Priestly Society of Saint Pius X - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 28 Sep 2020 05:25:30 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Priestly Society of Saint Pius X - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 The Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, fifty years of opposition https://cathnews.co.nz/2020/09/28/priestly-society-saint-pius-x-anniversary/ Mon, 28 Sep 2020 06:50:56 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=131059 Fifty years after Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991) founded the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), the ultra-traditionalist religious order that opposes the Church reforms stemming from the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) is still attracting vocations. It has 162 communities (or priories) in some 40 countries throughout the world and boasts of 675 priests. The Read more

The Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, fifty years of opposition... Read more]]> Fifty years after Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991) founded the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), the ultra-traditionalist religious order that opposes the Church reforms stemming from the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) is still attracting vocations.

It has 162 communities (or priories) in some 40 countries throughout the world and boasts of 675 priests. The SSPX also has more than 200 seminarians - some as young as 18 years old - that are trained at six seminaries located in the United States, France, Germany, Argentina and Australia.

Lefebvre opened the very first seminary on September 24, 1970 in Ecône, Switzerland. And on Thursday his traditionalist heirs will gather there to mark the priestly society's golden jubilee. Read more

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