1. The changes following the Second Vatican Council have proven so damaging to the Roman Catholic Religion and so detrimental to the sanctification of souls that one can easily discern that “an enemy has done this.” This Council marked the culmination of the first phase of a liberal and modernist intrusion into the Roman Catholic Church, which intrusion had already begun in the nineteenth century and to which St. Pius X alerted the Church in 1907. In his Encyclical “Pascendi” he states: “The partisans of error are to be sought not only among the Church’s open enemies; but, what is to be most dreaded and deplored, in her very bosom, and are...thoroughly imbued with the poisonous doctrines taught by the enemies of the Church, and lost to all sense of modesty, put themselves forward as reformers of the Church.” This intrusion was made possible because men influenced by modernist ideas gained positions of authority, thereby permitting confirmed heretics and enemies of the Church to overtake our Catholic institutions.

 

2. The aforesaid intruders have embraced and promoted the modernist and liberal program of the reform of the Church, condemned by the Roman Pontiffs, particularly by Pius VI, Gregory XVI, Pius IX, Leo XIII,St. Pius X,Pius XI and Pius XII.

 

3. These intruders have attempted to promulgate, in the name of the Roman Catholic Church, abominable novelties in every aspect of her life, i.e., in the areas of doctrine, morals, liturgy,canon law, pastoral practices, seminary education and religious life.

 

4. The intrusion of the liberals and modernists into positions of control has caused the wide-spread destruction of Catholic Faith, morals and worship and the creation of a new religion -the so-called conciliar religion which is not the Catholic Religion. It should be apparent to all that this new religion is not the Catholic Religion because since its introduction into our Catholic institutions, these institutions no longer manifest the four marks of the true Church, the marks of unity, holiness, catholicity, apostolicity. Thus, those who promote the doctrines and reforms of the conciliar religion do not represent the Roman Catholic Church, which is absolutely and exclusively identified with the Mystical Body of Christ and which is known by its four marks.

 

5. The Catholic Church was established by Our Lord Jesus Christ for the purpose of teaching,ruling and sanctifying the faithful in His name. The members of its hierarchy are true successors of the Apostles, and the Pope, who as the head of the Catholic hierarchy, is the successor of Saint Peter and the Vicar of Christ on earth. A Roman Pontiff consequently has universal and immediate jurisdiction over all the faithful.

 

19. We utterly reject and condemn the New Code of Canon Law for the sole reason that it is a legal expression of the modernist distortion of the Roman Catholic Church. Its non-Catholic nature is recognizable by the blasphemous, sacrilegious,and impious practices which it condones and mandates concerning the Holy Eucharist,whereby it sanctions the giving of the Body and Blood of Christ to heretics and schismatics,and the receiving of Communion from heretical and schismatic sects.

 

 

20. Since the Second Vatican Council, the modernists have been granting,purportedly in the name of the Church,annulments to married couples for reasons which have no foundation either in the traditional Canon Law of the Church or in the Roman Catholic doctrine concerning matrimony.

 

21.We consequently deplore this contempt for the Holy Sacrament of Matrimony commonly found among the modernists operating the diocesan marriage tribunals and the Rota itself.In the practical order, therefore, we refuse to recognize any annulments coming forth from the aforesaid courts unless it can be demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that the marriage did not exist in the first place.For, according to Canon 1014 of the Code of Canon Law: “Marriage enjoys the favor of the law, consequently, in doubt,the validity of the marriage must be maintained until the contrary is proved."

 

 

22. In the light of the foregoing, we see no other practical course to follow than (1) to adhere with the certitude of the Faith to all of the doctrine and moral teaching of the Roman Catholic Church; (2) to continue the work of the Church for the salvation of souls,and fulfill our duties as priests by providing the Catholic faithful with integral Catholic doctrine and unquestionably valid sacraments,using the faculties which the Church provides for such critical situations, for “jurisdiction is not granted a man for his own benefit, but for the good of the people and for the glory of God.” (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Supplement,Q.8, A.5) Therefore,“since necessity knows no law,in cases of necessity the ordinance of the Church does not hinder.” (ibid Q.8, A.6); (3) to reject the destructive modernist alteration of the Catholic liturgy and discipline; (4) to condemn,reprove and reject the poisonous errors of the modernists,refusing the Catholic name to their tenets, worship, and discipline and thereby rejecting ecclesial communion with them. Mindful of the words of Saint Ephraem, Doctor of the Church, bidding us “not to sit with heretics nor associate with apostates,” and that “it would be better to teach demons than to try to convince heretics,” we deplore every initiative that would seek to make compatible,in one Church,Roman Catholicism and modernism.