Photo ~ The 2012 General Chapter of the SSPX

The Joy of Clarity

Commentary on the Declaration of the
General Chapter of the Society of St. Pius X

Unlike the heads of dioceses, universities and religious institutes who spout error and heresy on almost a daily basis all around the world, only the Society of St. Pius X is being hounded to make a public declaration of Faith.

Yet, a simple proposition—I believe all the Truths which the Holy Catholic Church teaches because You have revealed them— seemed to become a major jumble of diplomatic maneuvering, with the Vatican sending mixed signals about what this declaration needed to say.

It appeared the Vatican was pre-occupied with pleasing everyone, those critical of Vatican II and the progressives wedded to its novelty and expansion. The Society has cleared the diplomatic air by issuing a simple profession of Faith sounding in traditional idiom and vocabulary:

[W]e reaffirm our faith in the Roman Catholic Church, the unique Church founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ, outside of which there is no salvation nor possibility to find the means leading to salvation; our faith in its monarchical constitution, desired by Our Lord himself, by which the supreme power of government over the universal Church belongs only to the Pope, Vicar of Christ on earth; our faith in the universal Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Creator of both the natural and the supernatural orders, to Whom every man and every society must submit.

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