The Society of Saint Pius X in Ireland



To Restore All Things In Christ

 

 

NOTE CONCERNING RECENT EVENTS
February 2009

 

Recent events make it necessary to say a word about the Jewish Holocaust.

We want to stress that all the members of the Society in Ireland condemn as false, offensive, and unacceptable any form of anti-Semitism, including the denial or minimization of the Jewish genocide during World War II. For us it is beyond discussion that a systematic and organized evil plan of persecution and extermination of the Jewish race took place during the Nazi regime.

Any attempt to associate our apostolate or our persons with such ideology is particularly repugnant, having in mind that the father of our founder died of mistreatment in the Nazi concentration camp of Sonnenburg, and that three relatives of our district superior were assassinated in Gusen-Mauthausen.

 

NOTE CONCERNING MEMBERSHIP IN THE SSPX
updated February 2009
 

The Society of St. Pius X in Ireland is a Catholic priestly institute with a priestly apostolate, defined in its canonically approved constitutions as a "society of common life without vows." The only members of the Society in Ireland are the five priests incardinated in the Society and living in the three residences of the Society, and one professed religious brother.

The faithful attending our churches and chapels are not members of the Society, neither are the priests and religious from other dioceses, orders, congregations, or institutes who may collaborate eventually in our apostolate. The Society is not responsible for their actions, writings, or declarations, and none of them speaks for or represents the Society. Similarly, nobody can speak for or represent the faithful attending our chapels.

The General superior and the District superior are responsible only for their priests, and they exercise their authority exclusively over them and over their apostolate in Ireland. The superiors of the Society are not the "superiors of the faithful", they are the ecclesiastical superiors of the priests.

The Society in Ireland has no other publications at the present time -February 2009- than the following: the St. John's Bulletin, the Corpus Christi Church Bulletin, the Irish Crusader, and the Handmaids Bulletin. The Society in Ireland does not endorse directly or indirectly any other publication .

The Society in Ireland is not affiliated with any organization or publication, religious, educational, cultural, or political, and it does not endorse directly or indirectly any religious, educational, cultural, or political association.

Any contrary claim by individuals or associations is a fraudulent one.

 

NOTE CONCERNING COLLECTIONS AND PRINTED MATERIAL
updated August 2009

All collections of money and the distribution of printed material in the churches, chapels, and mass centres of the Society of St. Pius X in Ireland are subject to the superior's previous written permission.
 
Outside the regular Sunday church collections, the only authorized one at the present is the monthly collection for the Living Rosary Association in Dublin. No other collections are permitted on our property.
 
The only printed material authorized to be distributed in our chapels is the St. John's Bulletin and the Crusaders and Handmaids monthly bulletins. No other publication can be distributed on our property.

It has come to our attention that homemade adverts concerning the Society are distributed and posted in public areas by persons unknown to us. Whoever is printing and distributing them does not have our agreement or permission. Consequently, we decline all responsibility resulting from the contents and distribution of those adverts.

 
The principal purpose of this notice is to make the faithful aware that any other eventual requests for funds and distribution of other printed material are not authorized or sponsored by the Society.

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