Traditional declaration of 1974

“ We adhere with all our heart and soul to Catholic Rome, guardian of the Catholic faith and of the traditions necessary for the maintenance of this faith, to eternal Rome, teacher of wisdom and truth. On the other hand, we refuse and have always refused to follow the Rome of neo-modernist and neo-Protestant tendencies, which was clearly manifested in the Second Vatican Council and after the Council in all the reforms that followed. All these reforms, in fact, have contributed and still contribute to the demolition of the Church, to the ruin of the priesthood, to the annihilation of the sacrifice and the sacraments, to the disappearance of religious life, to a naturalist and Teilhardian teaching in universities, seminaries, catechesis, teachings stemming from liberalism and Protestantism, condemned many times by the solemn magisterium of the Church. No authority, not even the highest in the hierarchy, can compel us to abandon or diminish our Catholic faith, clearly expressed and professed by the Church’s magisterium for nineteen centuries.”

- Archbishop Marcel LeFebvre