RESPONSE OF FR. ABE TO THE SSPX OPEN LETTER TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF DAVAO

St. Peter the Apostle & First Pope

[The Catholic Faith is founded on the very divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God, who came down on earth to save men from their sins and lead them to Heaven with Him.]

This is mere partial truth because the Divine Lord willed it so by Divine predilection of the Father that the Church be founded on the Rock that is PETER. That is why the Catholic Church and its Faith is founded on the person and office of St. Peter. Thus, the true Catholic Faith must never be separated from Peter and his Successors and his Holy See – ROME. The Catholic Faith must be with Peter and never without Peter. For that reason the SSPX does not hold the true Catholic Faith because it is de jure et de facto… canonically and actually separated from the Vicar of Christ and the Holy See.

[He entrusted his apostles and their successors not only the Truth He taught but also the example of holiness He gave them and the seven sacraments as means of grace.]

The Pope is the Successor of St. Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, and the Bishops are the successors of the Apostles. The SSPX are not in communion with the Successor of Peter and the Bishops who are the Successors of the Apostles so that by their own mouth they are caught and they have manifested that they are not holding the true Catholic Faith.

The exercise of the Sacraments must be authorized by the Bishops in Communion with the Vicar of Christ. The SSPX are NOT in Communion with the Bishops and the Pope who are the successors of the Apostles for that reason their Sacraments are illegal and they are violating the Catholic Faith and Catholic Unity.

 [That most holy deposit has been handled down faithfully through the ages in and by the Catholic Church, and shines especially in her saints.]

The ultimate and definitive keeper and protector of that Sacred Deposit of the Faith is the Pope and the Bishops in Communion with him and not any wacky old fool named Lefebvre. That is why the rebellion of Lefebvre against the Holy Father is a sacrilege and prostitution of the Sacred Deposit of the Faith.

St. Padre Pio lived at the initial years of implementations of the Pauline Mass, Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta lived for many decades under it and Sis. Lucia of Fatima attended the Pauline Mass daily for decades as well yet these holy and saintly Catholics never spoke negatively against the Pauline Mass. Never ever.

  [As Pope Pius IX taught, the Holy Ghost has been promised to Peter and his successors not to teach new doctrine but to keep entirely and expose faithfully this deposit of faith; they unite themselves to the sacrifice of Our Lord Jesus Christ and are fed by His very Body and Blood to become one victim with him so as to be glorified with him.]

That is exactly what Blessed John XXIII, the Servants of God Paul VI, John Paul I and Blessed John Paul the Great did. It was Lefebvre who went over board by committing excommunicable acts. He died outside the Church where there is no Salvation. He died excommunicated and remains as such. THE POPES NEVER TAUGHT NE DOCTRINES BUT THE CHURCH ALWAYS PRESENT NEW EXPLANATIONS OF THE SAME FAITH THROUGH THE COURSE OF THE YEARS. That is why we got the words Trinity, Homoousios, Theotokos, Latria-Hyperdulia-Dulia, Transubstantion, etc. THE CHURCH IS NOT PROHIBITED TO EMPLOY ANOTHER TERMS AND EXPLANATIONS TO FURTHER CLARIFY THE FAITH. 

[To these treasures the Society of Saint Pius X has been faithful from the very beginning.]

Excuse me, that is hypocritical and deceptive. THE SSPX DISOBEYED THE POPE AND REJECTED THE AUTHORITY OF AN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. THEY MADE THEMSELVES EQUAL WITH THE PROTESTANTS AND THE ORTHODOX FOR DOING SO. Canonical and Liturgical rebellion against the Pope is never part of Catholic Treasury of Faith. NEVER EVER. Lefebvre learned that from LUCIFER not from St. Peter.

 [IT was founded perfectly canonically by the local bishop in 1970, and grew steadily ever since.]

Another lie. It is not founded perfectly because it was founded deceptively to oppose the Pope and the most recent Ecumenical Council. So, it was imperfect. To be disobedient to the Vicar of Christ is a mark of imperfection. The fruit of it was the excommunication of Lefebvre.

Their so-called increase of number is pathetic at best. The Catholic Charismatic movements are increasing by hundreds of thousands and by millions. There are more Catholic Women League or Knight of Columbus members than SSPX. The Born-Again heretics as well as the followers of Manalo and Soriono were more numerous and are increasing on more rapid number than the SSPX so that their argument based on Numerical Increase is a manifestation of delusion and megalomania.

 [But this fidelity to the Tradition of the Church did not please those who were intent in changing everything after the Second Vatican Council.]

This is another lie. The 2^nd Vatican Council never changed a single doctrine of the Church. Instead it strengthened the Catholic Faith and presented it with more beauty, grace, clarity and charity. The SSPX failed to see it because they are blinded by their Pride and Disobedience which were the same pitfall of Lucifer and Luther… and eventually of Lefebvre.

 [Persecution came upon the Society of Saint Pius X, trying to force them to take up the novelties, especially the new mass.]

The Pauline Mass is NOT A NEW MASS but the same ancient Mass in a simplified form of the Latin Rite. It is a simplified version of the TLM which was also new when it was introduced by Pope St. Pius V in Quo Primum. There is nothing in the Pauline Mass that is New. All its elements from Entrance Procession to the Dismissal are all from the old rites, the Sacred Scriptures or Tradition of the Catholic Church. There is nothing new in the Pauline Mass. From cover to cover it is from the Sacred Deposit of the Faith.

 [But is it not right of each priest and layman to remain faithful to what he received from the Church?]

The SSPX is NOT FAITHFUL BUT UNFAITHFUL. They are like Prostitutes claiming to be virgins. They are like Mafiosi claiming to be law-abiding citizens. They are like the Old Catholics who refused Vatican I, like the Lutherans who refused the Council of Trent, like the monks of Mt. Athos and eastern bishops who refused the Pope’s implementation of the Gregorian Calendar and the Easter dates. The champion of tradition during the Vatican II, Cardinal Ottaviani, lived his final days in fidelity with the Pope together with other Bishops who were with him in debating for tradition during the Council yet Cardinal Ottaviani never crossed the rebellion of Lefebvre.

 [Nay, it is his very duty!]

The duty of a true Catholic is to be faithful not to create rebellion and form canonical disobedience. What the SSPX has done is Luciferian and Lutheran. That is also a form of Modernism which is founded on the rejection of the authority of the Church and of the Pope. They have become the very demons that they profess to reject.

 [That fidelity to the Mass of all times has been vindicated by Pope Benedict XVI, when he declared in Summorum Pontificum that the Traditional Latin Mass was never abrogated: this implicitly means  that those who tried to suppress it in the 1970’s were doing the wrong thing.]

It is the Pope who was vindicated but not Lefebvre who died excommunicated.

THOSE WHO SUPPRESSED IT ARE NOT WRONG BECAUSE THE TLM WAS IMPLEMENTED BY A POPE AND BY THE SAME AUTHORITY OF THE POPE IT WAS SUPPRESSED. OBVIOUSLY THE SSPX ARE IGNORANT OF THE FACT THAT THE POPE HAS THE POWER TO BIND AND TO LOOSE AND HAS FORGOTTEN Matthew 16:18-19 and Matthew 18:18.

That power who implemented was the same power that suppressed and it was also the same power that allowed again for universal use as The Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite. Obviously the SSPX has forgotten the fact that the Bishop of Rome has the Power of the Keys of Heaven which only prove that their knowledge of the Deposit of the Faith is partial and heretical.

  [Pope Benedict thus wrote: “What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of the sudden entirely forbidden or even considered as harmful. It behoves all of us to preserve the riches which have developed in the Church’s faith and prayer and to give them their proper place” This is what The Society of Saint Pius X has been doing all those years.]

O NO, NO, NO… YOU ARE NOT DOING THAT THROUGH ALL THOSE YEARS BECAUSE YOUR TLM ARE OUTSIDE OF COMMUNION WITH THE CHURCH OF ROME AND OF THE VICAR OF CHRIST. The true TLM must be done in communion with the Successors of Peter and the Apostles, never without them and never ever separated from them. Your TLM are illegal and anti-Church… your TLM are anti-Pope and anti-Ecclesial Communion.

[ When one says that the canonical situation of the Society of Saint Pius X is irregular, whose fault? Not the SSPX’s but it was the fault of those trying to suppress Tradition.]

THE POPE DIDN'T SUPPRESS TRADITION BUT THE RITE OF THE MASS. THE POPE HAS THE POWER CHANGE THE RITES OF THE MASS. RITES ARE FREQUENTLY CHANGING THROUGH THE YEARS AND CENTURIES. STS. CYRIL AND METHODIUS EVEN FORMED A NEW RITE OUT OF SLAVONIC LANGUAGE WHICH THEY CREATED TO EDUCATE THE BARBARIANS OF THE KIEVAN RUS AND THE SLAVS.


It is the fault of Lefebvre and the SSPX because the Pope could have granted you a special status in the Church but instead Lefebvre and your entire Society refused. You lacked the prudence, the sacrificial attitudes and the patience of Catholic Saints who waited for the decisions of the Holy See even if it took years or decades to come. They never severed Communion with the Holy See and the Bishop of Rome. Don’t blame us for your own fault and your own disobedience. You are like Adam and Eve who pointed their fingers at another when confronted by their sinful acts.

[Now it is a fact in many places, these riches of the Tradition of the Church has been- abusively- forbidden priests were not allowed to offer the Traditional Latin Mass nor were the faithful allowed to assist.]

The Servant of God Pope Paul VI, of Blessed Memory, simply followed the act of Pope St. Pius V who disallowed many existing forms of the Latin Rite prior to Quo Primum. That authority is within the bound of his being Successor of St. Peter who has the power to bind and to loose. The entire Church obeyed just like they obeyed Pius V and only some disobedient lot refused to follow. Unfortunately you belong to the Society of those who disobeyed – the Society of the Popeless.

 [Many of these faithful had been wounded by the novelties, the scandals, - not only the moral scandals that have afflicted the Church after Vatican II, but the very scandals of novelties in the doctrine, priest s no longer believing in the necessity of the Catholic faith for Salvation, and even sometimes not believing in The Real Presence of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.]

You are out of touch with reality. There is no novelty in the Pauline Mass. What is that novelty? The Responsorial Psalm is taken from the Bible and if you are not aware the Bible is part of the Sacred Deposit entrusted to the Church. The Second Reading is taken from the same Bible. What novelty are you talking about?

The moral scandals in the Church were due to the sinfulness of the members influenced by Sexual Revolution of the 60’s up to the present. They are not from the Pauline Mass. THE SCANDALS IN THE CHURCH PRIOR TO TRENT WERE EVEN MORE TERRIBLE THAT WE HAVE TODAY THAT IS WHY ALMOST THE ENTIRE WEST BECAME PROTESTANTS. Lefebvre imitated the tactics and the antics of Luther. The same style and the same arrogance.


Concerning the Real Presence it is literally stated in the Pauline Mass that the Bread and the Wine becomes the Body and Blood of Christ so that your claim concerning the denial of the Real Presence is only hallucinatory. It is not from the Pauline Mass at all. Besides, the SSPX is virtually heretical and schismatic because it refuses the Supreme and Absolute authority of the Pope as defined Dogmatically in VATICAN I.

 [The way they treat the Blessed Sacrament is often a scandal.]

The Pauline Mass never states that the Blessed Sacrament be treated scandalously. Prove that the scandal is caused by the Pauline Mass.

 [Communion in hand has led many to lose faith in that Dogma.]

O that is not true. I have witnessed many people become better Catholics through the Novus Ordo and the Communion by Hand. Besides, where is it in the Dogma of the Church that the Communion is ONLY BY TONGUE?

 [Local Levites passed by those souls wounded by these scandals and did not cared; local priests pass by and did not care; the society of Saint Pius X, like the Good Samaritan, came by and cared for these souls, healing them and teaching them the Faith of all times, giving them the sacraments of all times and the moral guidance of all times: that very same Faith, Very same Sacrament, which you my Lord Bishop, received when you were a young boy.]

These SSPX are delusional. Imagine, they claim that our priests and bishops do not care about the souls and they are the one caring for the souls. Excuse me. You are foolish in your delusions. You are not caring for the souls of our faithful. You are wolves infiltrating our local churches in order to lure them away from the Successor of Peter and the Apostles and to deceive them in your demonic heresy: SOLA LATINA, SOLA TRIDENTINA.

[Now what would you think of this local Levite and Priest turning around and telling the Good Samaritan, you can’t do this because you are a stranger and have no local jurisdiction? Is It not the model of the Good Samaritan that of Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself? Yes, these Good Samaritan have jurisdiction, not normal one, but the one given in this time of crisis of Faith by the very principles of the Canon law, the first which is: “the supreme law is the salvation of souls”.]

Your being Good Samaritan and our being Levites are pure crap and pathetic analogy. THAT GOOD SAMARITAN IS THE LORD JESUS WHO POURED OIL AND WINE [EUCHARIST AND CHRISM] TO A WOUNDED SOUL OF MAN. Then the Lord carried the wounded soul where? IN THE HOUSE… AN INN. What is that House? THE CHURCH [1 Timothy 3:15]. Salvation must be inside the Church not outside.

The SSPX instead are luring the Catholic souls away from the Church, from the Office of Peter and from the Successors of the Apostles. That is Satanic. You are not saving, you are dividing the Body of Christ. You are parasites hurting the Church and the souls within while claiming attachment into it. You want to attach to the Church not to be a member but TO SUCK BLOOD OUT OF IT TO FUEL YOUR OWN REBELLION AND UNDERMINE ITS AUTHORITY.

[Pope Benedict XVI, conscious of this crisis of the church, is currently working for restoring a proper canonical status to the SSP: he has given the freedom to the Traditional Mass as we had asked: he has suppressed the “excommunication” of 1988(which we always considered it invalid), in such a way that no one can say we are not in the Catholic Church; he has done the theological discussions we had asked and now offering a proper canonical status. It is certainly not time for bishops to go in the opposite direction.]

The Church always have problems; that is the normal situation of the Church. It is never free of problems here on earth because the Church since the time of Jesus was composed of sinners and saints. Even during the Apostolic Age there were sexual scandals as mentioned by Paul in his Epistle to the Romans [Romans 1:26-27] and Sacrileges of the Eucharist as he strongly tried to correct in his Epistle to the Corinthians [1 Corinthians 11:27-34]. AGAIN, THE SCANDALS DURING THE 16TH CENTURY WERE MORE TERRIBLE THAT THE ONE WE HAVE TODAY. FOR THAT MILLIONS AND MILLIONS BECAME PROTESTANTS. However, where sin abounds the grace of God abounds all the more Romans 5:20]. As the Church is confronted by problems she also produces saints and a lot of good works.

One of those problems are caused and created by Lefebvre and you his cohorts. THE EXCOMMUNICATION IS VALID BECAUSE IT IS BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT THAT WHAT LEFEBVRE DID VIOLATE NOT ONLY THE CANON LAW BUT HARMFUL TO THE AUTHORITY OF THE POPE AND THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH. There is no justification for what he had done.

YOU ARE NOT IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH BECAUSE YOU ARE CANONICALLY OUTSIDE OF ITS COMMUNION. The Pope is so charitable with you but instead of resting on his charitable, paternal arms you are defiant in your treachery. Our Bishops are weary of because your actions in the local level are different from the face you are showing to the Pope on the higher level. You have two sets of mask: a gentle lamb and a treacherous wolf.

[For the Honor of God and in devotion to the immaculate Heart of Mary, a Rosary Crusade is being organized on October 7,8 and 9 for three intentions:]

Your Rosaries are hypocritical because the Blessed Mother appeared in Fatima in response to the request of the Pope and she claimed that her Triumph shall be through the Pope. YOU ARE NOT IN COMMUNION WITH THE POPE SO IT IS HYPOCRITICAL FOR YOU TO USE THE LADY OF FATIMA.

 [1) to fulfil our lady’s request  at Fatima to do reparation in honour of Her Immaculate heart]

We are the one fulfilling them not you. You are not reparing instead gives more damages.

[2) to pray for Pope Benedict XVI to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary]

Russia has been consecrated by Blessed Pope John Paul the Great. The Soviet Union and Communism had collapsed. The main problem of the world now is in the Middle East not in Russia. Get real.

 [and 3) to defeat the RH bill being debated in the Congress.]

WE ARE THE ONE FIGHTING AGAINST THE RH BILL NOT YOU. YOU ARE ONLY PRETENDING TO BE ONE WITH US TO GAIN SEMBLANCE OF CREDEBILITY AS IF YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING AGAINST THE RH BILL. YOU ARE ACTUALLY USELESS. WHILE WE WERE DEBATING THE PRO-RH BILL YOU ARE INFILTRATING OUR LOCAL CHURCHES. TREACHEROUS WOLVES! MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOULS AND HELP YOU SEE THE EVIL WHERE YOU BELONG.

[ Fr. Francois Laisney, Fr. J. Timothy Pfeiffer Fr Joseph Pfieffer, Fr Alexander Hora]

Rev. Fr. Abe P. Arganiosa, CRS

Catholic Faith Defender

National Spiritual Director