Ladies and Gentlemen:It is always a great joy for me to
return to this beautiful Republic of Argentina. I'm already beginning to
know the country, but unfortunately, I am not yet able to speak to you in
Spanish and I will have to seek Father Faure's help to translate for me.
We know that many questions are being asked about my
attitude in the Church, about my position in the Church. What is the
attitude of Mgr. Lefebvre in the Catholic Church? What is the situation of
the Priestly Society of St. Pius X in the heart of the Church?
NOTE: [Being French, throughout this conference,
Archbishop Lefebvre uses the title "Mgr." (abbreviated for "Monseigneur",
literally, "My Lord"), which in French is equivalent to the episcopal title
of "His Excellency" or "Bishop", though it is also sometimes used in
reference cardinals. Being a transcription of a spoken conference, we have
retained the original. ]
I would like to be able to answer these questions in the
most exact and correct manner. To do this I think we are obliged to consider
briefly what the actual situation in the Church is, and in this way explain
the reasons for our attitude and our position.
I think that finding myself before a select audience
—before a profoundly Catholic audience —it will not be necessary for me to
insist on what the situation in the Church was until Vatican Council II. It
can be said, in a general way, that the Church, the men of the Church, such
as they were during the time of Pope Pius XII, whom I knew personally when I
was Apostolic Delegate for French Africa, were very different from what they
are today. I had the opportunity to meet frequently with Pius XII every year
for eleven years.
I can say that generally, in the Roman Congregations and
in the Vatican, there existed a very profound sense of the Catholic Faith.
They truly worked for the reign of the Faith of Our Lord Jesus Christ and
for the social reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ —a reign over people, over
families and over society.
Indeed, you know well that for four centuries great
efforts have been made to fight against that Catholic doctrine, that Faith
of the Church, but the truth is that when one went to the Vatican, he would
find that the Catholic Faith was alive in all those Roman Congregations and
there would be found considerable support, above all for a missionary bishop
such as I was.
At that time, if we needed to enlighten our faith on some
point of doctrine, it was sufficient to consult the congregation of the Holy
Office to obtain a precise and clear answer, in conformity with the Faith of
the Church and its Magisterium.
There was no hesitation!
In the same way, to know what kind of relations the
Vatican wanted to maintain between the Holy See and civil societies, it
sufficed to direct oneself to the Secretariat of State which had then, very
clear and very precise principles before the states which were not Catholic
regarding Catholic states.
For example, I remember well that in General Franco's
time, in Spain, Pope Pius XII used to tell me that never had there been
realized an agreement so conformed to Catholic doctrine as the agreement
reached with the Spanish government. To make such a statement was a most
extraordinary thing for the Holy Father to do.
There was experienced then, in all these dominions the
secular knowledge of the Church, just as the knowledge and protection of the
Most Blessed Virgin Mary towards her children can be felt. When the
principles of the relations between the Vatican and the states were
facilitated by the Catholic Faith there were no difficulties in anything
having to do with relations of the states with the Church. Regarding Her
mission of saving souls, when the states were Catholic, the Holy See counted
on the support of the chiefs of state, of whom She asked that Our Lord Jesus
Christ be the one to reign in society. When the chiefs of state drew up a
constitution they would provide in the first article that "the Catholic
religion is the only one officially recognized by the state." In this
way, what the Holy See wanted was accomplished: the reign of Our Lord Jesus
Christ for the salvation of souls, not in order to have a temporal influence
in those states.
Concerning states that were not Catholic, for example
Senegal, where I spent fifteen years as Archbishop over 3,500,000
inhabitants. There were 3,000,000 Moslems and 500,000 Animists, of which,
happily, 100,000 were converted to the Faith. We were, consequently, a small
minority. And what did the Church do in this case? She sent priests,
bishops, religious men and women, brothers of the Christian schools
—brothers who were dedicated to teaching the people, so that slowly, surely,
those who did not believe in Our Lord Jesus Christ, would be converted to
the Church, would be transformed into Christians, even at the price of the
blood of those preachers.
How many of these missionaries sent by the Church during
the course of centuries have been massacred, massacred because they said
that Our Lord Jesus Christ should be the King of people, King of society?
These missionaries the Church has raised to Her altars
and has considered them martyrs.
In the same way the Church has raised to Her altars many
saints, holy popes, holy bishops, holy priests, religious men and women,
fathers of families, mothers of families, kings, queens, the poor.
So did the Church show the example of these persons who
had worked —each one in Her midst, who had worked in the course of their
lives to sanctify themselves by the reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ and to
establish His reign in souls. All these kings and queens who have been
canonized give us an extraordinary example which we would do well to adopt
in our days.
How proud we could be to have in our day examples of
kings and queens who would live like saints! What examples this would mean
for the whole world! And that posture was conserved by the Church until the
times of Pius XII.
But, unfortunately, we must recognize that something has
changed in the Church. Of course, when I say the Church I am conscious of
the fact that the Church cannot change, because the Church will always be
eternal, holy, universal, catholic and apostolic. So that, when I speak of
the Church, it is not realized or taken into account that I do not wish to
attack the Church. I have an immense veneration for the Church and I think
that I continue always working for the Church, as I did in the times of Pope
Pius XI and Pope Pius XII.
But we cannot help recognizing that something important
has changed in the Church.
If we go back to the first causes of the actual
situation, if we look for the first author of these changes, we will meet
the first enemy, the great enemy of Our Lord Jesus Christ, His sworn enemy
—Satan himself. The devil always fought against Our Lord Jesus Christ and he
could have thought he triumphed at the moment of the Crucifixion, at the
moment of Calvary but there he was also defeated, for which reason he went
on attacking the Mystical Body of Christ, the Holy Catholic Church, and
then, from the beginning, and for three centuries, there were thousands and
thousands of martyred Christians who gave testimony of the Faith —of their
faith in Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Then came the heresies, the schisms, the attacks against
the Faith, the divisions brought to life by the devil and so, disgracefully,
millions of Christians separated themselves from the Church.
Satan also invented false religions which made the work
of the missions difficult by making impossible the conversion of entire
nations. That was the work of the devil for fifteen centuries, we can say,
until the moment of the French Revolution.
Until that time the devil worked as an enemy of the
Church, to destroy the Church from without and so he was able to take entire
nations away from the Kingdom of Our Lord Jesus Christ and bring them to the
gates of hell. Afterwards, to be more sure in his attacks on the Church,
which was defended by her children and governed by those who were called
lieutenants of Our Lord Jesus Christ by the Catholic princes, Satan attacked
those same governments of the Catholic states and unleashed a persecution
against those Catholic states which resulted in their no longer being
Catholic states.
The atheistic states, the states that did not profess any
religion, persecuted the Catholic Church, which was then attacked by the
same lay-states which had become anti-Catholic states. This constituted a
considerable success for Satan within those states, those universities,
those schools in which he formed generations imbued with liberalism,
modernism, atheism, so that the moment arrived for Satan to take over those
states. In the end, all Catholic homes allowed themselves to be penetrated
by this climate.
Pope St. Pius X says in his first Encyclical of 1904:
"As of now the enemy is not outside of the Church but within the Church
itself," and St. Pius X designates the places where the enemy is found:
the enemy is in the seminaries, the enemy has infiltrated the seminaries,
among the professors of the seminaries. This is clear! It is St. Pius X
himself who says so!
Fifty years before this text from St. Pius X, Pope Pius
IX showed the bishops the plan of the secret society and asked that the acts
of the Italian secret societies be published. In these documents can be
read: "from now on we will penetrate the parishes and into the
episcopates, and into the seminaries and so we will have parish priests,
bishops and cardinals who will be our disciples, and from these cardinals we
hope one day to have a pope, who will be imbued with our ideas and will not
appear to have been elected by the secret societies. Thus the Christian
people will think they are following the Chair of Peter and in its place
they will follow us."
Fifty years later this satanic plan is realized,
according to the same words of St. Pius X, and since then, since fifty years
ago, in the fifty years following, not only secret societies revealed this
plan and this acitivity, but even the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima and at
LaSalette predicted that one day the enemy would mount to the highest
positions in the Church. This means something very grave: that perhaps there
will be no need to climb as high as the Holy Father but to the positions in
command in the Church.
And so we come to Vatican Council II, in which those who
were imbued with these modernist ideas would end up triumphant. I was
witness, in particular, during a last session of the Advisory Council
preparatory to the Council itself (I was a member of the Central Commission
in which there were seventy Cardinals and twenty bishops, among which I was
counted as President of the Episcopal Assembly of French Africa), to a
violent discussion between Cardinal Bea and Cardinal Ottaviani about the
document on religious freedom. These two Cardinals confronted each other to
such a point that Cardinal Ruffini (of Palermo) had to intervene, saying he
was sorry to assist at such a serious discussion between two Cardinals,
members of the College of Cardinals, and for this reason the only solution
left was to appeal to the higher authority, that is to say, the Pope. In
this session, Cardinal Bea entitled his thesis, "De libertate religiosa"
("About Religious Liberty"); on the contrary, Cardinal Ottaviani entitled it
"About Religious Tolerance." This is how Cardinal Ottaviani defended the
traditional thesis of the Church and Cardinal Bea, the liberal thesis. These
two theses were submitted to a vote. The Cardinals voted and we proved,
according to the results, that they were totally divided. Some were liberals
and supported Cardinal Bea, and others were conservative and traditionalists
and they supported Cardinal Ottaviani. The result of this was, in agreement
with what we have seen of the Council, that the liberals won. This cannot be
denied. They were the ones who dominated in Vatican Council II,
unfortunately, (disgracefully), with the support of His Holiness Paul VI.
This was clearly appreciated when the names of the four moderators Pope Paul
VI named to the Council were made known. These moderators were Cardinals
Agagianiain, Suenens, Dopfner and Lercaro. Of these, only one was
conservative: Cardinal Agagianian. He did not speak, but remained silent. He
was a timid man, very discreet, who spoke little, he did not allow his
influence to be felt. Cardinal Lercaro was the Bishop of Florence. His Vicar
General in Florence was a member of the Communist Party. Cardinal Suenens,
on his part, God only knows what he has done before and after the Council to
extend his liberal ideas. For example: he gave conferences in Canada in
favor of the marriage of priests. Cardinal Dopfner, on his part, kept his
ecumenism very marked. He himself was saying that first came common prayer
between Catholics and Protestants and then you could speak about doctrine.
This made the majority of bishops who formed part of the Council follow the
liberal minority, which, in fact, dominated in the Council. These were the
three moderators of the Council, three moderators named by the Chair of
Peter, and this shows what orientation the Chair of Peter had.
Several hours would be needed to be able to show you how
the liberals dominated during the course of Vatican II. So that you can know
this exactly, for yourselves, it seems opportune for me to advise you read a
book by Fr. Ralph Wiltgen, The Rhine Flows Into the Tiber, which was
originally written in English and was then translated into other languages,
and where it is impartially shown, because its author was not, properly
speaking, a traditionalist, the image of the battle which developed in the
Council between the liberals and some conservatives who could still speak.
We cannot forget that Pope John XXIII expressly asked the
Cardinals of the Roman Curia, who were without doubt the most traditional,
not to intervene in the discussions of the Council. In fact, even though the
Roman Cardinals integrated the commissions they no longer spoke. This was a
very hard blow for the conservative groups who were keeping themselves
faithful to the tradition of the Catholic Church, who were not innovators,
who were not modernists.
We met in a small group after the second year of the
Council: Mgr. Sigaud, Mgr. Corli (Bishop of Gaeta), Mgr. Castro Meyer
(Bishop of Campos), and I, and we began to work so that we would be able to
unite bishops who could oppose themselves to this great danger which was
presenting itself throughout the Church. There were never more than two
hundred and fifty of us.
I would like to give you just one example of what the
Council was: We did everything possible so that Vatican Council II would
condemn Communism. Being a pastoral council (we should not forget that
Vatican II was a pastoral council), that is to say, a council which has as
its principal preoccupation the salvation of souls, which has as its object
the destruction of the errors that menace souls, it was necessary, without
doubt that this Council should be opposed to the greatest danger presenting
itself in this age, as is Communism —a danger which extends itself
throughout the world.
This Council, where 2,500 bishops responsible for the
Catholic Church were meeting was not capable of formally condemning
Communism.
We, on our part, made all the effort possible to have
Communism condemned. So we managed to get 450 signatures to ask for this
condemnation. Mgr. Siguad and I went to see Mgr. Felici, the Secretary of
the Council, carrying in our hands the signatures we had gathered within the
time specified by the internal regulations, so that this condemnation of
Communism could be proposed to the Council Fathers. When Mgr. Garrone who
was the Postulator of the Council made reference to this document, he said
that only one bishop had presented the possibility of having Communism
condemned, even though we had gathered 450 signatures. He said, "I
haven't heard anyone speak of this." We know that Mgr. Glorieux, who was
one of the secretaries of the Council, made this list of signatures
disappear so that we could not look for others to present to the Council
Fathers. Confronted with this situation we thought we would direct ourselves
to the bishops from behind the Iron Curtain: Cardinal Wyszynski, Cardinal
Beran and Cardinal Slypyi, who had been persecuted by Communism, who had
been imprisoned. We thought that if we could get the support of these three
Cardinals, we might be able to get close to a thousand signatures. The two
of us then went to see Cardinal Wyszynski, Cardinal Beran and Cardinal
Slypyi. We had prepared a project with a very careful format in Mgr. Carli's
charge, in which the Council Fathers were asked to condemn Communism.
In the first place, we went to see Cardinal Beran, who at
that moment was Archbishop of Prague. Cardinal Beran said, "I am totally
in agreement with you, I want to sign the document, but not alone. If I sign
alone, the Communists will attack my family in Czechoslovakia. I want to
sign, but I want other bishops, other cardinals, to support this position
also because if we are many it will be much more difficult for them to
attack me." He finally signed, and we promised him that if no other
bishop signed the declaration, we would return his signature. Then we
approached Cardinal Slypyi who lived in the Vatican itself, behind the
sacristy at St. Peter's. When we met him and presented him with the
document, he said, "I am totally in agreement with you. If there is an
error we should condemn, it is Communism. You already know what my position
is, but I am guest of the Vatican, and I'm sure that up there (pointing
to the cupola of St. Peter's), they don't want Communism condemned. I
know this very well."
Lastly, we went to see Cardinal Wyszynski, and not
finding him in his rooms I spoke to him on the telephone. Cardinal Wyszynski
said to me, "Monseignor, you know what my intervention was on that point
at the Council. I asked at the Council that a complete document be drawn up
to condemn Communism and nobody supported me; my proposition was rejected,
and I no longer want to do any intervening."
We saw ourselves obliged to return Cardinal Beran's
(Archbishop of Prague) signature. This is the true story of this document on
the condemnation of Communism which was never approved by the Council. This
example alone shows what Vatican II was, a Council in which 2,500 Fathers
were gathered together which did not confront Communism, the major enemy of
God, of the Church, of all spiritual principles. A Council which acts in
this manner condemns itself.
I'm not going to insist any more about all those doings
of the Council, of that pastoral Council which produced fruits which were,
without a doubt, disastrous. After the Council, the liberals who had
triumphed completely during it, occupied all the commissions that were in
charge of bringing forth the proclaimed reforms. All the persons who
directed these commissions, which were those in charge of putting everything
into practice, all the congregations were in the hands of the modernists and
the liberals. Even now, we can say, generally, that the Roman Congregations
are in the hands of the modernists and the liberals who have succeeded those
who have died.
Having shown what my attitude was, I return then to the
questions I asked at the beginning of this conference. Are you amazed that
someone condemns us? Are you amazed that the authorities of the Church
persecute us, me in particular, who together with Mgr. Siguad and Mgr. Carli
were, in a way, inside the Council, the spearpoint, of Catholic tradition
and to the fidelity of the Church of always, of fidelity to the Church? Now
that the chiefs of the Roman Congregations are those liberals who triumphed
at the Council, it is evident that they will have as their objective the
persecution of all traditionalists.
Of me, for example, who have formed a seminary which has
been approved in the regular manner by the bishop of the diocese of the
place and which has been constituted in agreement with all the canonical
rules. The fact that the seminary should have been developed has disquieted
them and they have prepared a kind of plot against it and against the
Society which I have founded; a plot, definitely against us, to accomplish
the suppression of the tradition of the Church. I don't think this can
surprise anyone. We can affirm that they don't have enemies on the left,
they only have enemies on the right. Time goes by and I would not like to
tire you.
If I was to give you all the details of this plot and of
the form in which the condemnation of my seminary and of the Priestly
Society of St. Pius X was arrived at, you would be astounded. I give you
just one detail: after the visit which took place at the Seminary at Ecône,
Switzerland, by two monsignors sent from Rome, I was invited to that city by
three Cardinals to give some complementary information. This meeting to
which I was invited, did not constitute in any way an ecclesiastical court.
It can be said that it was simply a visit in courtesy.
At the beginning of the interview, present at which were
Cardinal Garrone, Cardinal Wright and the Spanish Cardinal Tabera, Cardinal
Garrone asked me, "Monseignor, will you permit us to record this
conversation?" I told him that they could record it on the condition
that they would afterwards give me a copy of same. He said, "Yes, of
course, we will give it to you."
Nevertheless, having finished the conference, when I
asked them for the copy of the conversation, they denied it to me. A second
example that shows what this interview with the Roman Cardinals was: wanting
to know who had named those Cardinals to interview me, if they constituted a
commission, if it had to do with a particular initiative or was something
that the Pope had ordered —and that I didn't know anything about, had no
document, no official note and never had anything like it been done at the
Vatican. I directed myself to Cardinal Staffa, who was the President of the
Apostolic Assignment of the Roman Tribunal, and there I presented a recourse
of complaint. I paid the rights which are demanded in the Roman Tribunal, so
that I could present a complaint and I was given a receipt.
Once I did this, Cardinal Villot, who was at that time
the Secretary of State, wrote a letter by his hand and in his own
handwriting, to Cardinal Staffa, forbidding him to give me any document and
ordering him to close the process immediately. In this way, we can see how
the executive power injected itself into the sphere of the judicial power.
Something which had never happened in the Church and it kept Cardinal Staffa
from passing judgment on my complaint. In such a way that the Society, my
seminaries and I, myself, were condemned without process, without judgment,
without documents and without being able to relate this condemnation to the
visit of the two monsignors to Ecône.
I myself had the opportunity to tell Pope John Paul II (I
had already told Pope Paul VI) that the form in which I had been condemned
was worse than that used by the Soviets: at least they establish the farce
of a tribunal; in my case, even that wasn't allowed. In fact, I should close
my seminaries, immediately expel my seminarians who were at their studies in
the middle of the year, and then dismiss all the teachers. You understand
that a situation like this one can only be attributed to the occupation of
the Church —the occupation of the Church by modernism which persecutes the
traditionalists.
Remember the story of Cardinal Mindszenty? The way in
which that Cardinal was treated by the Vatican can be considered ignoble.
Cardinal Mindszenty, the hero of his people, who wanted to remain for many
years in the selfsame Hungary, shut up in the United States Embassy to be
near his people, was treated worse by the Roman Congregations, the Roman
Curia, than he had been by the Soviets. Cardinal Slypyi is another example.
He himself told me, "I have been treated worse here, in Rome, than I was
in Ukrainia."
One more example: Cardinal Wysznski. When he went into
Rome he was watched, without being able to circulate freely around the city.
All of this shows an absolutely ignoble persecution. Why? Because these
three Cardinals were traditionalists. Then, when they tell us, "You
should obey," we answer them, "We don't want to obey the enemies of
the Church. I do not want to obey those who destroy the Church. I do not
admit it."
What Pope Paul VI entitled the "auto-destruction"
of the Church is nothing else than what the self-same bishops and priests
are realizing within the Catholic Church. I do not want to contribute to the
destruction of the Church!
What I have just finished telling you is sad, but the
Cardinals who are actually in Rome, whose names you certainly know, continue
in this new policy, this new attitude of the Church, contrary to the
tradition of Christ. Be it through the liturgy, through teaching, through
the catechism, through the general policy of the Church before states and
civil societies, a completely new orientation has been imposed. Everything
has changed in the Church.
In the liturgy it is very clear. All our sacraments have
been overthrown and subverted, all the old books have been suppressed and
replaced by new books. This is not treating of a reform like that of St.
Pius V, which had as its objective to remove from the Mass the additions
made during the years which were precisely not in agreement with Tradition.
The reform of St. Pius X had the same sense: elements were removed which had
been acquired in preceding years which were not very conformed to Tradition,
so as to return to that Tradition. But here one treats of the suppression of
Tradition, of a new concept of the Mass, a concept which is more Protestant
than Catholic, which was accomplished through the presence of six Protestant
pastors who were called to transform our Mass.
It's a new thing in the treatment of the Mass, of the
Holy Mass of always: to call six pastors so that they came to change it.
What could these Protestants say when they were asked: "What would you like
us to change in the Mass?" but to align our liturgy with the Protestant
liturgy. This is the sense of the dialogue which is so much spoken of, a
very grave attitude which responds to a general principle, to consider the
religion of others as true as ours.. Consequently, to consider that the
Catholic religion is not the only religion through which one can be saved,
the only divine religion, founded by God, founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ,
with a perfectly different orientation from the others —it is inconceivable!
The Church itself has asked the states to not be Catholic
states any more, to suppress the first articles of their constitutions,
which say: "The Catholic religion is the only religion recognized by the
State." It is the Holy See itself which has asked this of the different
states and it is because of this that there are no more Catholic states.
That is finished. Because the Holy See desires that all religions be
recognized equally in all the states, that all religions be equal. This is a
completely new orientation for the Church. Never has the Church accepted,
never has the Church taken this stand. The Church has never accepted that
Our Lord Jesus Christ be put on an equal footing with Buddha, Luther and all
those founders of false religions.
From the political point of view, you know well, you know
perfectly, in almost the whole world, the Episcopates positively favor the
Communist revolution and socialism.
In France, the election of Mitterand was owed to a large
degree to the efforts of the bishops and priests who asked the faithful to
vote in socialism. Result: we have four Communist ministers and this with
the support of bishops and clerics. It's unimaginable! Rome did not
intervene to prevent this socialist government from taking hold in France. A
government, that is, in its deeds, militantly atheistic and which will
monopolize all the teaching and which, consequently, will have all the
Catholic schools in its hands.
When I had the opportunity to travel to Mexico last
January, the Mexican Episcopate published a document which expressly
approved of the revolution in El Salvador, to the point of asking that the
Mexican Catholics contribute —be it with arms to go and fight against the
government, be it with money to help the revolution. Where are we going?
What Church is this? They tell us: "You disobey!" But, should we
obey? Could it be that these bishops represent the Church? Without a doubt,
there are still good bishops and these bishops are persecuted. You have an
example in your homeland — Mgr. Tortolo, who never became Cardinal and who
could well have been the Archbishop of Buenos Aires. The case of Mgr.
Morcillo, Archbishop of Madrid, whom I know very well, constitutes another
example. Mgr. Morcillo was never a Cardinal. They used to tell him, "You
can't be a Cardinal because the primary diocese in Spain is the diocese of
Toledo, therefore being a Cardinal corresponds only to the Bishop of
Toledo." Immediately after the death of Mgr. Morcillo, Mgr. Tarancon who
was the Archbishop of Madrid, was raised to the cardinalate. All the
secretaries of the Council were named Cardinal, but Mgr. Morcillo, also a
secretary, never was.
Cardinal Siri, who was President of the Italian Episcopal
Conference was stripped of his office only one month after the election of
Paul VI. We have to say that there are enemies of the Church who have
occupied the Church. The Church is occupied!
You know Cardinal Pironio very well. A Cardinal who,
having the ideas and attitudes he does, was named President of the
Congregation for Religious. Another example, Cardinal Knox. A Cardinal who
is, in fact, sacrilegious. During the Eucharistic Congress at Melbourne (at
that moment I was in Australia, although I did not assist at the Congress),
the so-called "Kamburu Mass" took place. What is a "Kamburu Mass"? He made
the primitive population who live in the interior in Australia come. Men
dressed in a manner you can just imagine, who danced on the platform which
had been prepared for the Mass, next to the altar; they danced their
primitive dances while the words of Consecration were being pronounced. What
this man did is a sacrilege, and this man was named Prefect of the
Congregation of Rites. What can this man do before such a Congregation?
Cardinal Baggio, for example, who was Apostolic Nuncio in
Chile, and had to abandon the country for reasons not very favorable to him
(you have only to ask the government of Chile what those reasons were), it's
he who is now in charge of the naming of bishops!
Cardinal Casaroli, actual Secretary of State, can be
found on the list of the Masonic Lodge P2 which is published by the
newspapers. I'm not the one who says so, it's the Italian newspapers.
How can it be conceived that the Church continue its work
of sanctification by means of those men? While they are at the head of the
Church, we traditionalists will always be persecuted, and the Church will
continue its auto-destruction.
I conclude. On our part, we have already chosen and we
will not change that choice. We want to follow the Church that has always
been. We want to remain faithful to the 250 popes who have defended
Tradition and the Catholic Faith. We want to continue the priesthood in the
Church and it is for that reason that we will continue to ordain priests in
spite of the prohibition from Rome. We want to ordain true priests so that
they can continue praying the true Mass, throughout the world and the length
of history. This is in dispensable.
All those liturgical reforms have been made by that evil
spirit of ecumenism, of false ecumenism. It is because of this that the
Faith has disappeared and that there are no longer any vocations. I have had
the joy of already ordaining more than one hundred young priests, members of
the Priestly Society of St. Pius X.
In October, we will have 270 seminarians, seminarians who
belong to the five seminaries which have been founded in only ten years. You
know that we have actually begun the work of a seminary here, in the
Argentine Republic, forty kilometers from Buenos Aires, the La Reja
neighborhood, where we already have twenty vocations, without counting the
seminarians who, having completed their year of spirituality in the
Argentine seminary, are now continuing their studies at Ecône, at Albano, or
those having a monastic vocation are following it at Bedoin and San
Michel-en-Brenne, France.
This [Argentine] seminary is under the particular care of
Reverend Father Michel Faure and its director is Father Morello. We want to
build a seminary capable of sheltering 120 seminarians, who will come from
all the countries of Spanish America, to continue that priesthood of which I
am speaking to you, to continue the Catholic Faith in these lands. Where
will your children go if they no longer have Catholic schools? Because in
the Catholic schools that actually exist, they are taught principles
contrary to the Faith.
We have made our choice. We will not change it because we
want to be Catholic. We want to die Catholics.