John Paul II, leading to Lefebvre’s excommunication. The founding members of the FSSP only split with Lefebvre after Lefebvre ordained four bishops in 1988 against the will of Pope St. “Until then it was forbidden for us to be critical of the Holy Father or Rome,” Bisig said. But the archbishop kept this opinion largely out of the public realm because most priests in the SSPX would have been scandalized. But Lefebvre defied Rome and expanded his order to other nations.īisig said the unjust suppression of the flourishing seminary, which had 120 seminarians by 1977, and Pope Paul VI’s subsequent suspension led to a change in Lefebvre’s attitude towards Rome, and his language became increasingly “polemical.” Lefebvre began to entertain sedevacantism, the idea that Paul VI was not the real pope, and thus the Chair of Peter was vacant, Bisig said. In 1976, Pope Paul VI suspended Lefebvre a divinis, meaning the archbishop was forbidden to celebrate any sacraments, including the Eucharist. In the mid-1970s, the SSPX had its seminary in Econe, Switzerland, suppressed by the Archbishop of Fribourg. Pius X (SSPX), founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who developed a strained relationship with the Vatican over doctrinal matters arising from the Second Vatican Council and the modernization of the Church. The FSSP had its origins in the Society of St.
“That doesn’t mean the exercise of authority is always just, but that’s not a reason for or a recipe for doing what we want.” “We are not Protestants” who see authority as something invisible. “We believe in the visibility of authority,” he said. Joseph Bisig, a co-founder of the FSSP who gave a lecture in Ottawa Nov. “I love the Pope and I pray for him,” said Fr.
While many defenders of Pope Francis accuse traditionalist Catholics of attacking the Pope, whether about interpretations of Amoris Laetitia or more recently about the sex-abuse scandals, the FSSP stresses prayer for the Pope, respect for the the Successor of Peter and acts of charity. There is only one Church founded by the Lord and the Pope is His visible vicar.” Unity with him is very important if you want to be in the Church.
“(The Pope) is the visible face of our Lord. Peter (FSSP), a Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical right that celebrates the Traditional Latin Mass. Andrzej Komorowski, the recently-elected Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of St. “There is no possibility to get to Heaven without being united to the Pope,” said Fr.
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