The World - News from July 10, 1988
Pope John Paul II appointed an eight-member commission to seek ways to persuade followers of rebel French prelate Marcel Lefebvre to remain loyal to the Roman Catholic Church. Lefebvre was excommunicated after he consecrated four traditionalist bishops June 30 without papal permission. John Paul said the special commission, headed by West German Cardinal Paul Augustin Mayer, will seek to preserve the “spiritual and liturgical traditions†of Lefebvre’s followers.
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