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

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 ...

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 three Latin Tridentine ...

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

The 71-year-old English archbishop added: “What was produced in 1570 was entirely appropriate for the time. What is produced in this age is also entirely appropriate for the time.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archbishop Lefebvre died in a state of excommunication in 1991 for consecrating four bishops without the approval of Pope John Paul II.

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 and that reconciliation does not appear to ...

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 ...