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Why then, dear Fr Pagliarani, was a canonical regularisation not impracticable due to doctrinal divergences in 2012? Why were all the bishops, priests, religious orders and faithful crucified by you then for making this very argument? Is it this kind of charity that you are requesting of Rome, the same charity that you showed towards those who resisted from 2012? The Society cannot abandon souls? Yet how many Resistance souls did it abandon for putting forward the very arguments you now set forth? You cut off the Benedictines of Brazil, spiritually and materially, and even condemned Bishop Williamson for going to their rescue. You refused ordinations countless times to the monastic orders who stood firm on this principle. You persecuted the Knights of Our Lady. How many souls were refused entry to SSPX churches or refused absolution in the confessional, refused Holy Communion, refused Confirmation, refused Extreme Unction?

While part of me wants to rejoice in this declaration, how can we not see the hypocrisy? As Fr Pagliarani says to Rome, so we say to him: "we cannot ignore the historical precedents of efforts made in this direction".

Similarly, we cannot ignore the fact that in spite of these fine words, that could just as well be attributed to the Resistance, the iniquitous "conditions" laid down by the extraordinary General Chapter of 2012 foreseeing the possibility of a practical agreement without doctrinal agreement remain in place, in spite of another General Chapter being held in 2018. Actions speak louder than words. We must conclude that these people are not serious. They talk to the right and walk to the left. How can we not be concerned that even if these episcopal consecrations do eventuate, they will be a walk to the left regardless of appearances?

The SSPX is infiltrated, that is clear. Just as St Pius X warned us about the enemy being in the very bosom of the Church, how could they not now concentrate their efforts to destroy the Church on that part which remains healthy? And all the evidence is there since 2012. The compromises, changes and contradictions so well catalogued by Sean Johnson are there for all to read. But perhaps that of most immediate danger to souls is their increasing refusal to "repeat" Conciliar ordinations and confirmations.

Of course, our hopes are that the SSPX will recover to be that Bastion of Tradition that Archbishop Lefebvre founded, and we hope against hope that these episcopal consecrations will give us truly Catholic, uncompromising bishops that will set right all the wrongs of the SSPX.

Fr Paglariani was in Argentina at the same time as Bishop Bergolio.  Don’t be naive.