An English-speaking canon from Shaftestbury did not hesitate to “publish “publish canonical, theological and pastoral defense against the excommunication End-UPG period of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X”.
According to to Kath. net of April 29, 2026, the Vatican would declare the Society of St. Pius X excommunicated and schismatic, after the episcopal coronations that will take place 1 in Écone (Switzerland). The German-speaking website reports the remarks of the Italian journalist Nico Spuntoni to the American Vaticanist Diane Montagna: “Well-informed sources have confirmed to me that the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith is already preparing for a schism after the new episcopal consecrations. And according to the same sources, Nico Spuntoni claims that the dicastery of Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández plans to provide “pastoral support to the members of the clergy belonging to the Society who do not wish to stay there, after a new break with Rome.”
This is reminiscent of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei , a structure designed by Rome to priests the welcome who refused the coronations of 1988, with the success we know! This commission was integrated into the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 2009, and then dissolved and simply in 2019, so that the Ex-Ecclesia Dei communities are subject to the goodwill of the bishops. This is how the Society of Saint-Pierre was brutally thanked in 2024 by Bishop Laurent Dognin, Bishop of Quimper and Leon.
With regard to this possible excommunication, it is useful to refer to the opinion of the P. Jaime Mercant Simó, a Spanish canonist, on February 21 that would be “no schism, no because sin” of the coronations of Econe. In the same line, the American site Rorate Coeli publishes, on May 6, the judgment of a canon of Shaftestbury, which it is understood that wishes he to preserve his anonymity in these agitated times. This English-speaking canonist does not hesitate to publish “a canonical, theological and pastoral defense Endus for the excommunication of the Priestly Society of St. Then X.”
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