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Father Paul Wickens expresses his desire for his parish to affiliate with the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) upon his death.
The background audio clip* is from an interview with Father Paul Wickens. Father Paul
Wickens explains his parish's links to the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), and
explains how he wished for that continuity to be maintained upon his death, by
turning over the assets of St. Anthony's in West Orange to the Society. *Background
audio will play twice.
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sound file of Father Paul Wickens expressing his desire to affiliate St.
Anthony's parish with the Society of St. Pius X.)
** Unlike other recordings you may have heard, this one is clear, audible, and contains no inexplicable gaps or cracks. **
Transcript:
Interviewer: Eventually you're going to die — all men are mortal — doesn't that place you in a strange position? Are you going to be "sterilized" as it were, spiritually speaking? You see the need, therefore, somehow to link up with a bishop?
Father Paul Wickens: Well, yeah. I — we're kind of linked up with Archbishop Lefebvre's Society of Pius the Tenth. Our children were bused out to Long Island, and Bishop Williamson confirmed them — twenty of them, last time he was around, something like that. So we are connected with that, and, I hope to, if I get around to it, is turning over any assets from our soci– from our parish, you know, upon my demise [chuckles] to the Society, so there would be a continuity.