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After Jeanmard retired in 1956, Pope Pius XII named Auxiliary Bishop Maurice Schexnayder as the next bishop of Lafayette in Louisiana. During his tenure, Schexnayder built a new chancery building, expanded the Immaculata Minor Seminary, established 31 parishes and ordained 81 priests. [15] In 1961, he dedicated St. Eugene Catholic Church in ...
Pope Pius XI, his successor Cardinal Pacelli with Guglielmo Marconi at the starting of Vatican Radio in 1931 Administration building and radio masts at Vatican City (2018) Vatican Radio began broadcasting with the callsign HVJ [ 2 ] on two shortwave frequencies using 10 kilowatts (kW) of power on 12 February 1931, with the pontificial message ...
The society was established as a pious union of the Catholic Church with the permission of François Charrière, the Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg in Switzerland. The society is named after Pope Pius X, whose anti-Modernist stance it stresses, [7] retaining the Tridentine Mass and pre-Vatican II liturgical books in Latin for the other ...
Pope Pius X (Italian: Pio X; né Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto; [a] 2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914) was head of the Catholic Church from 4 August 1903 to his death. Pius X is known for vigorously opposing modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine , and for promoting liturgical reforms and Thomist scholastic theology.
Pope John Paul II established the pontifical commission Ecclesia Dei on 2 July 1988 for the care of those former followers of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre who broke with him as a result of his consecration of four priests of his Society of St. Pius X as bishops on 30 June 1988, an act that the Holy See deemed illicit and a schismatic act. [1]
The following are associated religious orders that celebrate according to Eastern Catholic liturgies: [24] Priestly Fraternity of Saint Josaphat at Lviv, Ukraine; Society of St. John the Precursor of the Lord [25] at Riga, Latvia; Greek Catholic Sisters of the Studite Order at Riga, Latvia
Pope Pius X granted this wish, changing the title to Diocese of Alexandria on 6 August 1910 and designating St. Francis Xavier Church as the cathedral of the newly created diocese. [1] [3] The current bishop of Alexandria is the Most Reverend Robert W. Marshall Jr., and the rector of the cathedral is Father James A. Ferguson.
The Pope took issue with the socialist leanings of the Catholic 'Le Sillon' movement of Marc Sangnier. He said that Sillonists wanted to completely level social differences and to create a "One World Church" by joining "unbelievers". The Pope emphasized that a Catholic view of social justice meant considering the needs of both the powerful and ...