San Antonio Archdiocese Bars SSPX Priests From Weddings After 4 Bishops Are Ordained
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Updated · WOAI · Jul 3
San Antonio Archdiocese Bars SSPX Priests From Weddings After 4 Bishops Are Ordained
3 articles · Updated · WOAI · Jul 3
Summary
San Antonio's archbishop told Catholics to stop attending Mass and activities at SSPX-run St. Joseph Chapel and barred Society priests from ministering anywhere in the archdiocese.
The move followed July 1 ordinations of 4 SSPX priests as bishops without papal mandate, which Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller said triggered automatic excommunication as a schismatic act.
A July 2 decree from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith warned that SSPX ministers administer sacraments illicitly and that confessions and marriages they witness are invalid.
García-Siller said he had granted marriage delegations to the local SSPX chapel since 2020 for canonical validity, but will no longer do so and urged Catholics not to fund its Schertz church campaign.
Catholics seeking the traditional Latin Mass were directed instead to Saint Timothy Catholic Church, as the archbishop framed the order as maintaining communion with Pope Leo XIV and the wider Church.