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The Validity of the Thuc Consecrations
Rev. Anthony Cekada During a conversation with Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1980, I hinted about my worries over finding a bishop after his death who would ordain traditional Catholic priests and confirm our children. The archbishop — at that time he hadn’t indicated whether he would one day consecrate bishops — tactfully replied that…
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Pius XII, Excommunication, and Traditional Catholic Bishops
Rev. Anthony Cekada Controversialists have sometimes invoked a 1951 decree and a 1958 encyclical of Pius XII against various traditional Catholic bishops, including those consecrated by Abp. P.M. Ngo-dinh-Thuc. The two documents excommunicated certain Chinese bishops whose consecrations the Red Chinese government had arranged in order to set up a stooge hierarchy in China…
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Abp. Thuc: A Brief Defense
Most. Rev. Daniel L. Dolan NOTE: The following comments are excerpts from a conference Bishop Dolan originally delivered in French at the École Saint-Joseph, Serre-Nerpol, Isère (France), October 17, 1999. The bishop addressed various false accusations the Society of St. Pius X had spread against him in France, including the accusation that his episcopal…
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Consecration certificate written in Abp. Thuc’s own hand
Archbishop Thuc Translation of handwritten certificate issued by Archbishop Thuc “We, Peter Martin Ngô-dinh-Thuc, Titular Archbishop of Bulla Regia, give notice of the following to all: on the 17th day of the month of October, in the year 1981, we conferred the episcopal rank of the Catholic Church on Father Moses Carmona Rivera, with…
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Bp. Williamson on the validity of Bp. Dolan’s consecration
Most Rev. Richard Williamson Transcript of Bp. Williamson’s letter: 10-21-93 Dear Mr. Padula, Thank you for this letter, as [well as] for the booklet by Fr. Cekada on the Thuc Consecrations, which I had seen. I think that Fr. Cekada’s arguments are good, such that I agree with him and not with Fr.…