Catholic Church leaders are warning followers to stay away from a group of Catholic churches whose leaders were excommunicated from the church this month. One of those churches is in Warners, near Syracuse.
The issue involves a traditionalist group of churches called the Society of St. Pius X. They rejected the changes that came to the church from the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960’s, commonly called Vatican II. The change that drew the most attention involved the end to the requirement that Masses be conducted only in Latin. All of the Society’s member churches offer only the traditional Latin mass.
The Society also adheres to a pre-Vatican II view of gender roles. Men lead the family and women are expected to manage the home and children. Women should dress modestly and must wear veils in church…