SSPX’s Fellay on Vatican ultimatum
June 27, 2008, 6:55 am
Posted by Joseph A. Komonchak
A Reuter’s blog gives the text of a talk that Bishop Fellay, head of the SSPX, gave on the Vatican ultimatum listing conditions for the re-integration of the Society into the Church. In the speech Fellay refers to a talk that Archbishop Lefebvre gave many years ago, and this is also useful to read because it shows clearly how the issues as seen by the SSPX are not a simple matter of retaining the unreformed rite. As the Reuters piece indicates, within the SSPX there are people far more intransigent that Fellay can at times appear to be.
There is much more than that out there – statments from now 2 SSPX bishops now indicating their negative stance towards the conditions. Very predictable. And something I’m sure Benedict fully expected.
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Elaine, your link includes the good news that AB Raymond (aka Regus Mundi) Burke is leaving St. Louis to head the Apostolic Signatura.
Good news, indeed, for liberal and progressive Catholics in St. Louis and around the country.
Holed up in the Vatican, perhaps he won’t be able to inflict any more damage on the church.
(Rumored that he’ll get a cardinal’s hat: should fit perfectly with his “traditionalist” notion of church:)
Raymond Burke: good riddance and goodbye!!!
Actually, you will likely see the archbishop again, Joseph, waving from the Vatican balconies after the next conclave along with the other cardinals as they celebrate the election of…
Sounds like this has gone much as expected, and it seems as though the Vatican will continue to try to draw SSPX followers back individually, not on a corporate basis. That seems like a good strategy, and one with a likelihood of success given Benedict’s efforts to re-form the church along more traditionalist lines. The problem now may be that the vast majority of moderate-to-liberal Catholics who remain in the church and faithful to the church will wonder why there is no similar Vatican effort to accomodate them? The squeaky wheel always gets the grease, as grandma used to say…
…as long as he’s kept busy doing his reading and writing and (otherwise kept busy :)
I’ve no problem, Mr. Gibson.
In other words, keep the guy busy with what we in the secular world refer to as “make work”
:)
The good “bishop’s” sin against the Church can be called (you knew this was coming …) Fellay-tio.