The Vatican warned a rebel ultra-traditionalist order on Wednesday not to go ahead with plans to ordain new priests this month, saying the move could incur disciplinary action.
The Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), in the headlines for having a Holocaust denier as one of its four bishops readmitted to the Roman Catholic Church, plans to ordain 21 new priests today and on June 27.
A Vatican statement said that if the ordinations go ahead “they are still to be considered illegitimate.”
It cited a letter by Pope Benedict in March in which he explained his decision to lift the excommunications of four traditionalist bishops and start a dialogue aimed at full reintegration of the rebels.
The statement said disciplinary questions regarding the SSPX “remained open,” a clear warning that if the ordinations went ahead they would have repercussions on negotiations to bring the traditionalists fully back into the Church.
The SSPX plans to hold the ordination of the traditionalist priests in Germany, Switzerland and the US.
Father Yves Le Roux, rector of the SSPX’s St Thomas Aquinas seminary in Winona, Minnesota, said the ordination of 13 new priests would go ahead despite the Vatican warning.
“Absolutely. We are doing it,” he said by telephone. “This is something the Vatican feels it has to say. It’s a political statement, but the reality is totally different.”
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