The Catholic Trumpet: Archbishop Viganò Names the Neo-SSPX’s Treason

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Archbishop Viganò Names the Neo-SSPX’s Treason

The Catholic Trumpet [slightly reformatted and adapted, emphasis The Catacombs] | March 3, 2025


Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò stands alone as likely the last validly consecrated Archbishop—if only he would come forward unambiguously and confirm that +Bishop Williamson conditionally consecrated him—and he speaks outside the conciliar church. This is an undeniable fact. While there are legitimate criticisms—his support of Pro-Synagogue politicians, his misapplication of the Synagogue of Satan by reducing it to the ‘deep state’—these are secondary to the earthquake he has just set off.

An Archbishop of the Catholic Church has clearly and openly declared the betrayal of +Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre by Bishop Fellay and the Neo-SSPX. This is no mere opinion. This is no fringe argument. It is now publicly acknowledged by an Archbishop of the Church.

He states:

“The Cathedral in which he would have celebrated was denied to him by a Hierarchy that is now allied and complicit with the same enemies of the past, which excommunicates not the enemies of the Papacy, but those who denounce the betrayal of a usurper. Bishop Williamson also was betrayed: not by four assassins, but by those who wounded him in the heart, betraying the legacy of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.”

There it is. The betrayal of the SSPX—once the last bastion of Tradition—is no longer whispered among the faithful. It is now laid bare. The men who should have carried on +Archbishop Lefebvre’s mission instead handed it over to Modernist Rome. They silenced his warnings. They distorted his teachings. They led souls into compromise.

Now, they stand exposed.

The significance of this cannot be overstated. For years, they have pretended this betrayal never happened. They have gaslit their faithful, convincing them that the resistance to their treason was unjustified.

And now the challenge is issued:

Will the Neo-SSPX deny this charge?

Will they dare to answer?

They won’t. Because they can’t.

Their silence is their confession.

But their faithful must now ask themselves:

How much longer will you follow those who betray Tradition?

How much longer will you defend the indefensible?

Vive le Christ Roi! Vive Marie, Reine du Ciel!




Full Letter from Archbishop Viganò

Source: Message of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò for the Solemn Obsequies of Bishop Richard Nelson Williamson, February 26, 2025.

The full article can be read below: https://exsurgedomine.it/category/2025/

Mons. Carlo Maria Viganò

Message for the Solemn Obsequies of Bishop Richard Nelson Williamson

O mors, ero mors tua;
morsus tuus ero, inferne.

O death, I will be your death;
I will be your mortal blow, O hell. Hos 13:14

The land of Canterbury was consecrated to Christ by the blood of Saint Thomas Becket, martyred on the 29th of December, 1170, in the Cathedral which has now become Anglican. At that time, Archbishop Thomas opposed the Constitutions of Clarendon, with which King Henry II attacked the liberties and independence of the Catholic Church. He paid with his life for this courageous defense of the Catholic Church, and today the Saintly Bishop looks down on us from heaven as we celebrate the suffrages of another Bishop, Richard Nelson Williamson, whom we consider a witness to the Faith and Catholic Tradition in times no less troubled and hostile.

Bishop Williamson was not killed by four assassins of Henry II. He did not shed his blood by being struck while celebrating the Holy Sacrifice at the altar of his Cathedral. The Cathedral in which he would have celebrated was denied to him by a Hierarchy that is now allied and complicit with the same enemies of the past, which excommunicates not the enemies of the Papacy, but those who denounce the betrayal of a usurper. Bishop Williamson also was betrayed: not by four assassins, but by those who wounded him in the heart, betraying the legacy of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

I hope that the heroic example of Saint Thomas Becket and the testimony of white martyrdom given by Bishop Richard Williamson may awaken in us the feelings that they both shared: first and foremost, the love of God; the love of the God-Man, Our Lord Jesus Christ; the love of the Holy Roman Catholic Apostolic Church; and the love of man for the sake of the love of God, from which flows the apostolic zeal of true Shepherds toward their sheep, who recognize in them the voice of the divine Shepherd.

This earthly life is a battlefield, in which we fight without quarter against a mortal enemy. This enemy has already been defeated by Our Lord, on the Cross, the Via Regia, the Royal Road to the eternal glory of Heaven. This is what the prophet Hosea meant when, referring to Christ, he pronounced these words: O mors, ero mors tua; morsus tuus ero, inferne. Giving one’s life, giving all one’s life and all one’s energy for Our Lord Jesus Christ and for the Holy Church, and doing so in a daily crucifixion, allows us to be cooperators in the Redemption. Our human weakness, when placed at the service of the Gospel, allows Grace to accomplish great things; it allows us to face each day, even the last day, without giving up fighting the bonum certamen and repeating, with the Prophet: O death, I will be your death; I will be your mortal blow, O hell.

Tempora bona veniant. Pax Christi veniat. Regnum Christi veniat.

+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop

February 26, 2025