On December 13, the Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X, Fr Davide Pagliarani, reiterated that the Catholic Church is now in a state of emergency more acute than that which led Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre to consecrate bishops without papal mandate in 1988, raising fresh questions about the future direction of the traditionalist society.
Fr Davide Pagliarani spoke in Friedrichshafen, southern Germany, on December 13, where he appeared alongside Bishop Bernard Fellay, the former Superior General of the Fraternity and one of the four bishops consecrated by Archbishop Lefebvre. Significantly, in his address the current Superior General gave his most substantial and direct public acknowledgement to date of a possible future consecration.
