SSPX says rejecting consecrations would have meant accepting Vatican II

The Society of St Pius X (SSPX) has said that if it had not carried out the July 1 consecrations, it would either disappear or would have to accept what it called the “false doctrines of Vatican II.”

In a July 8 explanatory statement setting out its case for why the Society does not recognise the recent Vatican excommunications, the SSPX has declared it was facing an “inevitable alternative: either to disappear gradually, or to accept, at least in fact, the new liturgy as well as the false doctrines of Vatican II and the post-council.”