Letter of the Superior General to Friends and Benefactors n. 91

IF GOD ALLOWS, AS NEVER BEFORE, THIS UNIVERSALITY OF EVIL,
THIS NEW PAGAN EMPIRE, IT IS CERTAINLY WITH THE AIM OF
AROUSING CHRISTIAN HEROISM THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

Dear faithful, friends and benefactors,

It has happened quite often in history that the world has had the sudden impression of waking up as another. In Christian antiquity, for example, at one point the world was “stunned to wake up Arian”, to use the famous expression of Saint Jerome. Similarly, in the 16th century, a third of Europe woke up Protestant. In reality, these phenomena did not occur overnight, but were progressively prepared. Nonetheless, they appeared as a surprise because the contemporaries did not grasp the gravity of the various events that prepared these catastrophes, they did not realize their consequences. In this sense, whole peoples woke up Arians or Protestants and, when they realized it, it was too late.

Unfortunately, we are now in a similar situation.

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In 1993, the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) published a series of apologetic articles in the collection, Is Tradition Excommunicated? The full work is available from Angelus Press. Due to an influx of shopworn accusations against the Society over the years, excerpts from the collection have been published online, including the 1988 study, “Neither Schismatic nor Excommunicated.”

Appearing originally in the pages of Courrier de Rome (the French-language version of the Italian SiSiNoNo), this article defends the SSPX from the false claims that it is either in schism or that its members are excommunicated. Although Pope Benedict XVI formally lifted the contested excommunications against the SSPX’s bishops in 2009, some detractors persist in claiming that some or all of the Society’s clerics and religious are excommunicated or that the SSPX itself is in a state of schism.“Neither Schismatic nor Excommunicated” meets these accusations head on while also providing context regarding the canonical and doctrinal issues surrounding Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s decision to consecrate four bishops for the SSPX in 1988.Read the text of “Neither Schismatic nor Excommunicated” here. To order a hard copy of this and the other works included in Is Tradition Excommunicated?, please visit Angelus Press’s online store.

 

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