Fr. Albert Jacquemin, formerly of the SSPX: "The SSPX Is Explicitly Developing an Ecclesiology of Substitution Foreign to Catholic Tradition"

The SSPX Is Explicitly Developing an Ecclesiology of Substitution Foreign to Catholic Tradition
Interview granted to French website Le Salon Beige
Having been a member of the Society of Saint Pius X until the consecrations of June 1988, Father Albert Jacquemin subsequently joined the Diocese of Paris. A doctor of both legal history and canon law, he is a lecturer at the Faculty of Canon Law of the Institut Catholique de Paris and has presided since 2022 over the National Canonical Penal Tribunal of the French Bishops' Conference. He has just published The Choice of Rupture: Archbishop Lefebvre, Rome, the Consecrations, 1974–2026.
Having lived through the 1988 consecrations at close range, the author offers his perspective on those now being planned. In his view, these consecrations have often been interpreted as the immediate consequence of the failure of negotiations between the SSPX and Rome. That reading is too narrow: the event is in reality part of a longer process, one set in …