Fifty years ago, in November of 1974, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre penned a brief but powerful Declaration — a manifesto against “the Rome of neo-Modernist and neo-Protestant tendencies which were clearly evident in the Second Vatican Council and, after the Council, in all the reforms which issued from it.”
“This Reformation,” he wrote (alluding to the Protestant revolt), “born of Liberalism and Modernism, is poisoned through and through; it derives from heresy and ends in heresy, even if all its acts are not formally heretical. It is therefore impossible for any conscientious and faithful Catholic to espouse this Reformation or to submit to it in any way whatsoever.”
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of this historic text, the current General Superior of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), Fr. Davide Pagliarani, together with his two chief assistants, issued a statement in which they observe that the same “Reformation” which Archbishop Lefebvre so fiercely denounced “is still underway and continues to produce its fruits. Today, through synodality, we are witnessing the complete reversal of the very structure of the Church. The transmission of the Divine Truths, received from the Incarnate Word, is being replaced by a system, of man’s elaboration, in which God Himself no longer has a place, and in which the spirit of man breathes and no longer the spirit of the Holy Ghost. This is a diabolical reversal of the Gospel itself” (emphasis added).
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