In 2002, he moved to Bordeaux where he illegally squatted the Saint-Eloi Church, before he re-examined his situation due to the creation of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, which had been established in 1988 by Pope John Paul II to re-establish contacts with the Society of Saint Pius X.
Two years later, on 8 September 2006, he was chosen as leader of the newly founded Institut du Bon Pasteur, which received Pope Benedict XVI's approval, thus regularizing the situation of the Saint-Eloi Church following a signed convention with the archbishop of Bordeaux, Jean-Pierre Ricard.
In 1987, he took the defence of Jean-Marie Le Pen after the latter's controversial remarks on the gas chambers usage in the Second World War and criticized "the great Jewish banking who has held France in a dictatorship for forty-five years".
[3] In 1996, Father Philippe Laguérie offered a Tridentine Requiem Mass for the soul of Paul Touvier at St Nicolas du Chardonnet in Paris.
A French Nazi collaborator and the first Frenchman ever convicted of crimes against humanity, Touvier had been a senior Milice official and a high-level perpetrator of the Holocaust in France.