The SSPX Professes the Catholic Faith and Rome Calls It Schism

The SSPX Professes the Catholic Faith and Rome Calls It Schism Menzingen gives Leo XIV a Catholic profession of faith. Leo answers through threats, Vatican II loyalty tests, and Cardinal Fernández. The SSPX Places Catholic Tradition on the Table The Society of Saint Pius X sent Leo XIV and the cardinals a profession of Catholic faith on the eve of the consistory and days before the July 1 episcopal consecrations at Écône. The document is devastating because it does not sound like a factional manifesto. It sounds like the Catholic Church before the council remembered how to speak. It begins with divine revelation, the supernatural order, the Trinity, original sin, the Incarnation, Redemption, Mary, the Church, the papacy, moral law, the Social Kingship of Christ, the sacraments, the Mass, the last things, and the modern crisis. That is precisely why Rome finds it intolerable. The SSPX does not ask for a liturgical boutique. It does not say, “Please let us have our preferred spirituality …