On January 15, 2022, Don Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of the Society of St. Pius

the 10th, gave a conference in Paris at the conclusion of the 16th Theological Congress of Currier

de Rome, in partnership with Dici, a news agency of the society.

This talk was given in French originally.

An English translation is available on SSPX.org.

This is an audio recording of that translation.

We have tried to keep the same verbal style and emphasis of the original.

There are certain additional clarifications in the written version, footnotes, etc., that can be found at SSPX.org.

We will simply be recording the translation as closely as possible.

We must maintain tradition and pass it on.

Don Davide Paglirani, Superior General of the Society of St. Pius the Tenth.

It is certain that we are at a crucial moment, a moment that is both sad and logical. We have reached a point that was foreseeable.

It is true that the Society of St. Pius X is not directly affected by the moduroprio

traditionus custodas, for the reasons you all know. However, in all reality, this new situation

that has arisen shows more than ever that

the position of the Society of St. Pius X is the only viable position that holds together.

I am perhaps not the best person to say it, but there are facts that are objective and they are obvious.

Why is that?

Simply because even if the various institutes under Ecclesia Dei, who are directly implicated by this

modiproprio, are not part of the Society of St. Pius X, they exist, however, because the Society of St.

Pius X, exists.

Their origin, from a general point of view, is linked in one way or another to the history

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