It's a great pleasure for me to be here for this conference.

They gave me a broad title, The Mission of the Society.

It's a classical title for the Superior, so he can talk a lot so what we can say the mission of the society is always the

same this mission is and to keep this mission the the society has to remain

always the same as to remain always the same.

Has to remain what it is.

Circumstances change, change a lot during the last few years.

This year in particular, we will see.

But the role of the society is always the same,

is to upholding, defending tradition.

And the providential role of the society is more and more clear every year.

Of course, as a superior general, I am not the best person in the best position

to say that there is not another option.

But after the last moturoprio, Traditionis custodes, the dismay of a lot of Catholics linked to tradition,

the society becomes more and more a point of reference,

not only for our faithful, but also for people observing us from outside.

And this conclusion is not because we are better than the others.

No, that's not what I meant.

But it's because without tradition kept in its integrality, people, they go nowhere. Sooner or later,

the lack of a doctrinal element,

of a liturgical element, of a moral element,

will show up, and it will bear consequences.

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