Society of St. Pius V

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The Society of St. Pius V (Societas Sancti Pii Sacerdotalis Quinti), abbreviated SSPV, is a society of traditionalist Catholic priests founded in 1983 and based in Oyster Bay Cove , New York . They separated from the Society of St. Pius X , because they did not share its stance on liturgical questions and came to the conclusion that many in the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church were no longer of the Catholic faith, but professed a new, modernist, conciliar faith. The Society of St. Pius V denies the legitimacy of the current hierarchy of the Church and is of the opinion that the Holy See is vacant and that there is vacancy . The Society is headed by Bishop Clarence Kelly .

founding

The Society of Priests, named after Pope Pius V , emerged from the Society of St. Pius X of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre . In 1983, Lefebvre excluded from the Pius Brotherhood four priests, Clarence Kelly, Daniel Dolan , Anthony Cekada, and Eugene Berry, who all served in the American district. They were partly of the opinion that Holy Mass was not after the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal by John XXIII. may be celebrated. Furthermore, questions of nullity proceedings and the acceptance of new members were disputed. When priests were accepted into the brotherhood, these priests demanded a subsequent consecration sub conditione because they believed that the post-conciliar consecration rites were invalid.

The four expelled priests and five others opposed the use of the 1962 Missal. Another major reason was the question of whether the Popes since the death of Pope Pius XII. legitimate popes. Clarence Kelly, the former superior of the North American District of the Pius Brotherhood, became the leader of the Brotherhood. The eight priests were Thomas Zapp, Donald J. Sanborn , Anthony Cekada, Daniel Dolan, William Jenkins, Eugene Berry, Joseph Collins, and Martin Skierka. In the following years other priests joined the brotherhood.

Spin-offs

Within a few years, half of the original nine priests separated from the brotherhood. Most of them formed a group called the Catholic Restoration , including Dolan and Sanborn, who were later ordained as bishops in the episcopal line of the excommunicated Vietnamese Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục . The priests established independent measuring centers.

Episcopal ordinations

On October 19, 1993, Bishop Alfredo Méndez-Gonzalez , 86 years old , who served as Bishop of Arecibo until he retired in 1974, consecrated Clarence Kelly as a bishop. This was only announced a few days after the death of Bishop Méndez in 1995. Bishop Mendez publicly ordained two seminarians of the SSPV as priests in 1990. On February 28, 2007, Kelly consecrated Joseph Santay, a priest of the "Congregation of St. Pius V" established by Bishop Kelly, as bishop.

Location in the 2000s or early 2010s

The Society currently has five permanent priories and a network of chapels and churches in various parts of the United States and Canada . The SSPV includes a congregation of sisters, the Daughters Of Mary, founded in 1984 by Kelly. The Motherhouse and Novitiate is in the Catskill area of New York State with two other homes in the United States. The current Superior General is Mother Maria Bosco. With the exception of the mother house, the sisters run schools and also work in other areas such as nursing homes.

The Brotherhood has a seminary located in Catskill and directed by Bishop Joseph Santay. Its seminarians are ordained by Bishops Kelly or Santay. You will become a member of the Congregation of St. Pius V (CSPV). Four seminarians have been ordained priests in the past three years. Another was consecrated on September 3, 2008, bringing the total number of priests in the CSPV to six. The priests of the CSPV are not members of the Society. They are ordained priests for the Congregation of St. Pius V (CSPV).

The Brotherhood's priests run WFTS Traditional Catholic Radio with the Daughters of Mary . As part of this apostolate, they distribute religious audio messages, especially sermons.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A Statement of Principles in a Time of Crisis. The Roman Catholic Association, Inc., 1988
  2. ↑ The list of objections can be found at http://www.traditionalmass.org/articles/article.php?id=48&catname=12
  3. ↑ Clarence Kelly: Sacred and Profane . Oyster Bay Cove, NY 1997, p. 101 (English, online ( memento of December 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; accessed April 27, 2018]). Sacred and Profane ( Memento from September 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Clarence Kelly: Sacred and Profane . Oyster Bay Cove, NY 1997, p. 169–174 (English, online ( memento of December 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; accessed April 27, 2018]). Sacred and Profane ( Memento from September 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ See archived copy ( Memento from February 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )