SSPX: Exposing the Roots of the Church Crisis

The consecration of SSPX bishops this year serves to preserve the Tradition of the Church while exposing the essence and cause of the Church crisis. We should all be grateful for the SSPX.

Since Vatican II, the Council’s poison has largely remained below the surface, slowly creeping through the veins of the Church’s hierarchy, spreading its ambiguities, errors and lies as it corrupts the faith of Catholics one by one around the globe.

Sure, the Council itself is referred to ad nauseum by those who insist Vatican II was beautifully Catholic. Bishop Barron, George Weigel, and EWTN, just to name a few, constantly remind Catholics how important Vatican II is for their lives. But the poison remains largely obscure—by design.

The SSPX is now doing the entire Church a favor on July 1, 2026. By consecrating a few auxiliary bishops, the Vatican II fault line that lies below the surface of the Conciliar Church will be exposed at the root again for the first time since 1988. That fault line extends well beyond the modernist and Novus Ordo Catholic world; it extends into Traditional Catholicism as well.

On one side you have Cardinal Burke, Mark Lambert, Timothy Flanders, Gavin Ashenden, and others who assert traditionalist sympathies, yet insist Vatican II is actually Catholic, or at least can be squared somehow with the Church’s authentic magisterium.

They invite Thomas Pink, Larry Chapp, Cardinal Mueller on their podcasts and assume their convoluted mental gymnastics excuse us from having to admit what the rest of the entire world can see by simply using common sense—that is, that Vatican II was a revolution in the Church designed to replace and overthrow the Catholic faith instituted by Christ Himself and passed down to us over the course of 2000 years through apostolic Tradition.

On the other side, you have Traditional Catholics who recognize that the problem within the Church, institutionalized at Vatican II, has always been a doctrinal one. Literally, we recognize that there are members of the hierarchy, who claim apostolic succession, that do not believe in most of the dogmas and doctrines that Catholics are required to believe. This is the real crisis in the Church because they portray their false ideas as authentic Catholic teaching. Yet, we know that no amount of obfuscation and mental gymnastics can make 2 plus 2 equal 5.

This crisis is real and tangible. At this point, most Catholics who attend a New Mass, even on a weekly basis, know very little about the authentic teachings of the Catholic Church. Some examples:

• They think “religious liberty” is a good thing. They even attend religious freedom rallies, participate is religious freedom commissions, and routinely extol the virtues of the First Amendment.

• They think the purpose of marriage and marital relations is “unity” and not the procreation of children. As a result, contraception and Natural Family Planning is used to limit the size of families and ultimately souls destined for Heaven, while other religions repopulate the world.

• They find the Church’s prohibition on divorce and second marriages oppressive and managed to convince canonists and bishops to permit de facto divorces by making annulments routine and ubiquitous.

• They think capital punishment is intrinsically evil, despite being permitted and utilized by the Church throughout Her entire history.

• They think space aliens are real and that the Jews and Muslims are People of God.

• They think all their dead relatives are in Heaven with the angels now. If they even believe in hell and purgatory, those places are reserved for Hitler and Stalin.

• They think the Mass is a place for coming together with fellow Catholics and other Christians for fellowship and a communal meal and not a sacrifice.

• Nor is there any shortage of Catholics who routinely engage in occult practices, deviant sexual behavior, and deny the social Kingship of Christ on a daily basis and still receive Holy Communion with the approval of the local bishop and pastor.

• What about the spirtual life of those who attend a typical New Mass parish? Are they holding to traditional fasting/penance requirements, listening to traditional sermons at Mass, receiving the extra graces offered by traditional sacramental rites, reading catechisms of the Church that were written before 1962? Of course not.

The list goes on and on. At the end of the day, a typical Catholic thinks the Conciliar Church is the Catholic Church primarily because those who claim apostolic authority are teaching something totally different than what was taught before the Council.

The SSPX recognizes this sad state of affairs. It seeks the salvation of souls. But it denies the ability to fix the crisis in the Church alone. Its mission is, first and foremost, the salvation of souls through preserving the Tradition and keeping it from extinction given the circumstances. They need priests to do that, and they need bishops to make priests.

One who claims to be a “Trad” may respond that consecrating bishops without Rome’s permission is not needed because we have access to Tradition through the former Ecclesia Dei communities, such as the FSSP.

Ironically, the fact they now must refer to themselves as “former” Ecclesia Dei communities betrays their own betrayal of Archbishop Lefebvre. Their own Vatican commission has now been dissolved and placed under the control of pornographer, Victor “Tucho” Fernandez, and his Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Is there any question why they are placed under the control of this particular dicastery? Because the issues involving preservation of Tradition are DOCTRINAL and the substance what we must believe as Catholics. The Modernists are changing the faith and need traditionalists to accept Vatican II.

The former ED communities now exist solely at the arbitrary behest of Modernists in the Vatican to celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass within the Conciliar Church context. Their precarious position is completely conditioned on their agreement to compromise on the faith and subjecting themselves to the whims of those who despise their existence.

Has it crossed anyone’s mind that the only reason the FSSP and other ED communities are still around is to serve as an alternative to the SSPX? Traditional diocesan parishes are being shut down after Traditionis Custodes. The revolution needs traditional Catholics to remain under the Vatican II umbrella or get out. If the SSPX dissolves, and there is no longer an option for Traditional Catholics inside the typical diocesan parish system, what happens to these “former” Ecclesia Dei communities? I think we all know the answer.

Therefore, the SSPX’s actions are not only necessary for the Society’s preservation but the preservation of Tradition as a whole for the Church. If someone laments over the Society’s consecration of a few auxiliary bishops, rest assured, they fear losing the Vatican II revolution and returning to the faith as Catholics always knew it.

The SSPX’s existence continues to shine light on the faith of the saints, the traditions of our ancestors, serve the spirtual needs of the faithful, and guards the Truth handed down to us since the time of the apostles.

God Bless the SSPX and watch my video where I dive into this topic a bit more.