Traditionalist French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre defied the Vatican Thursday and illegally consecrated four bishops, triggering automatic excommunication for himself and the new prelates and provok… ...

Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the traditionalist prelate whose defiance of Pope John Paul II caused the first schism in the Roman Catholic Church since 1870, died Monday in Martigny, Switzerland. He ...

If Archbishop [Marcel] Lefebvre had seen how they celebrated there, he would not have taken the step that he did.’” “The missal used at that celebration was the Paul VI Missal in its ...

The tiny, but vocal group of Catholics trying to perpetuate the Tridentine Rite are pressuring Pope Leo to stop phasing out ...

To the Editor: Though Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre was old, it was sad to hear of his death. It reminded many Catholics, I’m sure, of what “might have been.” I attended only two or … ...

The excommunication of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, shown in 1977, was lifted by Pope Benedict XVI. The late French ultraconservative archbishop rebelled against the Vatican's modernizing reforms ...

The 71-year-old English archbishop added: ... Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. ... Lefebvre, who based the SSPX in Écône, Switzerland, ...

In a significant decision with consequences for the Holy See’s relations with the priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and with his followers, Pope Francis has ...

A troubled history with Judaism has long been part of the Catholic traditionalist movement associated with the late French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre — beginning with Lefebvre himself, who spoke ...

Rome and Lefebvrists Still Not Reconciled. ASSOCIATED PRESS, March 22 — A Vatican cardinal said that the Mass is still a point of contention with followers of the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre ...

Archbishop Lefebvre died in a state of excommunication in 1991 for consecrating four bishops without the approval of Pope John Paul II. Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. (photo: Antonisse, Marcel/Anefo ...

Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who died in a state of excommunication in 1991 for consecrating four bishops without the approval of Pope John Paul II, was a Roman Catholic archbishop who founded the ...