EXCLUSIVE: Full English Text of Cardinal Robert Sarah’s Appeal for Unity, by Diane Montagna

By Diane Montagna, Substack, Feb 23, 2026

Published in French in abbreviated form on Feb. 22, the full English text responding to the recent SSPX decision is presented here.

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ROME, 23 February 2026 — Cardinal Robert Sarah has expressed his “grave concern” following the Society of Saint Pius X’s announcement that they intend to proceed with episcopal ordinations on July 1 without a pontifical mandate.

In an appeal published in the prominent French weekly Le Journal du Dimanche on Feb. 22, Cardinal Sarah urged the SSPX to reconsider its decision and called for unity in the Church through obedience to the Vicar Christ.

Previously published in French only in an abbreviated form, the full English translation of Cardinal Sarah’s appeal is presented below for the first time, with His Eminence’s kind permission.

Before It Is Too Late!

A Call to Unity by Cardinal Robert Sarah

Full text

“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God” (Mt 16:16). By these words, Peter, questioned along with the other disciples by the Master about the faith he professes in Him, expresses in summary the patrimony that the Church, through apostolic succession, has safeguarded, deepened, and handed down for two thousand years. Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God—that is to say, the one and only Savior.” These words, so clear and so powerful, spoken by Pope Leo XIV on the faith of Peter the day after his election, still resound in my soul. The Holy Father thus sums up the mystery of faith which bishops, as successors of the Apostles, must never cease to proclaim and recall. Christ is not only our sole Savior; He is our sole salvation. His Name is the only one by which we can be saved. …

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