Pope Leo XIV received the Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter in a private audience at the Vatican on Monday 19 January, marking the first formal meeting between the new pontiff and leaders of one of the Church’s best known traditionalist priestly societies.
According to an official communiqué issued by the fraternity on 20 January, the Pope met Father John Berg for a half hour conversation in the Apostolic Palace. He was accompanied by Father Josef Bisig, a co founder of the fraternity, its first superior general, and now rector of Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary in Denton in the United States. The meeting had been requested by the fraternity.
