Let's ignore the German real schismatic hierarchy...
Let's ignore Leo being "buddy-buddy" with a female phony, protestant "archbishop"...
Let's ignore the "blessing" of homosexuals and other "irregulars"
Let's ignore the still active homosexual priests (such as the heretic and homosexual, J. Martin) and hierarchy...
Let's ignore the overall Protestantization of the "Catholic Church"...
Let's ignore all the heresies emanating from Rome...
Let's ignore that all "religions" lead to God the Father, forgetting that Christ, Our Lord, is the only way to His Father...
Let's ignore all these, monstrous, diabolical disorientations, but let's excommunicate the SSPX because they want -- they need -- to consecrate additional bishops for the salvation of souls!!
Let's ignore all the scandals...
But can we??
From lifesitenews.com, and written by Emily Mangiaracina Mon Apr 27, 2026 - 4:31 pm EDT: Pope Leo is planning to excommunicate the SSPX: report - LifeSite
"(LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo XIV is planning on excommunicating the bishops of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), and possibly its priests and lay supporters, upon the Society’s consecration of new bishops this July, according to sources in Rome.
Rorate Caeli shared in an exclusive report on Saturday that Pope Leo has decided to follow the precedent of Pope John Paul II in declaring as excommunicated the SSPX bishops who participate in the Society’s upcoming episcopal consecrations on July 1, according to “Roman sources.”
Leo is “said to have already had a decree prepared similar, in tone and content, to the one that Pope John Paul II had promulgated through Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, on July 1, 1988,” reported Rorate Caeli.
Like John Paul II, Leo would declare the SSPX bishops – both those consecrating and those newly consecrated – excommunicated ipso facto, meaning they would be automatically excommunicated by virtue of the fact that they are participating in episcopal consecrations without papal approval.
In other words, these SSPX bishops would be considered to have committed a “schismatic act,” and Leo’s decree would urge priests and faithful “not to give their assent to it,” according to Rorate Caeli.
SSPX Bishop Bernard Fellay himself, in a recent sermon in St. Mary’s, Kansas, affirmed that such forthcoming excommunications are very likely.
“I prefer not to be a prophet here, but I’m pretty sure that there is an enormous probability that all of you, we included, may be excommunicated, declared in schism, there is a very high probability because they already said it in public. So, they are so to say, forcing themselves to do it. But whatever, God can do miracles. It’s not the end,” said Fellay.
Vatican correspondent Niwa Limbu claimed on Saturday that according to his sources, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) “is preparing the possibility of an excommunication of the whole SSPX,” meaning all of the SSPX priests, not just the bishops. It is unclear whether he meant to include lay supporters of the SSPX in this claim.
The 1988 decree of excommunication stated that “the priests and faithful are warned not to support the schism of Archbishop Lefebvre, otherwise they shall incur ipso facto the very grave penalty of excommunication.” However, such excommunications were never specifically declared.
READ: SSPX: Division comes from Rome’s ‘departure’ from Tradition, not our ‘fidelity’ to it
The SSPX General House revealed earlier this year that Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, the heterodox prefect of the DDF, has made clear that the Second Vatican Council documents must be accepted in full by the SSPX to achieve “regular” status in the Church. The full acceptance of Vatican II may be the condition upon which hinges SSPX’s full recognition by the current Church hierarchy.
However, Fernández’s demand of SSPX’s full acceptance of Vatican II texts is at odds with Archbishop Guido Pozzo’s clarification in 2016 that “some texts of the Council … are not doctrinal and are thus not binding on the Catholic conscience,” as journalist Maike Hickson put it. Pozzo specifically named texts with which the SSPX takes issue, including Nostra Aetate about interreligious dialogue; the decree Unitatis Redintegratio on ecumenism; and the Declaration Dignitatis Humanae on religious liberty, and explained:
They are not about doctrines or definitive statements, but, rather, about instructions and orienting guides for pastoral practice. One can [thus legitimately] continue to discuss these pastoral aspects after the [proposed] canonical approval [of the SSPX], in order to lead us to further [and acceptable] clarifications.
In fact, certain Vatican II documents appear to contradict perennial Church magisterial teaching, such as Nostra Aetate’s false claim that “in Hinduism, men contemplate the divine mystery,” and that Buddhism “teaches a way by which men … may be able either to acquire the state of perfect liberation, or attain, by their own efforts or through higher help, supreme illumination.”
The SSPX and its defenders stress that insisting upon the perennial teaching of the Church in these matters is essential to the salvation of souls, which is the supreme law of the Church (Canon 1752). They argue, then, that the legitimacy of the exercise of the Church’s laws and proceedings in general depends on their conformity to this supreme law.
In other words, “If someone is trying to use a canon or a decree to block people from the Sacraments or to bury the perennial teachings of the Faith, they aren’t ‘following the law,’ they’re abusing it,” pointed out Abbey “Classic Catholic” following the SSPX’s announcement of forthcoming consecrations.
Mark Lambert, co-host of Catholic Unscripted, recently highlighted the fact that it is because of this very principle that canon law exempts from canonical penalties those who act out of grave necessity, as the SSPX has stated they are doing in the case of their planned episcopal consecrations.
“(Canon law) explicitly limits the application of penalties when moral culpability is absent or diminished. The law itself recognizes that a person who acts out of necessity or to avoid grave harm is not subject to canonical penalties, provided the act is not intrinsically evil or gravely damaging to souls,” Lambert wrote in a Tuesday blog post. “Even where responsibility is only partially diminished, the Code excludes automatic penalties. The principle that the salvation of souls is the supreme law of the Church is not a slogan but a governing norm.”
Theologians and prelates such as Bishop Athanasius Schneider have also pointed out that the lack of a schismatic intention on the part of the SSPX precludes a valid excommunication, as canon law makes clear.
A Spanish priest and canon law scholar recently explained, “For a perfect schism to occur, there must be a clear intention to carry out a schismatic act and to establish, through the new bishops, a hierarchical jurisdiction parallel to that of the Roman Catholic Church. In this case, neither of these conditions will be met,” he said regarding the SSPX.
He noted that the SSPX meets the requirements for the three components of ecclesial communion: doctrinal, sacramental, and hierarchical. He argued that the upcoming SSPX episcopal consecrations therefore would not constitute sin, nor the sin of schism.
The SSPX meets the hierarchical condition for communion, he argued, because it continues to recognize “the Pope of Rome as supreme pastor of the universal Church,” and also “recognizes and respects the jurisdiction of all the bishops of the Catholic world.” As evidence, he pointed to the mention of the Pope and the local bishop in the Canon of the Mass celebrated in SSPX chapels.
Regarding the doctrinal and sacramental aspects of communion, the SSPX “has never ceased to teach what the Church has always believed” and administers sacraments which “are valid and celebrated according to Traditional rites long used in the Church,” the priest said.
Schneider has similarly affirmed that to his knowledge “there are no weighty reasons in order to deny the clergy and faithful of the SSPX the official canonical recognition,” and noted that “the SSPX believes, worships and conducts a moral life as it was demanded and recognized by the Supreme Magisterium and was observed universally in the Church during a centuries long period.”
Catholic commentators, including LifeSiteNews editor-in-chief John-Henry Westen, Anthony Stine of Return to Tradition, and Vatican correspondent Diane Montagna, have also pointed out that the potential excommunication of SSPX bishops or priests would be bewildering considering that the Vatican has not imposed canonical sanctions on Chinese clergy after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has “repeatedly proceeded with episcopal ordinations without prior papal approval, in violation of the Vatican-China accord.”
In fact, it was the CCP’s appointment of bishops for its schismatic church that motivated Pius XII’s increase of the penalties on consecrations done without papal approval, as Westen noted. That’s where the automatic excommunication came from.
Father Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of the SSPX, recently shared that Pope Leo XIV has still not replied to their request to meet prior to the planned consecration date of July 1.
“Before possibly declaring schismatic a society which counts more than a thousand members, and which serves as a point of reference for hundreds of thousands of faithful throughout the world, it might be desirable to know personally those who are to be judged,” he said.
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