SSPX ANNOUNCES FOUR NEW YOUNG BISHOPS

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Today the Society of St Pius X (SSPX) announced the names of four priests who will be consecrated as bishops on July 1 - with or without a mandate from 'Pope Leo XIV' and the preposterous Cardinal Tucho Fernandez, who masquerades as Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith for the conciliar church.

The Catholic Church can breathe a collective sigh of relief. The faithful will pray for these courageous men, hoping their consecrations may mean they can practise the Catholic faith again freely, rather than the modernist, globalist, worldly new world religion foisted on them for the past 60 years. Because compared with the Boomer Bishops of the Novus Ordo these men are young. We can expect them to serve Christ by saving souls through baptisms, confirmations and priestly ordinations for the next four decades.  



Father Pascal Schreiber (53) is Swiss. Father Michael Goldade (945) is American. Father Michel Poinsinet de Sivry (42) and Father Marc Hanappier (36) are French. (The French emphasis is of course due to their Society's saintly founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.) They all were blessed by God with generous, faithful parents and large families who will inevitably influence their ministry throughout the world, counteracting its suicidal, statistical head-long rush to extinction.  

In 1988, when +Lefebvre consecrated the original four without papal mandate, the Society had 202 priests. By July 1 there will be 750, widely recognised by the Latin Massgoers who hear their sermons as better qualified, better formed and simply better priests than 98% of our current shepherds. Because as Francis/Bergoglio himself stated, "the problem in the Vatican and seminaries is too many froccigianni." The Society of St Pius X has its own seminaries, modelled on Écône in Switzerland which was founded by +Lefebvre himself. They are uncontaminated by the sodomites who infect and infest conciliar seminarians.

 

For their 750 priests the Society has only two aging bishops. Imagine the effect on the Church at large of four more true shepherds.

"To be publicly associated with this sanction [excommunication] which is inflicted upon the six Catholic Bishops, Defenders of the Faith in its integrity and wholeness, would be for us a mark of honor and a sign of orthodoxy before the faithful", stated the Society's District Superiors and leaders, in 1988.

Now in 2026 Superior General Fr Davide Pagliarani declares that, "If we come to be declared excommunicated and schismatic, "this would not mean that we seek such a sanction or rejoice in it, for it would be objectively unjust."

Objectively unjust condemnation of the innocent, especially when one considers the hypocrisy of those who threaten the Society: Leo XIV, whose ponderous new encyclical Magnifica Humanitas glorifies God's creation rather than the Creator, and the grotesque Cardinal Fernandez, whose retainment as Prefect of the DDF surely raises the question of his having some hold over some party (or parties) in the conciliar Vatican.

In their legalistic bluster and threats of excommunication these men call to mind the Pharisees rebuked by Jesus Christ:


"Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and they that were with him: How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the loaves of proposition, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for them that were with him, but for the priests only? 


"Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple break the sabbath, and are without blame? But I tell you that there is here a greater than the temple. And if you knew what this meaneth: I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: you would never have condemned the innocent."(Mt 12:3-7)

The General House of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) has announced that four priests will be consecrated as bishops on July 1, 2026, at Écône, Switzerland.

 

The announcement was made earlier, May 26, by Father Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of the SSPX.

 

According to the communiqué, the names and dossiers of the selected priests were presented to the Pope in a spirit of respect for the authority of the Catholic Church. The SSPX emphasized that the consecrations are not intended to create a parallel authority within the Church or challenge the authority of the Pope. Instead, the purpose is to ensure the continuation of traditional Catholic sacraments and rites during what the Society describes as a crisis of faith.

 

The four priests chosen for episcopal consecration are:

 

• Father Pascal Schreiber of Switzerland, rector of the Herz Jesu Seminary in Zaitzkofen, Germany.

• Father Michael Goldade of the United States, rector of Saint Thomas Aquinas Seminary in Virginia.

• Father Michel Poinsinet de Sivry of France, currently Superior of the Benelux District.

• Father Marc Hanappier of France, professor of theology at the seminary in Dillwyn, Virginia.

 

Each priest has extensive experience in education, seminary formation, and pastoral ministry within the SSPX.

 

The Society stated that the future bishops will primarily serve by administering the sacraments of Holy Orders and Confirmation according to the traditional Roman rite. The communiqué reaffirmed the SSPX’s commitment to preserving and transmitting traditional Catholic teaching and practice.

Our Lady, Co-redemptrix, pray for us…

Our Lady, Mediatrix of all Graces, pray for us…

Viva Christo Rey!https://radicalfidelity.substack.com/p/sspx-announces-names-of-four-priests?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-

 

 

Lord Jesus Christ, Saviour and Redeemer, we pray for the bishops who will offer the Sacrifice of Calvary in the Holy Mass

MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS - & ANTHROPIC AI

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"Magnificat Humanitas" (Magnificent Humanity, HM) is Leo XIV's first encyclical. Perhaps it's premature to remark, of its preview, that the title is exactly what one would expect. It mirrors the Vatican II Freemasonic invention of the Novus Ordo Mass in its elevation of man and reduction of his Creator - that "humanity might recover and strengthen confidence in its own capacity" rather than God's which is infinite. 

There will be truths in HM's 180-something pages, in addition to the cursory "contemplation of the Incarnate Word" concluding this authorised preview (below). Such as we read in tonight's release of the full encyclical: "Magnifica Humanitas states the 'right to life' is the first right and essential to all other rights. When this fundamental right is denied — as in the cases of induced abortion, killing of the innocent and euthanasia — we are faced with choices that the Church considers gravely wrong".

But instead of encyclicling, as it were, on the grievous plight of the human race which offers babies to Moloch by the million and denies their Creator, HM vaunts artificial intelligence, a creation of "Magnificent Humanity" which seeks, like Adam and Eve, to play God. Leo's first encyclical will likely smack of Cardinal 'Tucho' Fernández' turgid prose. It's a safe bet that it will take 180 pages to state the obvious and it won't win souls for Christ.

And what is Chris Olah, co-founder of Anthropic AI - best known for its creation of the Claude chatbot - doing at the launch of a papal encyclical? Maybe he's the reason why Leo himself will be present, unlike his predecessors who absented themselves from such presentations which are usually held in the Vatican press room for selected officials and guests.

Which on this occasion will include the celebrated Cardinal 'Tucho' Fernández , of "Heal Me With Your Mouth - the Art of Kissing" fame. He'll be there, presenting. With Cardinal Michael Czerny, Bergoglio/Francis' point man on migrants who says some African bishops make him "shudder", and one Anna Rowlands, Professor Catholic Social Thought, migration, common good. Oh yes. Ticking all the boxes.

Cardinal Czerny with the Jesuit ‘America’s Gerald O’Connell and wife Elizabeth Pique

Fr Brendan McGuire, a priest once abused by a cleric and who helped write Anthropic's AI ethics code, has said Anthropic had been "basically asking for direct help from the Vatican to convene and help the [AI] industry, because the industry was going so fast down this road”. And with its oversight by the Vatican, Anthropic is making strategic biotech business gains, forming a $1.5 billion joint venture with private equity firms like Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, & Hellman & Friedman to acquire AI services firms. Goldman Sachs is a major Crown banking arm that has major Vatican ties via people like Peter Sutherland.

Fair enough for Anthropic to make the most of its invaluable Vatican contacts to maximise profits by such a golden PR opportunity. But why is Leo XIV (having by his politicking already alienated US President Donald Trump) now involving the papacy-which-is-not-a-papacy (his alliance with big biz making that even more apparent) with a commercial venture? The papacy and the Catholic Church cannot cozy up to the world as Leo does, but must oppose its evil with her full authority - an authority however which is temporarily lost to a counterfeit, a conciliar "Ape" of the Church.

Previous popes have taught and instructed the faithful in what God has revealed. Pre-Vatican II, it was true of G K Chesterton to say that “[t]he Catholic Church is the only thing which saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age”. But by relying on experiences and feelings instead of on the Magisterium, Tradition and Scripture, synodal theologians like Leo XIV prove they are in cahoots with the world rather than in love with Christ.

After more 60 years of poor catechesis and insipid homilies from wolves dressed in dralon, the spiritually starved Massgoers (both trad and NO) are begging for food, hoping to save their souls and their children's from falling into hell in a blizzard rather than as the snow flakes so distressing to Our Lady of Fatima, in 1917.

Inside “Magnifica Humanitas”: Pope Leo XIV Rejects Transhumanism

 

Italian journalist Nico Spuntoni offers an exclusive preview of the Pope’s first encyclical on safeguarding the human person in the age of AI.

Diane Montagna May 24

 

In just a few hours, Magnifica Humanitas, the first encyclical of the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV, will be officially presented. Prevost signed the document on May 15, the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, the landmark encyclical of his predecessor Pope Leo XIII. It is already well known that its central theme will be the safeguarding of the human person in the age of artificial intelligence.

 

But what will we actually read in this much-anticipated encyclical? We can offer some preview. The Pope’s central argument is that Magnifica Humanitas, when confronted with technological progress, stands before a crossroads between self-sufficiency and solidarity.

 

The text presents this alternative through biblical imagery. The danger of humanity’s excessive power over itself — a concept already explored by Pope Benedict XVI in Spe Salvi — is here reconsidered in light of the development of artificial intelligence and digitalization.

These themes return in the encyclical, where the Pope defends the dignity that belongs to every person simply because he or she is willed, created, and loved by God. The safeguarding of human dignity is presented as the criterion for judging what is good and what is not, even in the sphere of technological development.   What concerns the Pope above all is the risk of moral irresponsibility arising from the use of artificial intelligence, and for this reason the encyclical expands upon warnings he had already issued during the first year of his pontificate.   Finally, it is clear that the Pope who first appeared before the world with the words “peace be with you,” and who later clashed with Donald Trump over the conflict in Iran, could hardly avoid addressing the role of new technologies in warfare.     Christopher Olah. He wouldn't be at the launch unless he knew HM was favorable to Anthropic   In keeping with the traditional position of the Holy See, the defense of multilateralism emerges as unavoidable at a time when it appears more fragile than ever. And while the call for an ethical use of artificial intelligence applies generally, it becomes even more urgent when weapons are involved.   Fr Brendan McGuire https://observer.com/2026/03/the-catholic-priest-who-helped-write-anthropics-ai-ethics-code/   Ultimately, Leo’s encyclical is not opposed to AI; rather, from a characteristically Augustinian perspective, it seeks to guide it toward the realization of the common good.     To this end, Magnifica Humanitas reiterates what the Pope told the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation when he expressed the hope that humanity might recover and strengthen confidence in its own capacity to shape the development of these technologies.   And it is striking that Leo, while addressing such a thoroughly contemporary issue, should feel compelled to point to contemplation of the Incarnate Word as the indispensable path out of the “eclipse of the meaning of what it is to be human,” as he recently stated.https://dianemontagna.substack.com/p/inside-magnifica-humanitas-pope-leo      The tone is neither anti-technology nor utopian. Instead, Pope Leo appears to argue that technological development must remain subordinate to the moral and spiritual flourishing of the person. AI can assist humanity, but it cannot define humanity. Human beings remain uniquely capable of love, sacrifice, worship, moral judgment, and communion with God. With Magnifica Humanitas as Leo XIV’s attempt to answer the cultural crisis of modernity with a renewed Catholic vision of the person: not autonomous individualism, but a humanity ordered toward truth, beauty, community, and divine destiny. Pope St Gregory VII, please pray for the Church

+PAGLIARANI SSPX WRITES US A BEAUTIFUL LETTER

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Today, the Vigil of Pentecost, Catholics everywhere are graced, and may be profoundly enlightened and edified by the Holy Spirit Who speaks to us in a beautiful letter written by Fr Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of the Society of St Pius X, to "faithful and friends".

Its evident sanctity will come as no surprise to Catholics who are truly blessed by assisting the Society's priests at their Masses, hearing their sermons and confessing to them their sins. Fr Pagliarani goes straight to the heart of things: the heart of the Gospel, the heart of the Church, the Heart of Christ. And he takes with him any Catholic who has longed to hear Catholic doctrine expounded by a priest who has interiorised it and lives it.

He writes above all of charity, the crème de la crème of all virtues, and its embodiment in the love of souls and their salvation, the lex suprema of the Catholic Church. That is what drives the Society to pursue its intention to consecrate bishops to pastor 600,000 faithful, 590 priests, 187 seminarians, 103 brothers, 170 sisters and 78 oblate sisters. At the very least, it would seem charity is dictated for the two bishops now responsible for the Society's ordinations and confirmations throughout the world.

+Pagliarani humbly explains that the light given by merciful Divine Providence to guide the Society towards the deadline of July 1 "corresponds to an exceptional grace that we do not actually deserve." 

And he pleads for a supernatural charity which encompasses "holy anger" in the face of "the terrible deviations that are shaking the Church", but is gentle and firm, never showing resentment, contempt or "even a trace of bitter zeal" in responding to Catholics who can't or won't understand the need for episcopal consecrations.

Would it be lacking in charity to observe that the lack of charity and viciousness of Catholics opposed to the Society is the biggest argument in its favour? If so, mea culpa.

Fr Pagliarani sounds like the Church should sound. Like she used to. And as she will again in the future, by the grace of God and with the assistance of the Society of St Pius X, which has stood as her chief bulwark and defence against Christ's enemies, without and within, since Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre's consecrations in 1988. Deo gratias.

From Father Foucauld le Roux, Secretary General, Society of St Pius X:

Dear faithful and friends,

As we prepare for the episcopal consecrations, scheduled for July 1 in Écône, we wish, exceptionally, to make available to you an editorial that the Superior General addressed to the members of the Society on March 7.

 

This text does not revisit the question of the consecrations themselves, but is devoted to recalling the spirit in which they must be prepared for and lived: a spirit of faith, charity, supernatural trust, and love of the Church. For it is not enough to enlighten one’s understanding if one does not dispose one’s heart at the same time.

 

Therefore, a few weeks before this ceremony, which is so important for the whole Church, we felt it was right to share these reflections with the faithful and friends of the Society, so that all may unite more deeply in this preparation, through prayer, sacrifice, and inner peace.

 

Notably, it includes a call to maintain, in the present circumstances, a profoundly supernatural perspective, a spirit of gentleness and strength, and a charity animated by a genuine concern for the good of souls and the Church.

 

Wishing you a good reading, we thank you for keeping these intentions in your prayers, under the watchful gaze of Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces.

 

Father Foucauld le Roux
Secretary General

 

Editorial to the Members of the Society

 

Et nos credidimus caritati.
“And we have believed in charity”
1 Jn. 4:16

 

Dear confreres and members of the Society,

 

It is with great pleasure that, following the public announcement of the consecrations and a series of explanations, I can finally address you in a more personal manner. I would like to share with you some advice to help us in our moral and spiritual preparation as members of the Society. It is this preparation that will enable us, in turn, to accompany the faithful during this time.

 

The necessity and context of the consecrations

 

There is no shortage of apologetical arguments. It is a matter of preserving the Faith, and all the means necessary to transmit it. It is a question of bringing the Faith to life in people’s souls. While the state of necessity could already be invoked in 1988, this state of necessity is, unfortunately, even more evident in 2026. This explains why the Society’s decision is met with an understanding that extends far beyond its borders.

 

There is a positive aspect to this situation. The announcement on February 2 left no one in the Catholic Church indifferent. Almost everyone feels concern and the need to express their approval or disapproval. This is providential, because sometimes words, opinions, and simple statements are no longer enough. They must be accompanied by meaningful actions that Divine Providence can use to shake consciences – and even the Church herself. I firmly believe that Divine Providence is at work in the current debate.

 

Supernatural prudence

 

As for us, we must be able to take a step back from this debate, while remaining fully involved in it. The decision to proceed with the episcopal consecrations must first be guided by supernatural prudence. This prudence concerns not only those who make this decision, but also those who welcome and follow it. In other words, the stakes are so high that each member of the Society must be able, each at his own level, to understand and take personal responsibility for this decision before God.

 

Charity

 

However, the gravity of this decision is such that it cannot be guided by supernatural prudence alone. In order for this decision to be properly understood and explained, that is, by its highest causes, sub specie æternitatis – “in the light of eternity” – it is essential to ask the Holy Ghost to grant us His wisdom.

 

However, we must not forget that true wisdom – the wisdom that must guide us in this exceptional choice – is the daughter of charity. Only the virtue of charity can give us a certain connaturality with Our Blessed Lord and, consequently, enable us to perceive reality in a manner somewhat similar to God. Only on this condition can we have a proper appreciation of it.

 

We have already said and repeated that the reason behind the decision to proceed with episcopal consecrations is the salvation of souls. This should not be seen as mere rhetoric or a simple canonical justification. This reason of charity towards souls and the Catholic Church is what must ultimately prepare our souls, and those of the faithful, for the ceremony on July 1.

 

Sometimes, when we speak of charity, some people feel that we are giving in to a form of weakness, or at least mixing a certain sentimentality with the authentic profession of the Catholic Faith. Such a sensitivity is incompatible with the spirit of Archbishop Lefebvre, with the spirit of the Society, and even more so with the spirit of Redemption. The strength of Our Blessed Lord in His Passion and on the Cross is nothing less than the measure of His charity.

 

READ: SSPX excommunications would not solve the real problem facing the Church

 

It is with this same charity that, now more than ever, we must love souls and Holy Mother Church, even if its official representatives were to declare us excommunicated and schismatic once again: “These things have I spoken to you that you may not be scandalized. They will put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth a service to God. And these things will they do to you; because they have not known the Father, nor me. But these things I have told you, so that when the hour shall come, you may remember that I told you of them.” (John 16:1-4)

 

The ultimate proof that we are in the truth will be our ability to maintain this spirit of charity, no matter what happens, and towards everyone without distinction.

 

What does this charity actually entail?

 

First and foremost, we must never succumb to bitterness. While we certainly have a duty to do everything possible to justify and explain the underlying reasons for the consecrations, this must be done with firmness, and never with bitterness, nor even with the slightest hint of bitter zeal.

 

Obviously, we can become bitter because of excessive zeal, but also because we would have preferred a particular date, a particular candidate, or for things to have been done differently. Whatever the material cause of the bitterness, the remedy is always the same: Caritas patiens est – “charity is patient.”

 

Towards those to whom we speak, whoever they may be, and whether they understand us or not, we must always show kindness. When there is no understanding on the other side, when there is not even a willingness to listen to what we have to say and understand our reasons, it is very easy – humanly speaking – to fall into resentment. Caritas benigna est – “charity is kind.”

 

We must always remember that if Divine Providence has been merciful enough to give us a little light, to allow us to maintain the Church’s Traditions and to do what is necessary to defend them, it corresponds to an exceptional grace that we do not actually deserve.

 

The awareness of this fact must entirely condition our attitude. If the consecrations represent a grace for the entire Society – a grace for which we must thank Divine Providence – this profoundly supernatural joy must not be confused with misplaced triumphalism, as if it were a human victory that we could attribute to ourselves, which would inevitably diminish its intrinsic value.

 

Caritas non agit perperam, non inflatur – “charity dealeth not perversely, is not puffed up.”

 

Following the example of His Grace, Archbishop Lefebvre, in everything we do, we must not seek our own interests nor the survival of a personal endeavour, but rather the good of souls and the good of the Catholic Church. The Society is nothing more than a means of remaining faithful to the Church.

 

If we are taking exceptional measures today to preserve the faith, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and the priesthood, it is because we want the whole Catholic Church – and every soul without distinction – to be able to benefit freely from them one day. All this belongs to the Church, and we are only its guardians. We ask nothing for ourselves. Our only reward will be to see one day Holy Mother Church reclaim her Traditions. Caritas non quærit quæ sua sunt – “charity seeketh not her own.”

 

READ: Cardinal Fernández reveals what will be in upcoming ‘transmission of the faith’ document

 

"Terrible deviations"

 

If we must deploy all our efforts to defend the consecrations – and the Society already has a whole ‘arsenal’ at its disposal for this purpose – and if a holy anger is more necessary than ever in the face of the terrible deviations that are shaking the Church, we must nevertheless show neither contempt nor irritation in our explanations to those whom we are speaking to, and especially towards the hierarchy of the Catholic Church!

 

We must know how to remain both firm and gentle at the same time. However, this is only possible with the help of Our Blessed Lord. Caritas non irritatur – “charity is not provoked to anger.”

 

If we come to be declared excommunicated and schismatic, this would not mean that we seek such a sanction or rejoice in it, for it would be objectively unjust. It is one thing to rejoice in receiving a new humiliation to offer to God, and it is quite another to rejoice (in a spirit of defiance) in an evil and an objective injustice that causes scandal to the whole Church. Caritas non gaudet super iniquitatem – “charity rejoiceth not in iniquity.”

 

If, on the contrary, there is a whole section of the Catholic Church that welcomes and supports the Society’s decision, and if the consecrations become a providential opportunity for renewed courage and enthusiasm – both within and outside the Society – we can only rejoice as God Himself can rejoice.

 

Caritas congaudet veritati – “charity rejoiceth in the truth.”

 

No one could summarize the program for the four months separating us from the consecrations, and the strength that must characterize our charity, better than Saint Paul: Caritas omnia suffert, omnia credit, omnia sperat, omnia sustinet – “charity beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.”

 

This is true – today and in the future: Caritas numquam excidit – “charity never falleth away.”

 

The example of the Blessed Virgin Mary

 

Now more than ever, the Immaculate Heart of Mary must be the refuge of the Society and the model for each one of us. No one had a better sense of souls and a sense of the Church than she. It was out of love for souls and love for the Church that she accepted to offer her own Son on Calvary.

 

Her will was one with that of the Eternal and Sovereign High Priest, at the very moment when He offered Himself to the Father as a victim of expiation. It is this immeasurable charity and sorrow that made Our Lady the Co-redemptrix of the human race and gave her a unique glory in time and eternity.

 

And yet, despite all that this Immaculate Heart, pierced by a sword of sorrow, may have suffered, never did the slightest bitterness or resentment darken the radiance of her charity, even for an instant, and even towards those who had put her divine Son to death. Just as she did not hesitate, even for a moment, to carry out her sacrifice to the end, so her charity towards sinners never wavered. This is an unfathomable mystery of strength, gentleness and love!

 

It is with these sentiments and this charity that we must prepare for the ceremony on July 1, and strive to prepare all the faithful under our care.

 

May God bless you!

Menzingen, March 7, 2026, Feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas

Father Davide Pagliarani, Superior General

Reprinted with permission from the Society of Saint Pius X.https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/sspx-head-calls-for-charity-warns-against-triumphalism-ahead-of-july-1-consecrations/

 

"Pentecost"
Antonio Palomino

 Come Holy Ghost, Creator come

From Thy bright heav'nly throne

Come take possession of our souls

And make them all Thy own.