This Is Nerdpunk

Update:

The Lefebvrians have issued the most hilarious, sanctimonious, jaw-droppingly egotistical, self-martyred, AND THEN YOU'LL BE SORRY response to their excommunications imaginable:

https://skythread.mackuba.eu/?author=clairewillett.bsky.social&post=3mpresjigf22z (thread)

okay on today’s episode of “Give Us Thia Day Our Daily Thread,” guys the official response from SSPX to their excommunication is fucking hilarious. absolute whiny baby shit

“you are so mean and unfair, yet we heroically forgive you for it with our saintlike forbearance” girl please

Commentary:

https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mprgjiy73k2h

Possibly if you thought the church needed you so badly you should not have spent the last 40 years screaming "You're not my REAL Pope" at the guys who were, in fact, your real Popes

https://bsky.app/profile/azasloth.bsky.social/post/3mprfzbkikk2s

You EXCOMMUNICATE Miette like the heretic? Oh! Oh! Jail for Mother Church! Jail for Ten Thousand Years!

Also now I'm hung up on the egg thing:

https://bsky.app/profile/malachitetiger.bsky.social/post/3mprkixqaos2r

I love how badly this metaphor got away from them.

What exactly do you need an egg for so bad that would nevertheless result in you *returning the egg later*??

a) IT'S OFFICIALLY A SCHISM!!!

b) Excommunications for EVERYBODY!!! Not just the consecrators/consecrated!

Not just official members of the society, either, but anyone who formally adheres to them:

https://www.ncronline.org/vatican-declares-sspx-bishops-priests-schismatic-says-lay-faithful-risk-excommunication

Though the statement did not define what constitutes formal adherence to the schism for laypeople, it explicitly upheld a 1996 note from the then-Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, which said formal adherence to the schism was comprised of two elements: consciously choosing adherence to the society over obedience to the pope, and "exclusive participation in Lefebvrian 'ecclesial' acts, without taking part in the acts of the Catholic Church," referencing the group's founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

Details on what people need to do to get un-excommunicated: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2026-07/fraternity-saint-pius-x-ways-to-repent-return-full-communion.html

This is a Big Fucking Deal.

And all sacraments administered by the priests from now on are invalid, including marriage and confession.

c) The Vatican is now being very consistent in referring to them as "Lefebvrians" just to make sure everyone knows we're talking about the followers of this antisemitic piece of shit:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/feb/19/richard-williamson-lefebvre
https://www.ncronline.org/news/lefebvre-movement-long-troubled-history-judaism

d) synecdochic is awake: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mpod4qebxk25

and explaining things: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mpojo257e22r (thread)
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mpokam4ft22r (thread)

Conclusion of thread: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mpos4ov4t22r

No more His Holiness Nice Pope indeed. Benedict and Francis tried the carrot. Leo is bringing the Chicago baseball bat of loving fraternal correction to the problem now.

e) For anyone catching up, Claire Willett has been providing invaluable Schismwatch reportage:

https://skythread.mackuba.eu/?author=clairewillett.bsky.social&post=3mpkuvtp2ms2s
https://skythread.mackuba.eu/?author=clairewillett.bsky.social&post=3mplzv67h7s2j
https://skythread.mackuba.eu/?author=clairewillett.bsky.social&post=3mpnitsarss2h

also in case you have missed the excellent memes about this in the replies:

yes, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith did in fact used to be called the Inquisition

you may be familiar with their earlier work

f) Also I need to make sure that everyone knows the schismatic act had MERCH:

https://www.ncregister.com/cna/sspx-consecrates-bishops-in-defiance-of-rome-s-schism-warning

For the occasion, the SSPX even sold commemorative items, including an exclusive 75 Swiss franc box of wine — about $92.50 — called “Cuvée des Sacres,” featuring pinot noir, syrah, petit arvine, and fendant, with each bottle decorated with the image of one of the consecrated bishops.

Also white baseball caps printed with "Écône 2026" were distributed at the entrance, apparently.

synecdochic is explaining Catholic Church inside baseball again:

https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mpj5yrntqc2v (thread)

Previous rounds of Pope-exegesis:

https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3loqsfhswjk2r
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3m3eovdxmwk2z