[ultima ratio]

What nonsense. What need was there to appeal? The fix was in. Do you think the Archbishop was stupid? The Holy See was abandoning the traditional faith--as this article clearly shows. It was time to act--and he did.

[gbcdoj]

LOTI's attempted comparison was invalid. St. Joan appealed to the Pope, and her appeal was illegally ignored. Msgr. Lefebvre did not appeal to the Pope, but was judged by the Pope. And as Bl. Pius IX says: "For any man to be able to prove his Catholic faith and affirm that he is truly a Catholic, he must be able to convince the Apostolic See of this. [. . .] All these traditions dictate that whoever the Roman Pontiff judges to be a schismatic for not expressly admitting and reverencing his power must stop calling himself Catholic. [. . .] Most men feel that the Church's supreme head and shepherd should decide who are Catholics and who are not" (Quartus Supra 8-9, 15).