![]() ![]() Were he to be generous in such a way, nobody would ever interpret it to be a rejection of the Council. The issues are real, but they must be worked out with our brothers at home and not with a locked door.įurther, Pope Francis’ commitment to the aims of the Second Vatican Council is unquestioned. I think that the Church needs to be more generous toward unity than to insist upon dogmatic adherence to the interpretation of a non-dogmatic council. Whatever their disagreements, surely this can be worked out over time with the SSPX firmly implanted in the Church. I am asking the Pope to do this even without the total agreement on the Second Vatican Council. I ask the Pope to apply that wide generosity to the SSPX and to normalize relations and their standing within the Church. Pope Francis and the SSPX: An Opportunity Remember this little thin I wrote in February? I have no illusions that is in any way likely at this point, but if this happens, I am totes taking credit for it. Further, their sources tell them “The Pope has a true interest in resolving this situation.” Rorate goes on to say that Fellay was summoned to Rome and he went. ![]() In order to protect our sources, we cannot detail the date and persons involved in the meeting, but only generally locate it in time – if the current pontificate so far can be divided into two halves, the meeting took place in the second half. Rorate has learned and can exclusively confirm that Bishop Bernard Fellay, the Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X (Fraternité Sacerdotale Saint Pie X – FSSPX / SSPX), was received by Pope Francis in the Domus Sanctae Marthae sometime in the past few months. Williamson of the Diocese of Bonkers.īut then just a little while later comes this startling piece of information from Rorate Caeli. Now I didn’t immediately put much (any) credence in the report since it comes from Bp. Alain Nély, expressed it, with enthusiasm, to two members of religious Orders three months ago : « The solution for the SSPX will be its unilateral recognition by Rome…we will not be asked to sign anything…to see how things evolve…we shall see. Here is the essence of how the Society’s Second Assistant, Fr. The news is that the modernists in Rome are offering to the Society a « recognition by tolerance » without the need for any formal agreement or signed document such as raised within the SSPX so much opposition to a deal with Rome in the spring and early summer of 2012. While its critics claim the society's priests were not explicitly granted the requisite jurisdiction, it contends that they possessed "supplied jurisdiction" for confessions due to a " state of necessity".Earlier today I got a mail from a reader that informed my that Bishop Williamson, formerly of the SSPX, warned of an impending reconciliation between the SSPX and Rome. The significance of these recognitions is that, unlike other Catholic sacraments, both confession and marriage require canonical jurisdiction for their validity. In addition, the Holy See named SSPX bishop Fellay as judge in a canonical trial against one of the society's priests. ![]() The 2010s saw growing recognition by the Holy See of its sacramental and pastoral activities, with Papal recognition extended indefinitely in 2017 to confessions heard by its priests, and local ordinaries allowed to grant delegation to its priests for officially witnessing marriages. The society's canonical situation remains unresolved. ![]() Though the SSPX denied that the bishops incurred any penalty, claiming canon law in their defense, the declared excommunication of the surviving bishops was at their request removed in 2009 in the hope of speedily reaching "full reconciliation and complete communion". Tensions between the society and the Holy See reached their height in 1988 with the Écône consecrations: Archbishop Lefebvre consecrated four bishops without the Apostolic Mandate and against a personal warning by Pope John Paul II, resulting in Rome declaring that the bishops who consecrated or were consecrated had incurred latae sententiae (automatic) excommunication. There are a number of organisations derived from the SSPX: most notably the Society of Saint Pius V (SSPV), a group mostly in the United States and the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP), which was made a society of apostolic life under Pope John Paul II in 1988. The present Superior General of the society is the Reverend Davide Pagliarani, who succeeded Bishop Bernard Fellay in 2018. The society is named after Pope Pius X, whose anti- Modernist stance the society stresses, retaining the Tridentine Mass and pre-Vatican II liturgical books in Latin for the other sacraments. ![]()
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