Catholic Group that Defied Pope, Caused Schism Defends Its Actions
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After Pope Leo XIV's excommunication for the autonomous appointment of four bishops, the Lefebvrians' response came, promising "that they will not accept these new sanctions, objectively unjust and invalid, with bitterness or rebellion." And Don Davide Pagliarani, superior general of the Fraternity St. Pius X, added in a letter: "It seems to us that this decision once more highlights the extremely tragic context in which the universal Church pou…
The leader of the Fraternity St. Pius X writes a letter to the Pope reaffirming in the schism
The Catholic Church excommunicated six bishops of the ultra-conservative Piusbruder. Only a day later, they say hard words to Rome: the condemnations meet what is most dear to them.
Pope Leo XIV sets clear limits on the Pius brothers' opposition: their Superior General calls the excommunications "objectively unjust and invalid" – and represents the forbidden episcopal ordinations as "initiative for the salvation of souls in the midst of the confusion" of the Church.
Davide Pagliarani, superior of the Lefebvrians, has written to the Pope to tell him that excommunication and the declaration of schism are "objectively unjust and invalid", but that they do not receive them with "spirit of bitterness or rebellion."Without showing a shadow of repentance, he takes for granted that one day a Pope will withdraw the sanctions and says that then whoever is pontiff "will discover in the Fraternity Saint Pius X not a se…
Catholic group that defied pope, caused schism defends its actions
The traditionalist Catholics who defied Pope Leo XIV and caused a schism defended their actions Friday, insisting they were merely saving souls and were victim of an unjust sanction by the Holy See.
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