 1382).Lefebvre declared, in contradiction to Pope John Paul II, that he and the other clerics involved had not "separated themselves from Rome" and were therefore not schismatic.He invoked canon 1323 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law that they "found themselves in a case of necessity", not having succeeded, as they said, in making "Rome" understand that "this change which has occurred in the Church" since the Second Vatican Council was "not Catholic".