We will not celebrate in a spirit of proud triumphalism, as the SSPX Superior General recently warned us against, looking down with scorn on our enemies. We will however take some modest delight in the victory of being on the side of divine truth.
Rather, we will celebrate charitably with feasts and desserts, and cheerful music, being given the privilege of being confessors of the Faith, at this decisive moment in Church history, of being a holy Sign of Contradiction, of being gladly, officially separated from a False Version of the Church, for the singular grace of understanding the Crisis, and for our own conversions to Catholic Tradition.
That is, on July 1st we will celebrate not only 4 new traditional Catholic bishops, of excellent character, of young age to serve all the mission fields, but also for our own past conversion to Catholic Tradition, when we finally came out of the system of modernist errors, and fully to the traditional Faith.
Any “excommunication” will be a Badge of Courage, and ultimately the official reminder that we, the Church of 2000 years, and Jesus Christ Himself, are thankfully not a part of their Diabolical False, Truly Schismatic Version of the Church. Others, for example the FSSP, who continue to have one foot in this False New Order Church, aka “The Novus Ordo,”in order to maintain permission for TLM parishes, will now see more officially and more clearly than ever before that there are in fact TWO Churches.
One which is the true Church, the other which is a false Church.
Two Churches
Within the juridical structure, there is objectively the “true Church” at least in terms of the hierarchical authority. But side by side with it is an informal, not officially declared nor officially established as a new faith, collective system and regime of novelty, which is a false imitation and mockery of the true Church.
It is prophesied by the Book of the Apocalypse, certain Church Fathers like St. Augustine, and more recently by Venerable (Soon-to-Be-Beatified) Archbishop Fulton Sheen who said it will manifest as a false “Ape of the Church,” mocking in all its novel practices and ideas the true Church, deceiving people to follow the path of the Anti-Christ.
If you think there is only one Church and Religion today inside the juridical structure, not two, then objectively you have at least one foot in the Ape of the Church, if not both feet, deceived to go down the path of the Anti-Christ.
Do not be deceived.
Protestant style liturgy, Protestant neo-modernist architecture, 1970’s style Glory and Praise music, girl altar servers, Communion in the hand, unbridled ecumenism, the likes of the 1986 JP2 Assisi prayer meeting, communion for public, unrepentant adulterers, Pachama worship in the Vatican, allowing practicing sodomites to be Eucharistic ministers, blessing sodomite couples, now forbidding all cases of the death penalty, banal worldly sermons as the norm, the norm of a parish council of mostly women often allowed to practically run parishes, condoms to prevent AIDS, the idea of Jews still being under the Old Law, etc, etc, etc. You combine all of that and the rest of the novelties and that is a New System that falsely imitates Catholicism, allowed and encouraged to exist by the bishops and Rome.
THAT is the Ape of the Church.
Protestant style liturgy, Protestant neo-modernist architecture, 1970’s style Glory and Praise music, girl altar servers, Communion in the hand, unbridled ecumenism, the likes of the 1986 JP2 Assisi prayer meeting, communion for public, unrepentant adulterers, Pachama worship in the Vatican, allowing practicing sodomites to be Eucharistic ministers, blessing sodomite couples, now forbidding all cases of the death penalty, banal worldly sermons as the norm, the norm of a parish council of mostly women often allowed to practically run parishes, condoms to prevent AIDS, the idea of Jews still being under the Old Law, etc, etc, etc. You combine all of that and the rest of the novelties and that is a New System that falsely imitates Catholicism, allowed and encouraged to exist by the bishops and Rome.
THAT is the Ape of the Church.
You cannot deny that the Vatican requires us to accept this New System as legitimate to be treated as in “full communion,” and to be allowed our Latin Masses and parish communities.
Or to receive a papal mandate to consecrate traditional bishops.
A Word to the FSSP, ICK, Etc.
If you practice and promote blind obedience by accepting these official conciliar and post-conciliar errors, then YOU and those aligned to your blind obedience share in the guilt of the Ape of the Church, as enablers, through false obedience, leading souls by this bad example into error, or worse eventually into heresy, apostasy, or an irreligious life.
The Approved TLM is a Two-Way Bridge.
In some circumstances it is a bridge out of the Novus Ordo, but it by design also leads most attendees over time towards the Novus Ordo. That is part of the plan. You must accept all the conciliar errors, this New System, not just religious liberty or ecumenism. Or all Vatican II documents.
You must stop reading blogs like this or the viewpoint that the Council or new Mass contains doctrinal errors. Or that since Pope Francis, the modernist Revolution has evolved the New System into the heretical Synodal Church. They have a plan. Traditionis Custodes was one step. 1988 2.0 is another step.
It is not hard to imagine what are the next steps in the NEAR future.
If by now you have not been convinced the Crisis is so grave to justify Catholics legitimately organizing under a supplied jurisdiction, due to the modernist Crisis, epikea, or a state of necessity, you can go back to the SSPX YouTube channel and hear all the saved talks, presented very humbly and charitably these last few months, and rationally, defending the legitimacy of these emergency Consecrations.
I imagine that Leo and Tucho have much emotion about this, but that it is not sincere sorrow, regret, remorse, grief, let alone a state of peace about this. I suspect they feel pride, bitterness, and a desire for retaliation. They will celebrate our suffering. Thinking it is a victory for the Conciliar, Synodal Church. To put the SSPX in the past, as Leo recently suggested would be the consequence.
So be it.
We have popes and bishops that are at least material heretics, to be avoided at least because they favor in practice the heresy of Modernism, who have to a great extent personally lost the Faith, and are hell bent on putting the Church pre-Vatican II purely in the past. THEY are in material schism from us, from true Catholicism, from all the Popes up until John XXIII.
Whereas we are not in schism from the Church Herself.
Where the Schism Truly Lies
Therefore, these “excommunications” amount to a declaration of formal separation BY Rome, and all bishops who would adhere to this, from us, from the Remnant, from everything the Society stands for, which is the traditional Catholic Church.
This will be a new phase. A formal internal split across the geography of the Church, and within each diocese. They have drawn a line in the sand like they never have before.
Whereas we are not in schism from the Church Herself.
Where the Schism Truly Lies
Therefore, these “excommunications” amount to a declaration of formal separation BY Rome, and all bishops who would adhere to this, from us, from the Remnant, from everything the Society stands for, which is the traditional Catholic Church.
This will be a new phase. A formal internal split across the geography of the Church, and within each diocese. They have drawn a line in the sand like they never have before.
A Line in the Sand
On one side is us, traditional, orthodox, faithful Catholics absolutely not trying to cause an actual schism, nor doing so, but quite the contrary, Christ standing with us. Without precedent before the Council, on the other side of this line are the modernists and liberals in authority, and even the Roman Curia, and the conciliar Popes. They represent the “Ape of the Church” that “excommunicates” us.
Satan, not Christ, is on their side in this battle.
On the surface they seem to have won this battle. International stigmatization of us as now being formal schismatics will be the result. More stigma placed on the TLM movement, i.e. the restoration movement of Catholic Tradition, as being rebellious and backward.
But what they fail to see is what those who look closely see, deeper than surface level, the hypocrisy and malice enacted by their side, now and in the past months, therefore looking even more closely to the doctrinal problems raised by the Society.
And therefore looking closely to the traditional, pre-Vatican II teachings of the Church against religious liberty, ecumenism, Islam, Judaism, aggiornamento, false liturgical renewal, abandonment of the Social Kingship of Christ, the errors of modernism and liberalism, homosexuality, pacifist errors regarding just war and the death penalty, and the errors regarding the.nature of the Mass, and the nature of the Church.
On the surface they seem to have won this battle. International stigmatization of us as now being formal schismatics will be the result. More stigma placed on the TLM movement, i.e. the restoration movement of Catholic Tradition, as being rebellious and backward.
But what they fail to see is what those who look closely see, deeper than surface level, the hypocrisy and malice enacted by their side, now and in the past months, therefore looking even more closely to the doctrinal problems raised by the Society.
And therefore looking closely to the traditional, pre-Vatican II teachings of the Church against religious liberty, ecumenism, Islam, Judaism, aggiornamento, false liturgical renewal, abandonment of the Social Kingship of Christ, the errors of modernism and liberalism, homosexuality, pacifist errors regarding just war and the death penalty, and the errors regarding the.nature of the Mass, and the nature of the Church.
More people, not less, will turn back to Tradition, reading the pre-conciliar Popes, connecting with the TLM, AND attending SSPX Chapels. Future repeated assertions of schism will be brushed off as annoyances and dust covered arguments.
These honest thinking kind of people before didn’t take seriously the 1988 “excommunications,” later lifted by Benedict without any required remorse, and so, because this is essentially an exact repeat of 1988, will not recognize the label of excommunication or schism even if applied to every priest, layman, laywoman, or child.
They will still know canon law permits attending any Catholic rite of Mass to fulfill the precept. I would find it unbelievable and malicious if after this Wednesday, Rome takes back permissions for SSPX confessions and marriages. I’d expect that permission to continue, otherwise they’d look even more like tyrants. But they seem to not care how they look, so it might happen.
You are of course not permitted to adhere to a “schismatic mentality,” or to the “schism” of the Consecrations. But none exists, so this isn’t anything new or anything to worry about.
This Will Back Fire.
It will turn the SSPX into heroic Spiritual Martyrs, NOT Into Schismatic Rebels. They will take a “canonically irregular” society of faithful and holy missionary priests, and turn them into a huge collective of heroic spiritual martyrs, sainted Jedi Knights wearing the badge of honor of persecution while marching forward in spiritual battle.
This Will Back Fire.
It will turn the SSPX into heroic Spiritual Martyrs, NOT Into Schismatic Rebels. They will take a “canonically irregular” society of faithful and holy missionary priests, and turn them into a huge collective of heroic spiritual martyrs, sainted Jedi Knights wearing the badge of honor of persecution while marching forward in spiritual battle.
That is wearing the label of “schismatic” but in reality meaning in full separation from and opposition to the Ape of the Church, which they spiritually fight in order to defend the true Church, and to help see that False Church one day ended, just as Arianism was once finally brought to an end.
The Catholic who uses autonomous, honest thinking, takes the time to read and think things through, and is able to exercise empathy for this persecution of the SSPX because they too have suffered due to bad pastors giving us dead stones instead of bread, treating us as weirdo outcasts, they will not give any serious regard for these false “excommunications” which are null and void, because every gravely evil legal decree has no legal force, as taught by St. Thomas Aquinas.
It will be like lighting a firecracker that never goes off because it is a dud.
The Three Fonts of Morality
The morality of the act, as with the act of consecrating bishops, or any act, is 1) the act itself, 2) the intent, and 3) the circumstances. It is unjust and incomplete to not also assess # 2 and 3.
Clearly their intent is not to break with the Pope. They’ve said it endless times. The circumstances are that Rome ignored their request for bilateral discussions in 2019. And now in 2026 refuse for the pope to meet with the SSPX or confirm them in their recent doctrinal Declaration, but impose a unilateral acceptance of the errors without a true, honest dialogue. Yet the two remaining bishops are nearly 70, the Society prudently needing new bishops now.
It will be like lighting a firecracker that never goes off because it is a dud.
The Three Fonts of Morality
The morality of the act, as with the act of consecrating bishops, or any act, is 1) the act itself, 2) the intent, and 3) the circumstances. It is unjust and incomplete to not also assess # 2 and 3.
Clearly their intent is not to break with the Pope. They’ve said it endless times. The circumstances are that Rome ignored their request for bilateral discussions in 2019. And now in 2026 refuse for the pope to meet with the SSPX or confirm them in their recent doctrinal Declaration, but impose a unilateral acceptance of the errors without a true, honest dialogue. Yet the two remaining bishops are nearly 70, the Society prudently needing new bishops now.
Clearly, their intent is good. The circumstances heavily favor the Society. The new canon from the 1950’s itself is meant only for the likes of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association for rejecting in principle the authority of the Pope. Which the SSPX doesn’t. Therefore, this IS NOT a schismatic act. Just listen to Bishop Athanasius Schneider.
Let’s prepare to follow this ceremony on YouTube, July 1st, this Wednesday. Sleep very early, but get up in the middle of the night U.S. time to watch it Econe, Switzerland time.
I expect much anticipation, discussion, electricity in the air, attention, study, and observation just before, during, and after the Consecrations. I expect MILLIONS to be viewing and spiritually participating in it, united to it, LIVE from home.
Giving thanks for new traditional bishops, but then checking the internet to see how many get the axe.
Stay tuned. I’ve predicted a fast response of internal rage, with Tucho posting the new document on the Vatican website, within ONE MINUTE after the last of the four priests is concentrated a bishop. Possibly within 30 SECONDS. Before the ceremony even ends.
I expect much anticipation, discussion, electricity in the air, attention, study, and observation just before, during, and after the Consecrations. I expect MILLIONS to be viewing and spiritually participating in it, united to it, LIVE from home.
Giving thanks for new traditional bishops, but then checking the internet to see how many get the axe.
Stay tuned. I’ve predicted a fast response of internal rage, with Tucho posting the new document on the Vatican website, within ONE MINUTE after the last of the four priests is concentrated a bishop. Possibly within 30 SECONDS. Before the ceremony even ends.
And if so, I will report and discuss that glaring fact here. To demonstrate the fact, if that is the case. To shed light on the whole situation, in my own unique way.
Kyrie eleison. Lord have mercy.Deo gracias. Thanks be to God.
