Following the lead of Archbishop Lefebvre, the clergy of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X (SSPX)-- the ordained members of the Lefebvrist movement — have long claimed that what the Council taught on
religious freedom is false because it
contradicted settled Catholic teaching — a claim that has more to do with the agitations of post-1789 French politics than with a serious account of the history of Catholic church - state
doctrine.