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Canonical situation of the Society of Saint Pius X
The Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) is a group founded in 1970 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Its canonical situation has been fraught with disputes. In subsequent decades, the various Popes had different stances towards the SSPX, from censure to limited accommodation. The Society of Saint Pius X has been the subject of much controversy since 1988, when Bernard Fellay, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, Richard Williamson and Alfonso de Galarreta were illicitly consecrated as bishops at Écône, at the International Seminary of Saint Pius X, in violation of canon law. Lefebvre and the four other SSPX bishops individually incurred a disciplinary latae sententiae excommunication for this schismatic act. The SSPX maintained that it was canonically established and had never been canonically suppressed. The SSPX further maintains that, in "the present crisis in the Church", when "heresy, and even apostasy, is widely spread amongst the clergy", "the Church mercifully supplies jurisdiction" for the good...
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