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Fellay betrays founder of the SSPX, Archbishop Lefebvre and makes a deal with the devil... Path toward full communion with modernist Rome continues with Fellay and the Neo-SSPX...
The
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has appointed the Superior of the
Society of St. Pius X, founded by Lefebvre, to be the first-instance trial
judge in the case against a Lefebvrian priest who is accused of a serious crime.
He announced it himself during the course of a sermon
at Our Lady of the Angels church in Arcadia, California, on May 10, 2015: the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has appointed the Superior General
of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), Bishop Bernard Fellay, as first-instance
judge in a case involving a Lefebvrian priest. The former Holy Office is in
charge of dealing with a number of “delicta graviora”. The one that pops up
most frequently, is the one involving the sexual abuse of minors. Fellay
presented this as an example of the “contradictions” in the Holy See’s approach
to the Fraternity.
“We are labeled now as being irregular, at best.
“Irregular” means you cannot do anything, and so for example they have
prohibited us from saying Mass in the churches in Rome, for the Dominican
sisters who had their pilgrimage in Rome in February. They say, “No, you
cannot, because you are irregular”. And these people [who] say that, were
people of [Pontifical Commission] Ecclesia Dei.”
“Now, sometimes, unfortunately,” Bishop Fellay said,
“also priests do silly things, and they need to be punished. And when it is
very, very serious, we have to make recourse to Rome. So we do. And what does
the Congregation of the Faith do? Well, they did appoint me as the judge for
this case. So I was appointed by Rome,
by the Congregation of the Faith, to make judgments, canonical Church
judgements on some of our priests who belong to a non-existent Society for them
(for Rome, Ed.). And so, once again, a beautiful contradiction indeed.”
This is not the first time the SSPX has made recourse
to Rome when it comes to “delicta graviora” and dispensations from priestly
obligations. What is new in this case is that the former Holy Office headed by
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller has decided to entrust the case to Mgr. Fellay
himself, making him first-instance trial judge. An expression of attention. A
sign that the path toward full communion with the Lefebvrians continues, as
Archbishop Guido Pozzo confirmed in a statement to Vatican Insider. He
archbishop, who is also Secretary of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei,
said: “The decision of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith does not
imply that existing problems have been resolved, but it is a sign of
benevolence and magnanimity. I see no contradiction here, but rather, a step
toward reconciliation.”
Readers will recall that another important sign came
last April, when the Archbishop of Buenos Aires gave the green light for
Lefebvrians to be registered by the Argentinian government as a “diocesan
association”. Also, a large group of SSPX pilgrims was allowed to celebrate the
Eucharist in Lourdes Basilica.
So why does Fellay speak of a contradiction? His
comment was in reference to last February’s pilgrimage to Rome, which saw the
participation of 1500 faithful. The pilgrimage was organized by Dominican
sisters with links to the SSPX. A request was submitted to the Pontifical
Commission Ecclesia Dei for mass to be celebrated at the altar of St. Peter’s
Basilica. On this occasion, however, the heads of the Commission, decided that
the celebration of a mass by a Lefebvrian priest before existing problems were
resolved in view of canonical regularization and full communion would have sent
out the wrong signal. Nevertheless, Pope Francis gave his approval to a
proposal for the requested mass to be celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica but by
an Ecclesia Dei priest and according to the old rite. Leaders of the Fraternity
declined the offer.
Still, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith’s appointment of Fellay as first-instance trial judge, shows that
progress is being made in terms of the dialogue between the Church and the
SSPX.
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