Declaration of November 21, 1974
Faithful to eternal Rome, guardians of Tradition
This declaration affirms fidelity to traditional Catholic Rome, while rejecting the neo-modernist and church-destroying reforms of the Second Vatican „Council‟.
Declaration
We adhere with all our heart, with all our soul to Catholic Rome, guardian of the Catholic faith and of the traditions necessary for maintaining this faith, to eternal Rome, mistress of wisdom and truth.
We refuse, on the contrary, and have always refused to follow the Rome of neo-modernist and neo-Protestant tendency which manifested itself clearly in Vatican II Council and after the council in all the reforms that issued from it.
All these reforms, indeed, have contributed and still contribute to the demolition of the Church, to the ruin of the Priesthood, to the annihilation of the Sacrifice and the Sacraments, to the disappearance of religious life, to a naturalist and Teilhardian teaching in Universities, Seminaries, catechesis, teaching issued from liberalism and Protestantism condemned many times by the solemn magisterium of the Church.
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema.
Gal. 1, 8
Is this not what the Holy Father repeats to us today? And if a certain contradiction should manifest itself in his words and acts as well as in the acts of the dicasteries, then we choose what has always been taught and we turn a deaf ear to the destructive novelties of the Church.
One cannot profoundly modify the „lex orandi‟ without modifying the „lex credendi‟. To the new mass corresponds new catechism, new priesthood, new seminaries, new universities, charismatic, Pentecostal Church, all things opposed to orthodoxy and to the magisterium of all time.
This Reform, issued from liberalism, from modernism, is entirely poisoned; it comes from heresy and leads to heresy, even if all its acts are not formally heretical. It is therefore impossible for any conscious and faithful Catholic to adopt this Reform and to submit to it in any way whatsoever.
The only attitude of fidelity to the Church and to Catholic doctrine, for our salvation, is the categorical refusal to accept the Reform.
This is why without any rebellion, any bitterness, any resentment we continue our work of priestly formation under the star of the magisterium of all time, persuaded that we cannot render a greater service to the Holy Catholic Church, to the Sovereign Pontiff and to future generations.
This is why we hold firmly to all that has been believed and practiced in faith, morals, worship, catechism teaching, priest formation, institution of the Church, by the Church of all time and codified in books published before the modernist influence of the council, waiting for the true light of Tradition to dispel the darkness that obscures the sky of eternal Rome.
In doing so, with God’s grace, the help of the Virgin Mary, of Saint Joseph, of Saint Pius X, we are convinced of remaining faithful to the Catholic and Roman Church, to all the successors of Peter, and of being the „fideles dispensatores mysteriorum Domini Nostri Jesu Christi in Spiritu Sancto‟.