![]() ![]() Pope John Paul II responded by excommunicating Lefebvre and all SSPX priests, and declaring SSPX in formal schism with the church. In 1988, Lefebvre took his most radical step yet, consecrating four bishops in defiance of the Vatican. But Lefebvre refused to comply, leading the Vatican to suspend his right to perform priestly functions (a step short of excommunication) in 1976. As a result, Pope Paul VI ordered the archbishop to shut down his Swiss seminary. ![]() In 1974, Lefebvre publicly denounced as heretical the Vatican II reforms and the subsequent adoption of the new Mass, celebrated in local languages instead of traditional Latin. In 1970, he founded SSPX as a seminary in Ecône, Switzerland. But the archbishop refused to sign the council's final reports on religious liberty and the modern church, the first sign of a rebellion that would only grow in later years. Lefebvre later was on an advisory committee to the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), which enacted several liberalizing and modernizing reforms within the church. It was the invasion of the barbarians without faith or law!" He lamented the eventual liberation of the country, describing it as "the victory of Freemasonry against the Catholic order of Petain. During World War II, he supported the pro-Nazi Vichy regime, a puppet government in the part of France not occupied by the Germans. Although there have been recent attempts by the Vatican to pull SSPX back into the Catholic mainstream, the organization, all of whose priests were excommunicated in the late 1980s, has continued to publish anti-Semitic materials, flirt with Holocaust denial and reject any reconciliation with the Catholic Church. Pius X (SSPX), founded by the late French archbishop, Marcel-François Lefebvre, in 1970. “We remember the past and its lessons, the past and its misfortunes, the past and its glories.The powerhouse organization of the radical traditionalist Catholic world is a sprawling international order called the Society of St. Historian Thomas Chapais said in 1895: “This motto has only three words: ‘I do remember’ but these three words, in their simplicity, are worth the most eloquent speech. The motto of Quebec currently seems to be rejected by this Catholic amnesia. “In Quebec, the number of worshipers, which had been declining by 3 to 4% per year, fell by 10% in the year preceding Covid-19 and by a fifth in the year of the pandemic – the number of the faithful who watched Masses at home but did not return to churches - complicating the financial situation of parishes largely forced to separate from their churches.” ![]() “These closures have since continued and have accelerated across Canada with the coronavirus crisis and the severe restrictions put in place in the regions - thus, in Quebec, the number of faithful allowed to attend Mass had been maintained for months at fifty, and since April 6 has been reduced to 25.” In addition, the Youville Orphanage in Sudbury was closed and destroyed in 2005.” Mathieu de Wahnapitae, bilingual French-English, ceased its activity. “The same year, the French-speaking churches of the Resurrection and of the Sacred Heart, in Sturgeon Falls (demolished in 2015) and North Bay, ceased their activity, while the diocese of Hearst sold the church and the presbytery of St. In 2010, the diocese of Sault-Sainte-Marie closed five others, and sold three of the English-speaking churches in Sault-Sainte-Marie itself. The Catholic Riposte website on Aprecalls this slow and inexorable decline in Northern Ontario: “On July 16, 2017, Radio-Canada listed some fifteen churches that had been closed and sold since 2004, while the Diocese of Timmins had closed five. What in Quebec in the 1960s was called the “Quiet Revolution” has been transformed year after year into a “quiet dechristianization” or “silent apostasy” of all of Canada. ![]()
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