Word: vaticans
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...time, when plots were full of blood and thunder, and villains were wildly villainous. Thus it not only blames the Jews for Jesus' death but turns them into a snarling mob. Even after World War II, the church approved the continuation of the pageants, but since the Second Vatican Council's condemnation of antiSemitism, the caricatures at Oberammergau have become something of an official embarrassment...
Lefebvre, 71, was the missionary archbishop in Senegal, and has also served as a bishop in France and as superior general of the Fathers of the Holy Spirit. In 1971, convinced that the liberalizing Second Vatican Council had been a grievous mistake, Lefebvre set up his rebel Swiss seminary to train priests in the old ways. He has berated ecumenism and Communism, but his main crusade is for the use of the old Latin Mass authorized by the Council of Trent in 1562, rather than the slightly simplified Latin Mass of Pope Paul or the modern-language Masses that have...
...conflict simmered until June 29 of last year, when Lefebvre boldly ordained as priests 13 graduates of his unrecognized seminary. A month later the Vatican announced that the archbishop had been suspended from all priestly functions. Ignoring the order, Lefebvre has repeatedly celebrated his Latin Masses around Europe. His supporters have even seized a church in Paris...
Some sort of crackdown appears inevitable. There are two choices: "Deprivation of faculties" (in common parlance, defrocking) and outright excommunication. The Vatican might also consider Lefebvre "outside the church," without taking any specific action...
...difficult to tell how many Catholics would follow Lefebvre into schism. His hard-core base may be only a few thousand people, but there are large numbers of Roman Catholics upset by the innovations since Vatican II. Some Vatican sources think Lefebvre might have a potential flock of 50,000 or 60,000, centered in France, Germany and England. That could produce the biggest rupture since the Old Catholics broke with Rome over the First Vatican Council's decree on the authority and infallibility of the Pope...