Bishop George J. Musey, 63, breakaway Catholic: -March 30, 1992
Deceased Name: Bishop George J. Musey, 63, breakaway Catholic
Bishop George J. Musey, a dissident priest who offered Mass in Latin after Vatican II and founded an independent Catholic church in Forest Hill, died yesterday at Saint Joseph Hospital of lung disease. He was 63.
Rosary will be recited at 7 tomorrow night at Donnelley's Colonial Funeral Home in Irving. Funeral Mass is scheduled at 9 a.m. Wednesday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 6300 Nell St. in Forest Hill. Burial will be Thursday in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Dickinson.
Bishop Musey rejected the teachings of the Second Vatican Council that modernized the Roman Catholic Church in the mid-1960s. He traveled around the country offering the traditional Tridentine Mass in Latin. Forest Hill became his base in 1987, when he purchased a church and school on 6.5 acres from the Rev. W.N. Otwell, a fundamentalist Protestant.
He was consecrated a bishop for the traditionalist Catholic movement on April 1, 1982, in Acapulco, Mexico. The consecration was done by authorities no longer recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. He subsequently was excommunicated by Pope John Paul II. But because Bishop Musey did not recognize the pope's authority, he did not recognize the ouster.
"He never received any formal excommunication papers," said Sister Mary Laboure, one of two nuns at the Sacred Heart convent. "He was supposedly being excommunicated by a church of which he had not any part. He's only been faithful to what he's always been taught as a Catholic."
A native of Galveston, Bishop Musey graduated from Kirwin High School and then attended St. Mary's Seminary in La Porte. He was ordained in 1952 and was stationed at churches throughout the Houston Diocese.
While recuperating from a series of heart attacks in the mid-1960s, he retired as a diocesan priest. After the church adopted the Vatican II reforms, Bishop Musey was invited to administer the Latin Mass to traditional groups from Florida to Oklahoma.
In the early and mid-1980s, he offered Mass in hotels and funeral homes in the Dallas area until he bought the Otwell property.
For the last two years, Bishop Musey has been bedridden and hooked to a breathing ventilator, either at Saint Joseph Hospital or at Lake Lodge Care Center in Lake Worth, Sister Laboure said. Through letters and prayers, he continued to direct his church, which has about 70 congregants.
Survivors: Mother, Mary Papich, who lives at the Sacred Heart Church; a niece in Carrollton; and a nephew in Houston.
Deceased Name: Bishop George J. Musey, 63, breakaway Catholic
Bishop George J. Musey, a dissident priest who offered Mass in Latin after Vatican II and founded an independent Catholic church in Forest Hill, died yesterday at Saint Joseph Hospital of lung disease. He was 63.
Rosary will be recited at 7 tomorrow night at Donnelley's Colonial Funeral Home in Irving. Funeral Mass is scheduled at 9 a.m. Wednesday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 6300 Nell St. in Forest Hill. Burial will be Thursday in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Dickinson.
Bishop Musey rejected the teachings of the Second Vatican Council that modernized the Roman Catholic Church in the mid-1960s. He traveled around the country offering the traditional Tridentine Mass in Latin. Forest Hill became his base in 1987, when he purchased a church and school on 6.5 acres from the Rev. W.N. Otwell, a fundamentalist Protestant.
He was consecrated a bishop for the traditionalist Catholic movement on April 1, 1982, in Acapulco, Mexico. The consecration was done by authorities no longer recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. He subsequently was excommunicated by Pope John Paul II. But because Bishop Musey did not recognize the pope's authority, he did not recognize the ouster.
"He never received any formal excommunication papers," said Sister Mary Laboure, one of two nuns at the Sacred Heart convent. "He was supposedly being excommunicated by a church of which he had not any part. He's only been faithful to what he's always been taught as a Catholic."
A native of Galveston, Bishop Musey graduated from Kirwin High School and then attended St. Mary's Seminary in La Porte. He was ordained in 1952 and was stationed at churches throughout the Houston Diocese.
While recuperating from a series of heart attacks in the mid-1960s, he retired as a diocesan priest. After the church adopted the Vatican II reforms, Bishop Musey was invited to administer the Latin Mass to traditional groups from Florida to Oklahoma.
In the early and mid-1980s, he offered Mass in hotels and funeral homes in the Dallas area until he bought the Otwell property.
For the last two years, Bishop Musey has been bedridden and hooked to a breathing ventilator, either at Saint Joseph Hospital or at Lake Lodge Care Center in Lake Worth, Sister Laboure said. Through letters and prayers, he continued to direct his church, which has about 70 congregants.
Survivors: Mother, Mary Papich, who lives at the Sacred Heart Church; a niece in Carrollton; and a nephew in Houston.
Bishop George J. Musey, 63, breakaway Catholic: -March 30, 1992
Deceased Name: Bishop George J. Musey, 63, breakaway Catholic
Bishop George J. Musey, a dissident priest who offered Mass in Latin after Vatican II and founded an independent Catholic church in Forest Hill, died yesterday at Saint Joseph Hospital of lung disease. He was 63.
Rosary will be recited at 7 tomorrow night at Donnelley's Colonial Funeral Home in Irving. Funeral Mass is scheduled at 9 a.m. Wednesday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 6300 Nell St. in Forest Hill. Burial will be Thursday in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Dickinson.
Bishop Musey rejected the teachings of the Second Vatican Council that modernized the Roman Catholic Church in the mid-1960s. He traveled around the country offering the traditional Tridentine Mass in Latin. Forest Hill became his base in 1987, when he purchased a church and school on 6.5 acres from the Rev. W.N. Otwell, a fundamentalist Protestant.
He was consecrated a bishop for the traditionalist Catholic movement on April 1, 1982, in Acapulco, Mexico. The consecration was done by authorities no longer recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. He subsequently was excommunicated by Pope John Paul II. But because Bishop Musey did not recognize the pope's authority, he did not recognize the ouster.
"He never received any formal excommunication papers," said Sister Mary Laboure, one of two nuns at the Sacred Heart convent. "He was supposedly being excommunicated by a church of which he had not any part. He's only been faithful to what he's always been taught as a Catholic."
A native of Galveston, Bishop Musey graduated from Kirwin High School and then attended St. Mary's Seminary in La Porte. He was ordained in 1952 and was stationed at churches throughout the Houston Diocese.
While recuperating from a series of heart attacks in the mid-1960s, he retired as a diocesan priest. After the church adopted the Vatican II reforms, Bishop Musey was invited to administer the Latin Mass to traditional groups from Florida to Oklahoma.
In the early and mid-1980s, he offered Mass in hotels and funeral homes in the Dallas area until he bought the Otwell property.
For the last two years, Bishop Musey has been bedridden and hooked to a breathing ventilator, either at Saint Joseph Hospital or at Lake Lodge Care Center in Lake Worth, Sister Laboure said. Through letters and prayers, he continued to direct his church, which has about 70 congregants.
Survivors: Mother, Mary Papich, who lives at the Sacred Heart Church; a niece in Carrollton; and a nephew in Houston.
Deceased Name: Bishop George J. Musey, 63, breakaway Catholic
Bishop George J. Musey, a dissident priest who offered Mass in Latin after Vatican II and founded an independent Catholic church in Forest Hill, died yesterday at Saint Joseph Hospital of lung disease. He was 63.
Rosary will be recited at 7 tomorrow night at Donnelley's Colonial Funeral Home in Irving. Funeral Mass is scheduled at 9 a.m. Wednesday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 6300 Nell St. in Forest Hill. Burial will be Thursday in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Dickinson.
Bishop Musey rejected the teachings of the Second Vatican Council that modernized the Roman Catholic Church in the mid-1960s. He traveled around the country offering the traditional Tridentine Mass in Latin. Forest Hill became his base in 1987, when he purchased a church and school on 6.5 acres from the Rev. W.N. Otwell, a fundamentalist Protestant.
He was consecrated a bishop for the traditionalist Catholic movement on April 1, 1982, in Acapulco, Mexico. The consecration was done by authorities no longer recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. He subsequently was excommunicated by Pope John Paul II. But because Bishop Musey did not recognize the pope's authority, he did not recognize the ouster.
"He never received any formal excommunication papers," said Sister Mary Laboure, one of two nuns at the Sacred Heart convent. "He was supposedly being excommunicated by a church of which he had not any part. He's only been faithful to what he's always been taught as a Catholic."
A native of Galveston, Bishop Musey graduated from Kirwin High School and then attended St. Mary's Seminary in La Porte. He was ordained in 1952 and was stationed at churches throughout the Houston Diocese.
While recuperating from a series of heart attacks in the mid-1960s, he retired as a diocesan priest. After the church adopted the Vatican II reforms, Bishop Musey was invited to administer the Latin Mass to traditional groups from Florida to Oklahoma.
In the early and mid-1980s, he offered Mass in hotels and funeral homes in the Dallas area until he bought the Otwell property.
For the last two years, Bishop Musey has been bedridden and hooked to a breathing ventilator, either at Saint Joseph Hospital or at Lake Lodge Care Center in Lake Worth, Sister Laboure said. Through letters and prayers, he continued to direct his church, which has about 70 congregants.
Survivors: Mother, Mary Papich, who lives at the Sacred Heart Church; a niece in Carrollton; and a nephew in Houston.
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