On the SSPX, the Old Covenant, and No Salvation Outside the Church: A Refutation of George Weigel

NOVUS ORDO WIRE · Jun 20, 2026

Novus Ordo theologian stumbles over perennial Catholic truth… On the SSPX, the Old Covenant, and No Salvation Outside the Church: A Refutation of George Weigel The well-known Novus Ordo lay theologian George Weigel has published an article against the Society of St. Pius X (FSSPX or SSPX) in the neo-conservative First Things magazine. First Things was founded in 1989 by Rev. Richard John Neuhaus (1936-2009), a name that was once a familiar one in ‘orthodox’ Novus Ordo circles but that seems to have largely disappeared from public discourse in the last decade or so, at least…