Society of Saint Pius X
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The Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX;
The society is named after
Tensions between the society and the Holy See climaxed in 1988 with the Écône consecrations: Archbishop Lefebvre consecrated four bishops without the Apostolic Mandate and against a personal warning by Pope John Paul II,[8] resulting in Rome declaring that the bishops who consecrated or were consecrated had incurred latae sententiae (automatic) excommunication.[9] Though the SSPX denied that the bishops incurred any penalty, claiming canon law in their defense, the declared excommunication of the surviving bishops was at their request removed in 2009 in the hope of speedily reaching "full reconciliation and complete communion".
In 2022, the society states it has over 700 priestly members, with 1,135 total members.[2]
Early history
Like
Foundation of the society
In September 1970, shortly after his retirement as Superior General of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Lefebvre was approached by eleven members of the Pontifical French Seminary in Rome. They sought Lefebvre's advice on a conservative seminary where they could complete their studies.[14] He directed them to the University of Fribourg, in Switzerland.
In late 1970, at age 65, urged by the
Normally, after a suitable period of experience and consultation with the
The establishment of the SSPX was unwelcome to some churchmen, most notably the French bishops, whose theological outlook differed from Lefebvre's, and who had important connections with the Holy See Cardinal Secretary of State,
Canonical visitation of seminary
The first sign of curial intervention was a Vatican meeting on 26 March 1974. By June 1974, a commission of cardinals had been formed to inquire into the SSPX, and decided on a canonical visitation of the seminary by two Belgian priests, held 11–13 November 1974.
Lefebvre was in serious difficulties.[15] In January 1975, Bishop Pierre Mamie of Fribourg wrote to Rome stating his intention to withdraw the pia unio status that his predecessor had granted. In the same month, Lefebvre was summoned to the Vatican, meeting with the cardinals on 13 February and 3 March. Lefebvre was surprised by their hostility: at one point a French cardinal, Gabriel-Marie Garrone, reportedly called him a "fool".[15]
Growing tensions
On 6 May 1975, with the cardinals' approval, Bishop Mamie withdrew the SSPX's pia unio status. Lefebvre instructed his lawyer to lodge appeals, and he ultimately petitioned the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, which turned down the appeal. From this point onward, the SSPX was no longer recognised as a canonical organization.
Lefebvre and the society's leadership always maintained that he was treated unfairly by the Roman Curia, that the suppression of the SSPX was unjust, and that the procedures violated the 1917 Code of Canon Law.
The SSPX continued to operate in spite of its discountenance. In the consistory of 24 May 1976, Pope Paul VI rebuked Archbishop Lefebvre by name—reportedly the first time in 200 years that a pope had publicly reprimanded a Catholic bishop—and appealed to him and his followers to change their minds.[22]
Lefebvre announced that he intended to confer ordination on some of his students at the end of June 1976. On 12 June 1976, the Nuncio in Switzerland was given instructions to inform Lefebvre that, by special order of Pope Paul VI, he was forbidden to do so.[23][24] On 25 June 1976, Archbishop Giovanni Benelli, the deputy Secretary of State, wrote directly to Lefebvre, confirming, by the Pope's special mandate, the prohibition to administer the holy orders, and warning him of the canonical penalties for Lefebvre himself and those whom he would ordain.[23][25] Lefebvre ignored the warnings and went ahead with the ordinations on 29 June 1976.
In the sermon on that occasion, Lefebvre explicitly recognized that he might be struck with suspension, and the new priests with an irregularity that could theoretically prevent them from saying Mass.[26] The next day, 1 July 1976, the Press Office of the Holy See declared that following canon 2373 of the then Code of Canon Law, Lefebvre was automatically suspended for one year from conferring ordination and that those whom he had ordained were automatically suspended from exercising the order received. It was also announced that the Holy See was examining Lefebvre's disobedience to the Pope's orders.[23][27]
On 11 July 1976, Lefebvre signed a certificate of receipt of a letter from Cardinal
Écône consecrations (1988)
A central controversy surrounding the SSPX concerns the
By 1987, Archbishop Lefebvre was 81. If he had died at that point, the SSPX could have their members ordained to the priesthood only at the hands of non-SSPX bishops, regarded by Lefebvre as unreliable and unorthodox. In June 1987, Lefebvre announced his intention to consecrate a successor to the episcopacy. He implied that he intended to do this with or without the approval of the
On Pope John Paul II's instructions, Cardinal Ratzinger replied to Lefebvre on 30 May, insisting on the observance of the May 5 agreement and adding that, if Lefebvre carried out unauthorized consecrations on 30 June, the promised authorization for the ordination to the episcopacy would be withdrawn.
On 3 June, Lefebvre wrote that he intended to proceed. On 9 June, the Pope replied with a personal letter, appealing to him to abandon a design that "would be seen as nothing other than a
On 30 June 1988, Archbishop Lefebvre proceeded to ordain to the episcopate four priests of the SSPX. Antônio de Castro Mayer, the retired Bishop of Campos dos Goytacazes, Brazil, assisted in the ceremony. Those consecrated as Bishops were: Bernard Fellay, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, Alfonso de Galarreta, and Richard Williamson.
The following day, the
Lefebvre argued that his actions had been necessary because the traditional form of the Catholic faith and sacraments would become extinct without Traditionalist clergy to pass them on to the next generation. He called the ordinations 'opération survie' ("Operation Survival"), citing in his defense canons 1323 and 1324 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first of which says that "a person who acted coerced by grave fear, even if only relatively grave, or due to necessity or grave inconvenience unless the act is intrinsically evil or tends to the harm of souls" is not subject to penalty for violating a law or precept, while the other says "the perpetrator of a violation is not exempt from a penalty, but the penalty established by law or precept must be tempered or a penance employed in its place if the delict was committed [...] by a person who thought in culpable error that one of the circumstances mentioned in can. 1323, nn. 4 or 5 was present."[36]
Some members of the SSPX disassociated themselves from the society as a result of Lefebvre's actions and, with the approval of the Holy See, formed a separate society called the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter.
Discussions with the Holy See
Discussions between the Holy See and the Society of Saint Pius X towards an eventual reconciliation have been ongoing. For years after the 1988 consecrations, there was little if any dialogue between the SSPX and the Holy See. This state of affairs ended when the society led a large pilgrimage to Rome for the
Nine years later, on 21 January 2009, the Holy See remitted the excommunications of the society's bishops that it had declared at the time of the 1988 consecrations and expressed the hope that all members of the society would follow this up by speedily returning to full communion with the Church.
Discussions since then have been complex, stemming from the society's insistence that the teachings of the Second Vatican Council on ecumenism, religious liberty, and collegiality are inconsistent with Catholic teaching and doctrine, a claim that the Holy See views as unacceptable, but recent discussions have indicated the possibility of an understanding. In an interview on 4 March 2017 with DICI, the official news organ of the society, Bishop Bernard Fellay stated: "Whether it is a question of religious liberty, collegiality, ecumenism, the new Mass, or even the new rites of the sacraments [...] And now all of a sudden, on these points that have been stumbling blocks, the emissaries from Rome tell us that they are open questions."[37] In the same month of March 2017, Archbishop Guido Pozzo, the prelate in charge of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, the Roman Curia's organ for traditionalist societies, stated that the Holy See and the society were close to an agreement regularizing the society's status.[38] In a letter of the same month it was announced that Pope Francis authorized diocesan bishops to grant to SSPX priests faculties to officiate at a marriage valid in the Catholic Church in cases where no priest in good standing could do so.[39]
In July 2017 Bishop Fellay signed a document along with a number of other clergy and academics labelled as a "Filial Correction" of Pope Francis. In twenty-five page document, which was made public in September after receiving no reply from the Holy See, they criticized the Pope for allegedly promoting heresy through various words, actions and omissions during his pontificate.[40]
Canonical situation
The canonical situation of the SSPX and of its clergy has been the subject of controversy since the 1988 Écône consecrations. While the society is not listed in Annuario Pontificio as a recognized society of apostolic life, it has nonetheless benefited from some significant allowances normally granted only to recognized orders and societies. A 1995 letter from the Pontifical Commission stated that there is "no doubt about the validity of the ordination of the priests of the Society of St. Pius X. They are, however, suspended a divinis."[41]
Marriage
In 2008, the pontifical commission Ecclesia Dei had stated: "The priests of the Society of St. Pius X are ... prohibited from exercising their priestly functions", going on to say that matrimony "require[s] that the priest enjoys the faculties of the diocese or has proper delegation. Since that is not the case with these priests, these sacraments are invalid."[42]
On 27 March 2017, the
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf commented that suspended priests cannot receive faculties: "If the SSPX priests can receive faculties, and they have, all over the place, then they are not suspended."[44]
Confession
On 20 November 2016, Pope Francis personally and indefinitely extended an allowance he created during the Holy Year of 2015[45] for penitents confessing to priests affiliated with the SSPX: "For the Jubilee Year I had also granted that those faithful who, for various reasons, attend churches officiated by the priests of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X, can validly and licitly receive the sacramental absolution of their sins."[46][47]
Ordination and Holy Orders
During an interview with TV Libertes on 29 January 2017, Bishop Fellay announced that theological discussions with the Holy See had led to permission for the society to licitly ordain priests: "This summer it was confirmed that the Superior General can freely ordain the priests of the society without having to ask permission from the local bishop."[48]
Catholic Mass
In 2020, Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy and dean of theology at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome, reaffirmed the statement he made in 2011, before Pope Benedict granted certain faculties in favour of SSPX priests. After declaring that "the Masses celebrated by members of the Society of St. Pius X are valid but illicit, i.e., contrary to Canon Law", he said:
"The mere fact of assisting at a Mass of this society is not a sin. It would only become so if a person attended this Mass with the deliberate intention of separating himself from communion with the Pope and those in communion with him. I would say, therefore, that a conscientious Catholic should not knowingly attend a Mass celebrated by a priest not in good standing with the Church." "Only if there is objectively no alternative should one attend the Mass celebrated by a priest from the Society of St. Pius X. If one has to do so, then I would say that one may go in good conscience and receive Communion at such a Mass. It would also fulfill the Sunday obligation", and explained that "alternative" is not limited to "Mass in the extraordinary form": a Catholic who seeks this form but finds none available other than the SSPX celebration "should attend an ordinary form Mass or even any Eastern Catholic celebration so as to remain in full Catholic communion".[42][49]
Jurisdiction
When told by a journalist of InfoVaticana, a provider of religious information founded in Madrid in October 2013,
The society's view is that, before Pope Francis's authorizations, their priests held "supplied" jurisdiction (power of governance) for confessions and marriages. They received this supplied jurisdiction by law and not "by delegation or by mandate of the Sovereign Pontiff or the diocesan bishops or of regularly appointed parish priests."[52][53][54]
Since the grants by Pope Francis, the society says that its priests have or can have ordinary jurisdiction for the sacraments of confession and marriage. It adds that, in cases where a diocesan bishop refuses to grant delegation for a marriage, SSPX priests can still use extraordinary jurisdiction.[55]
SSPX today
As of April 2018[update],
The society is divided into two classes of territorial units called districts and autonomous houses, each headed by a superior. An autonomous house may become a district after three priories have been established within its jurisdiction.[59] The most recent organizational addition of the society is the Autonomous House of Central America and the Caribbean, formed from territory taken from the District of Mexico, erected on 1 October 2017. Over 120 (>20%) of the society's priests are stationed in the District of France.[60]
The society expanded its mission in Asia[61] and Poland,[62] where the society managed to triple the number of chapels from 2019 to 2021.
As of 2015[update], the society was sub-divided into 14 districts, and 5 autonomous houses:[63]
District, or Autonomous house | Priories | Chapels/
Missions |
Schools | Retreat centers |
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District of Africa | 7 | 23 | 2 | |
District of Asia | 6 | 42 | 2 | 1 |
District of Australia (also Oceania) | 7 | 38 | 4 | |
District of Austria | 4 | 23 | 1 | |
District of Belgium-Netherlands | 3 | 8 | 1 | |
District of Canada | 6 | 30 | 3 | 1 |
District of France | 44 | 124 | 47 | 4 |
District of Germany | 13 | 29 | 4 | 1 |
District of Great Britain (also Scandinavia) | 7 | 31 | 1 | |
District of Italy | 4 | 18 | 1 | |
District of Mexico-Guatemala | 6 | 20 | 2 | |
District of South America | 8 | 30 | 3 | |
District of Switzerland | 10 | 17 | 6 | 1 |
District of United States | 20 | 106 | 26 | 3 |
Autonomous House of Brazil | 3 | 16 | ||
Autonomous House of Eastern Europe | 5 | 32 | 3 | 1 |
District of Ireland | 1 | 7 | ||
Autonomous House of Spain and Portugal | 1 | 17 | ||
Autonomous House of Central America and the Caribbean | 1 |
The
Superiors general
Name | Nationality | Term |
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Abp Marcel Lefebvre | France | 1970–1982 |
Fr Franz Schmidberger | Germany | 1982–1994 |
Bp Bernard Fellay | Switzerland | 1994–2018 |
Don Davide Pagliarani | Italy | 2018– |
Notable groups that have split from the SSPX
There have been two major kinds of splits from the SSPX. Two notable splits of the first kind involved priests who viewed the SSPX as too liberal and who use the form that the Mass had before Pope John XXIII. The other kind involved groups who have reconciled with the Holy See and who, like the SSPX, use the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal.
Groups which broke with the SSPX which are not recognized by the Holy See include:
- Society of Saint Pius V – In 1983, nine U.S. SSPX priests broke with or were forced to leave the SSPX's Northeast USA District partly because they were opposed to Lefebvre's instructions that Mass be celebrated according to the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal issued by Pope John XXIII. Those in SSPX circles refer to these priests as "the nine". They began their organization by refusing to complete a transaction of a church that the SSPX was attempting to purchase, using one of the nine priests as the buyer. The founding priests took the money intended for the purchase of the church and kept the church for themselves.[citation needed] A number of the SSPV's priests and the lay people who go to their Masses are openly sedevacantist, a position rejected by the SSPX. Issues occasioning the split were: Lefebvre's order that Society priests must accept the decrees of nullity handed down by diocesan marriage tribunals; the insistence that all Society Masses be celebrated according to the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal; the acceptance of new members into the group who had been ordained to the priesthood according to the revised sacramental rites of Pope Paul VI.[64]
- Istituto Mater Boni Consilii – (English: "Institute of the Mother of Good Counsel") is a traditionalist congregation of priests that follows the sedeprivationist school of thought. The founders of the institute seceded in 1985 from the Society of St. Pius X under the leadership of Fr. Francesco Ricossa, a one-time faculty member of the Écône seminary. In contrast to the North American-based SSPV, this Institute is based in Europe.
Groups which broke with the SSPX which reconciled with Rome include:
- Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP) – It was established in 1988 after the Écône consecrations. Responding to the Holy See's declaration that these constituted a schismatic act and that those involved were thereby automatically excommunicated, twelve priests left the SSPX and established the FSSP, in full communion with the Holy See.
- Institute of the Good Shepherd – (Institut du Bon-Pasteur, IBP) was established as a papally-recognized society of apostolic life on 8 September 2006 for a group of SSPX members who maintained it was time for the society to accept reconciliation with Pope Benedict XVI.
- Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer (Filii Sanctissimi Redemptoris, FSSR) also known Transalpine Redemptorists, founded as a religious community affiliated with the SSPX in 1988. In 2008 the community petitioned to be reconciled with the Holy See, which was accepted by then Pope Benedict XVI.
Lifestyle and clothing amongst adherents
In the Society of Saint Pius X, a complementarian position for gender roles is upheld; "In St. Mary's, few married women work, especially once they have children."[65]
Richard Williamson, a former bishop of the SSPX who now aligns with the SSPX Resistance, wrote a pastoral letter, in which he stated that "women's trousers, as worn today, short or long, modest or immodest, tight or loose, open or disguised (like the 'culottes'), are an assault upon woman's womanhood and so they represent a deep-lying revolt against the order willed by God."[66][67] The Atlantic, in covering SSPX, described their female adherents as being "Women in long, modest skirts [who were loading] vans that had enough seats to accommodate eight or nine kids."[65]
During
List of Controversies
Political
After Bishop Richard Williamson, the subject of the complaint by the Anti-Defamation League, denied the use of Nazi gas chambers to massacre Jews in a 2009 interview, the superior general of the society said that, if he repeated his denial, he would be expelled.[69] His actual expulsion in 2012 was for refusing to show due respect and obedience to the SSPX authorities and calling on the superior general to resign.[70] Williamson was later convicted of Holocaust denial by a German court.[71]
French
On 16 October 2013, the society offered to perform a funeral for Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke. Priebke had been baptized in a Protestant denomination, but in post-war years he converted to a form of Catholicism with his wife and had his children baptized.[74] He rejected the cult of race as a "mistake that led down a path of no return."[74] The ceremony did not take place due to protests by some 500 people, outside the society's Italian district house in Albano, near Rome. The local authorities of the Catholic Church refused him a public funeral, citing a rule of canon law that, unless they gave some signs of repentance before death, a public funeral must be refused to manifest sinners to whom it cannot be granted without public scandal of the faithful.[75][76]
Despite controversies surrounding Nazism, the society mentioned that Archbishop Lefebvre's father, René Lefebvre, met his death in the concentration camp at Sonnenburg in February 1944, three years after his arrest by the Gestapo; he died, "his rosary in hand, a victim of Nazi insanity."[77]
The society is also known for supporting the
Sexual abuse and cover-up
On 5 April 2017, Uppdrag granskning, a Swedish television program focused on investigative journalism, alleged that four members of the SSPX—three priests and a former seminarian—had molested at least a dozen young people in several countries.[80][81][82] The program also stated that evidence of abuse was kept secret by the SSPX and that the priests were allowed to continue in ministry.[80][83]
Kevin Gerard Sloniker, the former seminarian and the only person accused by name in the program, was expelled from the society's St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in 2005, and began serving a life sentence in 2015.[84][85] The remaining three accusations regard priests whose names have been withheld (referred to in the program as Fathers P, S, and M); their accusers have likewise remained anonymous. Nonetheless, P was the subject of a canonical trial presided over by Bishop Fellay, authorized by the Holy See in 2013; he was found guilty, and subsequently ordered to retire to a monastery. Crux reports "P refused to go and, according to officials of the SSPX, joined [Bishop] Williamson's Resistance."[86]
In May 2020, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation stated that, as part of its investigation into the four Catholic dioceses in the state, it was also investigating accusations that SSPX members were either perpetrating or covering up clerical sex abuse in the state.[87] The SSPX St. Mary's Rectory in Kansas faced sex abuse allegations, although both the U.S. district of the society and the St. Mary's Rectory denied the allegations.[88]
List of SSPX Priests sentenced for sexual abuse
- Father Uribe Silviano Bernabé — A Mexican SSPX priest and former headmaster who was sentenced in September 2004 by a Bordeaux criminal court to one year for sexual assaults on an adult woman and a thirteen-year-old girl.[89] He appealed the sentence and lost on 17 March 2005.[90] He then brought the case to the Court of Cassation in Paris, which upheld the sentence on 26 April 2006.[91]
- Father Frédéric Abbet — On 13 December 2017, he was sentenced to 5 years by a Brussels appeal court for sexual abuse on a young boy in an SSPX boarding school. He had already faced accusations in his native Switzerland in 2005 but had been acquitted by an unofficial SSPX tribunal.[92][93] Father Abbet was to serve the prison sentence in his native Switzerland, where it was later discovered he never did serve his prison sentence but instead lived freely in the community.[94]
- Father Christophe Roisnel — On 16 February 2018, this former school headmaster was sentenced to 19 years by the Nanterre criminal court of appeal for multiple counts of rape and acts of torture on female school teachers.[95]
See also
- Institute of consecrated life
- Minaret controversy in Switzerland
- Priestly Society of Saint Josaphat, a related group in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
- Society of St Pius X in New Zealand
- St. Mary's College, Kansas
- St. Dominic's College, Wanganui
- The International Seminary of Saint Pius X
Notes
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