http://www.dici.org/accueil.php?loc=US
As you probably know by now, the rumour of a lifting of the putative excommunications of the S.S.P.X. Bishops has become a fact. No need for any further comment from me; His Lordship The Right. Rev. Msgr. Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the Society, speaks for me in the following press release:
The excommunication of the bishops consecrated by His Grace Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, on June 30, 1988, which had been declared by the Congregation for Bishops in a decree dated July 1, 1988, and which we had always contested, has been withdrawn by another decree mandated by Benedict XVI and issued by the same Congregation on January 21, 2009.
We express our filial gratitude to the Holy Father for this gesture which, beyond the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, will benefit the whole Church. Our Society wishes to be always more able to help the pope to remedy the unprecedented crisis which presently shakes the Catholic world, and which Pope John Paul II had designated as a state of “silent apostasy.”
Besides our gratitude towards the Holy Father and towards all those who helped him to make this courageous act, we are pleased that the decree of January 21 considers as necessary “talks” with the Holy See, talks which will enable the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X to explain the fundamental doctrinal reasons which it believes to be at the origin of the present difficulties of the Church.
In this new atmosphere, we have the firm hope to obtain soon the recognition of the rights of Catholic Tradition
Menzingen, January 24, 2009
+Bernard Fellay
and also in His Lordship’s Letter to the Faithful:
http://www.dici.org/dl/fichiers/Letter_Sup_Gen.pdf
Reginaldvs Cantvar
Feast of St. Polycarp, Bishop, Martyr, A.D. 2009
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