Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X

Report: Society of St. Pius X priest admits to years of sexual misconduct with minors

04/11/2024 at 5:42 AM By Kevin Edward White
By AC Wimmer, Catholic News Agency Newsroom, Apr 11, 2024 At a hearing for a criminal trial in France, a priest of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) who spent six years in the U.S. has admitted to sexual misconduct with French minors over a period of 15 years, local media reported... read more

TRADITIONIS CUSTODES: A Weapon of Mass Destruction

11/29/2021 at 4:24 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Diane Montagna, Remnant, November 29, 2021 In a recent interview on Swiss television, Archbishop Arthur Roche, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, and a key figure in the implementation of Pope Francis’s apostolic letter restricting the... read more

How French Catholics are responding to Pope Francis’ Traditional Latin Mass restrictions

07/26/2021 at 10:04 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Solène Tadié, Catholic New Agency,July 24, 2021 Responding to concerns raised by Pope Francis’ motu proprio restricting the Traditional Latin Mass, French Church authorities have issued a series of communiques seeking to reassure Catholics attached to this liturgy. The motu... read more
Priests of the Society of St. Pius X. Father Patrick Rutledge, the parish rector, is on the left.

The Christian Withdrawal Experiment

12/31/2019 at 4:53 PM By Kevin Edward White
Feeling out of step with the mores of contemporary life, members of a conservative-Catholic group have built a thriving community in rural Kansas. Could their flight from mainstream society be a harbinger for the nation? By Emma Green, Atlantic, December 31, 2019 Half an hour down the... read more

Pope Francis Appoints French Patristics Scholar to Handle SSPX Talks

04/03/2019 at 10:03 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
Msgr. Patrick Descourtieux, a former official at the now abolished Pontifical Commission ‘Ecclesia Dei,’ is a distinguished patristics scholar who is said to be sympathetic to the SSPX and traditional communities. By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, March 30, 2019 Pope Francis... read more

The Age of the Commissars

12/16/2018 at 9:33 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
by Fr John Hunwicke, December 15, 2018 So ... one of the Roman auxiliary bishops, a Jesuit, has been appointed Commissar of the Priestly Brotherhood of the Family of Christ (FSFC) in Ferrara. Is he, one can't help wondering, a Bergoglian? The mere fact that he himself comes from Ferrara is... read more

Fantastic Priests and How to Find Them

12/07/2018 at 5:13 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Raymond Kowalski, November 27, 2018 Pope St. Pius X foresaw it. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen saw the signs of its imminent arrival. Michael Davies experienced it and documented its early attacks on the liturgy. Ross Douthat has chronicled its continued progress. Elizabeth Yore has put it into... read more

Bishop Schneider: “Personally Very Sad” About Rome’s Letter to the SSPX — “They Wouldn’t Treat the Orthodox Like This”

08/15/2017 at 9:45 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
CCI Note: Bishop Schneider will be the speaker at the Catholic Citizens Annual Dinner on October 30, 2017. Sunday, August 13, 2017 (Lisbon) Just before Cardinal Gerhard Müller was dismissed on 30 June by Pope Francis as Prefect of the Congregation for Doctrine of the Faith, he sent Bishop... read more

Archbishop Luis Ladaria Ferrer SJ is new prefect of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

07/03/2017 at 12:05 PM By Kevin Edward White
Pope names Jesuit as successor to Vatican doctrinal chief Cardinal Müller by Cindy Wooden (Catholic Herald) July 1, 2017 Pope Francis has decided not to renew Cardinal Gerhard Müller’s term as prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF). The Pope has chosen... read more

House Vaticanist Puts the Brake on Reconciliation with SSPX

04/17/2017 at 11:42 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
Friday, April 14, 2017 (Rome) Andrea Tornielli, a regular visitor to the Domus Sanctæ Marthæ, where Pope Francis lives, put the brakes in an article by Vatican Insider on the report by another publication, close to Pope Francis, Il Faro di Roma, which had reported on Monday, 10 April, that... read more