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The SSPX now sings the praises of everything Roman, without making the crucial distinction the SSPX used to make, between Eternal Rome and Modernist Rome.

For example, here is the new SSPX, on page 25 of the January-February 2015 ​Angelus ​ (which is dedicated entirely to singing the praises of Rome):

Going to Rome is going home. ... [While on a recent pilgrimage], we were falling helplessly in love with Rome. ... Rome is the Catholic Church; it is Christianity.

Here is the old SSPX, concerning Rome:

We hold firmly with all our heart and with all our mind to Catholic Rome, Guardian of the Catholic Faith and of the traditions necessary to the maintenance of this faith, to the eternal Rome, mistress of wisdom and truth.

We refuse on the other hand, and have always refused, to follow the Rome of Neo-Modernist and Neo-Protestant tendencies which became clearly manifest during the Second Vatican Council, and after the Council, in all the reforms which issued from it. ...

[There is now a] gloom which obscures the sky of the eternal Rome.

Archbishop Lefebvre, Declaration of 21 November 1974.