How should Rome’s activity in relation to the Society of Saint Pius X be qualified?

The Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Víctor Manuel Fernández, received the Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X at the Palace of the Holy Office in Rome.

What does Cardinal Fernández want? That the decision to consecrate bishops on July 1 be suspended by the Society, as a condition for continuing the dialogue. The term “dialogue” is the Cardinal’s; it is typical of the language and mentality of progressives.

But how should this dialogue be qualified? What does Rome want by dialoguing? This dialogue with Rome is full of ambiguities; behind it hovers a threat of excommunications. This takes us back to 1988. What is the validity of these excommunications? None! Absolutely none! Just like the one Bishop Pierre Cauchon pronounced against Saint Joan of Arc. To excommunicate those who defend the Church is an act that is null before God.

The excommunications of 1988 were null. Those of 2026 will be null as well, if the Society carries out its intention to consecrate on July 1 of this year, with the same reasons and intentions that Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre had in 1988. But this dialogue contains other threats and other dangers: the choice of candidates, pressure from Rome, the ambiguity of words, the very notion of the Church, which is not the same for the conciliar church and for the Catholic Church.

We follow with interest and with our prayers these dangerous negotiations, hoping that the Society will not be overcome by the cunning of the modernists, about whom Archbishop Lefebvre warned Dom Gérard Calvet with a note handed to him personally in 1988, which said: “Beware of the Roman serpent.”

Despite the years that have passed and the possible small or great lapses of memory, I still remember Archbishop Lefebvre’s expression: “the Roman serpent.”

May Father Davide Pagliarani and his council be careful. The modernists do not want the good of the Society nor that of the Church. Saint Pius X had already warned us.

May the Society return to the dispositions and actions of its founder, and it will know how to overcome the Roman serpent, with the help of Her who conquered all heresies.

Ipsa conteret.

+Thomas Aquinas O.S.B.