Declaration by Archbishop Lefebvre and Bishop de Castro Mayer, December 2, 1986

“Rome has asked us if we have the intention of proclaiming our rupture with the Vatican on the occasion of the Congress of Assisi.

“We think that the question should rather be the following: Do you believe and do you have the intention of proclaiming that the Congress of Assisi consummates the rupture of the Roman authorities with the Catholic Church?

“For this is the question which preoccupies those who still remain Catholic.

“Indeed, it is clear that since the Second Vatican Council, the Pope and the Bishops are making more and more of a clear departure from their predecessors.

“Everything that had been put into place by the Church in past centuries to defend the Faith, and everything that was done by the missionaries to spread it, even to the point of martyrdom, henceforth is considered to be a fault which the Church must confess and ask pardon for….

“The high point of this rupture with the previous Magisterium of the Church took place at Assisi, after the visit to the synagogue (in Rome by John Paul II on April 13, 1986—Editor’s note). The public sin against the one, true God, against the Incarnate Word, and His Church, makes us shudder with horror. John Paul II encourages the false religions to pray to their false gods—an immeasurable, unprecedented scandal.

“We might recall here our Declaration of November 21, 1974, which remains more relevant than ever.

“For us, remaining indefectibly attached to the Catholic and Roman Church of all times, we are obliged to take note that this Modernist and liberal religion of modern and conciliar Rome is still distancing itself more and more from us, who profess the Catholic Faith of the eleven Popes who condemned this false religion.

“The rupture does not come from us, but from Paul VI and John Paul II who break with their predecessors.

“This denial of the whole past of the Church by these two Popes and the bishops who imitate them is an inconceivable impiety and an intolerable humiliation for those who remain Catholic in fidelity to twenty centuries of the same Faith.

“Thus we consider as null everything inspired by this spirit of denial of the past: all the post-conciliar reforms, and all the acts of Rome accomplished in this impiety.

“We count on the grace of God and the support of the Virgin Most Faithful, all the martyrs, all the Popes right up to the Council, and all the holy Founders and Foundresses of contemplative and missionary orders, to come to our aid in the renewal of the Church through an integral fidelity to Tradition.”

You can read about this topic :

The Assisi meeting, seen from Mecca

25 years of opposition to the spirit of Assisi, in the name of the continuity of the Magisterium before Vatican II

Assisi I (October 27, 1986) :

Letter of Archbishop Lefebvre to eight cardinals (August 27, 1986)

Assisi II (January 24, 2002) :

Bishop Fellay's letter concerning the meeting in Assisi on January 24, 2002

The Society of St. Pius X's study: From Ecumenism to Silent Apostasy (January 2004)

Interview with Bishop Bernard Fellay published by DICI Feb. 2, 2004

Towards Assisi III (22nd October 2011) :

Bishop Fellay’s conference at the Courier de Rome Congress, Paris, January 9th 2011 (excerpts)

Statement by Fr. Stefan Frey, Rector of the seminary of the Society of St. Pius X in Germany

And also :

Benedict XVI will travel to Assisi in October 2011

We will not pray together in Assisi

Italian Catholic Intellectuals Beg Benedict XVI To “Flee the Spirit of Assisi”