

The group has been in intermittent talks with the Vatican about returning to full communion with the Church.


In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunications of the surviving bishops, while noting that "doctrinal questions obviously remain and until they are clarified the Society has no canonical status in the Church and its ministers cannot legitimately exercise any ministry." John Paul II in 1988, the bishops involved were excommunicated. When Lefebvre and Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer consecrated four bishops without the permission of St. The SSPX is not overseen by any diocese in Kansas, or elsewhere, because of its irregular status in the Church.Ī breakaway traditionalist group, the SSPX was founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1970. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) confirmed to CNA on Monday that it is examining clergy abuse allegations made against the group, as part of its investigation into the four Kansas Catholic dioceses. Pius X (SSPX) is under investigation in Kansas, amid allegations that members of the group perpetrated or covered up clerical sex abuse in the state. course to the boys of SJA this year.The Society of St. In addition to teaching Religion and Latin, Father promises a challenging Phys. Now, after several years of apostolate in his home state of California, he has returned to teach the children he has seen grow up over the years. He returned again for his first assignment following his ordination in 2013. Father Gillilan was a house father for the boys’ boarding school here in 2002-03 - a fruitful year for him in discerning his vocation to the priesthood. Joseph’s has been blessed to have a fourth priest stationed at the Armada priory. David Gillilan has returned to Michigan once again. Since August of 2018 St. Anne's, where he says Mass on the weekends.įr. He is assigned to the mission chapel of St. He presently teaches a Chant class, and Religion to the 5th and 6th grades at St. After two years in Los Gatos he continued to teach while also preaching retreats. First assigned to Post Falls, ID, he taught Religion and Music at the boys school. Thomas Aquinas Seminary and was ordained in 2013 in Winona, MN. After receiving an Associate’s degree at St. He graduated from Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God Academy in Syracuse, NY. William Kimball comes from Upstate New York. Joseph’s and is very much looking forward to assisting with the continued growth of this beautiful parish.įr. Angele is happy to be joining the team at St. It was a great honor for Father to be able to serve the parish and school that had given him so much in his formative years. Mary’s, where he had the responsibility of the parish there for the last seven years. Following his eight year stint in Canada, Father made his way back to his alma mater, St. John Bosco Private School in Calgary, Alberta, just east of the beautiful Canadian Rockies. Angele was the prior of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church and rector of St. After Australia, it was off to Canada where Fr. Thomas Aquinas College is going stronger than ever with over 350 students, both boys and girls, in grades K-12. (High schools are called colleges in Australia!) The school opened in 1997 with 42 boys in grades 7-10. Angele spent ten years in Australia where he was privileged to open that District’s first SSPX high school, St. He was ordained by Bishop Fellay in 1990, in the second class to be ordained at Winona. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in Ridgefield, CT.
