 Lefebvre responded with a letter claiming that the modernization of the church was a "compromise with the ideas of modern man" originating in a secret agreement between high dignitaries in the church and senior Freemasons prior to the council.Lefebvre was then notified that, since he had not apologized to the Pope, he was suspended "a divinis", i.e., he could no longer legally administer "any" of the sacraments.Lefebvre remarked that he had been forbidden from celebrating the new rite of Mass.