The World - News from May 22, 1988
Marcel Lefebvre, the rebel Roman Catholic archbishop in Switzerland, confirmed reports that he and the Vatican have reached an agreement allowing him to consecrate new bishops. Speaking after ordaining 26 deacons at his traditionalist seminary in Econe, Switzerland, he said he signed the agreement May 5 with Cardinal Josef Ratzinger, the Vatican’s guardian of theological orthodoxy. Lefebvre, 82, was suspended in 1976 by Pope Paul VI because he refused to recognize the results of the Second Vatican Council. But Lefebvre has continued to ordain priests and celebrate a banned 16th-Century liturgy in Latin
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