Saint Peter’s Square, April 10, 1973, at 10 o’clock. Fr. de Nantes and representatives of the League of the Catholic Counter-Reformation come up against a barrage of plain clothes police who prevent them from approaching the Vatican Bronze Door. Fr. de Nantes is holding two books which he wishes to present to Paul VI or one of the Pope’s representatives : the Liber accusations in Paulum sextum and the volume containing the list of 4,000 Catholics who support his canonical appeal and have enrolled in his ‘ Roman Legion ’.
“ We have come to lay at the feet of the Sovereign Pontiff our complaint against himself for heresy, schism and scandal, a complaint whose legality cannot be challenged for it envisages nothing less than a proper canonical process. It is now ten years since the seeds of the subversion began to take root in the Church, and over these past five years the destruction of Christ’s religion has been proceeding on a scale which rules out any compromise : Est, est ! Non, non ! There are two different religions warring against each other in the Church, and this is the Pope’s own doing. For within the Pope’s own soul there are two mutually incompatible visions of the world. One of them must chase the other out. ”