Sspx resistance chapels4/9/2023 The SSPX has always argued that these excommunications were unjust and that canon law allowed for a “state of emergency” which justified consecrating bishops without the Pope’s permission. He was still under excommunication at the time of his death and this has never been revoked. Archbishop Levebvre died three years later in 1991. The Pope then excommunicated him and the four bishops. He called the consecration of the bishops without the Pope’s permission “Operation Survival.” He believed that he was literally preserving the Catholic Faith against heresy. He believed that any bishop provided by Rome at that point would not be conservative or traditional enough. The Archbishop decided to take this step after talks with Rome about providing the SSPX with a bishop to ordain its priests after he himself had passed on had broken down. They then officially became a schismatic group after Archbishop Levebvre consecrated four bishops without the Pope’s permission in 1988. The Archbishop also no longer had permission to ordain new deacons and priests. The Archbishop and his priests no longer had permission to celebrate Mass and the Sacraments. As Archbishop Levebvre refused to implement the reforms of Vatican II in his seminary the new bishop of Fribourg withdrew approval for the SSPX on May 6 1975. Instead the Church adopted the New Order of the Mass which was said in the vernacular, or the language of the local people. Archbishop Levebvre gradually fell out of favour as he refused to go along with reforms of Vatican II, most noticeably no longer using the Latin Mass which had been used by the Church for hundreds of years. He set up a seminary in Econe, Switzerland and initially had the approval of the local bishop in Fribourg. These reforms were intended to help the Church connect with a rapidly modernising and progressive world. He attended the second Vatican council which took place from 1962 to 1965 but came to disagree with the reforms introduced in its wake. Archbishop Levebvre was a French bishop and former member of the Holy Ghost Fathers and had spent many years as a missionary in Africa. The SSPX is a worldwide order of priests founded by French Archbishop Marcel Levebvre on 1 November 1970. Coercive control exercised by cultic groups must also be addressed.īrief history of the SSPX and it’s beliefs The Government has done great work in passing legislation making coercive control in personal relationships a crime that can be tried in court. There is a great need for a State funded body to provide support and advice to cult survivors, to investigate high demand cultic groups, to provide education about this topic to the general public. I also wish to highlight the need for a greater understanding of cultic issues and groups in Ireland by the Irish Government. I wish to highlight what attracts well-meaning Catholics to this group and the control that is then exercised over many aspects of their lives. It is possible that the Society of St Pius X was initially set up with good intentions but quickly became a high demand group with cultic characteristics. My understanding of a cult or high demand group is that it is not defined by belief but by behaviour, that behaviour being undue influence and control over other people’s lives. I left the Society many years ago and now I look back and believe that this group is a cult or has cultic tendencies. My family started attending their chapels when I was a child. This group has been established in Ireland since the 1980s. I am a former member of the laity who attended Masses offered by the breakaway Catholic group, the Society of St Pius X (SSPX).
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