The statement from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith about the meeting with the Society of Saint Pius X is a poisonous trap steeped in modernist hypocrisy. Behind a false spirit of “dialogue,” it aims exclusively to impede episcopal Consecrations.

1 – It speaks of “minimum requirements for full communion with the Catholic Church,” as if there were some sort of lowest common denominator in the integral and immutable Faith. There is nothing to discuss: the Society is already in communion with the Catholic Church of all time. It is rather the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, with its Prefect Tucho Fernández, that must be questioned and judged for having trampled on those “minimum requirements,” embracing conciliar and synodal errors, moral subversion, and idolatry.

2 – The claim of wanting to “outline a canonical statute” for the Society is absolutely unacceptable and must be avoided. Any canonical configuration would deliver it into the tentacles of the current Vatican “system,” with the aim of destroying all traditional resistance. We have seen this with the Ecclesia Dei communities which have been silenced or dissolved: it would be spiritual suicide.

3 – Fernández cites the First Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution Pastor Æternus, speciously reiterating the doctrine of “ordinary, supreme, full, universal, immediate, and direct” papal power. How hypocritical are those who promote “synodality,” considering Vatican I obsolete and an obstacle to ecumenical unity with heretics and schismatics! The double standard is brazen: on the one hand, Tucho maintains that Vatican II cannot be revised or modified, because it is the “conditio sine qua non” of the very existence of the conciliar and synodal Church. On the other hand, the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, with its document “The Bishop of Rome,” theorizes a “reinterpretation” of the Papacy in the light of synodality and ecumenism, essentially contradicting and revoking Pastor Æternus and the entire Magisterium concerning the Roman Pontiff.

4 – Canon Law emerges turned upside down and subverted: its cardinal principle is no longer the salvation of souls—”Salus animarum suprema lex”—but it instead becomes a tool for consolidating self-referential and tyrannical power, and a weapon for repressing any voice of more than dutiful dissent against the subversives who usurp authority in the Catholic Church. Here too, the double standard is evident: just think of the Holy See’s connivance with regard to the episcopal ordinations of the Chinese Patriotic Association or the scandalous schismatic initiatives of the German Bishops’ Conference.

The meeting between Tucho Fernaández and Fr. Davide Pagliarani highlights the paradox of the last sixty years: those declared to be outside the Catholic Church retain the Faith, and those considered in communion with the Apostolic See—to the point of holding its highest offices—are in fact heretics and apostates.

+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop

Viterbo, February 14, 2026