In 1988, the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre after he consecrated four bishops in defiance of Pope John Paul II. In 2009, Yemenia Airways Flight IY626, which had ...

In 1988, the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre after he consecrated four bishops in defiance of Pope John Paul II. In 2009, Yemenia Airways Flight IY626, which had ...

TEWKSBURY — The Tewksbury School Com­mittee met on June 10, 2025 at the Center Ele­mentary School. The meeting kicked off with recognition of school district retirees. Accor­ding to Superintendent ...

Is compromise possible that can respect both unity and diversity in the church? After the Second Vatican Council, the liturgy ...

In a statement in October, Bishop Costelloe wrote: "One of the four bishops ordained by Archbishop Lefebvre in 1988, Bishop Richard Williamson, was expelled from SSPX in October 2012.

Archbishop Lefebvre ordained him as a priest in 1976, and from 1983 to 2003 he was rector of the Society of Saint Pius X’s seminary in the United States, first in Ridgefield, Conn., and later in ...

Bishop Williamson was among four men consecrated bishop in 1988 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who formed the religious society in 1969 in opposition to the Second Vatican Council.Vatican II was ...

Richard Williamson, former English bishop of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), died on Wednesday at the age of 84 after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage.

ROME (AP) — Richard Williamson, an ultra-traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal in 2009 when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him and other members of his ...

ROME (AP) — Richard Williamson, an ultra-traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal in 2009 when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him and other members of his ...