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Are the SSPX Really Schismatic? (Fr. Gerald Murray) What is the status of the SSPX? Do they have any facilities to minister to the faithful? #catholic #sspx #fssp #latinmass #icksp #popefrancis #schismMore
Are the SSPX Really Schismatic? (Fr. Gerald Murray)
What is the status of the SSPX? Do they have any facilities to minister to the faithful? #catholic #sspx #fssp #latinmass #icksp #popefrancis #schism
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Ask A Priest Live with Fr. Gerald Murray - 2/12/24 - Laying Down the Canon Law! (Pt. 2)
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Tony Smith
Reality is the excommunication was invalid from the start.
Simon North
Fr. Murray is the author of a Canon Law thesis written for his J.C.D. requirements at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. His thesis maintained that Archbishop Lefebvre did not commit a schismatic act with the 1988 Consecrations of 3 bishops - and that his excommunication was, therefore, not in conformity with Canon Law. Surprisingly (because the Jesuit College is so leftist), he received …More
Fr. Murray is the author of a Canon Law thesis written for his J.C.D. requirements at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. His thesis maintained that Archbishop Lefebvre did not commit a schismatic act with the 1988 Consecrations of 3 bishops - and that his excommunication was, therefore, not in conformity with Canon Law. Surprisingly (because the Jesuit College is so leftist), he received high grades from the Gregorianum Professors. But when he returned to the States, he repudiated his own thesis (w/out explanation as far as I know).

Question: then, did he return his J.C.D. degree?

There were various speculations as to the reason why he repudiated his own thesis. Among them was because, at the time, he belonged to the Society of the Holy Cross - an arm of Opus Dei. Opus Dei is no friend of the SSPX.