The SSPX has announced it will proceed with episcopal consecrations on July 1, defying Vatican objections and declaring the Church in a state of emergency. Cardinal Sarah and Cardinal Brandmüller have issued public rebukes, demanding obedience to Pope Leo. Bishop Schneider has offered support. The battle lines are drawn, not over rebellion, but over whether the crisis within the Church justifies extraordinary measures to preserve the priesthood and the faith.

Pope Leo's recent episcopal appointments have placed men supportive of same-sex blessings into positions of authority, elevated figures entangled in Freemasonry controversies, and advanced leaders shaped by Germany's Synodal Way. The pattern is not accidental. It is a deliberate reshaping of the hierarchy in Rome's own image.

This is not a dispute over discipline. It is a fracture over what the Catholic Church actually teaches, and whether those tasked with guarding it still believe what they were ordained to protect.

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