Letter from the District Superior

Fr. John Fullerton District Superior, USA Letter from the District Superior Dear Reader, This November marks the fifty-fourth anniversary of the founding of the Society of St. Pius X....

Privileged Witness of Tradition

Interview with Very Rev. Davide Pagliarani 1. How would you explain the role of the Society in 2024? Rather than a parallel church, as some claim, is it primarily a witness to Tradition? A...

A Beacon of Tradition

This interview of Bishop Bernard Fellay was conducted by Fr. Paul Robinson in August 2024. 

...on your time as Superior General of the Society, ... of all the things that happened during that time, what was the most challenging?

I really think that the relations with Rome were the most challenging. They were very important for the future of the Society. ...

Unyielding Faith

Interview with Rev. Fr. Franz Schmidberger, SSPX 1. What was it like being Superior General while Archbishop Lefebvre was still alive? How did you and the Archbishop collaborate?...

Preserving the Faith

Interview with His Excellency Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais Note: Bishop Tissier wrote the interview below by hand just five weeks before his death. In submitting the interview, he...

Reflections on Fifty Years of Priesthood

By Fr. Gregory Post Editor’s note: This interview was transcribed and edited from a video interview conducted by Fr. Stephen Stanich at the priory in Walton, Kentucky,and posted on...

The Sisters of the SSPX Celebrate 50 Years

A little more than 50 years ago in Melbourne, Australia, a young lady approached Archbishop Lefebvre, “Your Excellency, I wish to enter the Sisters of the Society St. Pius X…” What a surprise for the Archbishop since the Sisters of the Society St. Pius X did not yet exist! The idea for such a congregation, however, was not foreign to His Excellency. Already in 1970 he had noted in the Statutes of the priestly Society, “The non-priest members and the religious, when Providence will raise them, also will bring their vitality and fervor to this community.” In this situation as in all his undertakings, Archbishop Lefebvre did not want to overstep Providence: he always waited for God’s time. Had that hour now come?

50 Years of the SSPX Sisters

I am unable to find words to express our joy today! This great occasion leaves us speechless, because the religious life, the life of just one Sister who is faithful to her vocation, is more eloquent than words. Her example speaks for itself. Indeed, she speaks, not by opening her mouth, but simply by being what she is. ... and what can we say after fifty years? 

An Example to Superiors

Archbishop Lefebvre in the Face of Opposition By Fr. Ian Andrew Palko, SSPX A missionary in Africa for most of his priesthood and episcopacy, Monsignor Lefebvre was an eminently...

Uncertain Ground: The Fraternity of Saint Peter and their Unstable Position in the Church

The Fraternity of Saint Peter and their Unstable Position in the Church By Fr. Jonathan Loop, SSPX On December 14, 2023, at the Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) church in Quimper, France,...

Never Precede Providence

by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre Excerpt from The Little Story of My Long Life , Angelus Press (Kansas City, MO: Angelus Press, 2002), Chapter 5.     As...

My Path to Tradition

1. Tell us a little about yourself. Where did you grow up, and what was your level of exposure to Catholicism ...?

I grew up in a relatively small town called Idaho Falls, which was located in southeastern Idaho. My parents had moved there due to my father’s job with a company that subcontracted out to a nuclear research facility established in a desert to the west of the city. My parents were Episcopalians, though my Mom had grown up as a Baptist in Illinois...

Questions and Answers

Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX What was Archbishop Lefebvre’s position on sedevacantism? In the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, the Church was in a state of chaos. Heterodoxy was...

The Last Word

Fr. Yves le Roux District Superior of Canada Dear Reader,   The Priestly Society of St. Pius X is a work of the Holy Catholic Church. It has neither the vocation...