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I was thinking that in light of Menzingen's stance today about the consecrations for July, wouldn't Rome be smart to rescind the faculties that were granted to the SSPX by Francis as a pressure move?

Think about it. Many have been going to the Society chapels thinking that it was "legal" since the "year of Mercy" in 2013. Such a move by Rome would destabilize to some degree the financial position of the Society and give Rome some intel about who would stick with them in the coming months(?).If I were Rome, I would definitely make this move.

Thoughts?

  I don't expect the Vatican do make any move before July 1, 2026. Today, doesn't the neoSSPX have the long end of the stick?...meaning their position is better based on the Catholic doctrine than Rome's, and if one asks Rome to explain why the SSPX will be / should be excommunicated, Rome will fail to tell the world anything convincing. Case in point: the LGβ+ types are welcomed with open arms, divorcees are receiving communion, K0mmunist China is Pope approved for choosing their bishops, Pagans are included, Schismatics and others. Let's just summarize it by saying the deck is stacked against Rome; whereas the SSPX is the poster boy for the Latin Mass mov't. Remember Pope Francis wondering how the SSPX could have so much money to build in St. Marys, Kansas?. Their Seminary was a huge monetary decision too!  Mexico also built a fabulous church, Northern France etc .
So, lots of dough going to the SSPX from the zealous,  maybe the Vatican is jealou$??

Pope Leo XIV has a calm disposition.




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http://www.fiuv.org/2026/02/fiuv-statement-on-planned-sspx.html
Statement here from Una Voce, Excerpt:

"...We share the SSPX’s goal, that the Church’s ancient liturgy be made available as widely as possible for the good of souls. We do not share the SSPX’s analysis of the crisis of the Church in all its details. In particular we know many Catholics able to attend the Traditional Mass with all the necessary permissions from the Church’s hierarchy, such that it is not necessary for them to seek it in any irregular context.

We also know, however, that for others, attending the Traditional Mass has been made very difficult: in some places, this is despite the desire of qualified priests to celebrate it for the faithful, and even the willingness of the local bishop to allow this. This creates an environment in which the SSPX argument of a ‘state of emergency’ gains sympathy.

We urge our bishops, and above all His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, to be mindful of these pastoral realities, which are at this moment precipitating a crisis whose consequences no one can foresee.

What Catholics attached to the ‘former Missal’ desire is not some harmful or novel liturgical form. Pope St John Paul II called our desire for this Missal a ‘rightful aspiration’ (Ecclesia Dei, 1988), and later Pope Benedict XVI described it as a source of ‘riches’ (Letter to Bishops, 2007).

The time to act is now.


Joseph Shaw
President, Una Voce International, and Chairman, Latin Mass Society