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| Bishop Schneider: Vatican ‘LGBTQ pilgrimage’ an ‘abomination,’ Pope Leo must make public reparation |
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Posted by: Stone - Yesterday, 06:56 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Bishop Schneider: Vatican ‘LGBTQ pilgrimage’ an ‘abomination,’ Pope Leo must make ‘public reparation’
Pope Leo must ‘urgently’ make reparation after the Vatican endorsed an LGBT Jubilee ‘pilgrimage’ and allowed unrepentant homosexuals to pass the Holy Doors at St. Peter’s, Bishop Schneider said.
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Bishop Schneider
LifeSiteNews
Sep 10, 2025
(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks from original included below, emphasis The Catacombs]) — Bishop Athanasius Schneider expressed “horror” at the Vatican’s endorsement of the “LGBTQ Jubilee pilgrimage,” rebuking priests who support homosexuality as “spiritual criminals” and “murderers of souls.”
“My reaction was a silent cry of horror, indignation, and sorrow,” the auxiliary of Astana, Kazakhstan, said regarding the Vatican’s approval of an LGBTQ-themed “pilgrimage” on its Jubilee website, in an interview with Diane Montagna, a journalist in Rome.
Montagna had highlighted the fact that photos captured an array of rainbow paraphernalia in St. Peter’s Basilica, as well homosexual male couple “brazenly holding hands there, one with a backpack saying F*** the Rules,” at the conclusion of their “pilgrimage.”
What took place there could be described as an “abomination of desolation standing in the holy place,” in the words of Christ (cf. Mt. 24:15), said Bishop Schneider.
He pointed out that the embrace of homosexuality by these “pilgrims” contradicted one of the very key meanings of the Jubilee Year and the Holy Door: “Leading man to conversion and penance,” as Pope John Paul II explained in the Bull of Indiction of the Holy Year 2000.
“There were no signs of repentance and renunciation of objectively grave homosexual sins … on the part of the organizers and participants in this pilgrimage,” noted Bishop Schneider. “To pass through the Holy Door and participate in the Jubilee without repentance, while promoting an ideology that openly rejects God’s Sixth Commandment, constitutes a kind of desecration of the Holy Door and a mockery of God and the gift of an indulgence.”
The bishop had strong words for the Vatican authorities who “collaborated de facto” in this open rejection of God’s commandment, expressed aptly in the “f*** the rules” message.
“They stood by and allowed God to be mocked and His commandments to be scornfully cast aside,” said Bishop Schneider.
When asked to compare it to the Pachamama scandal, he noted that while direct transgression of the First Commandment is even more grave, the endorsement of sodomy – a sin that cries to Heaven for vengeance – “amounts to a form of indirect idolatry.”
“Both events must be publicly repaired by the Pope himself. This is urgently needed, before it is too late, for God will not be mocked,” said the bishop.
Bishop Francesco Savino, vice president of the Italian Bishops Conference, welcomed “everyone” to receive Holy Communion at a Mass for the “pilgrims,” Montagna then pointed out. Bishop Schneider affirmed that assent to “all of the Church’s teaching” is a precondition for receiving Christ in the Eucharist, as was expressed by St. Paul: “Anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. (1 Cor. 11:29).
He added that this has been clearly stated by the Catechism of the Catholic Church: “Anyone aware of having sinned mortally must not receive Communion without having received absolution in the sacrament of penance” (n. 1415).
Furthermore, it notes, “Sacred Scripture ‘presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, [and] tradition has always declared that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered. … Under no circumstances can they be approved’ (n. 2357).”
Thus, by granting these LGBTQ groups passage through the Holy Door and approving their “pilgrimage,” Vatican authorities in effect rejected “the very doctrine they are bound to uphold.”
Bishop Schneider said his message for participants in the LGBTQ “pilgrimage” is one of compassion, and he called for all Christians to show compassion towards not just those living homosexual lifestyles, but those who support its legitimization and “persist in it unrepentant and even proudly.”
“For when a person consciously rejects God’s explicit commandment prohibiting any sexual activity outside a valid marriage, he places himself in the gravest danger—that of losing eternal life and being eternally condemned to Hell,” said the prelate.
“True love for such persons consists in calling them, gently yet persistently, to genuine conversion to God’s revealed will,” he continued, adding that such people are “ultimately unhappy” even when they have suppressed their conscience.
“We must be filled with great zeal to save these souls, to free them from poisonous deceits. Those priests who confirm them in their homosexual activity or in a homosexual lifestyle are spiritual criminals, murderers of souls, and God will demand a strict account from them,” Bishop Schneider declared.
To those who defend Pope Leo XIV amid the Vatican’s approval of the LGBTQ scandalous “pilgrimage” because he did not receive a delegation from them or send them a message, Bishop Schneider said that “one cannot reasonably presume naivety on his part,” because it was “entirely foreseeable” that an LGBTQ activist group would take advantage of the Holy Door to promote their sinful lifestyle.
Furthermore, by meeting with Father James Martin, SJ, a heretical pro-LGBT priest, as well as pro-homosexual “marriage” Sister Lucia Caram, Pope Leo XIV has expressed that he is not opposed to their “heterodox and scandalous teaching and behavior—particularly since the Holy See offered no clarification afterward and did not correct Fr. James Martin’s triumphant messages circulated on social media,” noted Bishop Schneider.
He pointed out that in doing so, Pope Leo XIV broke with the precedent of all popes before Francis, who “neither received officially nor posed for photographs with those who, by word or deed, openly rejected the doctrinal and moral teaching of the Church.”
“There is a common saying that goes: ‘Qui tacet consentire videtur’—’He who is silent is taken to agree,’” Bishop Schneider added.
The prelate called upon all Catholics to “make a collective act of reparation for the outrage committed against the sanctity of God’s house and the holiness of His commandments,” and implored Pope Leo XIV to follow in the footsteps of Pope John Paul II, who Montagna noted had denounced the first “World Pride” event in Rome during the Great Jubilee of 2000.
“Should Pope Leo XIV make public acts of regret and even reparation, he will lose nothing; should he fail to do so, he will forfeit something before the eyes of God—and God alone matters,” said Bishop Schneider.
“May Our Holy Father Pope Leo XIV take to heart the following words of Our Lord which He once spoke through St. Bridget of Sweden to one of his predecessors (Pope Gregory XI)”:
Quote:Uproot, pluck out and destroy all the vices of your court! Separate yourself from the counsel of carnal-minded and worldly friends and follow humbly the spiritual counsel of My friends. Get up like a man and clothe yourself confidently in strength! Start to reform the Church that I purchased with My Own Blood in order that it may be reformed and led back spiritually to its pristine state of holiness, for nowadays more veneration is shown to a brothel than to My Holy Church. My son, heed My counsel. If you obey Me in what I told you, I will welcome you mercifully like a loving father. Bravely approach the way of justice and you shall prosper. Do not despise the One Who loves you. If you obey, I will show you mercy and bless and dress you and adorn you with the precious pontifical regalia of a holy pope. I shall clothe you with Myself in such a way that you will be in Me and I in you, and you shall be glorified in eternity (The Book of Revelations, Book IV, chap. 149).
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| The Catholic Trumpet War-Room Has Begun! |
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Posted by: Stone - Yesterday, 06:51 AM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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The Catholic Trumpet War-Room Has Begun!
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The Catholic Trumpet [slightly adapted and reformatted] | September 10, 2025
A secure discussion group has been launched for faithful Catholics who follow The Catholic Trumpet. Here, we unite to resist error, strengthen one another, and continue the fight for the Faith in these times of crisis. This is a space to reject the errors of the conciliar Church, the compromises of the Neo-SSPX, the fake resistance established by Bishop Williamson, and sedevacantism, while standing firmly with +Archbishop Lefebvre’s uncompromised defense of Tradition.
New members of good will and those committed to the true resistance are encouraged to join, ask questions, and learn from experienced members, so that all may grow in knowledge, courage, and fidelity to Tradition.
Join the fight here!
The trumpet has sounded. The Faith is under siege. Together, we hold fast to Tradition, reject every compromise, and fight on until Rome returns fully to the Catholic Faith.
Viva Cristo Rey!
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| Queen Emma Asks for the Ordeal by Fire |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-10-2025, 08:35 AM - Forum: Resources Online
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Queen Emma Asks for the Ordeal by Fire
Hugh O'Reilly | September 6, 2025
Queen Emma of Normandy [Ælfgifu] was the wife of two Kings, Aethelred II the Unready of England (1001-1016), and then Canute the Great of Denmark (1017-1018) and Norway (1028-1035). She was also the mother of two Kings, King Harthacunt and St. Edward the Confessor.
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Queen Emma with her two sons, Harthacunt & Edward, both of whom became kings
Looking for an excuse to diminish her influence at court and increase his own, Robert, Archbishop of Canterbury, persuaded the King that Emma had been guilty of too close an intimacy with Aelfwine, Bishop of Winchester, who had been dead for three years. This was 48 years after her first marriage and 15 years after the death of her second husband. Her son, Edward, despoiled his mother Queen Emma of her properties and title.
The Queen wrote to Bishops whom she trusted, saying she was far more shocked at the scandal against the good Bishop Aelfwine than at the scandal against herself. She stated that she was ready to submit to the order of burning iron in order to prove the innocence of the deceased Bishop. Those Bishops advised the King to allow the trial.
The accuser Archbishop of Canterbury used strong language against Emma, and said she would have to walk over nine hot ploughshares, four for herself and five for the Bishop, in order for her innocence to be accepted.
Queen Emma agreed, and preparations were made for the trial.
Queen Emma passed the night before the ordeal in prayer at St. Swithun’s shrine. [St. Swithun was Bishop of Winchester in the 9th century; after his death many miracles were worked at his gravesite and the Cathedral became a popular pilgrimage site. During the Protestant Revolution the soldiers of Henry VIII entered the Cathedral in the early morning and destroyed his shrines and scattered his relics.]
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St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester in the 9th century, became famous for his miracles
In answer to her supplications, the Saint appeared to her and said: “I am St. Swithun whom you have invoked. Fear not, the fire shall do you no hurt.”
On the morrow, King Edward the Confessor with his attendant courtiers assembled. Nine plowshares were made red-hot, and placed upon the pavement in the nave of Winchester Cathedral. Emma entered plainly dressed, feet and legs bare to the knee, and made a long prayer, which commenced: “O God, who didst save Susannah from the malice of the wicked elders, save me.”
The Queen was blindfolded and led through the cathedral to the irons. Then, guided by the two Bishops, she tread with her bare feet upon the glowing metal, but she felt nothing, neither the metal nor the heat. Then, turning to one of the Bishops, Emma asked: “When shall we come to the ploughshares?”
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The Ordeal of Queen Emma, by William Blacke, 1779
Then they showed her that she had already passed over them. Upon examination, her feet were found to be uninjured.
The King, thoroughly convinced of her innocence and repenting of his cruelty, cast himself at his mother’s feet, exclaiming: “Mother I have sinned before Heaven and before you.” King Edward asked for a penance and received stripes both from the good Bishop and from his mother. Further her ranks and property were restored to her.
The King banished the wicked Archbishop. And Queen Emma made an offering of thanksgiving to St. Swithun for his intercession that cleared the name of Bishop Aelfwine and restored her own good reputation.
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Queen Emma influenced King Canute to give a large golden cross to the Church of Winchester |
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| Cardinal Cupich decries ‘traditionalism’ as the ‘dead faith of the living’ |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-09-2025, 07:05 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Cardinal Cupich decries ‘traditionalism’ as the ‘dead faith of the living’
The Chicago archbishop quoted the Vatican conclusion that led to Traditionis Custodes,
which has been denounced as a repudiation of the Church's perennial teaching and practice.
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Mon Sep 8, 2025
(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks from original included below - emphasis The Catacombs]) — Cardinal Blase Cupich denounced “traditionalism” as the “dead faith of the living” in an echo of the Vatican meeting that produced the Latin Mass-suppressing Traditionis Custodes.
The Archbishop of Chicago took aim at the Traditional Latin Mass, codified in 1570 after the Council of Trent, in a Wednesday piece for the Chicago Catholic as the TLM continues to be suppressed around the world due to the dictates of Traditionis Custodes.
Cupich argued that the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy can be “easily read” as a “correction” of liturgical developments made from the seventh to the 18th centuries. According to the cardinal, these Vatican II changes “restor(ed) the liturgy’s original emphasis on active participation by the laity and a noble simplicity.”
“These reforms were a direct response to the centuries of development that erroneously had transformed the Mass from a communal event into a more clerical, complex and dramatic spectacle,” Cupich claimed.
The heterodox cardinal’s allegation that the Mass’ previous centuries of development were “erroneous” is akin to a Protestant view. By claiming the entire Church was worshipping falsely or inappropriately for about 1,300 years, Cupich essentially denies that the Catholic Church remains a divine institution.
As liturgical scholar Dr. Peter Kwasniewski has explained, “The traditional liturgical worship of the Church, her lex orandi (law of prayer),” is a “fundamental” “expression of her lex credendi, (law of belief), one that cannot be contradicted or abolished or heavily rewritten without rejecting the Spirit-led continuity of the Catholic Church as a whole.”
He has pointed out that the longer a tradition is practiced by the Church, the more certain we can be that the tradition is divinely inspired.
Most compellingly, St. Pius V’s 1570 bull Quo Primum permanently authorized the traditional Mass, declaring that it may be used “freely and lawfully” in “perpetuity,” and even that the wrath of God would fall upon those who would dare to restrict or abolish the Traditional Latin Mass, also known as the Tridentine Mass.
Cupich concluded in his article, “Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.” He quoted the final assessment of a Vatican plenary session meeting in January 2020 that led to Traditionis Custodes, as reported by Vatican correspondent Diane Montagna.
Traditionis Custodes, which has led to the suppression of dozens of Latin Masses around the world, has been denounced by clergy and scholars as a repudiation of the perennial practice of the Catholic Church and even of solemn Church teaching (i.e. Quo Primum).
For example, Cardinal Raymond Burke has affirmed that the traditional liturgy cannot be proscribed, even by the pope himself.
“It is a question of an objective reality of divine grace which cannot be changed by a mere act of the will of even the highest ecclesiastical authority,” the cardinal wrote in 2021.
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| Anti-Catholic man with lethal weapons arrested after threatening St. Michael’s Abbey in California |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-09-2025, 07:00 AM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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Anti-Catholic man with lethal weapons arrested after threatening St. Michael’s Abbey in California
An Alabama man who calls himself the ‘Angel of Death’ drove across the country with
high capacity magazines, brass knuckles, knives, and body armor to target the renowned Catholic abbey.
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Sep 8, 2025 - 5:07 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews [slighlty adapted, not all hyperlinks included from original]) — An Alabama man who drove across the country with lethal weapons in tow to threaten priests at their Norbertine abbey has been arrested.
A 38-year-old man who referred to himself as the “Angel of Death” packed high capacity magazines of ammunition, brass knuckles, knives, and body armor as he drove about 2,000 miles to St. Michael’s Abbey in Orange County, California.
Joshua Michael Richardson had first threatened the Norbertine priests by email, calling himself in his message the “rider of the pale horse,” CBS News reported, a reference to the fourth and last horseman of the Apocalypse in Scripture.
He targeted the church because it is one of the few in the country that continues to celebrate Michaelmas, the feast of St. Michael, his threatening email to the priests indicated.
Richardson apparently has strong anti-Catholic sentiment, as shown by a video in which he castigates Catholics for allegedly “worshipping” the Blessed Virgin Mary. Catholics do not worship Her, but honor Her as the Mother of God and the holiest of His creatures.
Orange County Sheriff’s Department told local news outlets Richardson then visited the Abbey to threaten the priests in person. “He was seen in the Church, he was sitting in the pew,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer told CBS. After a service there ended, he entered a private area where he spoke with someone at the church and was then “walked back purposefully” in order to “get him on surveillance.”
The Alabama man “not only visited St. Michael’s Abbey in Silverado, but he visited a St. Michael’s … up in Los Angeles,” Spitzer said. “That scares me immeasurably.”
Richardson has been charged with criminal threats and possession of a deadly weapon – both felonies. The felony complaint filed against him states that his plans thus far have been “carried out with planning, sophistication, and professionalism.”
According to Spitzer, prosecutors will argue that Richardson should be forbidden from posting bail. He reportedly faces more than five years in prison if convicted.
“The walls of our churches are not just symbols of sanctuary; they represent the most sacred places of worship and of peace,” said Spitzer. “No one should have to worship in fear that a stranger would walk through the door with the intent to carry out their own day of judgment and determine who lives and who dies. A threat on one house of worship is an attack on every place of worship, and we refuse to allow threats and terror dissuade any person from practicing their faith without fear.”
St. Michael’s Abbey currently consists of over 60 priests and over 40 seminarians. In addition to offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (in Latin on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays), its Norbertines daily pray the Divine Office and adore the Blessed Sacrament, and run the Archangel Institute, a faith formation program, as well as give retreats.
Father James Altman, who came to prominence for warning voters that they cannot vote Democrat and be Catholic, told LifeSiteNews the Norbertines at St. Michael’s, unlike in some other places across the country, are “incredibly solid.”
Altman said that Richardson is “certainly in league with Satan.”
The abbey publishes talks on the spiritual life on its YouTube channel.
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| Pope Leo names pro-LGBT ‘artist’ who hosted obscene exhibits to lead Vatican’s Academy for Fine Arts |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-09-2025, 06:57 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Pope Leo names pro-LGBT ‘artist’ who hosted obscene exhibits to lead Vatican’s Academy for Fine Arts
Pope Leo XIV appointed Cristiana Perrella as president of the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts,
though Perella has organized sexually explicit, pro-homosexual ‘art’ displays in recent years.
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Pope Leo XIV
Franco Origlia/Getty Images
Sep 8, 2025
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted - not all links from original included below]) — Pope Leo XIV has named a female “artist” who published homoerotic and sadomasochistic photographs as the new president of the Pontifical Academy for Fine Arts.
The Vatican announced on Saturday that the pope appointed Roman museum director Cristiana Perrella to the position. The Pontifical Academy for Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon was founded in 1542 by Pope Paul III for the purpose of promoting, studying, and cultivating sacred art and Christian-inspired literature.
Perrella is known as an “expert” in contemporary art. She has been director of the MACRO museum in Rome since March of this year and previously taught “cultural management” at the San Raffaele University in Milan.
Perrella has hosted multiple obscene, pro-LGBT, and sadomasochistic displays in the past. In 2020, she curated an exhibition called “Nudes” featuring 90 photographs by Chinese artist Ren Hang at the Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, Italy. Most of the photographs showed naked persons, with some of them featuring homoerotic poses. The official exhibition description stated that some of the photos “at times refer to sadomasochism and fetishism.”
In 2019, the Italian artist directed the exhibition “Night Fever: Designing Club Culture 1960–Today.” The display promoted nightclub culture and featured sexualized, pro-LGBT exposés. In an interview with Sleek magazine, she lamented that nightclubs are “increasingly under threat” due to closures. The exhibition also highlighted “queer club culture,” and Perrella stressed the role of nightclubs for the LGBT movement, since clubs “were places where people could be themselves and affirm their identity publically [sic].”
In 2021, Perrella curated an exhibition titled “Cult Fiction,” featuring photographs from Marialba Russo documenting the explicit advertisement posters for pornographic movies that were seen on the streets of Aversa and Naples during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The theme of the exhibition was “sexual liberation.”
Perrella has been a member of the Pontifical Academy for Fine Arts since June 2022, when she was appointed by Pope Francis. Perrella is responsible for the program of the “Conciliazione 5” exhibition space of the Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Holy See, which was inaugurated for the Holy Year 2025. In the wake of the jubilee, she also curated a site-specific art installation in Rome’s Rebibbia prison, where Pope Francis opened his own Holy Door on December 26, 2024.
Pope Leo has recently met with several prominent heretics, including the infamous Jesuit Father James Martin, the pro-abortion nun Sr. Lucia Caram, and the head of the German Bishops’ Conference, Georg Bätzing. While the Vatican did not signal support for their views, the Holy See also offered no condemnation of their promotion of errors in matters of faith and morals. The appointment of Perrella to her new position adds to the concern of many faithful Catholics that the Holy See is tolerating and even promoting heterodoxy.
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| The Recusant 64: SSPX Watch |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-09-2025, 06:54 AM - Forum: The New-Conciliar SSPX
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The following is taken from pages 54-55 of this issue of The Recusant [slightly adapted and reformatted]:
SSPX Watch
Bishop de Galarreta: poor health - according to a very brief report from April 2025, Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta had to be admitted to hospital for surgery forcing the SSPX to cancel its Easter ordinations to the subdeaconate. Confirmations, also due to have taken place in April, were also postponed. In the weeks and months since then, word comes to us on the grapevine that he is still out of action and will be so for the foreseeable future due to poor health, meaning that he is effectively retired and the SSPX is effectively down to just one bishop from the original four.
Fr. Michel Simoulin RIP - in May 2025, the French District website reported the death of Fr. Michel Simoulin. One of the older SSPX priests who had known and worked with Archbishop Lefebvre, he later became a cheerleader for compromise with modernist in Rome and will be remembered by many for his disgraceful article in Le Seignadou, in May 2012, titled: ‘We cannot be 88-ers’. We will quote some extracts here but it is worth re-reading the whole thing (here) because it is a monument, an archetype of the 2012 SSPX internal revolution. It is all there: the misleading references to “the Church” without any distinction of the conciliar church, the appeals to authority and blind trust, the shameless discarding of Archbishop Lefebvre as being from a different era and therefore no longer relevant to us today.
“It is not an exaggeration,” he wrote, “to say that Bishop Fellay has achieved more than Archbishop Lefebvre asked for…” And he continued:
Quote:“Whatever the state of Rome may be, of all that still remains that is disturbing in Rome, plain common sense and honesty should lead us to consider the current situation with different eyes than those of 1988! Recalling the saying of one of our bishops, we cannot be ‘eighty-eighters’! … let it not be said that the state of things is the same as in 1988, or worse. This is contrary to the reality and to the truth, and it cannot but be the effect of a more or less secret refusal of any reconciliation with Rome, perhaps of a lack of faith in the holiness of the Church … Only Bishop Fellay and his assistants, who by definition hold all the cards, can most accurately judge the current situation. The question everyone must instead ask himself is our benevolence toward authority and, above all, our trust in it.”
Just bear in mind that the author of those words lived right through the pontificate of Pope Francis and yet it made not the slightest difference to him. Fr. Simoulin was far from being the only SSPX superior to tell everyone that Rome was far closer to Tradition than it had been in 1988, that things were getting better, and so forth. They all lived long enough to see their naïve ideas proved wrong a thousand times over - an honest man would have admitted as much, but none of them ever did. Quite the contrary, in January 2022 the very same Fr. Michel Simoulin wrote an article for the Indultist/Ecclesia Dei –alligned website Renaissance Catholique, entitled “What We Need in the Crisis in the Church is a bit of the true Roman spirit” [“Dans la crise de l’Église, un peu de romanité. La vraie.”], in which he repeated the same line about not being in 1988 any more and accused those of us who don’t see eye-to-eye with him of Manicheism. And of course, it goes without saying, he was never punished, much less expelled for publicly expressing his own view on the SSPX/Rome question and so forth. No, that only happens to a priest if he is against making friends with the modernists.
SSPX’s Pilgrimage to Rome - Advertised on the Vatican’s own Holy Year website - here: https://www.iubilaeum2025.va/it/pellegri...n-pio.html - can you for one moment imagine something like this when Archbishop Lefebvre was still alive? It is unthinkable. Go on, tell me again how nothing has changed...
Doesn’t rather confirm what we have long maintained, that the reconciliation of the SSPX with modern Rome took place, but in secret, with no big announcement and is being revealed slowly, a bit at a time, to minimise the reaction against it? How much more obvious does it need to be? Here, for instance, is the FAQ page of the SSPX chapel in Arcadia, California (https://fsspx.today/chapel/ca-arcadia/fsspx-faqs/). In answer to the question about what makes them different, they say: “We are a Catholic chapel in union with Rome.” No further distinctions, nothing, for instance, about being against the Council or the New Mass. They say that they are “in union with Rome” and then talk about how the Mass is in Latin and not facing the people. A conservative Novus Ordo parish wouldn’t say anything different. Consider: if the SSPX say they are “in union with” modern Rome, and if even the modern Vatican advertises their pilgrimage, what right has anyone to say that no agreement was ever reached?
No More Conditional Confirmations? - Holy Orders aren’t the only Novus Ordo Sacrament the SSPX are now trying to get us all to accept without question. In the May/June 2025 District Newsletter Ite Missa Est, Redemptorist Fr. Nicholas Mary pours scorn on the idea of faithful from the Novus Ordo seeking conditional confirmation from the SSPX. He takes the same line as Fr. Paul Robinson: unless you happened to spot something amiss during the ceremony itself, you are duty-bound to regard it as certain and it would be wrong to re-do it conditionally. What about the intention, what does a priest or bishop who doesn’t believe in the sacrament of confirmation actually think he’s doing? Fr. Nicholas doesn’t address this.
What about the fact that they can’t be relied on to use olive oil, the correct matter? “The use of chrism not made of olive oil is doubtless a rarity in Britain at least…” he says. “Doubtless”..! How can he be so sure? And even if it were a rarity, that still means it might have happened in any given case, you cannot be certain, hence positive doubt. “Be at peace,” the article concludes, “and accept that there are many things that God does not expect you to know with dogmatic certainty in this life.” In the old days, a significant number of the confirmations done by the SSPX were conditional. Those days, it seems, are now over.
Doubtful Priests Multiplying - don’t be tempted to think that this is an America-only problem. There are two Novus Ordo priests helping the SSPX in Germany, that we know of, neither of whom was conditionally ordained. Now, it seems, a Fr. Michael O’Reilly, ordained in the Novus Ordo in 1995, is joining the SSPX in Ireland. It is now happening everywhere.
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