The SSPX has announced that they will be consecrating bishops 1 July 2026, apparently without pontifical mandate, following Archbishop Lefebvre’s ‘Operation Survival’ in 1988 and another in 1991.
In asserting that complying with "Rome", Provost's refusal to authorize bishops, would be a "betrayal of souls" and that the authorities are "not of interest" regarding the salvation of souls, Fr. Pagliarani holds two contradictory positions:
🔸 He recognizes Prevost as a true Vicar of Christ.
🔸 He accuses Prevost of officially acting as the Destroyers of Christ's Flock.
🔹 The Catholic Church is indefectible; therefore, her Supreme Authority, the Pope, when acting in his official capacity to govern the Universal Church, cannot issue commands or impose laws that are harmful to the salvation of souls or contrary to the Faith, cf. Auctorem Fidei, First Vatican Council.
Fr. Pagliarani moreover expresses a "sincere" desire to explain his "attachment" to the Pope, while simultaneously announcing his intent to perform the supreme jurisdictional act of consecrating bishops, explicitly forbidden by him, reducing the Papacy to a purely ornamental title.
🔹 This echoes the "Anglicanised" ecclesiology; it posits a "High Church" wing, the SSPX, that preserves the "true faith" independently of the "official" hierarchy, effectively creating a parallel Church that claims to be loyal to a monarch it ignores.
Finally, Fr. Pagliarani implies that while the visible hierarchy of Rome has abandoned the "good of souls," the true Church continues to exist in the "souls" of those who follow the Society's course. That is, he is resorting to a Protestant definition of the Church: an invisible collection of "true believers" hidden within or apart from the corrupt visible structure.
By refusing to say "Rome has defected," Fr. Pagliarani forces the true Church into the "clouds" of the Society's private judgment, violating the very visibility he claims to defend.
🔹 The Catholic Church is a Visible Society constituted by visible bonds of Faith, Sacraments, and Government. While it exists in souls, its existence is verified by its visible hierarchy and profession, cf. Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis.
If the Shepherd is poisoning the sheep, he is a wolf, not a bad Shepherd. To call him Shepherd while treating him as a wolf destroys the definition of the Shepherd.
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In asserting that complying with "Rome", Provost's refusal to authorize bishops, would be a "betrayal of souls" and that the authorities are "not of interest" regarding the salvation of souls, Fr. Pagliarani holds two contradictory positions:
🔸 He recognizes Prevost as a true Vicar of Christ.
🔸 He accuses Prevost of officially acting as the Destroyers of Christ's Flock.
🔹 The Catholic Church is indefectible; therefore, her Supreme Authority, the Pope, when acting in his official capacity to govern the Universal Church, cannot issue commands or impose laws that are harmful to the salvation of souls or contrary to the Faith, cf. Auctorem Fidei, First Vatican Council.
Fr. Pagliarani moreover expresses a "sincere" desire to explain his "attachment" to the Pope, while simultaneously announcing his intent to perform the supreme jurisdictional act of consecrating bishops, explicitly forbidden by him, reducing the Papacy to a purely ornamental title.
🔹 This echoes the "Anglicanised" ecclesiology; it posits a "High Church" wing, the SSPX, that preserves the "true faith" independently of the "official" hierarchy, effectively creating a parallel Church that claims to be loyal to a monarch it ignores.
Finally, Fr. Pagliarani implies that while the visible hierarchy of Rome has abandoned the "good of souls," the true Church continues to exist in the "souls" of those who follow the Society's course. That is, he is resorting to a Protestant definition of the Church: an invisible collection of "true believers" hidden within or apart from the corrupt visible structure.
By refusing to say "Rome has defected," Fr. Pagliarani forces the true Church into the "clouds" of the Society's private judgment, violating the very visibility he claims to defend.
🔹 The Catholic Church is a Visible Society constituted by visible bonds of Faith, Sacraments, and Government. While it exists in souls, its existence is verified by its visible hierarchy and profession, cf. Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis.
If the Shepherd is poisoning the sheep, he is a wolf, not a bad Shepherd. To call him Shepherd while treating him as a wolf destroys the definition of the Shepherd.