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The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) announced the names of four priests to be consecrated as bishops on July 1 without the permission of Pope Leo XIV....

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) is probing reports of sexual abuse by clergy and employees of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), a traditionalist Catholic group based in St. Marys, Kansas.

Juan Fernandez Krohn, an SSPX priest, who tried to Assasinate Pope John Paul II with a bayonette was sentenced to prison.

After an official with the Society of St. Pius X told priests and staff they should speak with criminal investigators only in the presence of an attorney provided by the group, the groups leaders say their message was not intended to suggest anyone should cover up alleged sex abuse.

An Oklahoma man charged Friday (April 4) with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a Catholic priest in northeast Kansas wrote letters to a newspaper railing against the Catholic Church reforms of Vatican II and referring to a “strange new version of ‘Catholicism’”

Since the excommunication of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre on July 1, 1988, the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) has moved further and further into a posture of shoring up its existence as a separate church.

Amid rumors of anti-government paramilitary groups and hidden caches of guns, Federal and state agents combed St. Marys and its surroundings for links to Timothy J. McVeigh and Terry L. Nichols, who had traveled in the area just before the Oklahoma City bombing.