The true reasons for the schism. A Prophetic Speech by Ratzinger in 1988.
Settimo Cielo has not published anything as yet on the case, covered widely by the world media, of the schism and excommunication that have hit the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, founded in 1970 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, because of the ordination on July 1 of four bishops without the pope’s authorization. A similar schism, with the relative excommunication, had already struck the Society on June 30, 1988, then too on account of the ordination of four bishops without papal mandate. And a few days later, on July 13 of that year, the then prefect of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who was visiting Chile, gave a speech in Spanish to the Chilean bishops in Santiago, analyzing the “deeper causes” of the rupture.