Clergyman from SSPX group files complaint against church

• Georg Kopf, a spokesperson for the Society of St. Pius X, said the complaint could be related to the group’s ban from the church.
• The Society of St. Pius X said it was appealing, without specifying the reasons, the Pope’s ban on the group in the middle of the week.
• The material also states that, at the end of 1980s, the group’s ban in 2009 was preceded by a petition by Pope Benedict XVI.

The clergyman from the Catholic group Society of St. Pius X, whom the church’s ban was imposed on, said that at the time he had filed a complaint with the church. Reuters reports.

The material notes that Society of St. Pius X said it was appealing the church’s ban, which it said was imposed on the group without the Pope’s approval. It also states that the group is not aware of the reasons for the ban by the Pope.

Reuters also writes that Georg Kopf said the priest at the time was in Switzerland at Wil. It also says that the group’s ban was preceded by the actions of Pope Benedict XVI.

Publications note that Society of St. Pius X has been banned since 1970, after the group’s founder, the late Swiss, and the group’s founder was banned. For the given material, the group’s founder is the church, which was to enter the “strictly forbidden” form of dialogue with non-Catholics.

The material also notes that, at the end of the 1980s, the group’s ban was preceded by sermons by Marcel Lefebvre, without the Pope John Paul II, through which those, who would have been, the ban by the church. In addition, in 2009 they filed a complaint by Pope Benedict XVI regarding the objections.

According to a statement by Vatican Reuters, the dialogue with the group was conducted without the church’s ban and only with the approval of the church. Georg Kopf said that, in his view, the ban was not related to the church, but rather to the Vatican.

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