What is this Priestly Union to which he refers? I'm not familiar with it.
From lasapiniere.info:
https://www.lasapiniere.info/archives/2775Last press release issued by the USML
by
Abbé Olivier Rioult - Jul 8, 2017 -
Abbé RioultCreated in 2014, the Priestly Union Marcel Lefebvre (USML) brought together priests who denounced the subversion undertaken by the leaders of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X.
The three founding principles between the members of this union were:
(a) priestly friendship without hierarchical structure
(b) The fight against apostate Rome
(c) The rejection of any dogmatic sectarianism.
In recent months, several members, no longer assuming the requirements of the founding principles, have preferred to withdraw from the USML.
The last three members, gathered as planned, see these defections as an indication of Providence that it is no longer appropriate to maintain the existence of USML.
Indeed, the absence of legitimate authority and the lowering of characters all too often prevent the practice of the virtues necessary for the existence of a structure, however light it may be.
As Archbishop Lefebvre said: “From John XXIII, it can be said that we are no longer in a normal time of the Church” (cospec 111b, 1984). What to do?
Father Calmel very well defined the attitude that priests as well as laymen had to adopt in these abnormal times:
“The way, I believe, can enable the Christian struggle to reach its full scale by escaping internal conflicts and external rivalries is to lead it through small units, which know each other as they can, who are helping each other on occasion, but who refuse to enter into some systematic and universal organisations. In these various units, such as a modest school, a humble convent, a brotherhood of piety, a small grouping between Christian families, a pilgrimage organization, the authority is real and undisputed; the problem of the chief does not arise; the work to be done is precise. It is only a question of going to the end of one's grace and authority in the small sphere, of which one is certainly responsible, by keeping connected, without large administrative machines, to those who do the same. (Itineraries, Authority and Holiness in the Church, No. 149 – January 1971)
The experience of recent years shows us that the intuition of Father Calmel must not remain a view of the mind but must be accepted in its practical consequences.
For our part, we will therefore continue our Ministry in accordance with these same principles in collaboration with colleagues of good will.
Angers, 6 July 2017
Fr Nicolas Pinaud
Fr Olivier Rioult
Fr Pierre Roy
It has been well docuмented on this site that Fr Pierre Roy is now as sedevacantist bishop.