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Rebel Catholic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, 85, Dies
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Marcel Lefebvre, 85, the rebel archbishop who was excommunicated
from the Roman Catholic Church in 1988 for ordaining traditionalist
clergymen, died March 25 in a Martigny hospital after undergoing
abdominal surgery for cancer.
He had a following of an estimated 100,000 Catholic theological
conservatives around the world who were unhappy with such Vatican
moves as dialogue with other faiths and the abandoning of the Latin
Mass.
Traditionalist Catholics venerated him as a representative of
the "true church." Critics viewed him as an incorrigible reactionary
who admired Spain's late ...
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