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  • Pennsylvania bishop suppresses local traditionalist priestly society

    12/02/2004 8:30:46 AM PST · by NYer · 32 replies · 1,767+ views
    Catholic Online ^ | December 1, 2004
    SCRANTON, Pa. (CNS) -- Bishop Joseph F. Martino of Scranton has decreed the suppression of the Society of St. John, citing its financial instability, its failure to follow church law and the scandal caused by allegations of sexual molestation of minors by two of its founders. The society has caused "grievous financial burdens for the diocese" that could amount to several million dollars, he said. Priests who had left a schismatic traditionalist organization, the Society of St. Pius X, to return to the Catholic Church, established the Society of St. John in 1998. They received canonical authorization for the society...