Who is Cardinal Fernandez to Judge?

Why hasn’t Leo declared his excommunication?

David Martin , Bio and Archives--July 3, 2026

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The Catholic world is presently aghast after Dicastery for the Doctrine (DDF) prefect Cardinal Victor Fernandez on July 2 issued a two-page document in which he declared the excommunication of the Society of Saint Pius X and its priests because its bishops made four priests bishops without Vatican approval. This is bewildering when we consider that Fernandez is a manifest heretic who is known the world over for his sex-oriented writings in which he tries to make a religion out of sex.

The Catholic world is presently aghast after DDF prefect Cardinal Victor Fernandez on July 2 issued a two-page document in which he declared the excommunication of the Society of Saint Pius X and its priests because its bishops made four priests bishops without Vatican approval. This is bewildering when we consider that Fernandez is a manifest heretic who is known the world over for his sex-oriented writings in which he tries to make a religion out of sex.

However, in his document Fernandez commits a theological blunder, which hopefully the SSPX will capitalize on. Therein he claims that if SSPX priests celebrate the sacraments of........

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