By Joseph Bevan, OnePeterFive - The current dispute between Rome and the SSPX does not involve the issue of validity of the Novus Ordo sacraments either. It is certainly true that further down the line, maybe in a few hundred years, when historians look back at this time, they will associate the preservation of the traditional sacraments and the priesthood with what happened at Écône on 30th June 1988. One of the reasons Archbishop Lefebvre gave for these consecrations is that he couldn’t abandon his priests to bishops “who, due to their doubtful intentions, confer doubtful sacraments” ...