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https://cruxnow.com/global-church/2017/04/05/report-charges-cover-traditionalist-society/

Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X, ordains a priest during a 2009 ceremony in Econe, Switzerland. (Credit: CNS photo/Denis Balibouse, Reuters.)
An explosive report airing tonight on Swedish television charges that the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X knew about at least three cases of its priests being accused of sɛҳuąƖly abusing minors, but failed to enforce a 'zero tolerance' policy. An alleged victim told Crux he believes the Vatican should have done more to hold the society accountable.

ROME - A major report airing tonight on Swedish television docuмents four clerical sɛҳuąƖ abuse cases, with previously unknown details on three of them, within the Society of St. Pius X, a traditionalist breakaway group founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in the wake of the Second Vatican Council.
At the center of the report are four different men. Three are priests, who remain in active ministry, and one is a former seminarian and volunteer at a church run by the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) in Idaho who’s been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of abusing seven boys over the course of a decade.
They allegedly have abused at least 12 minors over the span of three decades, in France, Germany, Australia, Ireland, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
The report comes out just a day after the Vatican announced, with Pope Francis’s approval, that priests belonging to the traditionalist society, which currently has no legal standing within the Catholic Church, will be able to celebrate sacramentally valid marriages.
Since its inception in 1970, the SSPX has been a lightning rod in the life of the Catholic Church. It’s seen in a favorable light by some Catholics who harbor reservations about the liberalizing reforms unleashed by Vatican II (1962-65), but as retrograde and dangerous by others who object to its hard-line positions on matters such as ecuмenism, inter-faith dialogue, religious freedom, and liturgical reform.
Some have also accused the SSPX of turning a blind eye to prejudices the Church has made strenuous efforts in recent decades to combat, including anti-Semitism.
Beginning with Pope Paul VI in the 1970s, every pope has made efforts to reach out to the Society and try to re-integrate it into the Church, seeing healing schism as a time-honored papal priority.
Most recently under Pope Francis, a hypothesis has been floated that the group might be brought back into the fold through the canonical structure of a personal prelature, which is currently held only by Opus Dei. That possibility had been suggested under emeritus Pope Benedict XVI.
It’s not clear whether the new revelations will set back those reunion efforts. In any event, they raise questions about the extent to which the society is committed to the fight against clerical sɛҳuąƖ abuse, which has become a defining cause of both recent popes and also the Catholic Church around the world.
The Catholic Church today vows to respect a policy of “zero tolerance” with respect to both abusive priests and also bishops who engage in cover-ups.
(Producers of the Swedish program interviewed a variety of commentators and reporters on Catholic affairs. This reporter was among those interviewed, speaking not on the abuse allegations but the general situation of the SSPX and the Church.)
A source who claims to be a victim of one of the three priests featured in the Swedish TV report spoke with Crux on Monday night, on the condition of anonymity. He said that if he could speak to the Vatican department in charge of negotiations with the SSPX, he would tell them that they are being “irresponsible and hypocritical, in the sense that they [members of the Vatican department] know full well about these stories.”
That department is the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), headed by German Cardinal Gerhard Müller, which includes a commission called Ecclesia Dei, responsible for outreach to the traditionalist body. Though officially headed by Müller, the commission is run on a day-to-day basis by Italian Archbishop Guido Pozzo.
The CDF is also the Vatican department with lead responsibility for handling cases of clerical sɛҳuąƖ abuse.
As things stand, however, the Vatican’s influence over the SSPX is extremely limited. Father Eduardo Baura, a professor of Canon Law at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, told Crux that Rome has a “moral obligation to ask, demand, for something to be done, for the priest to be removed from ministry,” when accusations of abuse surface.
“But it has no legal power, because the SSPX doesn’t recognize the Vatican’s authority,” Baura said.
The 37-year-old survivor spoke with Crux over the phone, using the pseudonym “Andre,” the name which the makers of the program Uppdrag Granskning, produced by Sveriges Television, also employed.
Andre said that although he has little faith in the CDF, he also has no reason to believe Francis knows about the cases of sɛҳuąƖ abuse within the society.
Producers divided their research into two episodes, one of which will air tonight (Wednesday), the second one next week. The second episode deals with the case of the former seminarian, Kevin Gerard Sloniker, who is today in prison.
Producers decided to omit the names of the priests, since they have not been found guilty by any civil court, identifying them as Father P, Father S and Father M.  Two of those priests, P and S, reportedly have left the SSPX to join a splinter group led by British Bishop Richard Williamson, who, in 2009, gave an interview to the same Swedish program in which he cast doubt on the h0Ɩ0cαųst.
Williamson was later expelled from the Society and founded his own group, popularly referred to as “the Resistance.”
P is identified as a French cleric, first accused of sɛҳuąƖly abusing a minor in the 1980s. Uppdrag Granskning spoke to Andre about him, the abuse he says he endured at his hands, and efforts made by the SSPX to cover-up for the cleric.
In the program, Andre shares a secretly recorded conversation between him and a man identified as Fr. Niklaus Pfluger, today First Assistant to Swiss Bishop Bernard Fellay, who heads the SSPX. Pfluger’s position is considered the second most important within the society.
The recording reveals that the society knew P abused at least two other minors from 1987-1990, and that he was transferred from one parish to another.
Andre said his family did not report his own abuse to civil authorities.
“I think they should have done so, however … They did not, no,” Andre said. “I think it was because of the fear of going against the SSPX.”
That decision not to report the abuse is a pattern found in all three cases.
to shake things up. [I’ve began doing so] back in 2005.” he told Crux. “I first complained about that priest just a few years after the abuse, in 1991, and then didn’t hear back about him for many, many years.”
In the recordings, Pfluger reads fragments from letters showing that P had been found guilty of sɛҳuąƖ abuse and banned from ministry, particularly with children. Yet that sentence, he conceded, was never enforced.
“The major error on our part is rather why we did not implement it,” Pfluger says on the tape. “That’s precisely the problem. Father [Franz] Schmidberger changed his mind. That’s the problem.”
Schmidberger was the first successor of Lefebvre as head of the SSPX, and is currently the rector of the SSPX seminary in Germany. It was to him that Andre first wrote denouncing the abuses. In response, both he and his family were promised P would no longer be allowed to work with children.
Later in the tape, Pfluger is heard saying that his superiors repeatedly told P he was no longer allowed to minister to children, but “he did not believe it and continued.”
Twelve years ago, Fellay reportedly allowed P to organize camping trips for children, and it was a flyer about those trips that alerted Andre of the fact that he was still in contact with minors, despite the assurances given to his family.
When Andre wrote to Fellay expressing outrage, the bishop sent Pfluger to talk to Andre. It was that conversation he recorded, which allowed for the events to be reconstructed.
Letter from the Vatican’s Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith obtained by Uppdrag Granskning, regarding the case of the man being identified as Father P. (Credit: Courtesy of Uppdrag Granskning.)
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Docuмentation from the CDF, and revealed by the Swedish TV program, shows that the Vatican knew about the case and instructed Fellay to subject the accused priest to a canonical trial.
That decision, Andre said, is one reason he doesn’t “feel good about the Vatican.” He told Crux that it “makes no sense to me” that they would entrust the trial to the SSPX.
“They gave a mandate to Bishop Fellay to judge the man he’d covered up for,” he said.
P eventually was found guilty by the SSPX trial and transferred to the Maison Notre-Dame de Montgardin in the French Alps. It’s allegedly a retreat home, but critics say it doubles as a “golden jail,” where the priests found guilty of sɛҳuąƖly abusing minors are sent to lead a life of “penitence and prayer.”
P refused to go, and, according to officials of the SSPX, he joined Williamson’s Resistance in 2014. Yet the Uppdrag Granskning program obtained pictures from as recently as 2015 that prove P took part in priestly ordinations of the Society held in Econe, Switzerland.
A second priest featured in the investigation, called M, was found by producers in Paris, where he’s stationed now, and Montgardin in the French Alps, where he’d been sent by the society when it was determined that he had engaged in what the SSPX described as “immature conduct” around children while stationed in Australia.
Before being sent to Montgardin, M had also served in Ireland, and the Swedish program presents a letter from a mother of one the children under his care there. She wrote that she didn’t know about actual abuses, but only “grooming” of at least one boy and one girl.
“I heard this from a priest who wished to warn me to keep my children away from the camps” under M’s care, the mother said.
In the letter, the mother also wrote about a rumor as to why the priest was hastily moved to Montgardin.
“He had been moved for molesting young boys,” she wrote. “This last information actually came from Germany.”
M is currently ministering in Paris. The SSPX reportedly denies that the case involves sɛҳuąƖ abuse, yet they have declined to explain what was meant by the reference to “immature conduct,” or why he spent two years in the society’s retreat house in the Alps.
S, an Englishman, was accused of sɛҳuąƖly abusing at least one boy in 2006 while stationed in Mulhouse in France. Reportedly, he was tried by the SSPX, found guilty, and barred from ministry. That same year he was transferred to a residence owned by the society in Bristol, and then to London in 2012.
S reportedly underwent years of therapy and counseling, until, in 2014, he left the SSPX to join the Resistance. He currently lives with Williamson in the coastal town of Broadstairs, some 80 miles from London. He’s once again in active ministry, and there are pictures of him celebrating Mass for this splinter group in Ireland and England.
The program airing tonight shows footage of Jean-Michel Faure, who was ordained a bishop by Williamson in 2015. In it, he’s asked about S.
“Of course, you must have no endangerment, you must not put anyone, any soul in danger,” Faure says. “If these precautions are taken, then you may try to save the soul of this priest.”
Among other questions raised by the Swedish TV report, the revelations may suggest yet another stumbling block to reconciliation between the Vatican and the SSPX, beyond well-known magisterial matters.
Observers may also wonder if the society will be willing to accept, and implement, the “zero tolerance” protocols now considered mandatory by the Catholic Church in the fight against child sɛҳuąƖ abuse.
Editor’s Note: This article is one of two on the report by Uppdrag Granskning. A second, exploring Pope Francis’s attempts to bring the Society of Pius X into full communion with Rome, will be published tomorrow.
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« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2017, 06:57:40 PM »
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  • Wait a minute. This says that there are two pedophile priests who are with Bishop Williamson. What the hell! And then there is Tethrow with Father Pfeiffer. What the hell! Is there any truth to this?
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    Re: Report charges cover-up of sɛҳuąƖ abuse by traditionalist society
    « Reply #2 on: April 05, 2017, 09:28:51 PM »
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  • Fr S must be Fr Abraham. 

    No idea who the other 2 are. 

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    Re: Report charges cover-up of sɛҳuąƖ abuse by traditionalist society
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  • Wait a minute. This says that there are two pedophile priests who are with Bishop Williamson. What the hell! And then there is Tethrow with Father Pfeiffer. What the hell! Is there any truth to this?
    Well I don't know about this French "Father P" but I thought it was pretty common knowledge that Fr. Stephen Abraham was with Bp. W. 
    I'm not sure if we're supposed to talk about it, though. 
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    Re: Report charges cover-up of sɛҳuąƖ abuse by traditionalist society
    « Reply #4 on: April 05, 2017, 11:11:10 PM »
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  • Centro,.   Which side are you on? Why on earth would you want to publicize this vile article? You are encouraging calumny and detraction. 


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    Re: Report charges cover-up of sɛҳuąƖ abuse by traditionalist society
    « Reply #5 on: April 06, 2017, 12:54:37 AM »
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  • Maybe there is a reason for this to be aired. There are interests who want to interfere with a reconciliation;

     
    Perhaps not coincidentally, the same Swedish television program, Uppdrag Granskning, had broadcast an explosive interview with Bishop Richard Williamson in 2009, just after Pope Benedict XVI had lifted the excommunication of SSPX prelates. In that interview Bishop Williamson (who has since split with the SSPX) voiced his doubts about the reality of the h0Ɩ0cαųst.

    http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=31222

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    Re: Report charges cover-up of sɛҳuąƖ abuse by traditionalist society
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  • Maybe there is a reason for this to be aired. There are interests who want to interfere with a reconciliation;

     
    Perhaps not coincidentally, the same Swedish television program, Uppdrag Granskning, had broadcast an explosive interview with Bishop Richard Williamson in 2009, just after Pope Benedict XVI had lifted the excommunication of SSPX prelates. In that interview Bishop Williamson (who has since split with the SSPX) voiced his doubts about the reality of the h0Ɩ0cαųst.

    http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=31222

    You would not be so smug if you were sɛҳuąƖly assaulted.

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    Re: Report charges cover-up of sɛҳuąƖ abuse by traditionalist society
    « Reply #8 on: April 06, 2017, 10:08:32 AM »
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  • This is an awful article if true. I have faith that Bishop Williamson will clarify the statements against him.

    But strategically, I am having a problem understanding if the Jєωs want the SSPX under Rome or out of it- there is a reason this article came out after the "marriage debacle." There must be zio-factions infighting.

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    Re: Report charges cover-up of sɛҳuąƖ abuse by traditionalist society
    « Reply #9 on: April 06, 2017, 12:33:07 PM »
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  • The Guardian is running the story:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/05/catholic-sspx-resistance-uk-harbours-clergy-accused-sɛҳuąƖ-abuse-richard-williamson






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    A British Catholic priest who has been excommunicated twice by different popes is allegedly harbouring clergy accused of sɛҳuąƖ abuse in his renegade religious order.

    Richard Williamson, who was illicitly ordained as a bishop in 1988 by an ultra-conservative group, the Society of St Pius X (SSPX), and later convicted of h0Ɩ0cαųst denial by a German court, is now head of the “SSPX Resistance”, based in Broadstairs, Kent.

    Two Catholic SSPX priests who have been accused of sɛҳuąƖ abuse have found a refuge in Williamson’s breakaway movement, according to an investigative docuмentary to be aired on Swedish television on Wednesday.
    The Golden Jail, made by Ali Fegan, a Swedish journalist whose interview with Williamson about his h0Ɩ0cαųst denial was broadcast in 2009, claims that the SSPX protected priests and failed to report claims of abuse to the police or civil authorities. Internal canonical trials of two men – one French, one English – were allegedly conducted with Vatican approval.
    The English priest, referred to as Father S, left the SSPX before the conclusion of the trial to join the SSPX Resistance in 2014, going to live in Broadstairs. He declined to speak to the docuмentary team.
    The French priest, Father P, was found guilty and banned from working with children. He joined the SSPX Resistance, and was filmed celebrating mass at a church in Bordeaux last November. He also refused to discuss allegations against him with the TV journalists.
    Williamson’s movement, also known as Respice Stellam, describes itself as “a group of traditional Catholics who wish to practise their faith without compromise to liberalism or modernism”. It says reforms over recent decades have “contributed and are still contributing to the destruction of the church, to the ruin of the priesthood, to the abolition of the sacrifice of the mass and of the sacraments, to the disappearance of religious life.”
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    More than 100 former SSPX priests around the world have joined the renegade order, according to the docuмentary. Its headquarters is in a detached property in Broadstairs, named Regina Martyrum House, with a statue of the Virgin Mary in the front garden.
    Members of the UK branch of SSPX Resistance celebrate mass each Sunday in a hired room in Earlsfield public library in south London, which recently put on a display of books for h0Ɩ0cαųst Memorial Day. A spokesperson for GLL, which manages the library, said: “The hall booking is with the Stella Maris Mass Fund – which is a registered charity.” The booking had been running since January 2015 with no problems reported, the spokesperson said.
    Mass is also celebrated by the group in Bingley, West Yorkshire, and Liverpool.
    The SSPX confirmed that Father S and Father P were accused of sɛҳuąƖ abuse when priests in the order, that canonical trials were held, and that both men later joined the SSPX Resistance.
    In the case of Father S, an allegation of sɛҳuąƖ abuse was reported to civil authorities in France where he was based at the time, the order said. The SSPX moved Father S to Bristol, where he had therapy for several years. The civil authorities closed the case without further action, according to SSPX. His canonical trial was still in process when the priest left the order to join Williamson’s group.
    Father P was found guilty and forbidden to work with children, although permitted to celebrate mass. The families of his alleged victims said they did not wish a complaint to be made to the civil authorities.
    “The SSPX, under no legal obligation to report at that time, chose to respect the wishes of these parents,” said the SSPX statement. An alleged victim did make a complaint 25 years later to the police, who are currently investigating, it said, adding: “A number of our priests are cooperating.


    Williamson, who did not respond to Fegan’s or the Guardian’s requests for comment on the allegations regarding the two priests, has a turbulent history in the Catholic church.
    The son of an Anglican vicar, he was educated at Winchester College and Cambridge, and later converted to Catholicism. He joined the SSPX, which was highly critical of what it saw as a moral and theological crisis in the church in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, which sought to make Catholicism more relevant to the modern world.
    In 1988, Williamson was one of four SSPX priests ordained as bishops by the SSPX founder, archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, against the orders of Pope John Paul II. All four were instantly excommunicated.

    But in January 2009, the excommunication was reversed by Pope Benedict XVI in an attempt at reconciliation with the order. Three days earlier, in a filmed interview with Fegan, Williamson insisted that no Jєωs were killed in nαzι gas chambers. The Vatican said it had not known of Williamson’s h0Ɩ0cαųst denial when it lifted the excommunication.
    The move came under fire from Jєωιѕн groups and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel. In February 2009, a German court fined Williamson €12,000 after convicting him of h0Ɩ0cαųst denial. In 2014 the conviction was upheld on appeal but the fine reduced to €1,600.
    The Vatican’s rapprochement with SSPX has continued under Pope Francis, who this week paved the way for recognition of marriages conducted by the order’s priests.
    In 2012, Williamson was expelled from SSPX, allegedly for failing to show respect and obedience. He immediately called for a Catholic “resistance”.
    Two years ago, Williamson ordained without papal approval another former SSPX priest, Jean-Michel Faure, as a bishop at a ceremony in Brazil. Both Williamson and Faure were excommunicated by the Vatican.
    In an email to his supporters around the time of the illicit ordination, Williamson said the “nightingale’s nest” of the Catholic church had been occupied by “modernist cuckoos”.
    “Wherever the remainder of the true nightingales are visibly gathered, in whatever makeshift nest, they are in the church, they are the true visible church, and their beautiful song testifies to anyone who has ears to hear that the cuckoos are nothing but cuckoos who have stolen the catholic nest which they presently occupy,” he wrote.

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    Re: Report charges cover-up of sɛҳuąƖ abuse by traditionalist society
    « Reply #10 on: April 06, 2017, 12:44:08 PM »
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  • Here's a better source article from Sweden I found on google:

    http://www.svt.se/nyheter/granskning/ug/new-cover-ups-of-assaults-by-catholic-priests

    The Swedish reporting team found the priest, Fr. "P" in Bordeaux and confronted him, photo included.


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    The SSPX Resistance unites over 100 priests around the world. They quickly gained many followers in France. The Society’s priests hold mass regularly in about 20 locations. Uppdrag granskning found Father P in a rural community outside Bordeaux after a well-attended mass. The congregation consists of about 40 adults, 20 children and six choirboys. Four of the choirboys look to be about six or seven years old. And the priest clearly demonstrates that he doesn’t want to answer any questions.
    “Go away, go away, there is nothing for you here. Get out of this building. Get out of here. This is private land! Go away!” Father P says.


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    Re: Report charges cover-up of sɛҳuąƖ abuse by traditionalist society
    « Reply #11 on: April 06, 2017, 12:51:43 PM »
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  • Took some digging, but I found the 58 minute Swedish television docuмentary, so you can watch it.

    It is in Swedish, but it has English subtitles:


    https://www.svtplay.se/video/13177559/uppdrag-granskning/uppdrag-granskning-sasong-16-avsnitt-13-2?start=auto

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    Re: Report charges cover-up of sɛҳuąƖ abuse by traditionalist society
    « Reply #12 on: April 06, 2017, 01:06:11 PM »
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  • How can anyone calling themselves Catholics believe the lies of the vile media run by anti-Catholic liberals and not question everything they say. It is almost as if you want to believe the worst. God help you for your lack of Charity and sense of Justice.

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    Re: Report charges cover-up of sɛҳuąƖ abuse by traditionalist society
    « Reply #13 on: April 06, 2017, 01:15:08 PM »
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  • How can anyone calling themselves Catholics believe the lies of the vile media run by anti-Catholic liberals and not question everything they say. It is almost as if you want to believe the worst. God help you for your lack of Charity and sense of Justice.
    Do you have any evidence for the accusation that in this case the media is lying? Or are you just saying they lie often but you don't know if this story is true or lies? Or are you just saying they are lies because it makes the resistance look bad?
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  • Cebu, I don't know what world you're living in, but here in this one there really are pedophile priests. The Novus Ordo is crawling with them, though they are keeping a much lower profile in recent years because of the outcry. What makes you think that the SSPX or the Resitance would be granted complete immunity from these predators? (If your neighbor complains of rats overrunning his residence, it might behoove you to investigate your own for signs of encroachment.) These perverts need to be brought to light, and if there have been NO style cover-ups, they must come to a screeching halt. If they aren't to be defrocked entirely, well then send them to somewhere similar to Papa Stronsay-and they can just stay there in prayer and penance with no return ticket.  Either way, they shouldn't be protected and allowed around the faithful for any reason. And with all the black-eyes the resistance already has, the last thing we need is the accusation that our bishops are keeping pet pedos. Just sayin...