Society of Saint Pius X
Traditionalist association in the Catholic Church
Follow Society of Saint Pius X on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!
| October 18 2024 | Funeral of Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais held at the International Seminary of Saint Pius X. |
| October 8 2024 | Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais dies after 10 days in a coma following his accident at the Ecône seminary. |
| September 28 2024 | Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais suffers a fatal accident, falling on the stairs of the Ecône seminary and sustaining a skull fracture and internal hemorrhaging, which leads to him being placed in an induced coma. |
| April 17 2024 | Bishop Huonder's funeral Mass was celebrated by Bishop Fellay, and he was buried at the International Seminary of Saint Pius X in Écône next to the tomb of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. |
| April 3 2024 | Bishop Vitus Huonder died at the age of 81 following a serious illness. |
| January 2023 | Conclusion of KBI's four-year investigation resulted in referral of 30 cases to county prosecutors, targeting 14 clergy members. Despite the investigation, no priests were charged due to legislative limitations on retroactive application of statute of limitations changes. |
| 2022 | Bishop Athanasius Schneider publicly declared that the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) is not schismatic, emphasizing that they pray for the Pope during Mass and that Catholics can attend their chapels. |
| 2022 | The Society of Saint Pius X reported having over 700 priestly members and 1,135 total members, with an estimated 600,000 people attending their Mass centres worldwide. |
| May 2020 | Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) initiated an investigation into SSPX groups affiliated with state Catholic dioceses, focusing on allegations of perpetrating or covering up clerical sexual abuse in Kansas, particularly at the SSPX Saint Mary's Rectory. |
| 2019 | Beginning of a significant expansion in Poland, where the Society tripled the number of its chapels by 2021. |
| May 2019 | SSPX announced that Bishop Vitus Huonder, Bishop emeritus of Chur, retired to one of the society's houses to dedicate himself to prayer, traditional Mass, and working for Tradition. |
| 2018 | Reverend Davide Pagliarani succeeded Bishop Bernard Fellay as the Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X. |
| 2017 | The Holy See extended papal recognition indefinitely to confessions heard by SSPX priests. |
| 2017 | Civitas, a far-right political association with historical ties to SSPX, left the official oversight of the SSPX and aligned with the Capuchin Friars of Morgon. |
| October 1 2017 | Formation of the Autonomous House of Central America and the Caribbean, created by taking territory from the District of Mexico. |
| April 5 2017 | Swedish investigative journalism program Uppdrag Granskning reported sexual abuse by four SSPX clerics (three priests and a former seminarian), revealing they had molested at least a dozen young people in multiple countries and that the SSPX had kept abuse evidence secret while allowing perpetrators to continue in ministry. |
| 2016 | St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary relocated from Winona, Minnesota to Dillwyn, Virginia, expanding its facilities. |
| 2015 | Kevin Gerard Sloniker began serving a life sentence. |
| 2015 | Bishop Huonder was sent by Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller to dialogue with the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX). |
| 2014 | Abbe Beauvais concludes his tenure as the SSPX priest and pastor of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet. |
| 2013 | A canonical trial presided over by Bishop Fellay found a priest (referred to as 'P') guilty, and ordered him to retire to a monastery. |
| December 28 2013 | Bishop Bernard Fellay makes controversial radio interview statement claiming Jews were among the 'enemies of the Church', sparking widespread criticism from media, Jewish groups, and the Vatican. Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi denounced the statement as 'meaningless' and 'unacceptable'. |
| October 2013 | Erich Priebke, a former SS Captain, died. The Diocese of Rome forbade a Requiem Mass for him due to his involvement in the 1944 Ardeatine Massacre and lack of remorse for his actions. |
| 2012 | Vitus Huonder, a Swiss Bishop and Bible scholar, joined the ranks of supporters of the Society of Saint Pius X, contributing to its theological and scholarly perspective. |
| October 23 2012 | Williamson was forced out of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) for the 'common good of the society' after refusing to submit to the group's leadership. |
| May 2012 | Our Lady of Sorrows Academy in Phoenix, Arizona, forfeited the Arizona Charter Athletic Association state baseball championship game against Mesa Preparatory Academy rather than play against a team with a female player, Paige Sultzbach. The school justified the forfeit by citing a policy against co-ed sports and claiming they teach boys respect by avoiding athletic competitions with female participants. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Controversies surrounding the Society of Saint Pius X & Society of Saint Pius X, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.