Image above: Priests of the Society of St. Pius X. Father Patrick Rutledge, the parish rector, is on the left. Half an hour down the highway from Topeka, Kansas, not far from the geographic center ...

WASHINGTON — Pope Francis has declared that priests of the Society of St. Pius X will be able to hear the confessions of Catholics — with no doubt as to their validity — during the upcoming ...

Church leaders have at times argued the same thing about SSPX, a controversial fraternity of priests known for their strict traditional celebration of the Latin Mass and opposition to the reforms ...

Last autumn, Emma Green of The Atlantic published a report about St. Marys, Kansas, a Catholic village dominated by priests and lay members of the Society of St. Pius X, a traditionalist Catholic ...

Lefebvre founded the SSPX in 1970 to form priests as a response to what he described as errors that had arisen in the Church following the Second Vatican Council. Its relations with the Holy See ...

The suit alleges former SSPX priest Fr. Pierre Duverger began counseling a couple, then “began seeing the wife alone,” and having a long-term inappropriate relationship with her. Other priests ...

SSPX, the Society of St Pius X, was founded in 1970 by a Bishop and group of priests who believed the Catholic Church was becoming too modernist. In 2012 a much more fundamentalist breakaway ...

A Garda complaint has been made about a fundamentalist Catholic group based in Cork, which has allowed a defrocked priest to say mass despite alleged safeguard breaches. The Society of St Pius ...

She is not alone. Some 120 Catholics gather regularly for Sunday Mass in the Chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus celebrated by a priest of the traditionalist Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX). They ...

also known as SSPX. The group is a traditionalist fraternity of priests headquartered in Switzerland. The society’s U.S. chapter has chapels in Texas, including one in North Richland Hills.

While Kansas Reflector was attempting to reach Vogel in person at Angelus Press, an SSPX priest coincidentally in the bookstore said he could not be interviewed without approval from church ...