praising the Rorate Caeli article:

“…The District Superior [Fr. Christian Bouchacourt] therefore went to him [Ed. Pope Francis when he was a Cardinal of Buenos Aires Argentina at that time] to present the problem: there [would have been] an easy solution, and that would be to declare ourselves an independent church (before Civil Law), but we did not want to do it because we are Catholic.”

Which is demonstrated in the legality of the Argentinian government for other religions:

6) If you access the official website of the Ministry of Religious Affairs of Argentina there is a register of Recognized religions in the country (Protestants, Buddhists, Africanists, etc.) and a Register of Institutes of Consecrated Life in the terms of Law 24483. There is a unique register for the Catholic Church and forms (with instructions) for processing STIs are on the web.

Thus, the SSPX in Argentina is now placed in a situation where they must comply with the modernist Roman Authorities and Argentine Authorities or be forced to leave.

Those who understand the precarious situation of the new-SSPX La Reja seminary, and the rest of the SSPX apostolate in Argentina, understand the risks involved.

And because of this risk, you can see that Bishop Fellay is very comfortable to go into the Conciliar Church for his desired canonical reconciliation; there is no risk for him -it is all apart- of the planned agenda.

As Archbishop Guido Pozzo, the Secretary of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, had said:

“…We continue working so that full communion and juridical framing of the Society within the Catholic Church may be achieved.”

Sadly explained by the neo-SSPX marketing half-truths makes clever for them a vied appearance for their chapels and public alike to deflect from scrutiny, though real, the process of conciliar-assimilation they do not deny.  Now granted in jurisdiction a Canonical status, accrued from modernist Rome, fully accepted in communion and obedience with the Conciliar Church, with the real gain, in reason to subsist within the Conciliar hierarchy.  The additional granting of piecemeal Universal Jurisdiction within the world will come later; as we will see below.

There it is, under the noses of everyone; breaking the faithful’s trust.  The full Regularization of the new-SSPX was granted In Jure a Canonical Structure in good standing as a branch of the conciliar church having a condition of regular and FULL Canonical status as a public-religious entity within the conciliar-Church.  As the Canonical Decree states:

Can. 298  §2.  The Christian faithful are to join especially those associations which competent ecclesiastical authority has erected, praised, or commended.

No different in aim from what Mgr. Lefebvre received In Jure from the Diocesan Bishop in Fribourg on Nov. 1, 1970; but differs with intent to serve the Church as the old-SSPX and new-SSPX differs on the faith.

So this ultimate betrayal from the sons of Mgr. Lefebvre’s fidelity to God and the faith in his labored building of the true old-SSPX fortress, had like the Pharisees, turned it into a man made conciliar-SSPX –on April 9, 2015.  Planned back in 2011 by the new-SSPX authorities, as their press release provides, just prior to their other prelude formalities; where one formality was pronounced publicly in the April 15, 2012 Doctrinal Declaration [10] by the official new-SSPX declaring their Doctrinal recognition and acceptance for Vatican II in its tenants of Lex orandi, lex credendi “the law of prayer [is] the law of belief”.

Some may say, how did this come about?  To begin to understand why all of this is happening and at a time that seems to be getting worse with Rome as each year passes; as with the continued erosion of Pope Francis.  Even though we do not know all what is going on behind the scenes, we yet have a strong sense that something is very different from the old-SSPX and today’s new-SSPX.

That difference stems from the one who is at the helm; fundamentally, it is a difference of mindset and an ideological understanding of the Faith.  That is, in the old-SSPX, Archbishop Lefebvre had a Doctrinal mindset.  In the new-SSPX, Bishop Fellay has an Institutional mindset.  There is an obvious difference between them in thought and approach.  In both of their lives, we can see these two differences play out.

In Archbishop Lefebvre’s life and leadership, the Doctrinal expression of the Faith was his standup antidote against Vatican II’s deliberate attacks and onslaught which tried to undercut the very foundation of Catholic Doctrine; while the liberals injected the principles of the French Revolution: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity under the disguise of Religious Liberty, Ecumenism, and Collegiality.

The mindset of the old-SSPX under ABL:

• The old-SSPX sought the integrity of Doctrine; no compromise.  Hence, the battles.
  
• The old-SSPX sought the Faith over the Mass.  “Lex orandi, lex credendi”.  The Law of Prayer is the Law of belief.  The other traditional groups that fell had reversed the order and put the Mass over the Faith.
  
• The old-SSPX sought conciliar/modernist Rome to convert back to Tradition first; before a practical deal.
  
• The old-SSPX placed conditions with conciliar/modernist Rome so as not to be a part of their ecumenical structure; rather, for conciliar Rome to adhere and obey to the perennial Church that binds them to their office and Baptism.  “I will place the discussion at the DOCTRINAL LEVEL: ‘Do you agree with the great encyclicals of all the popes who preceded you?  Do you agree with Quanta Cura of Pius IX, Immortale Dei and Libertas of Leo XIII, Pascendi Gregis of Pius X, Quas Primas of Pius XI, Humani Generis of Pius XII? Are you in full communion with these Popes and their teachings? Do you still accept the entire Anti-Modernist Oath? Are you in favor of the social reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ? IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THE DOCTRINE OF YOUR PREDECESSORS, IT IS USELESS TO TALK!” (Abp. Lefebvre, Fideliter, Nov-Dec 1988).”  http://www.therecusant.com/dont-play-with-the-faith
  
• Etc…
  

In Bishop Fellay’s life and leadership, the institutional expression of the Faith is his present standup antidote “against” Vatican II.  Though time had evolved after ABL’s death into Bishop Fellay’s new adaptation of turning the SSPX into this new path, through change for liberal superiors, GREC, and within the neo-teachings at the seminaries, Bishop Fellay’s relations with conciliar Rome over these recent years however do show his interests of the institution as an answer to his “problems”.

The mindset of the New-SSPX under Bishop Fellay:

• In the n-SSPX we have heard how they find itself [falsely] to be irregular with the conciliar Church and with an impediment in Canon Law; whereby the new-SSPX  has lost its orientation and its identity in this crisis than what Archbishop Lefebvre maintained that they are not “irregular”, the conciliar church is.  ABL thus stayed in a position to work for the Supreme Law of the Church under Her protections “prae oculis habita salute animarum, quae in Ecclesia suprema semper lex esse debet.”  “The salvation of souls is the supreme law of the Church”.
  
• The new-SSPX seeks therefore the need to have “integrity” of their institution to be regularized with a canonical status so as the people in the Novus Ordo structure can see that they are a good guys; a lowering of the standard to please men.
  
• The new-SSPX seeks the Mass over the Faith like the FSSP by adopting practical concerns over the Doctrinal concerns.
  
• The new-SSPX seeks to integrate themselves in order to convert the Romans from the inside.  However, ABL says, “The inferiors are not above the superiors”; it is a failed attempt before it begins.
  
• The new-SSPX seeks, as Bishop Fellay declared at Lille, France, on 7 May 2013, “That one could not ask Roman authorities to condemn the Council and the New Mass, because one cannot ask authorities to lose face.”
  
• The new-SSPX, as Fr. Pfluger says, needs to be reconciled sooner rather than later because it will take a long time; possibly decades if the SSPX does not do something with Rome at this time.  The new-SSPX further seeks this attachment with conciliar Rome because, as Fr. Pfluger also said in a public conference in Hattersheim, Germany, that under the current circumstances, the Fraternity’s superior does not “believe it is possible to turn down the Pope’s proposal.” He said that straying from the Pope’s wishes would lead to Sedevacantism.  [11]
  
• The new-SSPX said through Fr. Jean-Michel Gleize, professor of theology in Ecône, “the institution of the conciliar church IS the Catholic Church.”  The consequences follow with conciliarism over Catholicism.
  
• The new-SSPX  seeks unity and obedience before the Faith.
  
• The new-SSPX seeks obedience around its Superior General as a first cause of unity; not the Faith, per Fr. Rostand in his Post falls Idaho conference; and, he says also:
  
• The new-SSPX ’s direction, “is a matter of prudence; not a matter of doctrine.”  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pnYYTzTQrc
  
• The new-SSPX  is now intolerant of any of its priests who still speak of the old-SSPX
  
• The new-SSPX metes punishment and banishment for those who get in its way to be institutionally reconciled with conciliar Rome.
  
• The new-SSPX seeks to be understood in confusion and ambiguities, like conciliar Rome, rather than to speak straight forward and upright like its founder.
  
• Etc…
  

With some of these above facts brought to light, along with its inconvenient truths, it is easier now to see Bishop Fellay’s institutional understanding of the Faith and the approach he is taking with conciliar Rome as a course (pre-planned) to mark the new “institutional” legal footing for the new-SSPX.

Sadly, we have lived with this leadership betrayal for many years.  Some in sedevacantism would find this as another reason to sling shot to the extreme far right position – there is no pope at all.  But that is for another topic.

Looking back from 2024, it is easy to see this by putting the major events and documents together, through time, the new-SSPX had joined in principle and practice their new RAISON D’ÊTRE after the death of Archbishop Lefebvre March 25, 1991, on the Feast Day of the Annunciation of our Lady.

This view in time, but not inclusive:

Bishop Fellay had secretly created the beginnings of the GREC protocols [12] paving the way since 1997… including the year 2000 SSPX pilgrimage to Rome and providing [false] rosary novenas to the faithful for this end, more than a symbol, for the new-SSPX administration giving to Rome many Doctrinal and regulating compromises with the Conciliar church.

For public consumption, modernist Rome provided the following deception, in conjunction and agreement with the new-SSPX allowing the defamation of the True Mass to be second to the clown “Ordinary” mass of Vatican II, with singing a Te Deum, in order to draw closer to conciliar Rome.  As with, allowing the defamation of Archbishop Lefebvre and Bishop de Castro Mayer to be excluded in the “excommunication package” Bishop Fellay received from conciliar Rome; also singing another Te Deum.

• The [False] lifting of the Latin mass; while declaring the Novus Ordo mass as the only Ordinary Mass, July 2007. [13]
  
  
• Lifting the [false] excommunications from 4 of the 6 bishops, Jan. 2009. [14]
  

Bishop Fellay followed:

• Provided a deception also with the SSPX Doctrinal Commission with modernist Rome – ending in nothing, 2009-2011. [15]
  
• Emergency meeting for all SSPX heads at the SSPX district house Albano Italy addressing the Vatican’s doctrinal Preamble and formalities toward the acceptance with modernist Rome, (This was the special meeting Bp. Williamson was not invited to attend as a SSPX Bishop), Oct. 2011.  [16]
  
• The 2012 Great Reveal.  Two leaked letters: one from the three SSPX Bishops addressing neo-Menzingen’s General Council mindset and pre-emptive deal with Rome,  April 7, 2012 [17]  ; and the General Council’s scandalous reply, April, 14, 2012.  [18]  (Followed over the years by many more leaked internal letters, including from modernist Rome, and many public News Interviews and conferences.)
  
• The next day, Bishop Fellay representing the whole of the SSPX publicly compromised on Doctrine and Constitution sending to modern-Rome their Doctrinal Declaration, April 15, 2012 [19]  proclaiming there is an agreement with the beliefs of the conciliarists; and unity is above Doctrine.
  
• B. Fellay depressed his plan was reveal, sent a June 2012 letter to Pope Benedict XVI, saying he will overcome the difficulties…give him some more time to effect the new changes.  [20]
  
• 2012 SSPX General Chapter Six-Conditions publicly accepts the principle and practice of Vatican II; thereby transferring the treasures of “Tradition” to be under modernist-Rome.  (Here too, Bp. Williamson was not invited to attend as a SSPX bishop), July 2012 [21]
  
• Bp. Fellay expelled his opposition ousting Bp. Williamson Oct 2012 [22], and consecutively a large number of SSPX priests and friend priests, along to disassociate from the Dominicans of Avrille France and the Benedictines in Brazil. 
  
• By 2014, together over 100 priests expelled.  The new-SSPX continued to remain steadfast in their course with modernist Rome…
  

Thus, the conciliar-church granted to the new-SSPX some further piecemeal rewards allowing some Universal Jurisdictions within the world, added to, the initial granting of Canonical status – Association of Diocesan Right in Argentina:

• * SSPX received Canonical Jurisdiction of Association of Diocesan Right, April 2015.[23]
  
• Followed by, Bp. Fellay received as a judge at the Rota Romana, the highest appellate tribunal of the Church, thus regularizing his broad authority, and provides for first-instance international Canonical jurisdiction within the whole of the new-SSPX, announced in May 2015.  [24]
  
• Extended In Jure, a universal jurisdiction for CONFESSIONS in Dec. 2015.  [25]
  
• Extended In Jure, a universal jurisdiction for ORDINATIONS in June 2016.  [26]
  
• Extended In Jure, a universal jurisdiction for MARRIAGES in March 2017.  [27]
  

Do you notice the new-SSPX administration does not talk anymore about regularization by way of first instance; but only by way of (social/political) acceptance and furtherance of (universal) jurisdiction from other diocese?  Now you know why!

So in piecemeal, through the back door, given the new foundational existence of Canonical decree and Jurisdictional ASSOCIATION OF DIOCESAN RIGHT within the Dioceses of Argentina, the Conciliar church had IN JURE recognized in conjunction with the neo-SSPX acceptance as one in communion and obedience with the whole of the Conciliar Vatican II sect.

[1]  https://web.archive.org/web/202105181021...1_sspx.htm

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/202106151008...ressed.htm

[3] https://www.therecusant.com/1974-declaration

[4] https://sspx.org/en/legal-existence-sspx-30977

[5] https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/0...px-as.html

[6] https://sspx.org/en/news/argentina-recog...holic-5758

[7] https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.p...enos-aires

[8] http://brasildogmadafe.blogspot.com/2015...-sspx.html

[9] https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/0...nized.html

[10] https://www.therecusant.com/2012-doctrinal-declaration

[11] http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2012/05...peaks.html

[12] https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=1345

[13] https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-...ficum.html

[14] https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-...unica.html

[15] https://sspx.org/en/msgr-pozzo-theologic...sion-31089

[16] https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2011/1...se-of.html

[17] https://www.therecusant.com/2012-3-bishops-letter

[18] https://www.therecusant.com/2012-reply-3-bishops

[19] https://www.therecusant.com/2012-doctrinal-declaration

[20] https://www.therecusant.com/2012-fellay-letter-bxvi

[21] https://www.therecusant.com/six-conditio...al-chapter

[22] https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/s...ks-vatican

[23] https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/0...px-as.html

[24] https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/0...etary.html

[25] https://sspx.org/en/news/pope-francis-ss...licit-6236

[26] https://catholicnewslive.com/story/625214

[27] https://press.vatican.va/content/salasta...0404d.html