Editor’s Notes

At the time of publishing his Open Letter to the SSPX on the announced episcopal consecrations (dated 12 February, 2026), Mgr Pierre Roy’s website presented a text from one Father Maciej Sieniatycki, professor of Dogmatic Theology, taken from Przegląd Powszechny (1916). This intriguing text read as follows:>

“A Church that came into being according to modernist principles—if indeed such principles could create a true religious community, which is highly doubtful—would no longer be the Church of Christ but a 20th-century creation, based on principles that are partly Protestant but primarily grounded in an ideology of agnosticism and positivism, with mystical fantasies. This new church might have both a pope and bishops, but they would be mere puppets; it might speak of dogmas, revelations, and supernatural religion, but these would be terms stripped of their ancient meaning, words without substance—how then could it truly be said that the old Church was not changed but only improved? Never; the previous Church would be destroyed, and upon its ruins would stand a 20th-century religious assembly that would begin its era of existence with the advent of the modernists.”

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Originally published in The WM Review. Read original article