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2026

  1. Catholic Identity Conference meets near Pittsburgh with Bishop Schneider as keynote speaker

    The annual Catholic Identity Conference, organised by The Remnant, met near Pittsburgh from 2 to 4 October 2026. InfoVaticana described a programme bringing together Vaticanists, liturgists and several bishops, with a keynote by Bishop Athanasius Schneider under a title referring to a "hostile takeover" within the Church; The Remnant reported that co-founder Eric Frankovitch closed the event by urging traditional Catholics to stop attacking one another.

    SourcesA meeting in Pittsburgh brings together Vaticanists, liturgists and several… (InfoVaticana)“Stop the Circular Firing Squad”: CIC Co-Founder Calls Traditional Catholics… (The Remnant)Catholic Identity Conference - Home (Catholic Identity Conference)

  2. Bishop Athanasius Schneider issues first statement since the SSPX excommunications

    In a statement first published by journalist Diane Montagna, Bishop Athanasius Schneider described the SSPX as having faced a "tragic" choice between the integrity of the faith and formal recognition by the Holy See, while not offering a definitive juridical judgment on the Vatican's measures. Before the consecrations he had argued that an excommunication would be invalid because the Society did not intend a schismatic act.

    SourcesBishop Schneider: Serious Vatican Engagement with SSPX Would Mark "Beginning… (Diane Montagna (Substack))Episcopal Consecrations: Updated Dossier (FSSPX.News)Mons. Schneider breaks his silence on Écône: the SSPX had to choose between… (InfoVaticana)Bishop Schneider: The SSPX Provides the Church a Historic Service (FSSPX.News)

2020

  1. Five bishops including Schneider and Strickland reject abortion-linked COVID vaccines

    Cardinal Janis Pujats, Archbishops Tomash Peta and Jan Pawel Lenga, and Bishops Joseph Strickland and Athanasius Schneider argued that using vaccines developed with fetal cell lines "cannot be acceptable for Catholics".

    SourcesBishops Schneider, Strickland on the Morality of Vaccines (The Remnant)Covid Vaccines: 'The Ends Cannot Justify the Means' (Crisis Magazine)

  2. Viganò essay treats the Second Vatican Council as the source of later errors

    Responding to a 1 June essay by Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Archbishop Viganò argued that the Council itself lay at the root of later deviations. After Vatican commentator Sandro Magister wrote that such a wholesale rejection stood at the brink of schism, Viganò defended the idea that the Council be forgotten.

    SourcesViganò: «No creo que haya nada censurable en sugerir que hay que olvidar el… (InfoVaticana)Who still stands with Viganò? (National Catholic Reporter)A Letter of Support to Bishop Schneider and Bishop Viganò for a Debate on… (FSSPX.News)