French priest charged with rape and torture

[D1B]

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Still think the Catholic Church ain't a cult? Well, they still perform exorcisms.

VERSAILLES, France, April 10, 2014 (AFP) -
A priest in an ultra-conservative Catholic sect has been charged with rape and torture for acts allegedly committed during exorcisms involving three schoolteachers.

Versailles prosecutor Vincent Lesclous told AFP the 40-year-old priest with the Society of Saint Pius X, whose identity has not been released to protect the victims, was charged on Wednesday and is being held without bail.

He is facing charges of aggravated rape, torture and "committing barbarous acts" for the alleged assaults on three teachers at a private religious school in the western suburbs of Paris.

The prosecutor refused to provide further details, but newspaper Le Parisien reported Thursday that the assaults took place in the autumn of 2010 at the Notre-Dame de la Sablonniere school run by the sect.

It alleged he had first raped one teacher during an exorcism to purge her of the "evil" from a previous sexual assault.

He then used his "spiritual influence" to convince two other female teachers to undergo similar exorcisms, Le Parisien said.

It said the victims had claimed that acts of torture had been committed using a broom, a toothbrush and scissors during the ceremonies.

Questioned by police, the priest claimed no assaults had been committed, saying he had only "simulated" sexual acts.

The Society of Saint Pius X is a breakaway group of fundamentalist Catholics that strongly opposes the liberal reforms of the Catholic Church imposed by the Vatican II Council in the 1960s.

With 600,000 followers in 62 countries, the group founded in 1970 by French bishop Marcel Lefebvre has been dogged by accusations of anti-Semitism and far-right leanings. Lefebvre was ex-communicated in 1988 and died in 1991.

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[JoltinJoe]

Breaking News

Still think the Catholic Church ain't a cult? Well, they still perform exorcisms.

VERSAILLES, France, April 10, 2014 (AFP) -
A priest in an ultra-conservative Catholic sect has been charged with rape and torture for acts allegedly committed during exorcisms involving three schoolteachers.

Versailles prosecutor Vincent Lesclous told AFP the 40-year-old priest with the Society of Saint Pius X, whose identity has not been released to protect the victims, was charged on Wednesday and is being held without bail.

He is facing charges of aggravated rape, torture and "committing barbarous acts" for the alleged assaults on three teachers at a private religious school in the western suburbs of Paris.

The prosecutor refused to provide further details, but newspaper Le Parisien reported Thursday that the assaults took place in the autumn of 2010 at the Notre-Dame de la Sablonniere school run by the sect.

It alleged he had first raped one teacher during an exorcism to purge her of the "evil" from a previous sexual assault.

He then used his "spiritual influence" to convince two other female teachers to undergo similar exorcisms, Le Parisien said.

It said the victims had claimed that acts of torture had been committed using a broom, a toothbrush and scissors during the ceremonies.

Questioned by police, the priest claimed no assaults had been committed, saying he had only "simulated" sexual acts.

The Society of Saint Pius X is a breakaway group of fundamentalist Catholics that strongly opposes the liberal reforms of the Catholic Church imposed by the Vatican II Council in the 1960s.

With 600,000 followers in 62 countries, the group founded in 1970 by French bishop Marcel Lefebvre has been dogged by accusations of anti-Semitism and far-right leanings. Lefebvre was ex-communicated in 1988 and died in 1991.

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Damn, this is becoming too easy. That fall from the mustard tree was D1B's Waterloo

[D1B]

ultra-conservative Catholic sect

[JoltinJoe]

Give it up, blowhard.

Not Catholic.

[D1B]

Give it up, blowhard.

Not Catholic.

They're one of yours, Pedo Joe.

[D1B]

The Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) is an international Traditionalist Catholic organisation, founded in 1970 by the French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. The official Latin name of the society is Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Pii X (English: "Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X"). The head Superior General of the society is Bishop Bernard Fellay.

The society is known as a strong defender and proponent of the Tridentine Mass, along with pious practices, beliefs, customs and religious discipline often associated with the period before the Second Vatican Council, which the society believes promoted erroneous and heretical teachings, on matters such as the liturgical revision, ecumenism, freedom of religion, the supremacy of the Roman Catholic Church over other religions and relations with Jews. (The society has been accused of anti-Semitic views.)[1] Accordingly, the society holds that their unrelenting effort to preserve the Tridentine Mass along with its traditionalist pious practices rescued the value of tradition against modernism and the ongoing laxity of Catholic doctrine detrimentally caused by the Second Vatican Council.

Pope Benedict XVI declared that, for doctrinal rather than disciplinary reasons, the SSPX has no canonical status in the Catholic Church and, because of that lack of canonical status, the ministries exercised by its ministers are not legitimate in the Church.[2] However, the society's superior general maintains that the Holy See gives some recognition to the canonical existence and ecclesial ministry of the Society's priests.[3]

Tensions between the society and the Holy See reached their height in 1988, when Archbishop Lefebvre consecrated four bishops against the orders of Pope John Paul II, resulting in a declaration of excommunication against the bishops who consecrated or were consecrated, an excommunication remitted for those still alive in January 2009[4] with a hope expressed that all members of the society would quickly return to full communion.[5][6]

Formal discussions between the Holy See and the society began in 2009 and reached a critical stage in 2012, when Bishop Bernard Fellay rejected the doctrinal document presented to him on 13 June, evaluating a text proposed by the society on 15 April.[7] Fellay asked Pope Benedict if that document had the Pope's personal approval and the Pope sent him a handwritten letter assuring him that it had.[8] On 27 June 2013, the society's three remaining bishops (it had expelled Bishop Williamson) formally rejected the Holy See's proposals.[9] And on 12 October 2013, Bishop Fellay spoke of Pope Francis as a Modernist.[10][11]

Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and President of the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei", stated on 22 December 2013 that the leaders of the Society are in schism, having departed from communion with the Church, but that the door is open for them if they change their attitude and accept the Catholic Church's conditions and the Pope as the definitive criterion of membership.[12][13] In another interview on 12 February 2014, he said there is no backdoor for admittance, but only the open door of acceptance of the doctrinal preamble presented to the society in 2012.[14]

Joe, they're almost as catholic as you.

[89Hen]

The article is missing the most important part... did the exorcisms work?

[D1B]

The article is missing the most important part... did the exorcisms work?

Guarantee you his victims were probably not feeling like the devil when he got through with them.

The Society of St. Pius is what the catholic church would still be if it wasnt for the efforts of non-joltians challenging it.

[JoltinJoe]

The Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) is an international Traditionalist Catholic organisation, founded in 1970 by the French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. The official Latin name of the society is Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Pii X (English: "Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X"). The head Superior General of the society is Bishop Bernard Fellay.

The society is known as a strong defender and proponent of the Tridentine Mass, along with pious practices, beliefs, customs and religious discipline often associated with the period before the Second Vatican Council, which the society believes promoted erroneous and heretical teachings, on matters such as the liturgical revision, ecumenism, freedom of religion, the supremacy of the Roman Catholic Church over other religions and relations with Jews. (The society has been accused of anti-Semitic views.)[1] Accordingly, the society holds that their unrelenting effort to preserve the Tridentine Mass along with its traditionalist pious practices rescued the value of tradition against modernism and the ongoing laxity of Catholic doctrine detrimentally caused by the Second Vatican Council.

Pope Benedict XVI declared that, for doctrinal rather than disciplinary reasons, the SSPX has no canonical status in the Catholic Church and, because of that lack of canonical status, the ministries exercised by its ministers are not legitimate in the Church.[2] However, the society's superior general maintains that the Holy See gives some recognition to the canonical existence and ecclesial ministry of the Society's priests.[3]

Tensions between the society and the Holy See reached their height in 1988, when Archbishop Lefebvre consecrated four bishops against the orders of Pope John Paul II, resulting in a declaration of excommunication against the bishops who consecrated or were consecrated, an excommunication remitted for those still alive in January 2009[4] with a hope expressed that all members of the society would quickly return to full communion.[5][6]

Formal discussions between the Holy See and the society began in 2009 and reached a critical stage in 2012, when Bishop Bernard Fellay rejected the doctrinal document presented to him on 13 June, evaluating a text proposed by the society on 15 April.[7] Fellay asked Pope Benedict if that document had the Pope's personal approval and the Pope sent him a handwritten letter assuring him that it had.[8] On 27 June 2013, the society's three remaining bishops (it had expelled Bishop Williamson) formally rejected the Holy See's proposals.[9] And on 12 October 2013, Bishop Fellay spoke of Pope Francis as a Modernist.[10][11]

Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and President of the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei", stated on 22 December 2013 that the leaders of the Society are in schism, having departed from communion with the Church, but that the door is open for them if they change their attitude and accept the Catholic Church's conditions and the Pope as the definitive criterion of membership.[12][13] In another interview on 12 February 2014, he said there is no backdoor for admittance, but only the open door of acceptance of the doctrinal preamble presented to the society in 2012.[14]

Joe, they're almost as catholic as you.

Tilt.

Not Catholic. Move along, you are embarrassing yourself (again).

[D1B]

Joe, they're almost as catholic as you.

Tilt.

Not Catholic. Move along, you are embarrassing yourself (again).

Better tell them then. They're one of yours.

[D1B]

Joe's Bishop.