Soldiers of the Immaculate with Fr. Isaac #062: Obedience to God or Man?
July 21, 2026
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5 min readSoldiers of the Immaculate #062: Obedience to God or Man?
On July 1, 2026, the Society of St. Pius X consecrated four bishops. The Vatican responded with declarations of excommunication and a document from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on July 2. Father Isaac opens this episode by calling the situation "devastating" and frames it as the apostasy foretold in Scripture. But his central argument is not about the consecration itself—it is about what the controversy reveals: a fundamental rupture between the Church's constant teaching and the "living magisterium" of the past sixty years.
The Crux: Two Competing Churches
Father Isaac's framework rests on a single distinction. The SSPX did not reject papal authority; they refused obedience to commands that contradict two thousand years of Catholic doctrine. He quotes Archbishop Lefebvre's famous retort to critics who asked who he thought he was to correct the Pope: "I don't correct him. All his predecessors for two thousand years correct him." The true magisterium, Father Isaac argues, is not whatever the current Pope says—it is the consistent teaching of the Church across centuries, confirmed by ecumenical councils from Florence to Trent.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:02) **Opening & Context** - Fr. Isaac opens with the devastating aftermath of the SSPX consecration of four bishops on July 1, 2026, framing it as a sign of the foretold apostasy.
- 2 (06:35) **The Fraternity of St. Peter's "Regularization" Document** - Fr. Isaac reads and dissects a document from an FSSP chapel in Maple Hill, KS, instructing former SSPX attendees on how to "regularize" themselves.
- 3 (14:07) **Canonical Reality: No Excommunication** - Fr. Isaac argues that the supposed excommunications are canonically invalid, citing canon 1324.
- 4 (17:10) **The Fruits of the New Religion** - Fr. Isaac turns to the visible fruits of the post-Vatican II Church to justify the necessity of the SSPX.
- 5 (22:02) **St. Vincent of Lérins' Solution** - Fr. Isaac introduces the core of the episode: the teaching of St. Vincent of Lérins as the definitive guide for navigating the current crisis.
- 6 (26:23) **The Authority of the Fathers** - Fr. Isaac expands on the role of the Church Fathers as the ultimate arbiter of doctrine when councils are silent.
- 7 (30:01) **Historical Examples: Donatists and Arians** - Fr. Isaac uses St. Vincent's historical examples to show the pattern of heresy and the proper response.
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Show Notes
In this episode Father addresses some of the continuing ripple effects from the SSPX’s July 1 episcopal consecrations, namely the “ecumenical outreach” from Ecclesia Dei parish seeking to regularize supporters of the SSPX. Father also continued reading some excerpts from The Commonitory of Saint Vincent of Lerins which is so applicable to our times!
Links, Reading Material, and Books:- Handout at the FSSP Chapel in Maple Hill, KS (Twitter)
- Handout at the FSSP Chapel in Maple Hill, KS (backup image)
- Commentary of St. Vincent of Larenz (Amazon.com)
- Commentary of St. Vincent of Larenz (Archive.org)
- Commentary of St. Vincent of Larenz (free audio book)
- Commentary of St. Vincent of Larenz (PDF)
- NewAdvent.org: The Catholic Encyclopedia
- St. Alphonsus’ Daily Meditations and Readings for Every Day of the Year
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