Fr Davide Pagliarani released a formal declaration of Catholic faith on May 14, the feast of the Ascension of Our Lord, presenting it to Pope Leo XIV as the minimum required to remain in communion with the Church amid ongoing tensions between the Society of St Pius X and the Holy See.
The document, issued from the SSPX headquarters in Menzingen, Switzerland, comes one day after Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, warned that the Society’s planned episcopal consecrations in July without pontifical mandate would constitute a schismatic act. The Vatican’s May 13 statement said the announced episcopal ordinations lacked the requisite papal mandate and would constitute “a schismatic act”.
