Christian LaSalle of the French news outlet Medias-Presse recently published an article which contains a wonderful explanation of why some SSPX priests and faithful, formerly strong and vigorous in their defense of Tradition, suddenly throw in the towel, and run to modernist Rome. The article also explains why the acceptance of a purely practical accord is out…
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By Fr. Pierre Roy 1/23/18 French Original Here [Note: Sodalitium Pianum does not support Fr. Roy’s ‘non-una cum’ position, but this particular article is excellent. It was translated from the original French by DeepL, which is a much better utility than Google Translate, and then tweaked afterwards. As such it will not be perfect.] …
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Concomitant with the absorption of the SSPX into the conciliar church, is its infection with worldliness. After all, what is conciliarism, but a capitulation of “Catholicism” to the values of materialistic secularism? Anyone who understands this, then, will not be surprised to see all the same deviations currently plaguing the conciliar Church (e.g., feminism, materialism,…
Immediately after the publishing of our article “Preliminary Thoughts on a Roman Ratification,” we received the following email from a priest who took exception to the “cautious” approach we took. He is not a native English speaker, and gave me permission to “smooth out” his English, and I have done so without softening any of…
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Preliminary Thoughts on a Roman Ratification by Sean Johnson 1/13/18 Introduction: On January 12, the French conciliar journal La Croix ran a story on the forthcoming SSPX General Chapter, which included the following quote from French District Superior, Fr. Christian Bouchacourt: “D’ailleurs, dès qu’un nouveau supérieur est élu, la décision est immédiatement transmise au Vatican.” [“Moreover,…
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Here follows an excellent study on the changes to the liturgical rites of Holy Week under Pope Pius XII and Archbishop Annibale Bugnini from 1951-1956 by Fr. Stefano Carusi (IBP), which was initially published in English for the first time by the Rorate Coeli blog here. Lest one be skeptical of the quality of the study…
A few days ago, FSSPX/News published another accordist apologetic by Fr. Paul Robinson, the central premise of which was this: Those Resistance people who claim Archbishop Lefebvre changed his posture towards Rome after the 1988 episcopal consecrations, and thereafter refused to consider a practical accord with unconverted Rome, are thereby impugning the integrity of Archbishop Lefebvre, who…
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(Steering a course between Scylla and Charybdis) by Sean Johnson 1/2/18 Introduction: More and more, SSPXers are found lamenting the “missed opportunity” 2012 represented for a practical accord with modernist Rome. Like a young man reminiscing about his childhood sweetheart, and wondering what might have been, these sentimental “traditionalists” still feel the pangs of…
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