ESTABS THIS MORNING'S PRESSER, VO, (UNFORCH NO SOT LEFEBVRE ON EXCOMMUNICATION), SHOTS OF CHURCH, WS CHURCH, CONGREGATION, A SHOTS FRONT OF CHURCH AND CROWD GATHERED OUTSIDE, SHOTS CONGREGATION AND LEFEBVRE ENTERING THE CHURCH, INSIDE CHURCH AS LEFLEFERVRE BLESSES THE WALLS OF THE CHURCH, VO SHOTS CELEBRATION OF MASS, WS LEFEBVRE, SOT LEFEBVRE SAYING WE FIGHT AGAINST ALL THINGS THAT DESTROY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, SAYS THAT THE OLD RITE OS THE ONLY WAY TO CELEBRATE MASS (THE CAUSE OF THE DISPUTE WITH THE VATICAN), WS PEOPLE INSIDE CHURCH, SHOTS OF END OF MASS AND PROCESSION MOVES DOWN ISLE.




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REPORTER: GEORGE LEWIS

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Background: FRENCH ARCHBISHOP MARCEL LEFEBVRE, AT ODDS WITH POPE PAUL BECAUSE HE REGARDS THE POPE AS TOO RADICAL, DEDICATED A CHAPEL IN DICKINSIN, TEXAS. IN A NEWS CONFERENCE BEFORE THE CONSECRATION CEREMONY, HE BLAMED THE VATICAN FOR ANY DIVISION IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, AND SAID HE WOULD NOT ACCEPT EXCOMMUNICATION FROM THE POPE IF THE DISPUTE COMES TO THAT