FSSPX Accepts Proposal from Vatican: Meeting on February 12

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FSSPX Asked Leo XIV to “Preserve Current Exceptional Situation”

gloria.tv | February 5, 2026

Last summer, Fr Davide Pagliarani, the superior of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X, wrote to the Holy Father to request an audience, he said on Fsspx.news on February 5.

Having received no reply, he wrote another letter a few months later: “I mentioned our doctrinal disagreements, but also our sincere desire to serve the Catholic Church tirelessly, for we are servants of the Church despite our canonically unrecognized status.”

In January, he received a response from Cardinal Tucho Fernández: “Unfortunately, it does not take our proposal into account in any way, nor does it offer anything that responds to our requests,” Fr Pagliarani comments, revealing what his proposal had entailed. He had asked the Holy See “to be allowed to continue in our exceptional situation temporarily”.

"It seems to me that such a proposal is both realistic and reasonable, and that it could be approved by the Holy Father."

The episcopal consecrations are “an extreme means, proportionate to a real and equally extreme necessity” as the two bishops of the society grow older: “Souls need priests. And to have priests, bishops are required, not influencers.”

He adds that Leo XIV is determined to preserve the line of Francis as an irreversible path for the entire Church. Francis imposed “catastrophic decisions on the entire Church, such as authorizing Communion for the divorced and remarried or the blessing of same-sex couples”.