On May 14, the SSPX made public a “Declaration of Faith” signed by its Superior General, Fr. Davide Pagliarani, addressed to the “Most Holy Father.”
Its purpose?
I suppose only the brain trust at SSPX headquarters in Metzingen can say for sure, but it looks to me a lot like a PR move designed to sway public opinion. One thing is certain, however, it’s definitely not an attempt to win favor with Leo & Co. In fact, it seems as though the authors of the Declaration were determined to distance themselves from conciliar Rome even further.
So, how will Rome react?
While Leo may prefer to ignore the Declaration altogether, he may be pressured into responding with a public reply of his own.
By whom, you may ask?
By the Board of Directors, of course, aka the Talmudic Jews that have been exercising editorial control over the conciliar church for more than six decades.
Consider, for example, the following from the opening sentence of the Declaration:
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…
Recall the uproar that Francis caused back in 2021 when he said, “[The Mosaic Law] does not give life … Those who seek life need to look to the promise and to its fulfilment in Christ.”
Shortly thereafter, Jewish leaders voiced their disapproval thus causing Bergoglian Rome to swiftly reassure all concerned that the Torah remains “recognized as the way of salvation for Jews.”
Against that backdrop, it’s difficult to imagine that Jewish leaders – including representatives of the World Jewish Congress who have had their very own office in the Vatican since 2023 – are just going to let the Society’s Declaration pass without expressing their dismay and pushing – even if in the diplomatic language of religious dialogue – for a public correction.
If the Society’s opening salvo isn’t enough to elicit a Jewish reaction, the Declaration goes on to say:
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.
So far, we’ve seen how the Declaration, in just two sentences, has reaffirmed that the Old Covenant is null, void, and abolished. That’s strike three by my count!
As for why that matters (or should matter to the so-called “elder brothers” anyway), the Declaration states:
Every man must be a member of the Catholic Church in order to save his soul … This necessity concerns the whole of humanity without exception and embraces without distinction Christians, Jews, Muslims, pagans, and atheists.
For the men who occupy the C-Suite at conciliar headquarters in Rome, such statements are fighting words, obviously, but the introduction to the Declaration of Faith puts it in its proper perspective:
The Society places this simple Declaration of Faith in Your [Leo’s] hands. It seems to us to correspond to the minimum indispensable to be in communion with the Church…
Whether or not Leo’s Rome issues a public response to the Society’s statements regarding the Jews, there can be no doubt that they (and other statements contained in the Declaration) are utterly incompatible with the false doctrines espoused by the conciliar counterfeit church. In other words, Leo & Co. wouldn’t sign that Declaration at gun point.
And therein lies the folly of this entire exercise:
Knowing this – as the SSPX surely does – why do they feel the need to grovel for “communion” with men who are attached to a false religion? Why does Fr. Pagliarani address as “Most Holy Father” a man who does not embrace what the Society considers the bare minimum necessary for communion with the one true Church of Christ?
If the SSPX held the true faith in its fullness – and it most certainly does not – then it wouldn’t be seeking the approval of the conciliar church but rather its conversion, condemning its errors, and warning their faithful that neither it nor Leo are actually Catholic.
As it is, what we have here amounts to infighting between extended members of the same family, each of whom reject certain fundamental doctrines of the faith as part of their modus operandi, both sides engaged in a public feud that will end just as it began: with two deceptive religious organizations vying for a degree of Catholic credibility that neither one deserves.
Despite the good intentions that led to its creation, the SSPX franchise has become an outright farce, built upon the outrageous lie that the Roman Pontiff, and the magisterium of the Holy Catholic Church more broadly, can err in such a way as to endanger the souls of the faithful.
And this, Mr. and Mrs. Catholic benefactor, is why the Society is humbly asking for your support.
At the end of the day, the Society is no more honorable than the conciliar church, perhaps even less so.
At least it can be said that the captains of the conciliar church seem to genuinely believe that the Second Vatican Council was a gift of the Holy Ghost that rendered certain, shall we say, inconvenient teachings of the Catholic Church outdated on such hot button topics as religious liberty, ecumenism, and the state of the Jews.
As for the leaders of the SSPX? They damn well know better.
They are perfectly aware that the doctrines consistently taught throughout the centuries leading up to Vatican II – including the inability of the Church to err in matters of faith and morals – simply cannot change, and yet they proceed to lead innocent souls to believe otherwise.
So, I ask you, which is the more despicable?
