Open Letter to the SSPX

February 12 2026

Dear members of the Society of Saint Pius X,

“It is I, the accused, who should be judging you!”

This insight from Archbishop Lefebvre in 1975 resonates strongly more than fifty years later, as your community prepares to face once again “the Roman serpent,” in Archbishop Lefebvre’s words, in a contest in which, once again, the Society of Saint Pius X is treated as a suspect, a defendant, and a guilty even before being judged.

Isn't it time to put into practice the great wisdom shown by Archbishop Lefebvre in making this statement? “It is I, the accused, who should be judging you!” Were these words mere rhetoric on the part of your founder? How much longer will your Society have to appear as the accused, and when will it finally take on its true role, which is rather to judge the infidels who propose to us a new religion, substantially different from the Religion that was divinely revealed?

Until it is recognized that infidels, those who do not outwardly profess the Catholic Faith, have no authority in the Church of Christ, the faithful who have entrusted their souls to your ministry will be in the greatest confusion, tormented between the fear of adhering to heretics or separating themselves from communion with the Roman Pontiff. “Faith is in simplicity,” said St. Hilary of Poitiers. Heretics are not the legitimate authorities of the Church. It is therefore necessary to separate oneself clearly from them and to give full meaning to the words spoken by the superiors of your community in 1988: “On the other hand, we have never wanted to belong to this system which calls itself the Conciliar Church and defines itself by the Novus Ordo Missæ, indifferentist ecumenism, and the secularization of the whole Society. Yes, we have no part, nullam partem habemus, in the pantheon of religions of Assisi.”

“Remove the wicked man from among you.” (I Cor. 5:12) For too long now, souls have been led to believe that the faithful and the unfaithful can coexist indefinitely within the Church; that those who profess the true Faith can tolerate the promoters of heresy within the Church. This situation must end. Your Fraternity represents the majority of clerics of Tradition. You have a role to play in gathering your brothers into a holy assembly that will finally officially reject the promoters of heresy from within the Church. Your role is not to hold discussions with someone who presents himself as the guardian of the doctrine of the Faith but who is in reality one of its many gravediggers, as he recently demonstrated by denying the Virgin Mary, our Mother in Heaven, her titles of Mediatrix and Co-Redemptrix. Would Archbishop Lefebvre have entered into dialogue with a man who has written and published books that offend the sixth commandment of the Decalogue? Is it not legitimate to ask this question?

It is time. The Church must come together, and you can play a major role in turning around this unprecedented crisis afflicting the Church. It is time to stop playing the role of the accused and take on the role of judge, together with all your brothers in the Faith gathered in a holy assembly. It is time to convict of heresy and anathematize the so-called holders of authority who will soon have caused the little Faith that remains in souls to be lost. Do not leave the Holy Church and the souls of the faithful any longer in this appalling situation where they are led to believe that the authority of Christ can be held captive by ungodly hands, as if the Church were not a perfect society, having all the means necessary to accomplish its divine mission. And what could be more necessary for the Church than to expel heretics from her midst?

Yes, consecrate bishops. Do so without the mandate of the ungodly. Publicly acknowledge their total lack of authority over the Church, for the faithful are not under the yoke of the unfaithful. Gather your scattered brethren, and let the assembled Church pronounce the liberating judgment that will allow Catholic unity to flourish once more. Let the infidels be summoned to appear and be deposed by the power of God, which cannot fail His Church. Let a sure visible head be given to the Church, and let the eclipse of the true Church finally come to an end.

It is up to you to make these words of Archbishop Lefebvre prophetic words and not mere rhetoric. It is up to you to avenge his memory, so unjustly defamed. May his sons put into practice his intuition inspired by the God of Hosts!

“It is I, the accused, who should judge you!”

Unam, Sanctam, Catholicam et Apostolicam Ecclesiam.

Bishop Pierre Roy