On June 24, 2026, the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) published a Profession of Catholic Faith of the Society of Saint Pius X to Enlighten Souls in the Face of Modern Errors, a 28-page document consisting of 154 articles. As the document’s title suggests, the various articles set forth truths of the Catholic Faith with corresponding rejections of the errors that oppose those truths. For most Traditional Catholics, the document will be a joy to read; for those in the Vatican, it will presumably be baffling and aggravating.
While Catholics ought to read the document in its entirety, it is worth highlighting one article here because it offers a key to understanding the entire crisis in the Catholic Church. Here is Article 72:
“I therefore reject every claim to invoke the Holy Ghost in order to justify doctrinal adaptations that break with Tradition, moral reversals, or synodal procedures by which what the Church has received from God is put in question. The Spirit of truth cannot today inspire the contrary of what He inspired yesterday. He does not invite the Church to listen to the world in order to receive its aspirations from it; on the contrary, He impels her to teach the world, to convert it, and to sanctify it. His work consists neither in stirring up anarchic inspirations, nor in encouraging doctrinal creativity, nor in grounding spiritual life upon the search for extraordinary charismatic phenomena; it consists in guiding souls by enlightening their faith and defending them against their spiritual enemies, in order to complete in them the work of their salvation and to lead them into the light of eternity.”
The SSPX must reject this error because it has been invoked to justify all of the changes in the Catholic Church flowing from Vatican II. Consequently, if the SSPX is right to reject this error, then the ultimate defense of every innovation flowing from the Council is invalid.
To appreciate the significance of this Article 72, we can briefly consider certain important supports for the SSPX’s rejection of the error as well as certain important manifestations of the error since the Council.
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