Francesco Ricossa

Francesco Ricossa is an Italian priest and superior of an independent congregation of priests, called "Istituto Mater Bonii Consilii", with headquarters in Verrua Savoia, near Torino, Italy.

Ricossa was ordained priest, when a member of the Society of St. Pius X, by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. He then taught as a faculty member at the SSPX's main seminary at Écône, Switzerland, before a breakaway group that began to follow Guérard des Lauriers's Cassiciacum Thesis, or sedeprivationism.

The Ricossa group also uses the name "Sodalitium Pianum", which was the name of an unofficial group of theologians and others set up in the early twentieth century by Umberto Benigni to report to him those thought to be teaching Modernist doctrines. [ [http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/b/benigni_u.shtml Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (Verlag Traugott Bautz, 2002);] [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9053148/Modernism Encyclopaedia Britannica] ]

In 2002, Bishop Robert McKenna consecrated Rev. Fr. Geert Jan Stuyver as a bishop for Ricossa's group.

Ricossa is the editor of the quarterly journal "Sodalitium", published by his Institute. As reported by the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism, "this periodical publishes many anti-Semitic articles, containing allegations such as Jewish links with the Freemasons and Jewish ritual murder. [ [http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw98-9/italy.htm Italy] ]

Writing in 1993 of the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who twelve years later became Pope Benedict XVI, Ricossa declared him "99% Protestant" and cast doubt on the validity of his appointment as cardinal, putting quote marks around that title in his regard. [ [http://www.traditionalmass.org/articles/article.php?id=62&catname=15 Ratzinger: 99% Protestant] ]

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See also

* Sedeprivationism
* Sedevacantism