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We hold fast, with all our heart and with all our soul, to
Catholic Rome, Guardian of the Catholic faith and of the traditions necessary to
preserve this faith, to Eternal Rome, Mistress of wisdom and truth.
We refuse, on the other hand, and
have always refused to follow the Rome of neo-Modernist and neo-Protestant
tendencies which were clearly evident in the Second Vatican Council and, after
the Council, in all the reforms which issued from it.
All these reforms, indeed, have contributed and are still contributing to the destruction of the Church, to the ruin of the priesthood, to the
abolition of the Sacrifice of the Mass and of the sacraments, to the disappearance of religious life,
to a naturalist and Teilhardian teaching in universities, seminaries and
catechectics; a teaching derived from Liberalism and Protestantism, many times
condemned by the solemn Magisterium of the Church.
No authority, not even the highest in the hierarchy, can force us to abandon or diminish our Catholic faith, so clearly expressed and professed by
the Church’s Magisterium for nineteen centuries.
“But though we,” says St. Paul, “or an angel from heaven preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be
anathema” (Gal. 1:8).
Is it not this that the Holy Father is repeating to us
today? And if we can discern a certain contradiction in his words and deeds, as well as in
those of the dicasteries, well we choose what was always taught and we turn a deaf ear to the novelties destroying the Church.
It is impossible to modify profoundly the lex orandi without modifying the
lex credendi. To the Novus Ordo Missae correspond a new catechism, a new priesthood, new seminaries, a charismatic Pentecostal
Church - all things opposed to orthodoxy and the perennial teaching of the Church.
This Reformation, born of
Liberalism and Modernism, is poisoned through and through; it derives from
heresy and ends in heresy, even if all its acts are not formally heretical. It
is therefore impossible for any conscientious and faithful Catholic to espouse
this Reformation or to submit to it in any way whatsoever.
The only attitude of faithfulness
to the Church and Catholic doctrine, in view of our salvation, is a categorical
refusal to accept this Reformation.
That is why, without any spirit of rebellion, bitterness or resentment, we pursue our work of forming priests, with the timeless Magisterium as
our guide. We are persuaded that we can render no greater service to the Holy Catholic Church, to the Sovereign Pontiff and to posterity.
That is why we hold fast to all that has been believed and practiced in the faith, morals, liturgy, teaching of the catechism, formation of the priest
and institution of the Church, by the Church of all time; to all these things as codified in those books which saw day before the Modernist influence of
the Council. This we shall do until such time that the true light of Tradition dissipates the darkness obscuring the sky of Eternal Rome.
By doing this, with the grace of God and the help of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and that of
St. Joseph and St. Pius X, we are assured of remaining faithful to the Roman Catholic Church and to all the successors of Peter, and of being the
fideles dispensatores mysteriorum Domini Nostri Jesu Christi in Spiritu
Sancto. Amen. |
