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| Pope Leo’s Sacrilege at St. Peter’s |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-07-2025, 07:38 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Leo’s Sacrilege at St. Peter’s
While Tradition is Sidelined, Sodomy is Celebrated
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No More Benefit of the Doubt
The mask has slipped. For years, Catholic conservatives pleaded for “prudence,” urging us to give the papal revolutionaries the benefit of the doubt. Now there is no doubt left. This September, Leo XIV gave his blessing not to the 8,000-strong Latin Mass pilgrims who packed Rome with prayer, but to a handful of rainbow activists led by the ever-present Fr. James Martin.
As the pilgrims of Tradition were shunted to the margins, the Vatican rolled out the red carpet for Sister Lucy Caram, who has defended abortion and mocked the Holy Family, and for Martin, whose “bridge-building” means lowering the drawbridge for Gomorrah. This is apostasy dressed in the language of compassion.
The Porn Curator of St. Peter’s Academy
If you thought the Academy for Life was corrupted under Francis, wait until you meet the new head of the Vatican’s Academy of Fine Arts: Cristiana Perrella.
Her résumé is a parade of degeneracy. Exhibits celebrating nightclub culture as the beating heart of “queer identity.” Pornographic cinema posters from Italy’s red-light boom. Photographs of naked men urinating on other men, with plastic bags over their heads, described by Perrella as “poetic, elegant, and melancholic.”
This is who Leo XIV has chosen to “promote and preserve Catholic tradition in the arts.” The 16th-century founders of the Academy must be rolling in their tombs, watching their institution turned into a showcase for sodomy and sadomasochism.
The Dicastery for Culture and Education, steered by Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, made sure Perrella’s star kept rising. Once again, the same circle of “LGBT-friendly” prelates pushes their protégés into places once meant to guard the sacred.
The Abomination in the Gesù
September 6th, Rome’s Church of the Gesù, the mother church of the Jesuits, where St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Robert Bellarmine lie buried, hosted a spectacle unthinkable even a decade ago.
Bishop Francesco Savino, vice president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, presided over a Mass for an international LGBT pilgrimage. More than 1,000 people attended, waving rainbow flags and rainbow crosses. Religious sisters and brothers fanned themselves with rainbow-colored fans. The recessional ended in applause and embraces.
And there, in the sanctuary above the tomb of St. Robert Bellarmine, the great defender of the papacy against Protestant heresy, a rainbow cross was lifted high as if it were the new sign of salvation.
Savino’s homily preached “living truth over dead truth.” In other words, apostolic doctrine is lifeless dogma, while sodomy celebrated in public liturgies is “living truth.” He dared to pit “Peter and the Apostolic College” against what the Apostolic College has always taught, as though St. Paul’s condemnations of impurity now mean the opposite.
What would Ignatius say, whose Spiritual Exercises taught mortification of the senses to conquer sin? What would Bellarmine say, who bled for the defense of Catholic doctrine? Their silence in the grave thunders louder than Savino’s homily.
The Holy Door Profaned
The Associated Press captured the same scandal in glowing tones: “Over 1,000 LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families participated in a Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome, celebrating a new level of acceptance in the Catholic Church after long feeling shunned, and crediting Pope Francis with the change.”
Pilgrims marched through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica as if their defiance of the moral law were now sacramental. One participant, flanked by his “husband,” said the experience felt “epic, like I was able to touch the hand of God.” Another declared, “Pope Francis influenced me to return back to church. Pope Leo only strengthened my faith.”
The pilgrimage was not underground or marginal. It was listed in the Vatican’s official calendar of events for the Holy Year. Trans activists, American groups like DignityUSA and Outreach, Brazilian networks, even an Italian group of trans women, all took part in a procession that climaxed in rainbow crosses, rainbow chants, and rainbow tears of joy.
Twenty-five years ago, DignityUSA was detained in Rome as a threat to the Holy Year. Today, they are celebrated as honored pilgrims, openly thanked for their “gifts to the church.” What changed? Not doctrine, which still calls these acts intrinsically disordered. What changed was the will to enforce doctrine. What changed was Rome.
St. Peter’s Profaned
As part of the same LGBT pilgrimage, rainbow activists paraded into St. Peter’s Basilica itself. Some wore shirts declaring “F*ck the rules.” Others brandished rainbow accessories, making a mockery of the Holy Door and the basilica consecrated by the blood of martyrs.
The very space where Peter was crucified upside down for refusing to deny Christ is now used to flaunt sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance. And still Rome smiles. Still Rome applauds.
The Pattern and the Signs
The pattern is clear. Traditional Catholics are marginalized, their Masses restricted, their pilgrimages sidelined. Meanwhile, the revolutionaries are not only tolerated but enthroned in the very heart of the Church.
And yet, God has not abandoned His flock. Bishop Earl Fernandes of Columbus has spoken firmly for tradition. And in Naples, the blood of St. Januarius flowed once more.
The saints remain faithful. The martyrs still intercede. Miracles still erupt from the veins of Heaven’s defenders. Rome may have chosen rainbows over redemption, but Heaven still answers with blood.
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| Holy Mass in New Hampshire - September 14, 2025 |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-07-2025, 07:31 AM - Forum: September 2025
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
w/ Commemoration of the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
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Date: Sunday, September 14, 2025
Time: Confessions - 10:00 AM
Holy Mass - 10:30 AM
Location: The Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary
66 Gove's Lane
Wentworth, NH 03282
Contact: 315-391-7575
sorrowfulheartofmaryoratory@gmail.com
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| Vatican welcomes ‘LGBT pilgrims’ as it scrubs references to SSPX pilgrimage |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-02-2025, 07:06 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Vatican welcomes ‘LGBT pilgrims’ as it scrubs references to SSPX pilgrimage
In the very city of Rome, under the shadow of St. Peter's Basilica, a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance is celebrated under the name of 'inclusion.'
Aug 29, 2025
(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original]) — Friends, what does it mean when the Vatican welcomes open promoters of sexual perversion into its Jubilee celebrations?
That’s right, a group of over 1,000 so-called “LGBTQ Catholics” are about to descend upon Rome next week for the Jubilee year.
It’s organized by an Italian group called “La Tenda di Gionata” – the Tent of Jonathan, now that is likely a repugnant and disgusting reference to the friendship between Jonathan and King David – and this group has been very active over the years. It’s not the first time they’ve been to Rome as a group either. On their website, there are articles about their experiences at Pride festivals, including in Rome.
But before we can really dig into this pilgrimage, let’s begin as we always do with the Sign of the Cross – and consider another pilgrimage that’s just taken place over in Rome.
Many of us were delighted when we saw the Vatican Jubilee website include a listing for the Traditional Latin Mass SSPX pilgrimage to Rome, which just took place a few days ago.
Some said that such a listing wasn’t significant: that the Italian language Jubilaeum 2025 site just included everything that was happening, without regard for approval or disapproval on the part of the site.
Not so, said others. The Catholic Herald in the UK referred to it as “a rare moment of visible accord.”
The pilgrimage itself was an amazing sight. LifeSiteNews’ Dr. Maike Hickson was there, and witnessed nearly 8,000 Catholics and 680 priests and religious of the SSPX entering the Holy Doors of St. Peters Basilica there, singing the Creed and Te Deum and other beautiful hymns.
St Peter’s Basilica even put out seating for them, and let them use the microphone system. The day before, the SSPX pilgrims had Masses in the catacombs, and in the Park behind the Colosseum. [...]So, it’s understandable that many were also dismayed when the reference to the SSPX was removed from the Vatican Jubilee website.
Now, the point here is the LGBT “pilgrimage,” not the SSPX one – but stay with me. The removal definitely seemed like a de-legitimization, and undermined the idea, expressed by the Vatican office itself around the same time, that “inclusion” – on the website – “does not imply endorsement.”
But if that’s so, why delete the SSPX pilgrimage?
It’s also obviously false to say that inclusion doesn’t imply endorsement. If the KKK or the American Nazi Party were planning a Jubilee pilgrimage to Rome this year, with 8,000 pilgrims like that SSPX pilgrimage, do we really think they’d be included in the website event listings? Of course not.
Obviously I’m not comparing the SSPX to those groups. I’m just saying that, even if inclusion does not imply endorsement, it does imply something. It implies that a group is basically inside the Overton Window of acceptable thought. It means they’re “allowed,” while others are pushed out.
And that is why it is so troubling that this Tent of Jonathan, this La Tenda di Gionata group, is being listed on the Vatican Jubilee website.
While the SSPX is outside the window of acceptable thought, this homosexualist group is clearly inside it for the Leo XIV Vatican.
Alessandro Previti, one of the organisers of the event, told the “LGBTQ Catholic Ministry” Outreach:
Quote:“The core objective is to be there, to pray, to pray together and to feel part of the church, to be welcome as we are, for who we are.”
The Mass for this group – oh, yes, there is a Mass for them – will be celebrated inside the Church of the Gesù by Bishop Francesco Savino, vice president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference. Savino himself called the event:
Quote:“[an] irreversible sign reminding us that the Gospel is not a manifesto for chosen few, but a love letter addressed to the whole human family.”
This sort of event even got an endorsement from Cardinal Cobo, vice president of the Spanish bishops’ conference. Cobo wrote a letter to the Global Network of Rainbow Catholics – another LGBT group, which met in Madrid last week, and is supporting the Jubilee events.
Here’s what he said:
“In the context of the Jubilee Year, in which the Church opens its doors to those who journey together in hope, I hope that the event you are preparing will help prepare you more deeply to ‘enter the Holy Door’ and that it will lead to a deeper encounter with Christ.”
Here’s another interesting thing: last year, Tenda di Gionata was also deleted from the Vatican Jubilee website temporarily – before being reinstated. And when confronted with criticism over these listings, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the Vatican’s Jubilee coordinator, declared:
“We include all those who ask us to experience faith… Therefore, I don’t see why anyone should be excluded.”
What does it say about the so-called “Church of inclusion,” when the Society of Saint Pius X is first listed, then deleted, while LGBTQ activists are celebrated as honored pilgrims – and reinstated after they were deleted?
And as the SSPX News site asked: “Does Fisichella believe that the pilgrims who came with the Society of Saint Pius X were not there to experience faith? Why were they there then? What does he criticize them for?”
As I said before, this is really not about the SSPX. It’s not like we’re calling for the Jubilee website to relist their event, or for the Church to be like a circus or a zoo, made up of groups which hold diametrically opposed beliefs, and practice diametrically opposed religions. We’re not begging the Vatican to give the SSPX a corner in their big tent in which they can do their little thing.
No, it’s about us saying clearly: under Leo XIV, the Vatican is making space for homosexualist groups, and celebrating them as honored pilgrims, and treating their heterodoxy and heresy as if they were legitimate opinions – and this is unacceptable. [Emphasis The Catacombs] The treatment of the SSPX – and what I said about the KKK – simply makes that worse and more obvious.
It’s unacceptable, but it isn’t a surprise. Leo XIV himself said, as Cardinal Prevost in 2023, that his earlier condemnations of the “homosexual lifestyle” had shifted under Francis – “there’s been a development” he said, such that “we are looking to be more welcoming and more open, and to say all people are welcome in the Church.”
I’m sorry, we all know what that means. He even attributed this “development” to Francis and made clear that he had adopted it for himself.
No, friends. God does not bless sin – let alone one of the four sins that cry to heaven for vengeance. The Church does not hand over her altars to those who deny her moral teaching and publicly celebrate sin. As Saint Paul warned: “You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.” (1 Cor. 10:21)
Yet there, in the very city of Rome, under the shadow of St. Peter’s Basilica, a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance is celebrated under the name of “inclusion.”
All are included. Anyone can walk through the Holy Doors for the Jubilee. But the Holy Door of eternal life is not open to anyone who feels like it – it’s open only to those who have the supernatural faith, hope and charity of Christ, and persevere in the grace of God.
Whatever these churchmen do, let’s resolve for ourselves to walk through that door, whatever it costs us – and offer reparation for these sins and our own, and pray for the conversion of those involved in this sordid story.
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| The Catholic Trumpet: Neo-SSPX Confirms What Resistance Catholics Have Always Known |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-29-2025, 08:39 AM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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Neo-SSPX Confirms What Resistance Catholics Have Always Known
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The Catholic Trumpet [slightly adapted and reformatted] | August 27, 2025
Note: On 22 August 2025, the Neo-SSPX issued an open letter to Cardinal Arborelius in response to his statements of 15 August 2025. This letter confirms many of the positions long defended by faithful Catholics and illustrates of the True SSPX Resistance that no matter how much one compromises in pursuit of recognition or security, Modernist Rome and the devil will always strike, demonstrating the necessity of steadfast fidelity to the true Catholic Faith.
For decades, Catholics outside the post-2012 Neo-SSPX have consistently warned of a profound crisis in the Church. They exposed the infiltration of the Society and the practical agreement made with Rome under then Superior Bishop Fellay, an arrangement that accepted the Novus Ordo Mass as legitimately promulgated and endorsed the Second Vatican Council in a condemned spirit of evolution cloaked as tradition. Archbishop Lefebvre explicitly refused to subject his priests or the faithful to such compromises.
Lefebvre understood that true obedience to the Church cannot include submission to error or heresy. Catholics have a duty to separate themselves from the conciliar Church, which is no longer the Catholic Church, and to preserve the integrity of the Faith. As he declared in 1974: “It is therefore impossible for any conscientious and faithful Catholic to espouse this reformation and to submit to it in any way whatsoever. The only attitude of fidelity to the Church and to Catholic doctrine appropriate for our salvation is a categorical refusal to accept this reformation.” Faithful Catholics have always defended this principle, recognizing that the salvation of souls depends upon access to the sacraments administered according to the traditional rites and the unwavering teaching of the Catholic Faith.
These warnings were dismissed by the Neo-SSPX, its supporters, and those who unquestioningly follow it, often portrayed as mere preference or obstinacy. In reality, these Catholics acted to protect the Church from the infiltration of Modernist doctrine and to ensure the integrity of the priesthood that was meant to safeguard the traditional Faith.
The Neo-SSPX letter to Cardinal Arborelius, issued on 22 August 2025, now confirms what these faithful Catholics long understood. The Society openly acknowledges that it has relied upon modernist popes to legitimize its activities. Faculties granted by Popes Benedict XVI and Francis for hearing confessions and celebrating marriages are cited as justification for their pastoral work. These privileges were obtained through long-standing dialogue and practical arrangements with Rome, demonstrating that the Neo-SSPX has relied upon conciliar authority to maintain its operations.
The letter also emphasizes support from conciliar bishops. Bishop Athanasius Schneider is invoked to dismiss claims of schism, while Bishop Vitus Huonder is highlighted for his personal connection to the Society, his public admiration of Lefebvre, and the affirmation from Pope Francis that the Neo-SSPX is not in schism. These admissions reveal the Society’s dependence on compromised figures to establish legitimacy. The reliance on Modernist authority to defend their existence and activities confirms the very compromise that faithful Catholics have consistently opposed.
Through these acknowledgments, the Neo-SSPX demonstrates the consequences of the post-2012 trajectory: practical acceptance of Vatican II, alignment with modernist Rome, and justification of their presence using faculties and endorsements from authorities whose fidelity to Tradition is doubtful. Every claim of pastoral care or canonical standing is inseparably linked to this compromise. The letter, in its own words, confirms the warnings the faithful have tirelessly issued for decades.
The 2025 letter is therefore not merely a statement of fact. It is an inadvertent admission that the post-2012 Neo-SSPX has followed a path Archbishop Lefebvre refused to sanction. It underscores the duty of Catholics to avoid compromising with Modernist structures and to reject any allegiance to a conciliar Church that denies fundamental Catholic truths. For the salvation of souls, Catholics must maintain clear separation from this conciliar Church, adhering instead to the unadulterated teachings and sacraments of the true Catholic Faith.
As +Archbishop Lefebvre stated:
Quote:“That Conciliar Church is a schismatic church because it breaks with the Catholic Church that has always been. It has its new dogmas, its new priesthood, its new institutions, its new worship… The Church that affirms such errors is at once schismatic and heretical. This Conciliar Church is, therefore, not Catholic. To whatever extent Pope, Bishops, priests, or the faithful adhere to this new church, they separate themselves from the Catholic Church.” (Archbishop Lefebvre, Reflections on his suspension a divinis, July 29, 1976)
The Neo-SSPX letter follows in full. Its contents speak for themselves, confirming the positions long held by faithful the True Resistance Catholics and providing a clear example of the compromises inherent in the post-2012 Society. The letter is both a warning and a vindication: a warning that reliance on conciliar authorities undermines the Faith, and a vindication of those who have resisted compromise and defended the traditional priesthood, the sacraments, and the integrity of the Catholic Church.
Your Eminence,
We have taken note of the two statements concerning our priestly fraternity that were made public by Your Eminence on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Animated by the zeal for the salvation of souls and in the spirit of filial devotion to our Holy Mother the Church and Her institutions we would like to make our thoughts and intentions known in the form of an open letter that we hope will foster a greater understanding for the nature of our work and benefit many of the Catholic faithful in Sweden.
Standing of the pastoral activities of the FSSPX according to Church authorities
No. 6 of Your Eminence's Clarification states that the sacraments celebrated by our priests are “valida sed illicita” - valid but illicit (i.e. inadmissible). We are grateful for this clarification, which shows, for the benefit of all the faithful, that Your Eminence agrees with us that all our sacraments are valid.
Concerning the liceity (admissibility) of the sacraments celebrated by our priests, we would like to point out that on 1st September 2015 “motivated by the need to respond to the good of these faithful”, the Holy Father Pope Francis granted faculties for hearing confessions validly and licitly to all the priests of our priestly fraternity. At first, this was granted for the duration of one year (the Year of Mercy) and then in the Apostolic Letter Misericordia et misera, dated 20 November 2016, extended until further notice for “the pastoral benefit” of the faithful who attend our churches. These faculties have not been revoked by the Holy See to date.
The Church and the Holy Father certainly do not consider it a “good of the faithful” or a “pastoral benefit” to reassure those faithful who are about to do what is objectionable or inadmissible. But as Confessions are usually heard immediately before Holy Mass, it stands to reason that most of the faithful who come to our priests for Confession have the intention of attending Holy Mass celebrated by one of our priests immediately afterwards.
Furthermore, in the letter of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” signed 27 March and published 4 April 2017, the Holy Father's decision to authorize Local Ordinaries the possibility to grant faculties for the celebration of marriages of faithful who follow the pastoral activity of the FSSPX was promulgated. The letter explicitly mentions that the purpose of this decision was “to reassure the conscience of the faithful” and that the Mass celebrated following such a marriage ceremony, “may” or “is to be” celebrated by a priest of the FSSPX. Now, the Church and the Holy Father do not reassure the conscience of those who do something inadmissible or objectionable.
Therefore, it is evidently not the view of the Holy See that it is inadmissible or objectionable to follow the pastoral activities of the FSSPX.
In No. 2 of Your Eminence's Clarification, it is stated that the FSSPX does not live and work in communion with the Holy See. This statement is manifestly false and amounts to a grave calumny. The members of the FSSPX are Catholics in virtue of their baptism, Catholic faith and submission to the authority of the pope. This submission, however, does not imply a limitless obedience.
Your Eminence's use of the expression “not living and working in communion with the Holy See” amounts to the accusation that we are in schism. As false as this accusation is, it is at least a clear and precise statement concerning canonical status: someone in schism is separated from the Church. But in the very same sentence it is also said that our canonical status is unclear. How can we at the same time be in schism and in a canonical status that is “unclear”?
Statements by the Holy Fathers Benedict XVI and Francis, and especially their way of dealing with matters concerning our priestly fraternity as matters internal to the Church, clearly show that they considered us as Catholics and part of the Church. Examples of this are the doctrinal discussions between the Vatican and the FSSPX from 2009 to 2012 and the faculties granted by Pope Francis in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
It has been clearly emphasized, especially by Pope Benedict XVI, that the “problem” between the Holy See and the FSSPX is of a doctrinal, not disciplinary nature. In other words, the reason why our fraternity is denied an official canonical status is not some refusal on our part to recognize the pope, to live in communion with the rest of the Church, that we keep doing things without permission, or in bad faith or anything of that nature. Pope Benedict XVI stated in the Letter to the Bishops of 10 March 2009: “the problems now to be addressed are essentially doctrinal in nature and concern primarily the acceptance of the Second Vatican Council and the post-conciliar magisterium of the Popes”. In the letter of 1 September 2015, Pope Francis stated concerning the FSSPX: “From various quarters, several Brother Bishops have told me of their good faith and sacramental practice”.
Well-respected bishops of the Church have expressed support for the FSSPX, defended its adherence to the Church's traditional teachings and advocated its recognition by Church authorities.
Bishop Athanasius Schneider has been reported in the press as stating that only “a very narrow, legalistic view of the reality of the Church” could lead one to believe the FSSPX is schismatic and that those who state as much are “putting the letter of the Canon Law above the importance, the primary importance of the fullness of the Catholic faith and of the traditional liturgy.” Further, that the FSSPX continually exhibits “canonical community with the Pope” by praying for the pope during Mass and offering other public prayers for him and that the lack of a canonical recognition is not a barrier to Catholics receiving sacraments from FSSPX clergy.
Particularly telling is the story of Bishop Vitus Huonder, former diocesan Bishop of Chur in Switzerland, who was tasked by Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, then Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to initiate dialogue with the FSSPX. This mandate led to regular contact with members of the FSSPX, allowing him to understand our fraternity from within, moving beyond media portrayals. His journey culminated in his retirement to our house in Wangs, Switzerland, a decision made with the explicit permission and blessing of Pope Francis. In a series of video talks, he expressed deep admiration for our founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. He also stated that Pope Francis personally told him the FSSPX is not in schism. Bishop Huonder died on Easter Wednesday, 2024, and was buried in Écône alongside Archbishop Lefebvre.
In No. 3 of the Clarification, the often-heard contention is made that the FSSPX is not in full communion with the Holy See and the Pope. The use of the expression “full communion” in this context is a novelty and the distinction between “full” and “imperfect” communion is an innovation of the second Vatican Council. The Church's traditional teaching is very simple: Catholics belong to the Church by fulfilling the three classic conditions: baptism, Catholic faith, submission to the hierarchy. The FSSPX acknowledges the authority of the pope, and its priests pray for him at every Mass. True obedience consists in accepting the authority of the pope as pope, in praying for him, and respecting his person while actively resisting any bad orientations he might wish to impart to the Church. Such is the attitude of the FSSPX, and we are therefore indeed in a state of submission to the pope.
Obligation of registering sacraments
In No. 5 of the Clarification it is stated that sacraments celebrated by our priests (which are admitted to be valid - see above) cannot be entered into the sacramental records of the diocese and that this will affect the possibility for the faithful to receive baptismal and confirmation certificates.
Catholic sacramental theology and Canon Law impose an unequivocal obligation to keep track of the reception of certain sacraments, especially those that can only be received once without sacrilege, such as Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Orders.
Canon law (535 §2) prescribes that notations of confirmation, marriage, reception of sacred orders, etc. are always to be noted on a baptismal certificate.
We cannot imagine that Your Eminence really intends to forbid valid confirmations to be entered in the sacramental records and included on baptismal certificates, as this will inevitably lead to confusion and uncertainty as to whether a member of the faithful has or has not received the sacrament of Confirmation and therefore pose the risk of sacrilegious repetition of the conferral of Confirmation. Such a policy would clearly be against the prescriptions of Canon Law and would amount to an abuse of power making life difficult and causing fear and uncertainly for Catholic faithful who have no other wish than to profess their Catholic Faith and live in full accordance with it.
We will of course assure the faithful concerned that a confirmation certificate can always be obtained directly from us, should the Catholic Diocese of Stockholm actually choose to ignore the theology and Law of the Church in this matter.
State of grave spiritual necessity
The Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X considers the carrying out of those of its pastoral activities that lack the approval of church authorities to be justified by the existence of a state of grave spiritual necessity caused by the current crisis in the Church.
For their salvation and sanctification souls are in need of the true, unadulterated Catholic Faith and the sacraments of the Catholic Church celebrated in the dignified, awe-inspiring and uplifting rites of the traditional Missal, Ritual and Pontifical that truly lead hearts and minds to the realm of the supernatural and the things of God, as they have done for centuries for so many of the Church's most loved and venerated Saints.
Every member of the Church has the right to receive from it the doctrine and the sacraments necessary for salvation. This includes the right to be warned against errors that put the faith in danger as well as the right to be taught the fulness of the Catholic faith.
In the Church of today, many errors previously condemned by the Church's magisterium are being allowed to spread practically unchecked, with an immense number of contemporary theologians and even bishops and cardinals openly denying or questioning the dogmas of the Catholic Church. The liturgical reforms have led to a loss of respect for the sacred, as the new forms largely fail to lift the soul to God and rather bring what should be considered sacred and approached with respect and awe down to the level of the mundane and everyday. The practice of receiving Holy Communion in the hand and standing not only occasions many sacrileges, but is also at least partly responsible for the loss of faith of many Catholics in Christ's Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament.
Referring to the situation of the Church in 1972, Pope Paul VI said in a homily that “from some fissure the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God”. In his 2003 apostolic exhortation Ecclesia in Europa, Pope John Paul II lamented a widespread erosion of faith marked by practical agnosticism, religious indifference and a forgetting of Christian heritage – describing it as a silent apostasy on the part of people who have all that they need and who live as if God does not exist. Benedict XVI publicly decried the “process of secularization” that “has produced a grave crisis of the sense of the Christian faith and of belonging to the Church”.
In our view, the preaching of modern Ecumenism and Religious Liberty have been especially far-reaching in its harmful consequences. A true ecumenism aims to lead souls to enter into the true Church founded by Jesus Christ, but the modern and false type of ecumenism which was promoted by the Second Vatican Council is concerned with achieving a purely human reconciliation, ignoring the need to reconcile men with God by leading souls to the means of salvation found only in the Catholic Church. Religious liberty, as taught by the Second Vatican Council, denies the rights of Our Lord Jesus Christ as King.
Many fundamental truths of the Catholic Faith are unfortunately ignored or denied in large parts of the Church, such as the infallibility of divine revelation, the importance of sanctifying grace, the reality of Hell, the power of the devil, the need for spiritual fight and the social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
If the normal hierarchy (pastor, bishop, etc.) do not fulfill their duty, the faithful find themselves in a state of necessity that allows them to have recourse to any Catholic priest. Because of the necessity, this priest then receives directly from the Church what is called supplied jurisdiction, in order to minister to the faithful. We have always maintained that in the current crisis, supplied jurisdiction empowers traditional priests to baptize, hear the confessions of, marry, etc., Catholics who otherwise would not depend on them.
The fact that some errors are condemned, (parts of) Catholic truth is preached and the traditional liturgy is allowed to be celebrated in some places especially provided, often in an unstable manner, for faithful who have a “personal preference” or happen to be “attached to the vetus ordo”, as it is often expressed, clearly does not change the fact that the state of grave spiritual necessity remains. For the defense of the liturgical and doctrinal Tradition of the Church is nothing more nor less than the defense of the integrity of the Catholic Faith, which is the common good of the Church; by this very fact it entails the fight against modern errors which challenge fundamental truths of the Faith and thus endanger the common good of the Church. When this common good of the Catholic Faith is considered by the authorities as the object of a simple personal attachment, a state of necessity exists.
The supreme Law of the Church is the salvation of souls. The Law of the Church, just like any other just law, allows for exceptions in exceptional circumstances. Civil law forbids breaking windows, but it is not wrong to break a window in order to save an infant from a burning building. It is similarly not wrong to help feed the starving flock even if it can only be done at the cost of the disapproval of Church authorities, whose approval would have been required in normal circumstances. In the light of this, we cannot agree with Your Eminence's statement in No. 6 of the Clarification that sacraments celebrated by our priests are unauthorised and therefore should never be celebrated and avoided by the faithful. The circumstances themselves give the authorisation that is lacking from responsible authorities, making these celebrations both valid and licit.
The FSSPX provides access to the mentioned means of salvation to many thousands of Catholic faithful around the world with its priories, churches, chapels, novitiates and priestly seminaries, and we strive to do the same for souls hungry and thirsty for sanctification in Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries as well. We are especially eager to find worthy vocations to the Catholic priesthood and religious life and help them on their path to a life consecrated to God.
Our priests always pray for the Pope and the local Bishop at the beginning of the Canon of Holy Mass. We do what we do, not in the spirit of division or rebellion, but with the sole aim of the glory of God, the preservation of the invaluable treasures of the Catholic Faith and Sacraments, handed to our Mother the Church by Almighty God Himself, and the salvation and sanctification of souls. We have no other wish than to help Your Eminence and the other responsible pastors fulfil Your holy duty in the care for souls.
Most respectfully, Your humble servants in Christ the King and Mary Immaculate,
Father Karl Stehlin FSSPX
District Superior for Poland and Scandinavia
Father Håkan Lindström FSSPX
Priest responsible for the Scandinavian apostolate
22 August 2025, on the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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