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January 21, 2019

Pope closes Ecclesia Dei, transfers pastoral care of traditionalist Catholics to CDF

Mass in the Extraordinary Form being celebrated at Holy Family Catholic Church in Archdiocese of Toronto.
VATICAN – Pope Francis has closed the pontifical commission that had been responsible for the pastoral care of Catholics attached to the pre-Vatican II Mass, transferring the commission's tasks to a special section of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Published in Faith
July 12, 2018

Society of St. Pius X elects new superior general

Seminarians at the Society of St. Pius X seminary in Econe, Switzerland, in this May 10, 2012, file photo. The traditionalist society is not in full communion with the Catholic Church.
VATICAN – The traditionalist Society of St. Pius X elected 47-year-old Father Davide Pagliarani, an Italian member of the society, as its superior general.
Published in International
June 29, 2016

SSPX head claims Pope is encouraging error

Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior of the Society of St. Pius X, is pictured in 2012. Fellay says Pope

VATICAN CITY – The superior general of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X said Pope Francis, rather than denouncing errors in Catholic doctrine, has "encouraged" them.

Published in Vatican
March 19, 2015

SSPX bishop excommunicated — again — for illicit ordination

In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI lifted traditionalist Bishop Richard Williamson’s 1988 excommunication from the Catholic church. On Mar. 19, 2015, Williamson was excommunicated automatically for ordaining a bishop without papal approval, Fr. Jean-Michel Faure, who was also excommunicated. In this 2008 photo, Williamson is seen in a church in Stockholm, Sweden.

A traditionalist bishop who has denied the Holocaust has been automatically excommunicated along with the priest he illicitly ordained a bishop.

Published in International
September 24, 2014

Pope Francis tries again on traditionalist reconciliation after Benedict XVI failed

Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior of the Society of St. Pius X.

VATICAN CITY - Picking up a piece of unfinished business that consumed the energies of Pope emeritus Benedict XVI, the Vatican under Pope Francis is again trying to repair a decades-old breach with a controversial group of traditionalist Catholics.

Published in Vatican