In honor of the media attention given as of late to the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), I wish to present the following excerpts and links from the website of the SSPX. In the words of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre himself, we see the purpose and mission of the Society. And that mission is none other than the mission of our Lord Jesus Christ. Those who attack the Society under some pretense of upholding unity or out of obedience fail in understanding the very mission and the purpose for which the Society exists.
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...
It is necessary that we undertake a crusade, a crusade which is
based precisely upon these notions of immutability, of sacrifice,
in order to recreate Christianity, to reestablish a Christendom
such as the Church desires, such as she has always done...
...it is in order to manifest
our attachment to Rome that we are performing this ceremony.
It is in order to manifest our attachment to the Eternal Rome,
to the pope, and to all those who have preceded these last
popes...
..with Vatican II a spirit of adultery has been blowing
through the Church, a spirit which in the Declaration on
Religious Liberty allows of the principle of religious liberty
of conscience for internal and external acts...
...if it please God... I will be allowed to realize the dream of
which He gave me a glimpse one day in the Cathedral of Dakar. The
dream was to transmit, before the progressive degradation of the
priestly ideal, in all of its doctrinal purity and in all of its
missionary charity, the Catholic Priesthood of Our Lord Jesus
Christ, just as He conferred it on His Apostles, just as the Roman
Church always transmitted it until the middle of the 20th
century...
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