The Transalpine Redemptorist community has proclaimed itself sedevacantist. In a letter dated 2 May, they wrote: "The pre-Vatican II popes condemned indifferentism as a deadly heresy. The post-Vatican II claimants to the papacy have embraced it, promoted it and acted upon it."
The group has three monasteries. The community's mother house is located in Papa Stronsay, Orkney, Scotland. They also have a house in the Diocese of Christchurch, New Zealand, and a pioneer community in the Diocese of Great Falls–Billings, Montana, USA.
In 2008, they broke away from the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X in order to obtain regularisation from the Vatican, they were then invited by diocesan bishops to establish priories in New Zealand and Montana. Critics accuse the community of fostering a personality cult surrounding the two leading priests.
In their new letter, signed by all the members, they state that "the modernist presence within the structures and hierarchy of the official Church has gone beyond critical mass to a near saturation point".
They refer to "the false Vatican II Church" and describe the Novus Ordo sacraments as having "doubtful validity".
"We must give no juridical recognition to those who have departed from it, including Leo XIV and his bishops."
Their conclusion: "We cannot cooperate with those who claim to be Catholic yet continue to spiral ever deeper into apostasy. No Catholic can. The pirates have boarded the Ark of Peter. There is no room for us on the deck."
They also say: "We must recognise that the institutional structures claiming to be the Catholic Church have been infiltrated. The men who occupy the offices belong to the modernist religion, not the Catholic Church."
Finally, they repeated their plan for a "council" bringing together sedevacantist bishops from around the world. The council would be responsible for "pronouncing on the status of the present claimants to the papacy and restoring order to the Church". However, such a meeting may be "years away".
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