The Recusant

Comparing the SSPX then and now, 1988-2026

– 1988: Abp. Lefebvre’s Consecrations Sermons

– 2026: Fr. Pagliarani’s Consecrations Sermon

– 1988: ‘An Open Letter to Cardinal Gantin’

– 2026:’Letter to the Holy Father

“World’s Apart: Forty Years, Two SSPXs” (Analysis of two videos: 1986 vs. 2026)

Issue 65 – Epiphany 2026

Sermon at Friedrichshafen 1990 (Archbishop Lefebvre)
Fr. Joseph Onuorah joins the Resistance
“My Life With Thomas Aquinas” (Book Review)
“Confronted with the Silence of the Shepherds…” (Doctrinal Statement by Fr. Hewko & Fr. Ruiz)
Williamson Wasteland: Paedo Problems

Issue 64 – Autumn 2025

Fake Resistance Lavender Mafia (Catholic Trumpet)
Mary, Cause of Our Joy – Summer 2025 (Fr. Hewko)
Fr. Paul Robinson: ‘It’s all valid! Trust us!’ (Analysis)
“Doubt and Confusion: the New ‘Canonizations'” (John Vennari)
Is John Newman a Saint and Doctor of the Church?

– Part 1: “Modern “Canonizations”

– Part 2: Problems with Newman

Issue 63 – Easter 2025

Editorial: Four down to Two – RIP Williamson & Tissier
Bp. Williamson’s Teaching: Vatican II inside The Resistance
“We Must Choose Sides!” (Fr. David Hewko)
The Faith Matters More than Sacraments
Who Is Fr. Kerry Moran and Why Does it Matter?

Issue 62 – Autumn 2024

An Unpleasant Editorial
“Liberalism, The Church’s Worst Enemy!” (Archbishop Lefebvre)
Fr. Denis Fahey: The Kingship of Christ and Organized Naturalism
Bp. Williamson promotes ‘Divine Mercy’ Novus Ordo “revelations”
Fr. Paul Robinson: Spreading More Evolutionist Propaganda

Issue 61 – Lent 2024

Are we “excommunicated” or in “schism” from modern Rome?

– Arguments from Canon Law

– The Case of the “Hawaii Six”

– Arguments from Common Sense

Catholic Social Action:

– Book Review: Ousset’s “Action”

– LFSPN: A Call to Action!

Preparing your Home for Mass
Ten Years Ago – Part 3

Issue 60 – Easter 2023

Sermon at Martigny, Switzerland, 1984 (Abp. Lefebvre)
Sorrowful Heart of Mary SSPX-MC Newsletter (Fr. Hewko)
‘How the Novus Ordro Mass was Made’ (the catacombs.org)
SSPX Moves Closer to Accepting the New Mass:

– Denying Quo Primum and legitimizing the New Mass

– Rehabilitating Pius Parsch

– Freestanding Altars emerging

– Accepting the ‘Hybrid Mass’

How to Spiritually assist at Mass

Issue 59 – Advent 2022

“New Mass Already Condemned by the Church” et alia (Abp. Lefebvre)
Mass Attendance – Applying the old SSPX’s Doctrinal Clarity:

– “Is the New Mass Legit?”

– “Should One Attend the Indult Mass?”

– “What About SSPX Masses?”

“Sorrowful Heart of Mary SSPX-MC” Newsletter (Fr. Hewko)
“Red Light Fake Resistance & SSPX!” – (Fr. Rafael Arizaga OSB)
“Is the Resistance Justified?” (A Response to a Correspondent)

Issue 58 – September 2022

“Those who are pro-Syllabus, those who are anti-Syllabus” (Abp. Lefebvre, Econe 1990)
Sowing Even More Confusion – Bishop Williamson promotes:

– Garabandal

–The New Mass & The Conciliar Church

“Sorrowful Heart of Mary SSPX-MC” (Fr. Hewko)
“Ten Years Ago…” Part 2

Issue 57 – Lent 2022

Real & Apparent Disobedience (Abp. Lefebvre, Poitiers, 1977)
“Sorrowful Heart of Mary SSPX-MC” (Fr. Hewko)
English Martyrs (Bl. James Fenn, Bl. John Finch, St. Edmund Genings
Where Do They Stand?
More on Covid “Vaccines” :

– The “Sede-Vax-Can-tists”,

– SSPX: Conciliar Morality

“Ten Years Ago”

Issue 56 – Autumn 2021

True and False Obedience (Abp. Lefebvre)
“Then And Now” (Abp. Lefevbre vs. modern SSPX)
English Martyrs (September & October)
Is ‘Quo Primum’ Still in Force?
“What are we to think of the Society of St. Peter?” (old SSPX)

Issue 55 – Easter 2021

Archbishop Lefebvre: 1981 (“Holy Resistance”) Declaration
SSPX Continues to Green Light Covid Vaccines
Fr. Paul Robinson Is Still At It! (Genesis vs. Charles Lyell)
Evolutionist Logical Fallacies
Lyell & Uniformitarianism

Issue 54 – Epiphany 2021

Archbishop Lefebvre: 1978 ‘Spotlight’ Interview
DICI Interview with the SSPX Superior General (Analysis)
Don’t Get The Vaccine!

– Novus Ordo Bishops speak out against the vaccine

– The Old SSPX spoke out against vaccines

– The New SSPX gives green light to the new vaccine

– Bishop Williamson changes his mind concerning the vaccine

Issue 53 – Autumn 2020

Fr. Pfeiffer’s Scandalous “consecration” by a Feeneyite, Sedevacantist ‘garage bishop’
Statements by Fr. Hewko, Fr. Ruiz & Fr. Raphael OSB
“Who was Abp. Ngo-Dinh Thuc?” (reprint)
Interview with Fr. Arturo Vargas

Issue 52 – Summer 2020

Abp. Lefevbre on Liberalism & Freemasonry (Spain, October 1986)
‘Mary, Cause of Our Joy’ Newsletter, May 2020 (Fr. Hewko)
“Open Letter to Donald Trump” & two other letters (Abp. Vigano)
“Spain, The Vital Years” (Book Review)

Issue 51 – Easter 2020

A Close Look at the Covid 19 ” Crisis” (Editorial & Articles)
Bishop Williamson is Still Promoting Maria Valtorta (Analysis)
“Sorrowful Heart of Mary SSPX-MC” Issues 8 & 9 (Fr. Hewko)
Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX: ‘Government Restrictions Good, Conspiracy Theories Bad’

Issue 50 – January 2020

Christmas Sermon, 1977 (Archbishop Lefebvre)
“How Independent!” (Fake Resistance Watch)
“Sorrowful Heart of Mary” Newsletter #6 (Fr. Hewko)
“The ‘Any Valid Mass’ Canard” (A Response to a Critic)
“The New Mass” (‘Catholic’ reprint, March 2000)
“My Catholic Faith” (Book Review)

Issue 49 – Fall 2019

Note on Liberal Influence 1975
(Abp. Lefebvre)
“Operation Sabotage”
(Fake Resistance re-examined)
“Quid pro Quo”
(Or: “Everyone has his price”)
Can Catholics Deny the Genesis
Flood? (No. But the SSPX Does.)
2009 Letter to SSPX Superiors
(Fr. Jean OFM)
The Recusant Poetry Contest

Issue 48 – Summer 2018

1989 Priestly Anniversary Sermon (Abp. Lefebvre)
“Remembering the English Martyrs” (August-Sept.)
A closer Look at Archbishop Lefebvre’s 1974 Declaration
Fake Resistance: Silly News
SSPX-Watch: “The anti-anti-Semitic SSPX”
“Spot the Veil!” (Competition)

Issue 47 – May 2018

Client States and Surrenders (Editorial)
Ordinations Sermon 1978 (Abp. Lefebvre)
“Remembering the English Martyrs” (June)
‘Obedience and the Pope’ (Father Gregory Hesse)
What would the Old SSPX Say about today’s technology?

Issue 46 – March/April 2018

The Heresy of Evolution:

“Ten Questions for Evolutionists” (Apologetics)
The Flood: Myth or Reality?
Dinosaurs and Mankind (Evidence Digest)
Geological Nonsense!
Charles Lyell’s Errors Disproved (Guy Bertault)
Darwin, Marx and Freud
The Traditional Catholic Doctrine on Creation (Kolbe Centre)
English Martyrs (April-May)
SSPX-Watch: promoting bogus modern “Science”!

Issue 45 – January/February 2018

“Mass of All Time vs. Mass of Our Time” (Abp. Lefebvre)
Remembering the English Martyrs (Jan. – March)
Open Letter to Fr. Ortiz (re. Russian Orthodoxy)
A Closer Look at Vladimir Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church (Digest)
“The Heresy of Evolution” (Fr. Joseph Pfeiffer)

Issue 44 – November/December 2017

The Infiltration of Modernism in the Church (Abp. Lefebvre)
Remembering the English Martyrs (December/January)
Belloc: Europe and the Faithful (Book Review)
“Measuring how much Piety has Atrophied in the n-SSPX” (Catholic Candle)
Bishop Fellay Still Accepts Vatican II (Analysis)
Trad-Ecumenism = Apostasy (Gladium)
Letter to Friends and Benefactors (Fr. Pfeiffer)
Bp. Williamson & Russian Orthodoxy (Fake Resistance Watch)

Issue 43 – September/October 2017

“A New Concept of the Church” – 1984 conference (Abp. Lefebvre)
“We Will Crush You!” (Fr. Rafael vs. Fake Resistance)
Summer 2017 Newsletter (Fr. Rafael, OSB)
Outside the Church there is No Salvation (Catechism): – “Two Recent Explanations of the Church’s Necessity for Salvation” (Mgr. Fenton) – “The Catholic Church and Salvation – Some Sources of Misunderstanding” (Mgr. Fenton)
“Dom Gueranger’s Advice for Our Time” (Catholic Candle)

Issue 42 – July/August 2017

Conference on the New Mass, 1978 (Abp. Lefebvre)
Is Bishop Williamson Defensible? (A Response to Mr. Samuel Loeman)
Archbishop Lefebvre and the New Mass (Analysis)
Where Does Bishop Faure Stand? (Time & Analysis)
SSPX-Rome Marriage Proposals (Letter & Response)

Issue 41 – May/June 2017

Ordinations Sermon, 1976 (Archbishop Lefebvre)
“The Spear” – Louis de Wohl (Book Review)
“Necessary Precisions…” (Fr. Hugo Ruiz Vallejo)
“The N-SSPX’s Pending Deal with Rome is a Disaster for Souls” (Catholic Candle)
Is the Recusant guilty of ‘Internecine Warfare’? (Correspondence)
“Bishop Williamson Teaches Indifferentism” (Analysis)
Exclusive Interview with Bishop Zendejas (Humour)

Issue 40 – April 2017

Archbishop Lefebvre’s private advice about attending the New Mass (Letter of Archbishop Lefebvre)
“The New Mass is not Catholic and doesn’t give Grace”
St. Joseph’s Monestery Newsletter (March 2017)
Has Bishop Fellay Been Wronged? (Debate)
“Bishop Williamson Is Still At It” (Analysis)
Who Is Fr. Gerardo Zendejas and What Does He Stand For?
What is Bp. Williamson’s Current Teaching?
“Who Wants to be the next Fake Resistance Bishop?” (Humour)

Issue 39 – March 2017

Archbishop Lefebvre 8th Dec. 1976 Sermon
“Fake Resistance Real Hypocrisy” Case Study: The Persecution of St.Joseph’s Monastery
Grace in the New Mass? “Open Letter to Editor of the Recusant” & Reply (Fr. MacDonald)
Hostile Takeovers for Dummies (Fake News Watch)
Bishop Fellay & Rome

Issue 38 – Christmas 2016 – February 2017

Archbishop Lefebvre Sermon at Lille, 1976
Fr. Cardozo Interview (‘Pale Ideas’)
Fake Resistance Watch: Fr. Ortiz & Australia
Bishop Williamson’s False Miracles (Catholic Candle)
Bishop Fellay and Rome (Digest & Commentary)
Remembering Campos

Issue 37 – October/November 2016

Archbishop Lefebvre: Assisi 1986 (Cartoons & Letters)
Bishop Fellay: “Our Relations with Rome” latest (Analysis)
Bp. Williamson’s latest Valtorta promotion (Catholic Candle)
‘Our Lady of the Southern Cross’ July 2016 Newsletter (Australian Resistance)
“Bishop Williamson keeps digging” (Analysis)
Hugh Akins’ Latest: (Book Review & Humor)

Issue 36 – September 2016

The Recusant: “not God but the devil’s work”..?

A Public Attack by Mr. Hugh Akins
A Public Reply to Mr. Hugh Akins
Which Resistance Priests uphold Tradition Catholic Principles? (‘Catholic Candle’)
A Reply to Sean Johnson (Fr. McDonald)
“A ‘Refutation’ Refuted” (our reply to Mr. Johnson)
Concerning the Heresy & Schism of the New Mass (Fr. Kramer & Fr. Hesse)

Issue 35 – July/August 2016

Fr. Bouchacourt & Islam (SSPX-Watch Special)
Archbishop Lefebvre die fighting. Will his sons?
Sunday without Mass (Catholic Candle)
“Fake Resistance, Real Hypocrisy” Part I – the website ‘Non Possumus’

Bishop Williamson and Maria Valtorta (Analysis)
Bishop Fellay’s June 2016 Declaration (Analysis)

Issue 34- May/June 2016

Archbishop Lefebvre – Letter to Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer (December 1990)
Open Letter to John Paul II (Lefebvre & de Castro Mayer)
62 Reasons to not attend the New Mass ( www.sspxasia.com)
“Get out while you still have some Faith!” (Catholic Candle)
Declaration of Resistance Priests – London, April 2016
Bp. Fellay & Rome – a digest of recent events
SPECIAL: “Novus Ordo ‘Miracles’ – A Case Study” – PAGE 26

Issue 33 – March/April 2016

Archbishop Lefebvre – “We cannot encourage people to assist at the New Mass” (Conference extract)
Bishop Williamson believes in the conciliar church! (EC #447 analysis)
A message from Gabrielle
Which Statement is acceptable to you? (The neo-Resistance in their own words)
“He Who Gathers Not With Me” (Fr. Cardozo – sermon)

Issue_32 – January/February_2016

Archbishop Lefebvre – “Ubi Maria Ibi Ecclesia!”
Danger of So-called “miracles” in the Conciliar Church (“Catholic Candle”)
“Edmund Campion” by Evelyn Waugh (Book Review)
Newsletter of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Seminary (Fr PFeiffer)

Issue 31 – November/December 2015

What does the Church teach concerning:
- Clerical Immorality?
- Revealing Another’s Sins?
Fake Resistance Watch:
- Cathinfo: Making Money out of Scandal (Editorial)
- “Concerning Fr. Stephen Abraham”
- Bishop Williamson: More Novus Ordo Madness
- Fr. Zendejas’s “Blue Paper” (analysis)
- Who is Fr. Zendejas? (Fr. Zendejas in his own words)
SSPX Watch: Branding comes to Britain

Issue 30 – October 2015

Priestly Jubilee Sermon (Archbishop Lefebvre)
‘Open Letter to Cardinal Gantin’ (1988 SSPX Superiors)
Open Letter to all SSPX Faithful (September 2015)
Avrillé Dominicans July Declaration (analysis)
British District Newsletter: (SSPX Watch)
“Defending the Indefensible” (Fr. Altamira)

Issue 29 – September 2015

Authority, Religious Liberty and the New Mass (Analysis)
Question: May I assist at the New Mass? Answer: No! (ecclesiamilitans.com)
Assisting at the New Mass (Avrillé Dominicans)
Why we should not attend Mass at the SSPX (Fr. Ortiz)
2015 Chapter Declaration (Knights of Our Lady)
SSPX and “Divine Mercy” (SSPX Watch)

Issue 28 – July/August 2015

Archbishop Lefebvre (Albias conference, 1990)
Good And Bad Shepherds (Fr. Pfeiffer)
“Fr. Bouchacourt Approves Priests’ Mortal Sins” (La Sapiniere)
The Conciliar Jubilee of Conciliar Mercy (Fr. Bruno OSB)
“Resisting Caricatures” (Humour)

Issue 27 – June 2015

“The Visibility of the Church” (Abp. Lefebvre)
Letter to Our Fellow Priests (French Resistance)
“The SSPX’s New Doctrine” (Analysis)
SSPX Watch – British & Irish District Newsletters

Issue 26 – May 2015

Letter to Four Bishops-Elect (Archbishop Lefebvre)
“No Compromise with Modernist Rome!” (Bishop Tissier de Mallerais)
“Statement of Position” (Fr. Brendan King)
Introduction to Fr. MacDonald (Australian Conferences)
What to do on Sundays when there is no priest for Mass (resistance-australia.boards.net)
SSPX agreement with the conciliar church in Argentina (Analysis)

Issue 25 – April 2015

Interview with Fr. Faure (September 2013)
Why a Consecration in 2015? (Dom Tomas Aquinas OSB)
‘Non Possumus’ Interview with Fr. Faure (March 2015)
Menzingen’s Reaction to the Consecration of Fr. Faure (Analysis)
‘Non Possumus’ Interview with Bishop Williamson (March 2015)
SSPX-Rome Latest

Issue 24 – March 2015

Interview with Abp. Lefebvre (Fideliter, November 1988)
Response to an article about us on the SSPX USA website (Avrillé Dominicans)
Eternal Rome vs. Eternal Life ( www.ecclesiamilitans.com )
Letter to the Faithful (Fr. Chazal)
“Lord of the World” (Book Review)
A Closer Look at ‘Der Gerade Weg’ (Analysis)
Fr. Pfluger DGW interview (Ananlysis)
Neo-SSPX apologetic videos (SSPX Watch)

Issue 23 – January/February 2015

November 1974 Declaration (Archbishop Lefebvre)
Book Reviews: “Spiritual Journey”, “Fatherhood&Family”
Letter to Friends & Benefactors (Fr. Pfeiffer)
Twelve Questions for Sedevacantists
Bishop Fellay’s Letter to Friends & Benefactors (Analysis)

Issue 22 – November/December 2014

Fideliter: “One Year After the Consecrations” (Abp. Lefebvre)
“Nothing has Changed!” (Fr. Hewko)
Austrasia Report V (Fr. Chazal)
“Blessed” Paul VI – A Weak Response (Fr. Bruno, OSB)
“Diary of an SSPX Faithful”

Issue 21 – October 2014

“We Must Not Waver! We May Not Compromise!” (Abp. Lefebvre)
Open Letter to SSPX Priests (an Australian layman)
Unfurl the Catholic Banner! (Fr. David Hewko)
Letter to the Faithful (Two Dominican Sisters)
Letter to the Faithful (Dom Rafael Arizaga, OSB)
Fr. le Roux Fiction Contest (Winning Entries)

Issue 20 – September 2014

Archbishop Lefebvre’s final interview (Fideliter, Jan-Feb 1991)
‘The Angelus Press and Michael Davies’ (analysis)
SSPX Watch Special: “Our Relations with…” Ecclesia Dei & Una Voce
‘Fr. Yves le Roux: A Writer of Fanciful Fiction!’

Issue 19 – August 2014

Little Catechism on Sedevacantism (Avrillé Dominicans)
Long Live Emperor Nullaparte! (Fr. Chazal)
The Fall and Drift of Le Barroux (Pere Bruno, OSB)
SSPX Watch!

Issue 18 – July 2014

Australasia Report IV (Fr. Chazal)
Letter to Fr. de Caqueray (Fr. Roland de Merode)
Catholic Saints vs. Conciliar “Saints” (Vatican website)
Agreement Here (Bishop Williamson)
Charity and Clarity (C J Austin Seal)
The Four Marks and the SSPX (Fr. Pfeiffer)

Issue 17 – June 2014

Bp. Fellay’s Jurisdiction & SSPX Abuses (La Sapiniere)
Friends & Benefactors Letter (Fr. Pfeiffer)
Letter to an Unknown Soldier of the ‘Internal Resistance’ (Fr. Chazal)
Interview with Fr. Fuchs (rexcz.blogspot.co.uk)
More SSPX Branding

Issue 16 – May 2014

On Recent Canonisations (Editorial)
“Keep it Simple!” (Fr. Girouard)
Bishop Fellay– No Change! (Analysis)
Ten Errors of Vatican II (Fr. Gregory Hesse)
Austral-Asian Declaration of Resistance
‘Why the Resistance?’

Issue 15 – March/April 2014

“When Two Bishops Agree” (Fr. Girouard)
Fr. Pinaud Conference
Reply to my Second Canonical Monition (Fr. Altamira)
“Fr. Emily and the Franciscans”
News from St. Joseph’s Monastery, Colombia

Issue 14 – February 2014

Declaration of Fr. Fuchs (SSPX Austria)
Fr. Altamira (SSPX Columbia):
- Sermon of Dec. 22nd 2013 (against the Rosary Crusade)
- Letter: Fr. A’s final reply to Fr. Bouchacourt
- Letter in support of Fr. A (Colombian faithful)
Fr. Pinaud’s final letter of reply to Bishop Fellay
“The Flying Squirrel” (SSPX priests defending modernism!)

Issue 13 – January 2014

“One Does Not Play With the Faith!” (Fr. Hewko)
YES or NO ? (La Sapiniere)
“Open Letter to a Confused Bishop” (Fr. Pfeiffer)
Worldwide Resistance News / SSPX Watch
News from St. Joseph’s Carmel (Germany)

Issue 12 – December 2013 – Supplementary

An Open Letter to Fr. Daniel Themann

Issue 11 – November/December 2013

Bishop Fellay renews his Traditionalist Credentials (analysis of recent talk)
News from the Resistance Around the World :
- Germany
- N. America
- S. America
- Asia
Bergoglio/SSPX Watch
Apostolate of Prayer for Priests