Donald J. Sanborn

Donald J. Sanborn

Donald J. Sanborn (* in New York City ) is a sedevacantist bishop and ruler of the Holy Trinity Seminary in Brooksville , Florida.

Life

1967 Sanborn entered the seminary of the Diocese of Brooklyn , where he dealt mainly with classical languages and 1971 with cum laude graduate. Dissatisfied with the reforms of the Second Vatican Council , he entered the seminary of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in Ecône in the same year and became one of the first seminarians in the recently founded Society of St. Pius X. Sanborn was on June 29, 1975 by Archbishop Lefebvre ordained a priest. Sanborn then returned to East Meadow on New York's Long Island . He taught at the school of St. Pius V on Long Island and also celebrated Holy Mass in chapels in Pennsylvania , Delaware, and Virginia .

In January 1977 Lefebvre, who had meanwhile been suspended from his post, appointed Sanborn rector of the study house of St. Joseph in Armada, Michigan, the first American seminary of the Pius Brotherhood. In the autumn of the same year he was joined by Anthony Cekada. The next year, Sanborn acquired a church in Redford, Michigan. From Armada, he looked for a new and larger seminary in the United States to accommodate the growing number of seminarians. In 1979, with Lefebvre's approval, he acquired a former Jesuit home in Ridgefield, Connecticut, which was then renamed the St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary. In 1982, Sanborn began an extension to the seminar.

In April 1983, Sanborn was one of the nine priests excluded from the Pius Brotherhood who opposed Lefebvre's liturgical orders (including the use of the 1962 missal ) and other "tendencies" in the Pius Brotherhood. Lefebvre then called on the priests of the Brotherhood to refrain from claiming that Pope John Paul II was not the legitimate head of the Roman Catholic Church. In addition, Lefebvre accepted priests who, according to the Pope Paul VI. made liturgical reforms had been consecrated. The excluded, on the other hand, were of the opinion that the ordinations of these priests were to be repeated sub conditione . After this conflict with Lefebvre, these nine priests, led by Clarence Kelly and some seminarians who joined them, formed the Society of St. Pius V (SSPV). Within the SSPV, however, differences of opinion also arose, namely about the legality of the ordinations made by Bishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục , so that Sanborn, Daniel Dolan, Cekada and others left the brotherhood.

In 1984, Sanborn established the traditionalist Sacrament Chapel in Martinez, California. After the celebration there later gave up again, Sanborn returned to Michigan in 1986 to purchase a large school complex in Warren, a suburb of Detroit. There he directed the “Mariahilf Academy” and the chapel of St. Pius X, which was later renamed "Queen of the Martyrs Chapel". In 1995, with the support of some companions, Sanborn founded the Seminary of the Most Holy Trinity. On June 19, 2002, Sanborn was ordained a bishop by Robert McKenna, OP.

Sanborn caused a public stir when he criticized the MeToo movement in December 2018 . According to Sanborn, modern women challenge men with their immoral clothing and are thus themselves to be blamed for the abuse.

Publications

• In 1991, Sanborn founded the magazine Sacerdotium , a scientific periodical for sedevacantist priests, and the Catholic Restoration , a magazine for sedivakantist lay people . During this time, Sanborn published a number of articles on the Second Vatican Council and Pope John Paul II.
• A critical analysis of Ratzinger's Dominus Jesus. In: Wigand Siebel (Ed.): On the philosophy and theology of Joseph Ratzinger. 4th edition, Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 3-928198-03-3 , pp. 119-137.

Web links

• Short biography

supporting documents

1. ↑ Progressive Secular Humanist: Bishop Blames The Victim, Claims 'Immodest Dress' Of Women Causes Sexual Assault. In: Progressive Secular Humanist. December 11, 2018, accessed December 30, 2018 .