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7 unusual facts about Society of St. Pius X


Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations

On February 12 2009, the conference's leaders met with Pope Benedict XVI in order to re-assert the importance of Jewish–Catholic relations in the wake of the controversy over negationist comments made by Society of St. Pius X bishop Richard Williamson.

Flavigny-sur-Ozerain

It has a seminary of the Society of St. Pius X, a traditionalist organisation, the Séminaire International Saint Curé d'Ars.

Mesa Preparatory Academy

In May 2012, Mesa Preparatory Academy won the Charter Athletic Association state baseball championship, after Our Lady of Sorrows Academy in Phoenix, a traditionalist Catholic school affiliated with the Society of St. Pius X, refused to play in (and thus forfeited) the championship game against Mesa Prep because Mesa's team included a female infielder.

Sacred Heart Choir, Chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Davide Pagliarani of the Society of St. Pius X, who was then appointed the District Superior of Italy.

Shawinigan-Sud, Quebec

A Society of St. Pius X retreat house can be found at 905, Rang St-Mathieu Est.

Society of St. Pius X

The SSPX's main seminary is in Écône, Switzerland; others are located in the United States (Winona, Minnesota), France (Flavigny-sur-Ozerain), Germany (Zaitzkofen), Australia (Goulburn), and Argentina (La Reja).

Sodalitium Pianum

In 1985, the name Sodalitium Pianum was adopted by a sedeprivationist group of Traditionalist Catholics also known as Istituto Mater Boni Consilii, an offshoot of the Traditionalist Society of St. Pius X.


Canonical situation of the Society of St. Pius X

Apart from these formal statements, the Commission's President, Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, who has long favored better relations between the society and the Holy See, commented in press and television interviews about the situation of the members of the Society.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

She was about to remove to Canada, when she made the acquaintance of a visiting priest, the Abbé Louis William Valentine Dubourg, S.S., who was a member of the French emigré community of Sulpician Fathers and then president of St. Mary's college.

Franz Schmidberger

Franz Schmidberger (born 19 October 1946 in Riedlingen, Germany) is a priest of the Society of St. Pius X, founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

Guerard des Lauriers

Guérard des Lauriers then became a lecturer and professor at Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre's St. Pius X seminary in Écône, Switzerland.

Paulines

Society of St. Paul, a Roman Catholic male religious congregation founded in 1914

Pierre Vago

Through of his housing projects, factories, and the Central Banks of the French colonies of Tunisia and Algeria, as well as his controversial Basilica of St. Pius X in Lourdes, he received much attention in the postwar years.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Lincoln

In 1996, bishop Fabian Bruskewitz issued a statement forbidding Catholics in the diocese to join a number of organizations, including the Society of St. Pius X, Call to Action, Planned Parenthood, Catholics for a Free Choice, the Hemlock Society, and various Masonic groups, under pain of excommunication.

Society of St. John the Evangelist

The members of the North American congregation live at a monastery designed by Ralph Adams Cram in Cambridge, near Harvard Square.

They also keep a rural retreat centre, Emery House, in West Newbury, where guests can stay in small hermitages in the meadow.

West Newbury, Massachusetts

West Newbury is home to Emery House, monastery guesthouse and sanctuary of the Society of St. John the Evangelist.


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