Hypocrisy at the Vatican? Can you believe it? Or has that become the default position of many of our spiritual fathers? I personally wonder how many of the magisterium actually believe what the Church has taught for millennia. If they do, how can they abandon it so completely that they are ready to canonize a man I can only describe as a sexual predator, Bishop Alejandro Lbaka. What else can one call a priest who cavorted nude with young men and let them touch his genitals and bring about arousal? Is he going to be the patron of all the clergy sex predators who brought such scandal on the Church? Will his canonization be used to justify nudity and sexual play as natural?
Sometimes I feel like the pope wears white as a symbol of the white straight jacket. It indicates the state of poor Holy Mother Church in the grips of those who seem intent on convincing us that what she taught for two thousand years belongs on the ash heap of history -- that all must be new and progressive.
So who are the crazy ones? Those who push back against the synodal Church of anything goes or the bulk of humanity who embrace contraception, abortion, assisted suicide, sodomy, same-sex marriage, and now Bishop Labaka's gospel of natural nudity?
The SSPX offers and island of sanity in the midst of an ocean of confusion, dissent, and chaos. Here are the reaction of two sensible bishops to the SSPX consecration controversy.
Archbishop Vigano's statement:
I express my satisfaction with the response of the Society Saint Pius X General Council to the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (here). It reaffirms decades of consistency, without yielding to the pressures and overtures of the conciliar and synodal Church. It has the merit of wittily demonstrating the paradox of those who in words preach dialogue and inclusiveness, but in practice demonstrate a “double standard” depending on who they are speaking to.
Fr. Davide Pagliarani provocatively asks Tucho Fernández to grant the SSPX the same “pastoral flexibility” it has demonstrated in other cases, knowing full well that the “pastoralism” of synodal officials is a hypocritical rhetorical pretense.
His words echo those of Archbishop Lefebvre to Paul VI: “Let us make the experience of the Tradition” (September 11, 1976). It is the “argumentum ex concessis”—a rhetorical and logical technique in which an interlocutor uses the assertions made by the opponent to construct his own argument, in order to refute or demonstrate the opponent’s position as erroneous.
Fr. Pagliarani reminds Tucho Fernández that the Society does not intend to embrace the hypothesis of a “lowest common denominator” that smooths over obvious doctrinal differences; and that the task of the Hierarchy is to safeguard the integrity of the Depositum Fidei, not to prune it to avoid friction. And precisely by virtue of this principle, the General Superior demonstrates the absurdity of engaging in debate on the level of Charity, ignoring the Truth.
A beautiful lesson—very elegant and not without a touch of healthy irony—that reminds Tucho Fernández that the role of Prefect of the former Holy Office does not consist in selling out the Faith in the name of a unity that can be founded solely and exclusively on the integrity of the Catholic Faith.
If Tucho Fernández truly believes that the pastoral approach has any chance, he must demonstrate it by acting consistently with what he affirms, something that Tucho—like Cardinal Müller—rules out a priori, elevating Vatican II to an untouchable fetish.
The ball is now in Tucho’s and Leo’s court. The only thing either can do is declare a “schism”, and thus definitively save the Society of Saint Pius X from any contamination by the errors of the conciliar and synodal Church. The schism exists: but it is that of a “Church” willing to deny all Catholic Dogmas to save the conciliar and synodal superdogma.
As I stated hopefully in a recent interview with Stephen Kokx: Tucho and Leo have now been “backed into a corner,” or as they would say in Chiclayo: “Entre la espada y la pared” (between the sword and the wall). Deo gratias.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
Viterbo, 20 February 2026
Feria VI post Cineres
Bishop Schneider, whom I respect very much, also responded pointing out a major error in Fernandez's demand to the SSPX that nothing in Vatican II can be corrected or amended. As reported by Infovaticana:
Nearly a week after the meeting of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (FSSPX) at the Vatican, Monsignor Athanasius Schneider—auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan—has expressed his disagreement with the statement by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández—prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith—that the texts of the Second Vatican Council “cannot be modified,” and has defended the idea that pastoral expressions can indeed be revised or corrected....
Schneider maintains that only the Word of God is immutable in the strict sense. “What cannot be changed is only the Word of God. The Bible cannot be changed because it is the Word of God,” he states. In his view, Cardinal Fernández’s formulation would be “completely erroneous” if applied without distinction to the conciliar texts.
The conciliar Church has placed Catholics in the uncomfortable position of cognitive dissonance, i.e., trying to believe two mutually exclusive things at the same time. The challenge for us is to refuse the straight jacket and put on the armor of Christ and fight. We need to defend the truth when the pope and bishops proclaim it and fight the errors when the same pope and bishops try to get us to swallow it whole. And always, we have to keep the faith as taught by Jesus Christ and the apostles and all the Fathers and Doctors of the Church. We don't have to decide whether the chair of Peter is empty or not. The laity have no responsibility or control over that issue no matter how many people want to fight about it. We simply need to be faithful -- like Catholics during the Arian heresy and during the Great Western Schism. In His own time, God will work things out. "Pray, hope and don't worry."
May Jesus Christ be praised!
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