Canonically established in 1988 by Pope John Paul II as a society of apostolic life, in response to the Holy Father's call to ecclesial unity and the new evangelization. The Fraternity responds to the Holy Father's appeal through an active apostolate in the service of the Church. It seeks to reunite those who have been alienated by liturgical abuse and theological dissent by offering the sacred liturgy according to the Latin liturgical books of 1962, and by offering catechetical teaching within the living Tradition of the Church. Includes information about priestly formation and apostolic work.