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Referring to themselves as 'The Resistance,' the group hopes to restore the ultra-traditional Catholic Church

Rejecting Pope Francis and consecrating bishops without the approval of the Vatican, the ultra-traditionalist movement "The Resistance" is planning to expand by consecrating again a new generation of bishops. According to one of the French bishops, Jean-Michel Faure, consecrated just two weeks ago, they won't engage in any dialogue with Rome until the Vatican turns the clock back, dissolving the idea of the "new religion" of Pope Francis into the former traditionalist systems of the Catholic Church. He even said that maybe another World War will lead the church back to the way it was before.

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MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - "We follow the Popes of the past, not the current one," Faure said in an interview with the reporters last Saturday at the Santa Cruz Monastery, Nova Friburgo in Brazil.

He and the Holocaust-denying British Bishop Richard Williamson were both excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church and former members of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), which is a larger ultra-traditionalist group that disapproved of the modernizing reforms of Second Vatican Council (1962-65).

Splinting out of the SSPX, the "The Resistance" is a much smaller group; Faure did not give any estimates in numbers of people involved.

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"I think we can call ourselves Roman Catholic first, secondly St Pius X, and now... the Resistance," he said. During his time, Pope Benedict XVI readmitted four bishops of the SSPX, including Williamson, but they are receiving little attention from Pope Francis, despite the millions of members.

Faure said that they would not engage in any dialogue, unlike what the SSPX did. He also explained that the plan of consecrating more bishops will probably be pursued in one to two years, and that they are unsure of how it will get the Church to turn back to its old traditions. Faure noted that conflicts can catalyze.

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