The World - News from June 30, 1988
French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre ordained 16 priests, the day before a consecration of four bishops that will automatically bring the expulsion of the rebel traditionalist from the Roman Catholic Church. He urged the new priests to fight the “cancer of liberalism” in the church, which he says has been infiltrated by “wolves and thieves.” Organizers estimated that the ceremony attracted at least 7,000 people to a meadow in front of Lefebvre’s seminary in the Swiss hamlet of Econe. Repeated pleas by Pope John Paul II have failed to sway Lefebvre, 82, who says bishops must be consecrated so that his traditionalist movement will continue after he dies.
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