What are we to think of the Fraternity of Saint Peter?
Since the introduction of the new sacramental rites, Rome had allowed no Society or Congregation exclusive use of the older rites. Then on June 30, 1988, Archbishop Lefebvre consecrated four bishops to ensure the survival of the traditional priesthood and sacraments, and especially of the traditional Latin Mass. Suddenly, within two days, Pope John Paul II recognized1 the “right-fill aspirations” (for these things) of those who wouldn’t support Archbishop Lefebvre’s stance, and offered to give to them what he had always refused the Archbishop. A dozen or so priests of the Society of Saint Pius X accepted this “good will” and broke away to found the Society of Saint Peter. The Society of Saint Peter is founded upon more than questionable principles, for the following reasons: (i) It accepts that the conciliar Church has the power: • to take away the Mass of all time (for the Novus Ordo Missaeis not another form of this, QUESTION 11 1), • to grant it to those only who accept the same con
