See LH’s blog article HERE
I expect the SSPX laity will be persona non grata at the FSSP etc, if they weren’t already, especially if also “excommunicated.” Internal schism upon internal schism. The FSSP will continue to habitually oppose the SSPX, effectively insisting people must join them in accepting the doctrinal errors in conciliar documents and the reformed liturgy, in order to maintain approvals.
To tow the line.
They are already doubling down in writing against the 2026 consecrations as “schismatic.” Even though JP2 himself once consecrated bishops behind the Iron Curtain without papal mandate, based on canon law. Or considering that the 1917 Code didn’t call for excommunication, but only since Pius XII in relation to the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association BECAUSE it doctrinally separated itself from papal unity. Apples and oranges.
NOT the SSPX.
The FSSP needs to formally profess AND teach its faithful the true doctrines in question by comparing and formally, publicly rejecting the false doctrines of the conciliar church. But they will not to preserve the smells and bells and parish BBQ’s.
We should not burn one grain of incense to doctrinal error even for an approved TLM parish, or for the most gleeful of parish events.
Even if refusing to do so will result in martyrdom. Those refusing to burn these little grains of incense are experiencing spiritual martyrdom. The rest are burning the grain of incense for expediency.
Individually most of the priests and laity will more or less side with Tradition, and the pre-conciliar teaching in question, but at the level of their institution, organization, and collective parish life, they are in a state of doctrinal compromise, anti-Lefebvre, anti-SSPX, and formally, canonically aligned to the “Ape of the Church.”
Re the Society. It is not afraid of the impending “excommunication. ” It is gravely concerned about it because they follow the theological line of Archbishop Lefebvre to always try and maintain clear visible union with the See of St. Peter, and because false excommunications would create a stigma which history has shown hinders their apostolate. They won’t formally or publicly declare Francis or Leo an anti-pope, because they find no evidence they have the authority to make a public, official judgment, though I’m sure there are priests who take the Benevacantist position.
If their entire organization becomes now “excommunicated,” that will be an understandable barrier for some to attend their chapels. Even though I expect a rebound effect. And their laity will not officially be able to participate in the liturgy or sacraments of approved TLM parishes. Per the canonical requirements. Even to just go to confession. Many will be affected by this, in many ways, in meeting the spiritual needs of their family. So it won’t just be an easy shrug-it-off kind of situation. It won’t be so much a test of fortitude or faith for them, as a further complication of living out their practical lives as Catholics. Where they live.
That said, the period of Bishop Fellay as Superior General, and his arguably excessive interest with discussions/canonical union with Rome, is behind us. The new Superior General seems clearer and tougher, which is probably in part why he was elected for that position.
The “resistance” has been somewhat vindicated, minus its bitter zeal and obsession with the “neo-SSPX.” As of July 1st, all attempts by the SSPX at regularization, at intellectually honest doctrinal discussions, at canonical unity, since 1975, will have come to a certain finality. There will be a document we can point to which represents once and for all the formal distinction and separation between the true Catholic Church, and the modernist “Ape of the Church.”
Its pillars are the errors of an absolute religious liberty, an unbridled ecumenism, a collegiality which treats the College of Bishops as having a “double supremacy” with the Pope, antiquarian-Protestant false reform of the Mass, reversal of condemnation of modernism and liberalism, and now also the errors of Francis-Church:
That the Eucharist can be given if in unrepentant, public mortal sin, including for the divorced and remarried without annulment, rejection of the death penalty, equating Catholic teaching on justification with the Lutheran teaching, God willing into existence a pantheon of world religions, that homosexuality is not intrinsically ordered to sin, the blessing of sodomite couples, rejection of Mary in her role as co-redeemer, and mediatrix of all graces, that ecumenism excludes the intention of conversion, that Protestants and pro-sodomy activists are worthy of meeting the (putative) pope, while committing abominations of desolation, but the SSPX Superior General is too “rigid” to be worthy of that meeting, or that the “bastardized” rite of Mass (Paul VI rite) is now the only true, exclusive form of the Roman rite.
Next will be steps paving the way to (non ordained) female deacons. The upcoming special synod of 2027 is expected to be effectively Vatican III, and God knows what comes next after that. Female lay parish “pastors”? More quasi-ritualized sodomite blessings? Official support of sodomite “civil unions”? New canon laws cracking down on “rad trad” bloggers? Official requirements for the FSSP etc to transition to the Novus Ordo in Latin?
It’s all coming soon. This permanent Revolution works fast.
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