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Davide Pagliarani

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“Perhaps we forget too often that the Church is fundamentally divine, despite the fact that she is incarnated in men and in the history of men. One day, a pope, against all expectations and against all human calculations, will take things in hand and all that needs to be corrected, will be corrected, because the Church is divine and Our Blessed Lord will never abandon her.”
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Recorded in: An Exclusive Interview With Father Davide Pagliarani (December 12, 2018)
“Do not capitulate before this world, but recapitulate everything in Christ [instaurare omnia in Christo].”
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“(After death of bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais) But obviously, Providence is speaking to us through this event. It is very clear that his death raises the question of the continuance of the work of the Society, which now has only two bishops, and whose mission for souls appears ever more necessary, in the time of terrible confusion that the Church is living through today. [...] When the time comes, we will know how to take up our responsibilities, in conscience.”
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Recorded in: Interview with Very Rev. Davide Pagliarani, Privileged Witness of Tradition, in The Angelus, November-December 2024, p.6. As quoted in Fr. Jean-Michel Gleize, SSPX, first appeared in French in Courrier de Rome, No. 682 …
“The example we have been considering over the past few days, and which is very significant, is Pope Francis’ statement that the plurality of religions is willed by divine wisdom, willed by God Himself. God would have intended the plurality of religions as such.”
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“Some might then consider that we find ourselves before a dilemma: we choose the integral faith, but we separate ourselves from the Church. We would therefore be choosing between the faith and the Church. To preserve the faith, would we be breaking with the Church?”
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“And all of this is not an opinion, nor a sensibility, nor an option: it is a necessity.”
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“It is necessary to restore the order: first the faith; then the Christian life; and finally, accompaniment.”
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“Tradition is a whole, because Faith is a whole. And in the current situation more than ever, the need for an absolutely free profession of Faith is evident. The true freedom of the children of God is first and foremost the freedom to profess their Faith.”
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“The act of Monsignor Lefebvre in 1988 – like the entire history of the Society of Saint Pius X – is an act of fidelity to the Church; it is an act of fidelity to the Pope, to the hierarchy, to souls. Regardless of what the Roman authorities may say or not say, think or not think.”
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“The life of the Church and of redeemed souls is one, of the very unity of the cross, of redemption. There is only one Christ, one cross through which we can worship God and be sanctified. And it is therefore this same unity that we find in the Mass, in this application of redemption to the life of the Church, to the life of souls. Since there is only one redemption, and since it is perfect, there is only one way to perpetuate this redemption, to actualise it in time in order to apply it to souls: there is only one Catholic Mass. There are not two.”
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“(On the publication Mater Populi Fidelis) To deny the title of Co-Redemptrix is tantamount to dethroning the Most Blessed Virgin. Such a thing wounds the Catholic soul in what is dearest to it.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in Interview with the Superior General of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, fsppx.org (November 12, 2025)
“Most Holy Father,”
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“[Did you imagine you would become Superior General of the FSSPX?] A few months before the 2018 General Chapter, I had obviously heard some rumours. Before that, I must say, I had never thought about it. I particularly remember the joy of working for three years in Asia, in Singapore. Travelling a lot in Asia, I remember wanting to stay in those countries for the rest of my life. I remember very well once visiting a cemetery with all the graves of missionaries. It was a Christian cemetery in a Muslim country. When I saw those missionaries' graves, I remember very well the desire to spend my life in those countries until the end. To one day be buried there too, far from my homeland. Then the Lord changed the cards on the table.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in Interview with the Superior General on the occasion of his priestly jubilee, Unavox (June 19, 2021)
“First of all, it seems clear to me that with the beatifications and canonisations of all recent popes since Pope John XXIII, there has been an attempt to ‘canonise’ the Council, the new conception of the Church and Christian life that the Council established and that all recent popes have promoted. This is an unprecedented phenomenon in the history of the Church. Thus, the post-Tridentine Church never thought of canonising without distinction all the popes from Pope Paul III to Pope Sixtus V. It canonised St. Pope Pius V not only because of his links with the Council of Trent or with its implementation, but because of his personal holiness, proposed as a model for the whole Church and placed at the service of the Church as Pope. The phenomenon we are currently witnessing is more reminiscent of the renaming of main squares and avenues following a revolution or a change of regime.”
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Recorded in: From an interview of December 29, 2018
“Pope Francis has a very precise overall vision of contemporary society, of the Church today and, ultimately, of all history. He seems to me to be affected by a kind of hyperrealism that claims to be “pastoral”. According to him, the Church must surrender to the evidence: it is impossible for her to continue preaching a moral doctrine such as the one she has preached until now. It must decide to capitulate to the demands of modern man and, as a result, rethink its motherhood. Of course, the Church must always be a mother, but instead of being so by transmitting life and educating its children, it will be so to the extent that it knows how to accept them as they are, listen to them, understand them and accompany them...These concerns, which are not bad in themselves, must be understood here in a new and very particular sense: the Church can no longer impose itself, and consequently must no longer do so. It is passive and adapts. Ecclesial life, as it can be lived today, conditions and determines the very mission of the Church, even its raison d'être. For example, since it can no longer demand the same conditions as in the past for access to the Holy Eucharist, given that modern man sees this as intolerable intolerance, the only realistic and authentically Christian reaction, in this logic, is to adapt to this situation and redefine its own requirements. Thus, inevitably, morality changes: eternal laws are subjected to an evolution made necessary by historical circumstances and by the imperatives of a false and misunderstood charity.”
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“Furthermore, in the Catholic Church, we must never forget that the law of laws, the supreme law that takes precedence over all others, is the salvation of souls [salus animarum]. It is not the prattle of small-talk, it is not the synod, it is not ecumenism, it is not liturgical experiments, nor new ideas and a new evangelisation, it is the salvation of souls. This is the law of laws, and we all have a duty, each in our own place, to observe this law and to devote ourselves totally to defending it. Why must we do this? It is because Our Blessed Lady and Our Lord Jesus Christ taught us during their life here on this earth that they had no other intention and no other goal than the salvation of souls. Therefore, in one way or another, and according to our talents and our circumstances, each one of us must do everything we can, making our contribution to save our own souls and the souls of others.”
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“Il Concilio non costituisce un insieme di testi liberamente interpretabili: esso è stato recepito, sviluppato e applicato da sessant’anni, dai Papi che si sono succeduti, secondo orientamenti dottrinali e pastorali precisi. Questa lettura ufficiale si esprime, per esempio, in testi di rilievo come Redemptor hominis, Ut unum sint, Evangelii gaudium o Amoris laetitia. Essa si manifesta anche nella Riforma liturgica, compresa alla luce dei principi riaffermati in Traditionis custodes. Tutti questi documenti mostrano che il quadro dottrinale e pastorale nel quale la Santa Sede intende collocare ogni discussione è già determinato.[...] Per queste ragioni nella consapevolezza condivisa che non possiamo trovare un accordo sulla dottrina, mi sembra che l’unico punto sul quale possiamo incontrarci sia quello della carità verso le anime e verso la Chiesa.”
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“Note here a problem: unity is achieved in the Faith. And unity cannot be achieved with an indult, a privilege that has one thing in view for some and its opposite for others. For some, the priests and faithful who want to keep the Tridentine Mass, it is a means of preserving Tradition, but for the Roman authorities – they now admit it openly – it is a means of gradually and completely bringing them over to the “conciliar Church”, to the way of thinking proper to the Church of today. All this has been established and promised in the light of the protocol signed on 5 May 1988 by Cardinal Ratzinger and Mgr. Lefebvre. Let us return to the wisdom of Monsignor Lefebvre.”
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“So what do we want? What does the Society of Saint Pius X want? We want the cross. We want the cross of Our Lord. We want to celebrate this cross, and we want to enter into the mystery of this cross. We want to make this cross our own. There are not two possible crosses, and there are not two possible redemptions or two possible Masses. [...] In this sense, the Mass is truly our flag, our banner. And in a battle, the banner is the last thing to be abandoned. There is one last thing that the Society must obtain. And it is crucial. We do not want this Mass solely for ourselves, but we want it for the universal Church. We do not want a side altar. We do not want the right to enter with our banner into an amphitheatre where everything is permitted. No! We want this Mass for ourselves and for everyone. We do not want a privilege. It is a right for us and for all souls, without distinction. It is through this that the Society of Saint Pius X continues and will continue to be a work of the Church. Because it has in view the good of the Church; it does not seek any particular privilege. God will choose the moment, the manner, the gradualness, the circumstances. But as far as it depends on us, we want this Mass now, without conditions and for everyone.”
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