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Category Archives: SSPX
ASK FATHER: Cut off from my beloved SSPX chapel, suffering.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I recently read your “In Illo Tempore: 8th Sunday after Pentecost” commentary on One Peter Five. I ask your opinion on this, given your remarks on suffering. What would you say to someone who is suffering, … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, SSPX, The future and our choices
Tagged SSPX
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ALERT: The SSPX appeals against the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
I was just alerted to this at Rorate. I am glad to read this. On the other hand, it might not go the way one might hope for. The Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) filed an appeal against the decisions of … Read More
Archbp. of Milwaukee reacts to the SSPX consecrations. Fr Z comments.
One bishop after another are issuing letters to their flocks in the wake of the SSPX episcopal consecrations. Uniformly, they repeat a factual error in the “Explanatory Note” about the faculties of the SSPX to receive sacramental confessions and validly … Read More
SSPX “Out The Door”… literally on Sunday, at their chapels
Each week when I post “Your Sunday Sermon Notes” I ask about news where you are and about developments, attendance. In the wake of the SSPX consecrations and the Holy See’s sloppy draconian reaction, I thought it might be interesting … Read More
IMPORTANT expert canonical exam of the DDF SSPX Decree: It does NOT excommunicate SSPX priests or faithful who attend Masses, or change the practical canonical position of faithful seeking SSPX sacraments.
Again at Rorate today, there is a careful examination of the SSPX Decree and Explanatory note by an anonymous canonist who clearly knows what he is talking about. Here is a dense summary. Let’s call this… What Does The Decree … Read More
Card. Koch, Prefect for Christian Unity, makes observations about the SSPX
I picked this up at Rorate. Card. Koch, Cardinal Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity gave an interview. He made this remark, inter alia. He makes a reference to Taurina cacata… Traditionis Custodes. My emphases (except the question). … Read More
ASK FATHER: Lay people, SSPX and excommunication
I have several of these in my mail box, similar situations. From a reader… QUAERITUR: I am a lay person who attends a diocesan Latin Mass with my family. On occasion, we attend SSPX Masses or devotions out of necessity … Read More
The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX
Today the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) released – along with the decree and explanatory note about the SSPX – the requirements for clerics (deacons and priests, according to the 1983 Code) seeking reconciliation with the Church. … Read More
What constitutes “formal adherence” to schism? It is NOT merely attending Masses. There’s more to it.
The Explanatory Note from the DDF today references the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts’s Explanatory Note on the excommunication for schism incurred by adherents of the movement of Bishop Marcel Lefebvre of 24 August 1996. The DDF says they adopted … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, 1983 CIC can. 915, SSPX
Tagged formal adherence, SSPX
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SSPX Superior Fr. Pagliarani’s homily for the 1 July 2026 consecration of bishops
Fr. Davide Pagliarani, the Superior of the SSPX, preached in French for about 37 minutes at the consecration of new bishops. The English translation is some 2100+ words. The English voice-over in THIS video is a bit loose. The English … Read More
Georgemartyrfan on Recent report of the “gift of tears” during Mass that was being live streamed: “While part of me wished privacy for this priest, I’m thankful for the reminder for more reverence, sorrow for sins…”
