No good news can come from this meeting. Pray for the Lord to come back soon

The American District of the Society of Saint Pius X will soon release a statement regarding this meeting.

This Tuesday, February 8, Pope Francis received in audience Father Davide Pagliarani. Since his election in 2018, this is the first time that the new superior general of the Society of Saint Pius X has met the current pontiff. Previously, Bishop Fellay had the opportunity to meet Pope Benedict XVI (August 29, 2005) or Pope Francis (April 1, 2016). Similarly, Archbishop Lefebvre had met Paul VI and John Paul II.

This visit underlines the maintenance of relations between the Holy See and the Society of Saint Pius X. Those have never been interrupted even if they went through a period of frost between 1988 and 2000. They seem to demonstrate that the gaze carried by the pope on the movement of Archbishop Lefebvre remains the same. The Argentine pontiff had in turn granted to the members of the Society of Saint Pius X powers to confess, to marry, to ordain, to judge in first instance, etc.

An Italian priest, Father Pagliarani was, for six years, superior of the Argentinian seminary of the Society of Saint Pius X. He is now assisted in his government by Bishop de Galarreta, of Argentinian nationality, one of the four bishops ordained by Archbishop Lefebvre, and Father Bouchacourt who met Cardinal Bergoglio on several occasions when both were living in Buenos Aires.