The Society of Saint Pius X has issued a formal rebuke of the position taken by the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter regarding the Society’s planned episcopal consecrations on 1 July.
The response was set out in a detailed text published under the name of Father Jean-Michel Gleize, a long-standing professor of apologetics, ecclesiology and dogma at the seminary of Écône. Father Gleize also took part in doctrinal discussions between Rome and the Society between 2009 and 2011.
His intervention follows the publication on 11 April of a study entitled “Legitimate consecrations?” attributed to priests of the Fraternity of Saint Peter and signed “Theologus”. That text sought to challenge the argument advanced by the Society of Saint Pius X in defence of its intention to consecrate bishops without papal mandate later this year, describing the Society’s case as insufficient.
