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LETTER FROM BROADSTAIRS JUNE 2026

Nova et vetera

Econe Episcopal Consecrations

Given the announcement that the Society of Saint Pius X intends to consecrate four new bishops with out papal mandate this July, a few words on the subject may be opportune.

Certainly the Church needs validly consecrated bishops, not just to administer the sacraments, but most especially to preach the Faith and to denounce the modern errors which threaten the Faith.

No doubt the Society also needs bishops so as to continue its world-wide apostolate, not least because the two remaining bishops are not getting any younger.

Having said that, it is important to realise that the forthcoming consecrations will not automatically make the Society revert to its previous position of keeping its distance from the Conciliar Church. “It is imperative for every priest who wishes to remain Catholic to be separated from the Conciliar Church until such time as it has returned to the traditional Magisterium of the Church and the Catholic Faith,” [Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, ‘Spiritual Journey,’ 1990].

Hence the guiding principle was that of not entering into any practical agreements with modern Rome until Rome had returned to Catholic Tradition. Such a return would be manifested in Rome’s embracing the anti liberal and anti modernist encyclicals, the anti-modernist oath, the social reign of Christ the King, and a true consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

This principle changed in 2012 when doctrinal discussions and increasing contacts with modern Rome resulted in the so-called “Rolls-Royce of a deal” proposed by Benedict XVI to Bishop Fellay, and this regardless of Rome’s persistence in the modern errors of liberalism, modernism and false ecuмenism. The deal did not take place because of the Society’s refusal to accept the New Mass and Vatican II, but the damage had been done.

The 2015-16 ‘Year of Mercy’ under Pope Francis gave as one of its main intentions the Society’s reintegration in to the ‘Official Church.’ This intention was placed alongside that of the rehabilitation of divorced couples married outside the Church, as well as that of ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ couples in stable relationships!

The same occasion saw the apparently unilateral granting of ordinary jurisdiction to the Society for its Confessions, due to its being on the so-called path to full communion with Rome.

In 2017 the Society entered into a practical deal with modern Rome regarding its marriages, effectively placing these latter in the hands of the local conciliar hierarchy.

Hence, in the unlikely event that the Society truly means to return to its former solid position, as maintained by the so-called Resistance, it would need to make an unambiguous declaration to this effect. Failing this the Society would, and regardless of any possible sanctions, simply continue in its desire to be recognised by, and to cohabitate with the Conciliar authorities, hopeful of one day obtaining a side chapel in their ecuмenical basilica.

Such a declaration would also have to specifically include a rejection of the practical agreement on marriages as made in 2017 which subjected the bastions of Tradition to the modernist hierarchy. This is something quite different from a simple forfeiting of the so-called concessions acquired to date. Previously the Society’s marriages had been performed on the basis of supplied jurisdiction and the docuмents signed by the parties involved stated clearly the justifications for this.

Marriages performed in virtue of this agreement, by the local ordinary’s delegate or by delegation directly to a Society priest, are, in both instances, subject to the New Code of Canon Law and the Conciliar marriage tribunals. Thus they are potentially exposed to dubious ‘fast-track annulments’ which the concerned parties can now have recourse to in good faith! Far from strengthening the marriage bond, as the Society superiors claimed at the time, this practical agreement has in fact created a weakening of traditional Catholic marriages and families…

Other subjects which ought to be included in a declaration should also address: the pseudo-consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart by Pope Francis in 2022 (which was officially accepted by the Society at the time); the policy of no longer habitually performing conditional ordinations for those coming from the Conciliar Church; the moral dilemma caused by the Society’s official position regarding the Covid vaccinations…

So it is that we are somewhat alarmed by the rallying of hitherto lucid individuals and communities to the Society of Saint Pius X as if everything would return to normal in the combat for the Faith by virtue of the announced consecrations!

We see in this present confusion in Catholic Tradition an example of the diabolical disorientation prophesied by Our Blessed Lady at Fatima. May we continue to work and pray for a true consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, so that in Her promised triumph the Church will be delivered from the scourges and the agents of liberalism, modernism and naturalism…

+ Paul Morgan

Feast of the Sacred Heart June 12th 2026