'Pope' Francis and the SSPX's Dance towards Eternal Death!

The SSPX (Sometimes called Leferbvrists) is a group founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in the 1970s to resist the changes made by the Second Vatican Council. SSPX has ordained many priests and have consecrated 4 bishops using the true Catholic rite of ordination and consecration, which was invalidated by the Novus Ordo/Vatican II religion.

The SSPX resistance to Vatican II lacks logic and theological soundness but many good people are in the SSPX because they cannot stand the apostasy being spread by Novus Ordo/Vatican II religion. But given the illogicality in SSPX, many members have realized that they very things they reject, they accept through the back door!

For instance they reject ‘papal’ teachings arising from Vatican II and accepts that the sacramental rites of the Novus Ordo religion are valid and yet they ask their followers not go partake in them! According to the SSPX, Francis despite being an apostate is the pope in the Catholic Church!

Because of this acceptance, they have Francis picture in their rectory worldwide and they seek to be physically united with Novus Ordo religion despite rejecting the core of its teachings.

This is illogicality par excellence!

Given the devilish ploy of Novus Ordo religion, the SSPX is sinking deeper and deeper in the rivers of Novus Ordo religion as it accepts edits and pronouncements of Novus Ordo religion concerning them. They fail to learn from history. Many organizations like them have been deceived into joining Novus Ordo and today, they are forced to promote the apostasy and invalid sacraments.

However, within the ‘rank and file’ of SSPX authority, there is a serious discord as to how to deal with Novus Ordo religion, especially as it beckons on it to be merged fully with the ongoing apostasy!

The Superior general of the SSPX, Bishop Bernard Fellay, enthusiastically pursue merging the SSPX with Novus Ordo religion to quit pretenses of some form of resistance. He is in effect saying that SSPX should stop pretending to reject Novus Ordo Religion since it is part of it. All physical separations should now be mended. Some Bishops working with him sink into deafening silence as to what their personal positions are.

These Bishops may explode someday as one of the Bishops did in the past. Bishop Williamson, a member of the SSPX openly pretested Bishops Fellay’s dialogue with apostate Rome and joined a break away from called SSPX of the Strict observance or SSPX Marian Corp. Since then Bishop Williamsons has been publishing many shocking theologically unsound ideas to both reject Novus Ordo religion and reject the administration of Bishop Fellay in the SSPX. But Williamson himself and his group operate also in illogicality suggesting that the man, Francis who they ridicule and abhor is also the pope!

Talk about illogicality!

But what lies beneath may yet explode and led to a total obliteration of the SSPX!

On Sunday, May 7, seven deans (heads of deaneries) of the Society of St. Pius X French district read from the pulpit a statement, addressed to the faithful, in which they express their rejection of the Vatican’s “concession” regarding SSPX marriages, which they demonstrate to be a dangerous and subversive Roman ploy. The deans’ letter also warns against any impending agreement with the Modernist Vatican.

Not surprisingly, the French District Superior, Fr. Christian Bouchacourt, wasted no time to act: In agreement with Superior General Bp. Bernard Fellay, the seven deans in question have already been demoted, their declaration condemned. French SSPX adherents have been told not to disseminate the deans’ letter but put it in the trash instead. Will this suffice to quell a potential uprising among the French Lefebvrists?

Let’s review in some detail what has happened.

Recent news from and about the Society of St. Pius X, founded in 1970 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991), have confirmed that an official recognition of the Lefebvrian society by the Modernist Vatican is definitely in the works and could take place before the year is over.

On Jan. 29, 2017, Bp. Fellay appeared on a French internet TV station saying that all that’s missing from a formal reconciliation between his Society and the Vatican under Francis is the latter’s “stamp of approval” and a “guarantee” that they can basically continue as they are now.

On Mar. 3, Bp. Fellay related that the Vatican’s Prefect of the so-called Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, “Cardinal” Gerhard Ludwig Muller, had told him that the Vatican desires the SSPX to return to full communion “so that you may help us fight the Modernists”! That Bp. Fellay would even take such an absurd claim seriously says a lot of about the judgment of the man who has now been Superior General for almost 23 years.

On Mar. 17, the German Die Tagespost paper published an interview with the secretary of the Vatican’s Ecclesia Dei Commission, “Mgr.” Guido Pozzo, who stated that “the Holy Father is pressing forward towards a positive and constructive attitude of dialogue” and is clearly eager to see the SSPX rejoin the Vatican II Church, from which it was formally separated in 1988.

On Apr. 4, the Vatican issued a putative concession to the SSPX with regard to the witnessing of marriages. However, unlike the common misconception that the SSPX has now been granted faculties from Rome to be able to validly officiate marriages, the facts are actually a bit different, as the French deans’ letter correctly points out. According to the cunning Vatican document, Novus Ordo bishops have now been given permission from Rome to allow SSPX priests to officiate at weddings under the condition that a Novus Ordo priest “cannot” do so. If a Novus Ordo priest can be found to do so, he is to officiate at the wedding, although the Mass itself may be celebrated by an SSPX priest in either case. We have analyzed and exposed the trickery of this document here.

The Society of St. Pius X’s response to this Vatican maneuver was very positive. In an official communiqué released on Apr. 11, the SSPX administration rejoiced that their marriages were now “not only valid, but incontestable” — ignoring the inconvenient fact that “Pope” Francis is the last person on earth you’d want evaluating the validity of marriages.

The most recent piece of news regarding the ongoing SSPX-Vatican soap opera is the following statement by “Mgr.” Pozzo, released today:

The reconciliation will occur when Monsignor Fellay formally adheres to the doctrinal declaration that the Holy See presented to him. This is also the necessary condition to then proceed to the institutional regularization with the creation of a personal prelature. I have noticed that there is not a controversial spirit but [a] constructive [one]. The different points of view or opinions we have on some issues do not necessarily need to lead to division, but to a mutual enrichment. I have realized that it is a priority for them to overcome this fracture with the Holy See. For them, it’s a priority over other concerns.

(“Vatican: No date for reconciliation with Lefebvrians, but the spirit is ‘constructive'”, Rome Reports, May 11, 2017)

Another one of those “mutual enrichment” deals — heaven help us!

Apparently sensing that a formal reconciliation between their order and Modernist Rome is imminent, seven priests of the SSPX French district, all of them deans, read a statement from the pulpit this past Sunday which rejects the Vatican’s “concession” regarding the celebration of marriages and calls into question any rapprochement with the Vatican under the current conditions in general.

The statement was published only on the French news site Medias Presse Info:

• Mariages dans la FSSPX : lettre de doyens de la FSSPX et des communautés religieuses amies (French)

An English translation of this document has now been provided by The Remnant:

• Vatican Provision for SSPX Marriages Sparks Major Controversy in French District (English)

Perhaps the most explosive part of the statement is the last two paragraphs, which read:

Finally, permit me to express my astonishment at the reaction to this Roman decision. The Personal Prelature which is being dangled before the eyes of the Society of Saint Pius X was supposed to recognize us as we are, and to maintain our independence vis-à-vis the local Ordinaries. However, the first decisions taken consist in unjustly submitting our marriages to these very Ordinaries, while tomorrow the opening of any new Houses will have to meet their approval. This shows to what extent double-speak reigns supreme not only in the domain of Faith and Morals, but even in these canonical matters.

Also, in this Centenary Year of the apparitions of Fatima, we invoke the Immaculate Heart of Mary, not so that She will end our canonical situation which is judged irregular by some, but so that the Church may be freed from Its Modernist occupation and that the highest authorities may once more find the path followed by the Church up to Vatican II. Then our bishops will be able to place their episcopacy in the hands of the Sovereign Pontiff.

It is evident that rejecting the Vatican’s overture regarding SSPX marriages, accusing Rome of undermining the SSPX by means of “double-speak”, and talk of a “Modernist occupation” from which the Church must first “be freed” before “our bishops will be able to place their episcopacy in the hands of the Sovereign Pontiff”, is hardly conducive to the negotiations Bp. Fellay is in the process of finishing up with Francis and his gang.

The seven priests who signed and read this declaration were joined by three other associated clerics. Their names and ranks are:

• Abbé David ALDALUR, dean of Bordeaux
• Abbé Xavier BEAUVAIS, dean of Marseille
• Abbé François-Xavier CAMPER, dean of Lyons
• Abbé Bruno FRANCE, dean of Nantes
• Abbé Thierry GAUDRAY, dean of Lille
• Abbé Patrick de LA ROCQUE, dean of Paris
• Abbé Thierry LEGRAND, dean of Saint-Malo
• P. JEAN-MARIE, superior of the Fraternité de la Transfiguration
• P. PLACIDE, prior of the Benedictine monastery of Bellaigue
• P. ANTOINE, guardian of the Capuchin monastery of Morgon

The very same day this statement was released and read from the pulpit, May 7, the French District Superior, Fr. Bouchacourt, responded:

• La réponse du District de France (French)

Fr. Bouchacourt’s rejoinder does not address any of the objections of the deans’ statement. Rather, he condemns “the subversive manner in which this declaration was disseminated”: “Prepared in secret, among some select colleagues, in order to surprise, destabilize, and place before the superiors an accomplished fact, it takes the faithful hostage and constitutes them judges of their priests and superiors.”

He laments the quarrels between people this will cause and upbraids the authors of the letter for going straight to the faithful with their concerns about the Vatican’s directive concerning Lefebvrist marriages, rather than bringing them before the SSPX leadership.

Afterwards, the French District Superior released some of his own (presumably SSPX-approved) theological reflections on the Vatican’s document regulating the celebration of their marriages:

• Quelques réflexions à propos de la Lettre sur les mariages (French)

Yesterday, on May 10, Fr. Bouchacourt sent a follow-up letter to all priests of his district, in which he announces that the seven rebellious SSPX deans have been removed from their positions and that Bp. Fellay has consented to this:

• Lettre à tous les prêtres du district de France (French)

On May 11, the SSPX published an official press release, in various languages, concerning this matter:

• Concerning a Letter from Some Priests to the Faithful of the French District (English)
• A propos d’une lettre de quelques prêtres aux fidèles du District de France (French)
• Anläßlich des Briefes einiger Priester an die Gläubigen des französischen Distrikts (German)
• En referencia a la carta de algunos sacerdotes a los fieles del Distrito de Francia (Spanish)

My goodness, what a mess.

We recall that in 2014, a number of French SSPX families wrote to Bp. Fellay demanding, in no uncertain terms, his resignation: “We do not trust you any more, nor, especially, your advisors, Your Excellency. We no longer want you to control the Chariot of Tradition amidst the turmoil of our disordered world.”

Is the latest act of rebellion, that of the seven deans, just another symptom of a big explosion waiting to happen? Time will tell. It is certain, however, that if the SSPX reconciles with Rome under Francis, there will absolutely be a mass exodus of a good number of people, both clergy and laity. The question is just how many will actually leave.

The tension that exists within the SSPX over these issues arises from the fact that they hold to an absolutely absurd and self-refuting position. On the one hand, they claim to adhere to the traditional Catholic Faith, which, however, requires complete obedience to the Holy See in matters not only of doctrine but also of government and discipline. On the other hand, the Catholic Faith likewise requires that we not be subject to heretics, which the Vatican “authorities” clearly are.

But instead of concluding, which they must by logical necessity, that the “Catholic hierarchy” in the Vatican is a bunch of impostors, devoid of all authority, merely masquerading as Catholics, SSPXers insist on recognizing these people nevertheless as the true, valid, and legitimate Roman Catholic hierarchy, which, however, they then proceed to “resist” in every way. It is this stubborn recognition of the anti-Catholic “false apostles” (2 Cor 11:13) as the true Roman Catholic hierarchy that creates the perpetual tension in the SSPX, because the two poles — that of resistance to heretics on the one hand and that of submission to legitimate Catholic authority on the other — are irreconcilable with one another.

The only way to resolve this conundrum without doing violence to traditional Catholic teaching is to embrace Sedevacantism, that is, to acknowledge that the Chair of St. Peter is currently vacant (i.e. there is no Pope) and the Modernists in the Vatican are not members of the Catholic Church at all, much less authorities to whom Catholics are required to submit. Here we see once again to what great confusion and chaos the stubborn will to avoid Sedevacantism at all costs, leads.

Bp. Fellay has been Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X since 1994. His second term expires in the summer of 2018. If he wants to be the one to hand over the SSPX to Francis, he doesn’t have much time left. We might be seeing fireworks soon!

Get the popcorn ready. More action coming! Will SSPX join the apostasy fully or will its support of the apostasy remain hidden? Stay Tuned!

Presented by Malachy Mary Igwilo, Feast of Sr. Baldus, 16th May 2017.