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Institute of Christ the King Gives Up Church in England

The Diocese of Lancaster, England, has announced that the Institute of Christ the King, which celebrates in the Roman Rite, will no longer be responsible for the historic Church of St Thomas of Canterbury and the English Martyrs in Preston, Lancashire, from the end of June.

The diocese explains that since September 2014 the Institute has been looking after St Walburge's, which is also in the area. In September 2017, they took over the second church, hoping to increase the number of the faithful.

But it turned out that this second task was more than the Institute could handle: "It is therefore with sadness that the Institute has asked to be released from the 2017 agreement."

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Rafał_Ovile

Cowards legitimizing the usurper's lawlessness.

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John A Cassani

I think that the ICKSP is short on priests, so this may free one up. I heard that there are at least 5 US dioceses who want them to come. They would do well to found a seminary in the US, if at all possible.

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Orthocat

If the SSPX makes a deal with the current group in Rome - they will need to be 'saved'

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Naomi Arai

No kidding. The circumstances are considerably different than when Archbishop Lefebvre had his ordinations. I wish they'd just get past that.

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Sean Johnson

What hasn’t changed is they were all ordained by bishops consecrated in the new rite, and they still accept V2 and will say the new Mass if the local bishop asks them to. That doesn’t seem to bother the neoSSPX, but it sure bothered Lefebvre. But the SSPX will never change?

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Naomi Arai

The SSPX has had two churches as well in Preston. ICKSP is only competing to siphon them off of the SSPX. FSSP has had a notable new presence in the area doing the same siphoning of SSPX attendees. Whatever, let the extra Ecclesia Dei church sit vacant. The SSPX attendees get tired of thd counterfeit TLM groups trying to “save them”.

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Naomi Arai

Perhaps, but most of the weaknesses include pandering to the Vatican.

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