Bishop Paprocki: SSPX ‘basically another Protestant sect’ now
Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, called the SSPX 'another Protestant sect' in a video addressed to his diocese last week.
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Articles tagged SSPX consecrations
SSPX head: ‘Before God’ the Vatican’s excommunication decree ‘cannot be valid’
SSPX Superior General Fr. Davide Pagliarani pledged loyalty to the Catholic faithful, saying their souls 'will never lose their value and their worth' in the eyes of its priests.
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SSPX files canonical appeal against Vatican’s excommunication decree
SSPX leaders submitted a canonical appeal to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on July 11, suspending the excommunication decree's force under canon law while the process proceeds.
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Cardinal Koch says SSPX ‘dialogue’ with Rome still possible despite consecrations
After describing the SSPX’s recent episcopal consecrations as ‘schismatic,’ the Vatican cardinal said excommunication is ‘intended to encourage’ reconciliation.
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‘This is a canonical mess’: Fr. Murray explains why SSPX priests, laity are not excommunicated
Fr. Gerald Murray says the Vatican erred by extending SSPX excommunications to priests and laity through an explanatory note lacking legal force.
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Cardinal Müller says Cardinal Fernández is wrong, SSPX sacraments are ‘valid’
While acknowledging their validity, Cdl. Müller advised the faithful to avoid SSPX sacraments, urging them instead to go to priests ‘in full communion with the Pope.’
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Spanish Inquisition would’ve treated the SSPX more fairly than Cardinal Fernández has
If only Torquemada were still head of the Inquisition, the SSPX might have stood a chance at a lawful trial instead of answering to a porn-writing heretic.
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Archbishop Viganò to SSPX head: Your fidelity shows the failure of the Vatican II ‘revolution’
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò suggested that Pope Leo XIV himself is in ‘schism,’ along with a ‘conciliar-synodal church’ distinct from the Catholic Church.
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SSPX says Vatican excommunications ‘objectively unjust and invalid’
Fr. Davide Pagliarani invokes Sacred Scripture in a letter responding to Pope Leo XIV, calling the DDF's decree of schism ‘objectively unjust’ while pledging continued loyalty to the Church.
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SSPX superior general: ‘We belong to the Church because we have the same faith’
Fr. Davide Pagliarani told the many thousands gathered for the SSPX consecration Mass that the choice between the ‘integral faith’ and the Church is a ‘false dilemma.’
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