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REBEL French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre has opened a church for his Scottish followers in Glasgow, just weeks before his situation is to be considered by Rome.
The church, St Andrews, formerly housed a Free Church of Scotland congregation. It was opened on September 13 to cater for the estimated 200 followers of Archbishop Lefebvre in Scotland.
Archbishop Thomas Winning of Glasgow said he was sorry the French churchman "did not contact me and that he came to set up a separate altar".
Archbishop Lefebvre was suspended by Pope Paul VI in 1976 after ordaining priests against Vatican instructions. The French clergyman was already in trouble with the Holy See for resisting liturgical and other changes of the second Vatican council.
He continued to ordain men at his seminary in Econe, Switzerland, where he established his Fraternity of St Pius X.
At the Glasgow church opening Archbishop Lefebvre said that "many in the church have abandoned true altars to be like Protestants". Members of the archbishop's society celebrate the pre-Vatican 11 Tridentine Mass.
Meanwhile the Catholic Latin Mass Society has called an extraordinary meeting to pass a resolution, which, if accepted, will place the organisation in opposition to papal ruling.
The resolution calls on the society to endorse "the historic stand made by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and Bishop de Castro Mayer for the Catholic faith, and for the liturgical, traditions which embody, safeguard and transmit the faith".
This motion, if passed, would undermine the legality of society Masses which currently are celebrated under a Papal indult of 1984.
This indult specifies that those benefiting from it should "have nothing to do with nullam partem habere, those who call into question the liceity or doctrinal rectitude of the Novas Ordo of Paul VI".
The sponsor of the motion, W J Morgan, claims that the resolution offers the choice to the Latin Mass Society between being "once more an unambiguously Catholic society, and being a manifest and notorious agency for the Conciliar Sect" — the term the organisation uses for those who support the reforms of Vatican II.
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