A Filipino archbishop has publicly confirmed that three nuns from a Dominican community have broken with their congregation to join the traditionalist Society of St Pius X (SSPX).
In a circular dated 17 October 2025, Archbishop Victor B. Bendico of Capiz said the three sisters, members of the Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary, also known as the Rosarian Dominican Sisters, had “publicly and deliberately affiliated themselves with the Society of St Pius X (SSPX), an institute which presently has no canonical recognition in the Catholic Church and whose situation is irregular with respect to ecclesial communion”.
