Angel Rivera

"The confusion of the faithful. The extremely severe measures of the Vatican regarding the consecrations never cease to attract attention, however justified they may be. The Vatican has refused to apply excommunication in numerous very serious situations within the Church over the last 60 years. One can publicly deny the Catholic faith, celebrate scandalous Masses, show approval of same-sex couples, divorce and other forms of immorality. However, since the Second Vatican Council, these actions have not entailed the excommunication of those who committed them. And, undoubtedly, it is extreme and unusual that the Vatican not only excommunicates the bishops of the SSPX, but hundreds of thousands of Catholic faithful. How is it possible that Pope Leo XIV takes such extreme measures? Even the secular media have been astonished by what they describe as “severe and unprecedented.” The contrast between the treatment received by declared heretics within the Church and that of traditional Catholics seems to indicate that Rome suffers from a certain syndrome of uprooting from tradition. What Rome does not want to see in the Church is that the New Mass or the Second Vatican Council be questioned. It does not want the traditionalist movement to have the means to continue. It does not want the lay faithful to be traditional Catholics. There is a sector of the Church that is in full growth today, full of good and devout Catholics and numerous Catholic families, while the rest of the Church is dying. And this is the sector of the Church that the Pope punishes harshly. Rome is exerting enormous pressure on the faithful to stop attending the SSPX and integrate into the conciliar Church. Instead of promising them that they will begin to combat heresy and guarantee them the practice of traditional Catholic faith, they offer them full communion in exchange for becoming Catholics of the Second Vatican Council." (source: Specola/Infovaticana)