district, however, a number of abuse allegations have surfaced in relation to the large SSPX community at St. In 2015, Pope Francis extended the faculty to hear confession to priests of the society as part of the Jubilee Year of Mercy.
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The group has been in intermittent talks with the Vatican about returning to full communion with the Church. In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunications of the surviving bishops, while noting that “doctrinal questions obviously remain and until they are clarified the Society has no canonical status in the Church and its ministers cannot legitimately exercise any ministry.” John Paul II in 1988, the bishops involved were excommunicated. When Lefebvre and Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer consecrated four bishops without the permission of St. The group was founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1970.
The SSPX is under investigation in the state of Kansas for alleged sex abuse, along with the four Catholic dioceses. “This email was clearly sent to priests and employees and not to people attending our church or school in St Mary’s or elsewhere,” the priest said, adding that it was not “an attempt to intimidate anyone or to discourage cooperation” with investigators. “It was certainly not an attempt to intimidate anyone or to discourage cooperation with the KBI,” Gardner said in an Aug. Gardner said when he emailed priests and staff, he was simply informing them that they did not have to speak to investigators without a lawyer present. “They don’t want any more stuff like this getting out,” White added. “It looks like they’re trying to hide things, trying to keep people from speaking and definitely stonewalling,” Kyle White, who has alleged that priests in the organization covered up reports of sexual abuse, told the Kansas City Star Aug. Some former members of the organization said the message, sent by email, seemed designed to silence witnesses or whistleblowers of abuse. He added that employees and priest should speak to police only in the presence of a lawyer, who would be provided by the organization.
Mary’s SSPX chapel and school in Kansas last weekend that they did not have to cooperate with state investigators of alleged child sex abuse. district of the SSPX, told staff and priests at St. Pius X (SSPX) is a breakaway traditionalist group of priests and bishops with no official canonical status in the Church. Pius X told priests and staff they should speak with criminal investigators only in the presence of an attorney provided by the group, the group’s leaders say their message was not intended to suggest anyone should cover up alleged sex abuse. Newsroom, / 05:00 pm ( CNA).- After an official with the Society of St.
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