Holocaust-denying SSPX bishop now faces expulsion

Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

More internal strife has arisen in the breakaway Catholic Society of St. Pius X, after Bishop Richard Williamson made an unapproved visit to a large group in Brazil.

Fr. Christian Bouchacourt, the society’s district superior of South America, said the bishop’s visit was “a serious act against the virtue of obedience” that did not respect the society’s procedures.   His Sept 6 letter, published on the society’s website, said the visit was “also an attack upon the most elementary demands of courtesy.”

Bishop Williamson’s latest misdemeanor may well get him fired. Continue reading

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