Quote:[08:20] "...I had always been drawn by the liturgy. Even though I very much liked what I was doing, I felt that something was missing. And it was this love of the liturgy which led me to knock at the door of the seminary."

Quote:[14:45] "Many had realised in the 1960s and '70s that the Church was entering a period of profound crisis. But no one had, like Archbishop Lefebvre, this particular grace, this supernatural foresight to understand deeply what the causes were and above all, to offer appropriate remedies."

Quote:[16:50] "There was never, absolutely never, any idea of separating from the Church."

Quote:"Such things are easy to say. To stay inside the Church, or to put oneself inside the Church — what does that mean? Firstly, what Church are we talking about? If you mean the conciliar church, then we who have struggled against the Council for twenty years because we want the Catholic Church, we would have to re-enter this conciliar church in order, supposedly, to make it Catholic. That is a complete illusion. It is not the subjects that make the superiors, but the superiors who make the subjects." ('One Year After the Consecrations' — Fideliter, July-Aug 1989)

Quote:"Far from us be this miserable thought of separating ourselves from Rome! On the contrary, it is in order to manifest our attachment to Rome that we are performing this ceremony. It is in order to manifest our attachment to the Eternal Rome, to the Pope, and to all those who have preceded these last Popes who, unfortunately since the Second Vatican Council, have thought it their duty to adhere to grievous errors which are demolishing the Church and the Catholic Priesthood." (Consecrations Sermon, 30th June 1988)

Quote:[17:00] "Most certainly there was a reaction, a reaction against modern ideas or rather against errors, errors already condemned by the Church, which were making their way in a little before the Council but which crystalised at the time of the Council and then especially afterwards, much more clearly, in the reforms made in the name of the Council."

Quote:[18:20] "I was ordained by Archbishop Lefebvre and had the great privilege of having had him throughout my seminary years and even having had him as a professor in the first year. The Archbishop taught us the acts of the Magisterium, so the encyclicals of the Popes, and made us love the Church."

Quote:[18:45] "He was very fatherlike in the seminary. … [19:40] A man who was an ambassador for the Holy See, he never refused to go to Rome, even in all the difficulties which he undertook."

Quote:"It's over. The talks between Rome and ourselves are over. The more one thinks about it, the more one realizes their intentions are not good. ... Rome wants everything to go Vatican II, while they leave us a little bit of Tradition. … But there is no point in such meetings. It has all been talked out long ago." (Letter to the four bishops-elect, 12th June 1988)

"Yesterday evening, a visitor came, sent from the Nunciature in Berne, with an envelope containing an appeal from our Holy Father the Pope, who was putting at my disposal a car which was supposed to take me to Rome… I leave you to judge for yourselves the timeliness and wisdom of such a request." (Consecrations Sermon, 30th June 1988)

"We do not have the same outlook on a reconciliation. Cardinal Ratzinger sees it as reducing us, bringing us back to Vatican II. We see it as a return of Rome to Tradition. We don't agree; it is a dialogue of the deaf. I can't speak much of the future, mine is behind me, but if I live a little while, supposing that Rome calls for a renewed dialogue, then, I will put conditions. I shall not accept being in the position where I was put during the dialogue. No more. I will place the discussion at the doctrinal level. … If you do not accept the doctrine of your predecessors, it is useless to talk!" (Fideliter 66, Nov.-Dec. 1988)

"Humanly speaking, there is no chance of any agreement between Rome and ourselves at the moment. … However, one day they will be obliged to recognize that the Society represents a spiritual force and a strength of the Faith which is irreplaceable and which they will have, I hope, the joy and the satisfaction to make use of, but when they have come back to their Traditional Faith." (Conference to priests and seminarians, Écône, 6th Sept. 1990)

"Since the episcopal consecrations there has been no more contact with Rome … It is absolutely impossible in the current climate of Rome which is becoming worse. We must not delude ourselves. The principles which now guide the conciliar church are more and more overtly contrary to Catholic doctrine. … All the false ideas of the Council continue to develop, to be reaffirmed with ever greater clarity. They are hiding less and less. It is absolutely inconceivable that we can agree to work with such a hierarchy. … We are dealing with people who have a different philosophy to ours, a different way of seeing, who are influenced by all modern subjectivist philosophers. For them there is no fixed truth, there is no dogma. Everything is evolving. That is a totally Masonic concept. This is really the destruction of the Faith." (Fideliter 79, Jan.-Feb. 1991)

Quote:"We have done all we could, trying to help Rome to understand that they had to come back to the attitudes of the holy Pius XII and of all his predecessors. Bishop de Castro Mayer and myself have gone to Rome, we have spoken, we have sent letters, several times to Rome. We have tried by these talks, by all these means, to succeed in making Rome understand that, since the Council and since aggiornamento, this change which has occurred in the Church is not Catholic, is not in conformity to the doctrine of all times. This ecumenism and all these errors, this collegiality — all this is contrary to the Faith of the Church and is in the process of destroying the Church… 'And why Archbishop have you stopped these discussions which seemed to have had a certain degree of success?' [Because] it is clear that the only truth that exists today for the Vatican is the conciliar truth, the spirit of the Council, the spirit of Assisi. That is the truth of today. But we will have nothing to do with this for anything in the world! That is why, taking into account the strong will of the present Roman authorities to reduce Tradition to naught, to gather the world to the spirit of Vatican II and the spirit of Assisi, we have preferred to withdraw ourselves and to say that we could not continue. It was not possible. […] I think it is my duty to provide the means of doing that which I shall call 'Operation Survival,' operation survival for Tradition. Today, this day, is Operation Survival. If I had made this deal with Rome, by continuing with the agreements we had signed and putting them into practice, I would have performed 'Operation Suicide.' There was no choice, we must live!" (Consecrations Sermon, 30th June 1988)

"'For myself, personally,' I said, 'I have no confidence in them. For years and years I have been mixing with these people and for years I have been seeing the way in which they act. I have no further confidence in them. However, I do not wish people within the Society and Traditional circles to be able to say afterwards: You could easily have tried, it would have cost you nothing to enter into discussion and dialogue.' That was the opinion of the Superior General and his assistants. They said, 'You must take into consideration the offer which is being made and not neglect it. It's still worthwhile to talk with them.' … Very soon, however, we realized that we were dealing with people who are not honest. … I nevertheless went to Rome for the conversations, but without any confidence in their success. … I wished to go as far as possible in order to show what good will we had." ('One Year After the Consecrations' Fideliter, July-Aug. 1989)

"For fifteen years we dialogued to try to put Tradition back in its place of honour, in that place in the Church which it has by right. We ran up against a continual refusal. … Our true faithful, those who have understood the problem and who have precisely helped us to continue along the straight and firm path of Tradition and the Faith, were afraid of the approaches I made towards Rome. They told me it was dangerous and that I was wasting my time. Yes, of course, I hoped until the last minute that in Rome we would witness a little bit of loyalty. I cannot be blamed for not having done the maximum." (Fideliter 79, Jan.-Feb. 1991)

Quote:[11:45] "Certainly for a young man of today it is more difficult to perceive this call [to the priesthood] because a young man today is a child of today's society which has immersed him in a world of continual information, stifling, at least in part, his capacity to take a step back, to distance himself and to reflect deeply..."

Quote:"...aptitudes which are of a psychological order: to be balanced, to have common sense, because the priest must enlighten people, give them good advice, show them the way to heaven."

Quote:"I remark, first of all, that the expression 'conciliar church' comes not from me but from Mgr. Benelli who, in an official letter, asked that our priests and seminarians should submit themselves to the 'conciliar church.'" (Conference on 11th Jan., 1979)

"It is easy to think that whoever opposes the Council and its new Gospel would be considered as excommunicated, as outside communion with the Church. But one may well ask them: communion with what Church? They would answer, no doubt, with the conciliar church." (I Accuse the Council, p.xiii)

"This talk about the 'visible Church' on the part of Dom Gerard and Mr. Madiran is childish. It is incredible that anyone can talk of the 'visible Church' meaning the conciliar church as opposed to the Catholic Church which we are trying to represent and continue." ('One Year After the Consecrations' Fideliter, July-Aug. 1989)

Quote:"...the conciliar church, having now reached everywhere, is spreading errors contrary to the Catholic Faith and, as a result of these errors, it has corrupted the sources of grace, which are the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the Sacraments. This false church is in an ever-deeper state of rupture with the Catholic Church."

Quote:"It is the strict duty of every priest [and layman! — Ed.] wishing to remain Catholic to separate himself clearly from the conciliar church, for so long as it does not profess the tradition of the Church's Magisterium and of the Catholic Faith."

Quote:"We have never wished to belong to this system which calls itself the conciliar church, and defines itself with the Novus Ordo Missae, an ecumenism which leads to indifferentism and the secularisation of all society."

Quote:[1:40] "The Curé of Ars showed us that it isn't many priests that we need, but just a few good ones, a few faithful, devoted priests. He was told, the Curé of Ars, by the devil when he saw him one time that if there were two other priests like him, the whole world would fall out of the devil's dominion. And there were just twelve Apostles to begin with."

[3:45] "I came to see more and more that even in Rome the teaching of the Church really isn't taught any more. …well for example, about the Gospels, that the Gospels aren't historical, that there are things there that were written just by the evangelists themselves, putting words into Our Lord's mouth that He didn't really say. … I started to look at the other side of it and see that the real explanation for the confusion, for the crisis in the Church today, is Vatican II itself, it's not abuses of Vatican II. [Narrator:] This is the reason for the founding of the Society of St Pius X…"

[4:50] [Archbishop Lefebvre:] "We cannot accept this ecumenism, bad ecumenism, false ecumenism, with Jews, with all religions, with Protestants. That is a scandal, a great scandal for our faith, for the faith of the faithful. That is a great mystery, but we cannot accept that. We must remain true Catholics, faithful to Our Lord Jesus Christ."

[7:20] "Bishop de Castro Mayer, bishop emeritus of Campos Brazil, is the only bishop who dared to speak out with Archbishop Lefebvre in opposition to the errors of Vatican II and its humanistic and ecumenical spirit."

[11:45] "In the army they call it bootcamp. If you want to make a soldier, you've got to put him through some training. And the priest is a soldier of Christ so he's got to be trained and trained properly. Otherwise he's just not going to be able to take the heat of the action. He's going to get out there at the front and the bullets are going to start flying…"

[14:50] "[The seminarians study] two years of philosophy…according to the principles of St. Thomas Aquinas, whom St. Pius X called 'the antidote for modernism.'"

[16:00] "In the name of Ecumenism, Catholics will refuse to honour Our Lady because it's not ecumenical, because it offends the Protestants. In the name of Ecumenism the Catholics will undo the sacrifice of the Mass because the Protestants don't like the notion of a sacrificial Mass, etc, etc. So in the name of Ecumenism you undo everything that's properly and distinctly Catholic and you reduce Catholicism down to the level of a common mish-mash. Which is exactly what all the other religions are doing, preparing the great one-world religion. As which Pope said in which encyclical? … St. Pius X said in his document on the Sillon, that's right."

[22:30] "The American bishops are going the way of the modern church and the modern church is going the way of the world, it's joined the world and it's abandoned our Lord Jesus Christ. … In the modern seminaries [the priest] is a kind of glorified social worker."

[24:25] "Archbishop Lefebvre has said that he could not form priests with the New Mass and I can see exactly what he means because…in the New Mass there's no notion really that it's a sacrifice."

[25:05] "Before I entered St. Thomas Aquinas seminary I spent a year in [a Novus Ordo] seminary, I stayed there for one year and the conduct of the priests and seminarians was totally different than here. Here everything's composed in a Catholic manner. When I was in the seminary the priests mostly were called by their first names by the seminarians. … In the day-to-day life there was no silence … I was told to see a psychiatrist because my religious beliefs weren't according to their standards. They felt we had to just go along with the modern world and the modern way of thinking. My rector told me he tried for a whole year to change my religious beliefs and was not able to ... I was like a Catholic going to a Protestant seminary."

[31:25] "They may not deny it explicitly but in the teaching that you get [in a Novus Ordo seminary] you're not taught that you're offering sacrifice to God. That's not taught at all, whereas here it is and that's the difference. … In Rome the new priests [often have] bitterness and cynicism because they don't have the sacrifice of the Mass."

[37:23] "[Families need] firstly to have many children. Large families are the normal seedbed of vocations because in large families the children are usually less selfish than in small families, they have to be. When the three boys are sleeping one on top of the other in bunks, you know, the bottom one can't rock all three or the other two will jump on him … pray the rosary in the home in the family every night. Mothers should pray for vocations and dedicate their children to the Mother of God when they're born."

[38:45] "[The conciliar church] is rotten, rotten to the core. … They're building their new church on sand and it's falling already it's falling severely. The Church is built on the rock, Christ is the rock and Christ gave us His Church which is Tradition. … If it's not built on that Tradition it'll fall, and it's falling. In America, in Australia, surely in the rest of the world, it's falling."

[40:25] "I wrote home to someone and said that Ridgefield is like a haven of holiness in a cesspool of sin. Because it's dreadful outside, beyond those walls, those gates, it's dreadful."

Quote:"The Society promises You […] to devote all its energies to preserving Tradition and placing it at the service of the Church. In doing so, the Society of Saint Pius X does not merely maintain ancient customs; it fosters and preserves priestly vocations, religious vocations, and large, deeply Christian families — in a word, everything that manifests the vitality of the Church, of grace, and of the Catholic faith. Our intention is not to offer the Church a museum of antiquities, but rather the entirety of Tradition: fruitful, a source of spiritual life, embodied and lived out within souls. [...] I am certain that one day You yourself, or one of Your successors, will be able and willing to utilise this service, the offering of which, within the Church and for the Church, constitutes our sole reason for being." (Personal letter addressed to His Holiness on 21 November 2025)

Quote:"What is the significance of this day, precisely? Why are we here? How are we to understand these consecrations? ... What does this mean for us?"

Quote:"The more the Faith is attacked, the more it disappears, the more this duty becomes urgent, because, without the Faith, it is impossible to please God, it is impossible to live well, it is impossible to be saved. And today we are taking exceptional measures, proportionate to this necessity."

Quote:"Now, some might consider that we are faced with a dilemma. We are choosing the integral Faith, but we are separating ourselves from the Church. We would be in the process of choosing between the Faith and the Church. In order to preserve the Faith, are we breaking with the Church? This is a false dilemma. We belong to the Church first of all through the Faith, through the integral profession of the Faith, through the integral profession of the Faith of the Church. ... we belong to the Church because we profess the same Faith. It is therefore a false dilemma into which we cannot enter, because we cannot choose between the Faith and the Church; no one can choose. We want the Faith of the Church in order to remain in the Church. We want the Church through the Faith, in the Faith."

Quote:"It is very important to understand this, even if those facing us do not wish to understand it. All of this is not a matter of opinion, it is not a matter of personal sensibility, nor an option: it is a necessity."

Quote:"We are accused of not loving the Pope, we are accused of not respecting him. But it is precisely because we love the Pope, sincerely, as the Vicar of Christ, as the head of the Church, that we no longer wish to see the Pope humiliated in the company of false shepherds, representatives of false religions. How many times have we seen this throughout all these years?"

Quote:"It is because we love the Vicar of Christ that we no longer wish this humiliation for the Pope, a humiliation which falls upon the whole Church, treated on an equal footing with false religions."

Quote:"But then, we have explained all of this many times. We have explained it in almost every language that exists on the face of the earth. Why are we not understood? Why, fundamentally, do we speak different languages? ... We speak the language of the Faith, the language of Tradition. And, before us, we are dealing with a language which operates at another level, which speaks of other things. It is the language of inclusion, of listening, of dialogue and of accompaniment."

Quote:"We want the Faith. And then, in the Faith, we accompany people. We listen to people in the Faith, in order to bring them to the Faith and to convert them."

Quote:"We also live these consecrations in hope. We do not live them in controversy, nor in tension, nor in bitterness, nor in resentment. We live these consecrations in joy and in hope."

Quote:"In 1988, those who condemned the Society foresaw its dissolution. Providence had another plan. Why did Providence have another plan? Your presence here today demonstrates it. God has not abandoned us, and God will not abandon us."

Quote:"Because the supreme law, the law of God, is the salvation of souls. This is why God has not abandoned us and will not abandon us; He will always provide us with means proportionate to our needs. If the work of the Redemption can encounter obstacles on the part of men, it will never encounter obstacles on the part of God. But the more we suffer, the more we struggle, the more we strive to be faithful to Him, the more He is with us, and He shows us this."

Quote:"If we continue to seek the will of God, the good of souls, whatever the cost, we shall never lack anything."

Quote:"But above all, these consecrations must be understood and lived in a spirit of charity: charity towards souls, and charity above all towards the Church. The more souls are disoriented and confused, the more we must seek them, the more we must support them."

Quote:"The more the Church is dishonoured, the more the splendour of her divinity is obscured, the more we must love her, we must serve her, and we must be ready to pay any price to serve the Church."

Quote:"The greatest of the sacrifices that God can ask of us is that of being treated as rebels, when we want to serve and love the Church as a Mother."

Quote:"We want to serve her as a Mother. A Mother in difficulty, overwhelmed, suffering; a Mother who is also sometimes betrayed; a Mother who needs, and deserves, that we help her, that we do something in the name of all that she has given us."

Quote:"Everything that we have received, we have received through the Church, in the Church. The Faith which we wish to bear witness to today and by which we wish to live comes to us from the Church. It is in the name of what we have received from her, and it is in the name of what she is — the Spouse of Christ, His Mystical Body — it is in the name of all this that we must do what is possible, as much as possible, to help and support her."

Quote:"Could we remain indifferent, doing nothing? 'It is not our problem'? That is not what is asked of us. Can the Society remain indifferent? No. That would be to betray the Church, that would be to lack charity; we cannot do this."

Quote:"[There is] one particular sin to which I draw your attention. This sin is always the same, from the beginning of humanity until today: it is the exaltation of man. We are saturated, we are literally saturated everywhere with this exaltation of man. Man who is altogether wonderful, man who is perfect, man who is astonishing, man who supposedly possesses infinite dignity. Well, in reality, all of this leads to pride. And, in the long term, it leads to contempt for God and to apostasy, to silent apostasy. That is where it comes from.

And the more man is exalted in a mad, fanatical way, the more, ultimately, he is distanced from God, and he is distanced from his perfection and his true good; it is a disaster. Man, full of rights, full of himself, incapable of turning towards God, incapable of recognising that he is wounded by sin and that he needs the Redemption. He needs Our Lord, he needs His Most Precious Blood. This is the great evil of today, of all history: the evil which encompasses all the others. This plague is a scourge, an obsessive idea which, it must be acknowledged, penetrates deeply even into the Church. This plague makes people blind; it paralyses souls. This is not what brings souls back to God."

Quote:"This wisdom of the Cross is the only antidote to this humanism which leads to indifference, to apostasy. You must always keep this humanism in your sights."

Quote:"This means that you must first preach through the innocence of your life; it is the innocence, the purity of your life, of your morals, which will give a moral authority to everything that you will preach."

Quote:"To be a lamb also means, and above all, perfect docility, perfect submission to the will of God. Just as Our Lord is constantly subject to the will of His Father, so you, by virtue of an even higher dignity from today onwards, must always seek His will."

Quote:"... Our Lord, just as He is perfectly docile to the will of the Father, so He never bends before the spirit of the world. In order to serve the Father perfectly, He necessarily comes into conflict with the spirit of the world, with the spirit of the prince of this world. And likewise the bishop: just as he is docile to the will of God, so he constantly asserts before the world the rights of Our Lord, and not the rights of man. And a lion never flees, a lion does not retreat and, above all, a lion does not bend. Never bend before this spirit of the world, do not move, do not retreat; the consecration will give you an irresistible strength. From today onwards, throughout the whole world, there are people who are watching you, listening to you. In thirty, forty years, they must be able to say: They did not bend. They did not bend the knee before this spirit of the world. They bent the knee only before Our Lord the King."

Quote:"They did not bend … That is the most beautiful thing that could be said about you at your death, the most beautiful memory that you could leave."

Quote:"Why must a bishop be like a serpent? It is in order to discern, grasp, and detect the duplicity, ambiguity, and cunning that exist in the world and among the enemies of the Cross. Your worst enemies will not attack you head-on; they will try to make you slide gradually into a perception of the Faith, of the Christian life, and of relations with the world that is a little more up to date. That must be understood."

Quote:"This is what it means to be like a serpent: to grasp the duplicity, the ambiguity, and the cunning that exist in the world, and to speak, to preach like doves: simply, without duplicity and without fear, without equivocation, without ambiguity."

Quote:"And what else does Jesus say, what does Our Lord say? 'The brother shall deliver up his brother, the father his child, and you shall be hated by all because of Me, because of My name. Do not fear all this, for there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, nothing secret that will not be known.' 'Do not fear all this,' Our Lord tells us. 'Let Me act, let Me judge; I Myself will intervene when necessary.' He has only one concern. What is it? 'Every one therefore that shall confess Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven.' Every man who will acknowledge My rights, My divinity, My Church, My Faith. 'Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword.'"

Quote:"Another bishop, who is your model, closer to us, not yet canonised: Archbishop Lefebvre, certainly. Of him also one can say: zelus fidei sollicitus et multa perpessus. He had only one concern: it was the Faith itself, and, for this, he suffered greatly. This Faith, he saw clearly how it is summed up in the Holy Mass, in the defence of the Holy Mass, of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord. What wisdom! How was he able, so many years ago, to grasp the causes of the crisis with such clarity, such insight, such strength?"

Quote:"It is the wisdom of the Cross; the Cross that he carried was the source of his wisdom. Today, more than ever, his spirit is among us, he encourages us, he prays for us, he prays for you in particular, he shows us the path to follow, guided by this wisdom of the Cross."

• “But the Church against her past and her Tradition is not the Catholic Church; this is why being excommunicated by a liberal, ecumenical, and revolutionary Church is a matter of indifference to us.” (Marcel Lefebvre, Bishop Tissier de Mallerais, p.547)
  
  
• “I should be very happy to be excommunicated from this Conciliar Church… It is a Church that I do not recognize. I belong to the Catholic Church.” (Interview July 30 1976, published in Minute, no. 747)
  
  
• The following excerpts are taken from an 'Open Letter to Cardinal Gantin' written by "the Superiors of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, gathered around our Superior General" a week or so after the 1988 Consecrations, on this same topic of the Conciliar Church:
  
  

  Quote:“To be publicly associated with this sanction [of excommunication] which is inflicted upon the six Catholic Bishops, Defenders of the Faith in its integrity and wholeness, would be for us a mark of honor and a sign of orthodoxy before the faithful. They have indeed a strict right to know that the priests who serve them are not in communion with a counterfeit church, promoting evolution, pentecostalism and syncretism.” (Open Letter to Cardinal Gantin, July 6, 1988)
  
  “We have never wished to belong to this system which calls itself the Conciliar Church, and defines itself with the Novus Ordo Missæ, an ecumenism which leads to indifferentism and the laicization of all society. Yes, we have no part, nullam partem habemus, with the pantheon of the religions of Assisi; our own excommunication by a decree of Your Eminence or of another Roman Congregation would only be the irrefutable proof of this. We ask for nothing better than to be declared out of communion with this adulterous spirit which has been blowing in the Church for the last 25 years; we ask for nothing better than to be declared outside of this impious communion of the ungodly.” (Open Letter to Cardinal Gantin, July 6, 1988)

Quote:Menzingen, July 19, 2026

Dear Faithful,

A few days after the ceremony of July 1, I wish to address these few words to you.

First of all, I would like to thank you. For several years I have prayed to the Blessed Virgin that she would prepare hearts for this historic event. I must confess that I was deeply moved to see how all of you accompanied the episcopal consecrations with your prayers and your gratitude to Divine Providence.

On July 1, many faithful from all over the world were present at Écône, and they represented all of you. It was a tremendous joy to see them so numerous and so fervent. As you certainly know, a violent storm broke out during the ceremony: "At the brightness of His presence the clouds passed, ... The Lord also thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered His voice" (Psalm 17 [18]:13–14).

At that moment, my joy only increased. On the one hand, I was the privileged witness of a liturgy of extraordinary beauty; on the other, before my eyes was another sight no less moving: an immense crowd of faithful remaining in place throughout the storm, praying to Our Lady for the new bishops, for the Church, and for the Pope. Among them were elderly women kneeling in prayer, as well as young mothers carrying their infants in their arms. It was the most beautiful image one could possibly give of the Society: faithful animated by an unshakable faith that nothing could disturb; souls for whom the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is truly the center of their lives.

You cannot imagine the consolation I experienced at that moment. The scene has been deeply engraved upon my memory, and I shall never forget it.

Until the very last day, I hoped for a gesture of goodwill—or at least of simple understanding—from the Holy See. But the consecrations have been condemned, and the severity of the sanctions imposed is without precedent. They are directed first against the bishops, but also against the members of the Society. Even the faithful are affected.

This condemnation, wholly unjust, represents an immense humiliation for people whose only desire is to defend the true Faith and to labor for the salvation of souls. Yet I want you to understand that this profound humiliation, which first affects the members of the Society, has a meaning in the eyes of God that must not escape you.

Ultimately, these consecrations were carried out for each one of you, dear faithful. Your souls are the true treasure entrusted to the Society, the treasure it cherishes above all else. A single soul possesses infinite value. If, in order to ensure for it the teaching of the true Faith and the administration of the true sacraments, it is necessary to pay the price of such humiliation, then it is worth paying, because a soul is beyond all price. The feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord—the price of our salvation—powerfully reminded us of this on July 1.

The sanctions are also intended to strike you in a rather cruel way. That is certainly painful, but do not be overly surprised. In the end, it is Tradition itself—which we cherish above all else—that is being excommunicated in all those who embody it. It is evident that, before God, such a condemnation cannot be valid, for it would condemn what lies at the very heart of the Church's own life.

But now, in the midst of this new storm, a question arises: what does Our Lord expect of you now?

It is within the soul of each one of you that the Faith must remain whole and alive. If Providence permits a crisis in which the teaching of the Faith is mysteriously obscured, that same Faith must nevertheless continue to live in souls, despite all the contrary winds that seek to extinguish it. If the outward splendor of the Church's official profession of Faith should disappear, the little candle that each of you received on the day of your baptism must remain burning in your heart and in your mind until your final day. In the end, that is the only thing that truly matters. That little flame is the first thing we received at the beginning of our Christian life, and it is also the only thing we shall keep until the end.

I entrust all of you to the Blessed Virgin Mary, to whom the Society of Saint Pius X has been consecrated in a very special way. May she always protect you amid every storm and every difficulty, and may she keep alive that little flame burning in your souls whenever all the contrary winds rage against it.

All graces come to us through her hands. It is she whom we must thank for the grace of these consecrations, and it is she to whom we must pray that the new bishops may become ever more docile instruments of her inspirations and may persevere faithfully until the end.

The Society will never abandon you. Never will your souls lose their value or their worth in the eyes of its priests.
May God bless you!

• find a bishop, a major superior of a clerical pontifical institute or another ordinary who is willing to accept him ad experimentum,
  
• write a letter to Pope Leo XIV requesting the remission of the censures incurred by receiving priestly ordination from an excommunicated or canonically irregular bishop, and
  
• attach documentation of his priestly ordination and a Profession of Faith and a Formula of Adherence, as well as a letter signed by the ordinary explaining their willingness to accept the priest.
  

Quote:With firm faith, I also believe everything contained in the word of God, whether written or handed down in Tradition, which the Church proposes as divinely revealed, whether by solemn judgment or by her ordinary and universal Magisterium.

I likewise firmly accept and hold each and every teaching definitively proposed by the Church regarding faith and morals.

Moreover, with religious submission of will and intellect, I adhere to the teachings which either the Roman Pontiff or the College of Bishops proclaim when exercising their authentic Magisterium, even if they do not intend to proclaim them by a definitive act.

Quote:I accept the doctrine taught in No. 25 of the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium of the Second Vatican Council concerning the Magisterium of the Church and the adherence owed to it.

With regard to certain doctrines taught by the Second Vatican Council, or subsequent reforms in either the Sacred Liturgy or Canon Law, which may appear to some to be difficult to reconcile with previous declarations of the Magisterium, I undertake to follow a positive approach to their interpretation under the guidance of the Church’s Magisterium, so that none of these teachings may be separated from the remainder of the Church’s sacred doctrinal patrimony.

I further declare that I accept the validity of the Sacrifice of the Mass and of the Sacraments celebrated with the intention of doing what the Church does, and according to the rites contained in the typical editions of the Roman Missal and the ritual books promulgated by the Supreme Pontiffs Paul VI and John Paul II.

Finally, I promise to adhere to the common discipline of the Church and to her laws, especially those contained in the Code of Canon Law promulgated by Pope John Paul II.

Quote:To the Reverend Father Davide Pagliarani
Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X

With a paternal heart, and aware of the responsibility entrusted to me by the Lord as the Successor of the Apostle Peter, I address you and, through you, the bishops, priests, seminarians and faithful connected to the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X.

The Church recognizes the devotion to liturgical life, commitment to priestly formation, apostolic zeal and desire for fidelity to Tradition that characterize many people and communities connected to your Fraternity. This has motivated the attentive and generous attitude that my Predecessors have consistently shown to you.

In this spirit, and filled with Christian affection, I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back! I urge you to consider carefully the spiritual good of the faithful, because the schismatic act you are about to undertake would deprive them of the licit and, in some cases, even valid reception of the Sacraments, which they love and seek for their sanctification.

The Church is open to a path of dialogue and understanding that the Holy Spirit can make possible and fruitful.

I pray for you, because to tear the seamless garment of Christ is a sin of extreme gravity. May the Lord enlighten your consciences and awaken your hearts. With a sorrowful yet hopeful heart, I feel it is my duty, through the authority received from Christ, to ask you to desist from your intended act. I entrust these intentions to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mother of Good Counsel.

From the Vatican, 29 June 2026
Solemnity of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul

LEO PP. XIV

• Father Pascal Schreiber (Swiss)
  
• Father Michael Goldade (American)
  
• Father Michel Poinsinet de Sivry (French)
  
• Father Marc Hanappier (French).
  

BREAKING: SSPX responds to Vatican threats with profession of faith
'There is only one Faith and one Church by which we may be saved,' writes Father Pagliarani of the SSPX.



SSPX Superior General Fr. Davide Pagliarani
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Quote:Declaration of Catholic Faith
addressed to His Holiness Pope Leo XIV
by Fr. Davide Pagliarani
Superior General of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X

Most Holy Father,

For more than fifty years, the Society of Saint Pius X has endeavoured to set before the Holy See a matter of conscience in the face of the errors that are destroying Catholic faith and morals. Regrettably, all the discussions entered into have remained without result, and none of the concerns expressed have received any truly satisfactory response.

For more than fifty years, the only solution truly considered by the Holy See has appeared to be that of canonical sanctions. To our great regret, it seems to us that canon law is thus being used, not to confirm in the faith, but to lead away from it.

In the text that follows, the Society of Saint Pius X is glad to express to You, filially and sincerely, its devotion to the Catholic faith, concealing nothing, either from Your Holiness or from the universal Church.

The Society places this simple Declaration of Faith in Your hands. It seems to us to correspond to the minimum indispensable to be in communion with the Church, and to truly call ourselves Catholics and, consequently, your sons.

We have no other desire than that of living and being confirmed in the Roman Catholic Faith.

“Thus, remaining firmly rooted and established in the true Catholic Faith,
strive always to be worthy ministers of the divine Sacrifice
and of the Church of God, which is the Body of Christ.

For, as the Apostle says: ‘all that is not of faith
is sin’,[1] schismatic and outside the unity of the Church.”[2]

DECLARATION OF CATHOLIC FAITH

In the Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, divine Wisdom, the Word Incarnate, Who willed one sole religion, Who rendered the Old Covenant definitively null and void, Who founded one sole Church, Who triumphed over Satan, Who conquered the world, Who remains with us until the end of time and Who shall come again to judge the living and the dead.

He, the perfect Image of the Father, the Son of God made man, was appointed the sole Redeemer and Saviour of the world through the Incarnation and the voluntary offering of the Sacrifice of the Cross. Our Lord satisfied divine justice by shedding His Most Precious Blood, and it is in that Blood that He established the New and Eternal Covenant, abolishing the Old. He is therefore the sole Mediator between God and men and the sole way to come to the Father. Only he who knows Him knows the Father.

By divine decree, the Most Holy Virgin Mary has been directly and intimately associated with the entire work of Redemption; to deny this association — in the terms received from Tradition — is therefore to alter the very notion of Redemption as willed by divine Providence.

There is only one Faith and one Church by which we may be saved. Outside the Roman Catholic Church, and without the profession of Faith that she has always taught, there is neither salvation nor remission of sins.

Consequently, every man must be a member of the Catholic Church in order to save his soul, and there is but one baptism as the means of being incorporated into her. This necessity concerns the whole of humanity without exception and embraces without distinction Christians, Jews, Muslims, pagans, and atheists.

The mandate received by the Apostles, to preach the Gospel to every man and to convert every man to the Catholic faith, remains binding until the end of time and responds to the most absolute and most pressing necessity in the world. “He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be condemned.”[3] Therefore, to renounce the fulfilment of this mandate constitutes the gravest of crimes against humanity.

The Roman Church alone possesses simultaneously the four marks that characterize the Church founded by Jesus Christ: Unity, Holiness, Catholicity, and Apostolicity.

Her unity flows essentially from the adherence of all her members to the one true Faith, faithfully preserved, taught, and handed down by the Catholic hierarchy throughout the centuries.

The denial of even a single truth of faith destroys faith itself and renders radically impossible all communion with the Catholic Church.

The only possible path to restoring unity among Christians of different confessions consists in the urgent and charitable appeal addressed to non-Catholics to profess the one true Faith within the one true Church.

The Catholic Church can in no way be regarded or treated on an equal footing with a false form of worship or a false church.

The Roman Pontiff, the Vicar of Christ, is the sole possessor of supreme authority over the whole Church. He alone directly confers on the other members of the Catholic hierarchy jurisdiction over souls.

“The Holy Ghost was not promised to the successors of Peter that they might make known, by His revelation, a new doctrine, but that, by His assistance, they might inviolably keep and faithfully expound the revelation transmitted by the Apostles, that is, the Deposit of the Faith.” [4]

To a unique Faith there corresponds a unique form of worship, the supreme, authentic, and perfect expression of that same Faith.

The Holy Mass is the perpetuation in time of the Sacrifice of the Cross, offered for many and renewed upon the altar. Although offered in an unbloody manner, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is essentially expiatory and propitiatory. No other form of worship offers perfect adoration. No other form of worship that is not ordered to it is pleasing to God. No other means is sufficient for the sanctification of souls.

Consequently, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass can in no way be reduced to a mere commemoration, to a spiritual meal, to a sacred assembly celebrated by the people, to the celebration of the Paschal mystery without sacrifice, without satisfaction of divine justice, without expiation of sins, without propitiation, and without the Cross.

The help afforded to souls by the Sacraments of the Catholic Church is sufficient in every circumstance and in every age to enable the faithful to live in a state of grace.

The moral law contained in the Decalogue and perfected in the Sermon on the Mount is the only one practicable for obtaining the salvation of souls. Every other moral code — founded, for example, on respect for creation or on the rights of the human person — is radically insufficient to sanctify and save souls. In no way can it replace the one true moral law.

Following the example of Saint John the Baptist, true charity obliges us to warn sinners and never to renounce the means necessary to save their souls.

He who eats the Body of Our Lord and drinks His Blood whilst in a state of sin eats and drinks his own condemnation, and no authority can alter this law contained in the teaching of Saint Paul and in Tradition.

Sins of impurity that are against nature are of such gravity that they always and in every circumstance cry to God for vengeance, and are radically incompatible with every form of authentic Christian love. Such a ‘lifestyle’ can therefore in no way be recognized as a gift from God. A couple practising this vice must be helped to free themselves from it, and can in no way be blessed — formally or informally — by ministers of the Church.

The submission of institutions and nations, as such, to the authority of Our Lord Jesus Christ flows directly from the Incarnation and the Redemption. Therefore, secularism of institutions and nations constitutes an implicit denial of the divinity and universal kingship of Our Lord.

Christendom is not a mere historical phenomenon, but the only order willed by God among men.

It is not for the Church to conform herself to the world, but for the world to be transformed by the Church.

It is in this Faith and in these principles that we ask to be instructed and confirmed by Him Who has received the charism to do so. With the help of Our Lord, we would rather die than renounce them. It is in this immutable Faith that we desire to live and die, in the hope that it may give way to the direct vision of the immutable eternal Truth.

Menzingen, 14 May 2026,
on the Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord

Davide Pagliarani


[1] Rom. 14:23

[2] Roman Pontifical, Admonition to ordinands to the subdiaconate

[3] Mark 16:16

[4] Pastor Aeternus, ch. 4