POPES HAVE A LOT ON THEIR PLATE AND MUST RELY ON “UNDERLINGS” TO DO THEIR JOB PROPERLY—I CAN’T IMAGINE THAT POPE LEO, A CANONIST, IS PLEASED WITH THIS IN-HOUSE INTER-DICASTERY CONUNDRUM!

 For the most part, most rank and file clergy and laity could care less about the in-fighting in the Vatican Curia or decisions made by various dicasteries until and unless it might affect them personally, like the excommunication of the FSSPX and the cancelation of Pope Benedict’s liturgical magisterium by Pope Francis with His Holiness’ cruel Traditionis Custodis. 

Initially, when I read some commentaries on the questions concerning the FSSPX’s excommunication, I thought it was just sour grapes. But this commentary certainly moves the questions front and center and it seems that Pope Leo, since it’s His Holiness’ excommunication of the bishops of the FSSPX, needs to clarify the questions raised.

And maybe like Sister Natalie Becquart, Cardinal Fernandez needs to be shown the door? Of course, what do I know?

Does the fact that Cardinal Fernandez of Argentina did not travel with Pope Leo to Argentina, while other high ranking cardinals in the Curia did, tell us that the good Cardinal’s days as the Prefect for the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith are numbered? But what do I know?

I copy this from Rorate Caeli. Press their title for the commentary:

Tensions Among Roman Dicasteries Over the Decree of SSPX Excommunication

Translated from the French original here, courtesy of FSSPX News.

The schism remains elusive, but divisions are spreading to Rome itself. Four months after the consecrations in Écône, the condemnation of the Society of Saint Pius X is becoming a headache for the Vatican.

The decree of excommunication issued in the wake of the episcopal ordinations in Écône is now causing difficulties within the Roman Curia itself. In an investigation published on October 30, 2026, by the German Catholic daily Die Tagespost, journalist Guido Horst reveals that the Dicastery for Legislative Texts has repeatedly attempted, in collaboration with the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, to resolve the legal contradictions contained in the documents of July 2. But these efforts were thwarted by a lack of cooperation from Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, who seems unwilling to revise the texts published under his authority.

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