https://sspx.org/en/news/future-consecrations-approaching-deadline-50846*****
Most of this article was already published in French , in Jan. 2025. This article explains what is licit and valid re: of consecrations of new bishops. Educational for me on some details.
I am not wellread as to the opposition the Sspx had when H.E. Williamson consecrated 6 bishops. It's clear there is a state of necessity etc. ,so what was their take re +W. ?
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Excerpt.
"...Today, a number of circuмstances seem to indicate that the favorable moment for new consecrations may have once again arrived. In an interview on November 1, 2024, published in the November-December 2024 issue of
The Angelus magazine, Fr. Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X, in fact stated, mentioning the recent passing of Bishop Tissier de Mallerais:
“But obviously, Providence is speaking to us through this event. It is very clear that his death raises the question of the continuance of the work of the Society, which now has only two bishops, and whose mission for souls appears ever more necessary, in the time of terrible confusion that the Church is living through today”
[1].
2. If this continuity of the Society’s work calls for new episcopal consecrations, it is up to the Superior General of the Society to decide on them. When that moment arrives, it will doubtless be willed by divine Providence. “When the time comes,” Fr. Davide Pagliarani states, “we will know how to take up our responsibilities, in conscience.
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Article continues.