What is the SSPX? A look at the controversial Catholic group

What is the SSPX? A look at the controversial traditionalist Catholic group

Priests and deacons of the Society of St. Pius X walk to Mass in Econe, western Switzerland, on June 29, 2009. / Credit: FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Sep 21, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). A group of Carmelite nuns in Arlington, Tex... [...]

What is the SSPX? A look at the controversial Catholic group

Priests and deacons of the Society of St. Pius X walk to Mass in Econe, western Switzerland, on June 29, 2009. / Credit: FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Sep 21, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). A group of Carmelite nuns in Arlington, Texas, announced this month that they would henceforth associate with the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), a traditionalist group that is not in full communion with the Catholic Church and has a canonically irr…