The Catholic Trumpet: Legitimately Promulgated?

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Legitimately Promulgated?

The Catholic Trumpet [slightly adapted and reformatted] | May 6, 2025

In 1988, +Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre signed a protocol with Rome, and retracted it in 24 hours.

He refused to legitimize the New Mass.

He called it a “bastard rite.”

He saw the revolution behind the reform.

And he chose fidelity over false peace.

But in 2012, Bishop Bernard Fellay signed a new doctrinal declaration.

This time, one word changed everything: “legitimately.”

That single word accepted the New Mass not just as valid—but as lawful.

And it has never been retracted.

This episode exposes the entire war hidden in one phrase. It contrasts Lefebvre’s 24-hour retraction with Fellay’s 12-year silence. It walks through St. Thomas Aquinas’ definition of law, the SSPX’s own 2001 liturgical study, and the devastating reality of compromise.

One word once split Christendom.

One word today defines the battle for the Church, and by the grace of God, we will continue exposing the rest of the compromises of the 2012 Declaration until it is publicly retracted by the SSPX or Bishop Fellay.

This isn’t about semantics. This is about the Catholic Faith of all time.