SSPX Excommunicates Renegade Bishop For Installing Bishops Without Approval

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Peoria, AZ – SSPX Arizona Bishop Gerald Leif confirmed Thursday that he has installed four bishops in spite of SSPX forbiddance. The move comes months after meetings collapsed between Bishop Leif and SSPX’s Superior General, Bernard Fellay. Leif, a prominent critic of the Society’s growing liberal view toward ecumenism has denounced the Society’s dialogue with the Vatican. A spokesman for the Diocese of Arizona declined to comment, but did say that the four newly appointed bishops would continue to acknowledge the authority of Bernard Fellay as supreme head of SSPX, but would defy the excommunication.

Original print date: 9-14-2012

8 thoughts on “SSPX Excommunicates Renegade Bishop For Installing Bishops Without Approval”

  1. So, what is the over/under on how many commenters don’t realize that this is a (clever and amazingly believable) parody?

  2. Without Peter, the flock scatters and descends into chaos. Now the SSPX is experiencing the plague of Protestantism which is lack of unity.

  3. Dear Fr. Don. Over/under is an execrable example of Hierarchicalism that we Catholics jettisoned in the glorious revolution of the 1960s.

    We are all the people of God – especially the laity – and so we are called to love, not mock, those who were differently intellectually gifted.

  4. I’m confused. I thought there were 4 Bishops in the SSPX and I’ve certainly never heard of “Bishop Gerald Leif”.

    I’m also confused ~ at the end of this article it says ” Original Print Date 9-14-12″. Huh?

  5. Sorry, I guess I’m a little sleepy this morning (that’s my excuse) and didn’t catch the sarcasm!

  8. As much as I sympathize with with the goals of the SSPX, we are now coming around full circle. Disobedience begets disobedience. The SSPX was and is right in combating the errors that have taken hold of the Catholic Church, but they chose a Protestant way of doing it. What moral force can the SSPX bring to bear on these new rebels who did precisely what the SSPX did decades ago?

    The SSPX could be of great service to the Church if it returned to the pope, and not semantically only, and taught from within.