Fr Nix: SSPX’s view of ...“state of emergency” ...[JPII] did the same thing as Lefebvre...need to look to...“epikeia” in order to save souls in...Rome...involved in open LGBT pilgrimages & Pachamama worship.
Ecclesial Exigent Circumstances By Father David Nix | December 4th, 2025 | Theology ... ... Even if you do not like the SSPX’s view of “state of necessity” or “state of emergency” or “supplied jurisdiction” ecclesiology, you have to admit that darlings to the conservative movement, namely, Cardinal Slipyj and Cardinal Wojtyła did the same thing as Lefebvre in the 1970s. How ironic that John Paul II declared Lefebvre excommunicated for doing the same thing in the 1980s! Of course, some readers might protest: “Yes, but communism is worse than modernism. Slipyj and Wojtyła disobeyed Rome because communism was a real threat. Lefebvre, Ward and Mpundu all disobeyed Rome due to their imaginary boogey man of modernism that they find under every rock.” My reply should be obvious by now: Communism is Our Lady of Fatima’s dreaded “errors of Russia” inflicted upon the State. Modernism is Our Lady of Fatima’s dreaded “errors of Russia” inflicted upon the Church. Which is worse—totalitarianism...