SSPX: The True Catholic Bishops of the True Catholic Church?

"Among the documents published in the Letter is an older declaration, which had remained secret, written by Archbishop Lefebvre five years earlier, on October 19, 1983, amplifying that of November 21, 1974, and animated by the same spirit of rupture. This declaration shows that he had long since made the decision to consecrate bishops."

To safeguard the Catholic priesthood, which carries on the Catholic Church and not an adulterated Church, Catholic bishops are needed. We therefore see ourselves compelled, because of the invasion of the modernist spirit into the present clergy, even to the highest levels within the Church, to proceed to the consecration of bishops, the fact of this consecration having been admitted by the pope in Cardinal Ratzinger’s letter of May 30. These episcopal consecrations will be not only valid but, in view of the historical circumstances, probably licit. Whatever may be said of their liceity, it is sometimes necessary to abandon legality in order to remain within right.
† Marcel Lefebvre
Archbishop of the one Church of Jesus Christ, holy, catholic, apostolic, and Roman, by the grace of God and the election of His Holiness Pope Pius XII.

Marcel Lefebvre, “Déclaration publique à l’occasion de la consécration épiscopale à plusieurs prêtres de la Fraternité Saint-Pie-X,” October 13, 1983 [May 30, 1988], in La Lettre aux Anciens, June 1988, no. 5.

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