New Bishop Fellay Interview - "All Ambiguity Has Now Been Resolved Among Us"

[TrueLight]

Excerpt…

DICI: How do you foresee the relations with Rome after this Chapter?

Bishop Fellay: All ambiguity has now been resolved among us. Very soon we will convey to Rome the position of the Chapter, which has been the occasion to specify our road map insisting upon the conservation of our identity, the only efficacious means to help the Church to restore Christendom. As I told you recently, “if we want to make fruitful the treasure of Tradition for the benefit of souls, we must both speak and act” (cf. interview of 8 June 2012, DICI #256). We cannot keep silent when facing the rampant loss of faith, the staggering fall of the number of vocations, and the decrease of religious practice. We cannot refrain from speaking when confronted with the “silent apostasy” and its causes. Doctrinal mutism is not the answer to this “silent apostasy” which even John Paul II denounced already in 2003.

Our approach is inspired not only by the doctrinal firmness of Archbishop Lefebvre but also by his pastoral charity. The Church has always considered that the best testimony to the truth is to be found in the early Christians’ unity built in prayer and charity. They had “but one heart and one soul,” as we read in the Acts of the Apostles (cf. Acts 4, 32). Such a common ideal is also our watchword, Cor Unum being the name of the internal bulletin of the SSPX. Hence we distance ourselves resolutely from all those who have tried to take advantage of the situation in order to drive a wedge turning Society members against each other. Such a spirit does not come from God.

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[Melchior_1]

Sounds like either way, the stausquo will be changing.

 

[Skeptic92]

This sounds promising, yet at the same time is vague enough to keep the suspense.

I wonder when we will have a Public Statement on the decision from Rome or Bishop Fellay?

Let us pray that it is good news!

 

[ringil]

Fellay’s responses really don’t say anything. He is simply being coy and political.

 

[YoungTradCath]

Fellay’s responses really don’t say anything. He is simply being coy and political.

Of course he is. It’s an interview.

 

[SaintPatrick333]

Lets just hope his demands don’t separate them further from the Church.

 

[Usbek_de_Perse]

Ambiguity R Us!

I just read the interview in French. If you like reading tea-leaves, this is one for you!

The good bish says on the one hand that the appointment of Bishop Ludwig Müller to head the CDF is questionable because many writings of Mgr Müller on transubstantiation, the virgin birth of Mary, and on the necessity of non-Catholics to convert to the Catholic Church are more than a little problematic.

On the other hand, he says that “We are Catholic, we recognize the Pope and the bishops, but we must, before everything, preserve unaltered the faith, the source of God’s grace. We must thus avoid everything that could put that in danger, without substituting ourselves for the Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church. The idea of constituting a parallel church with a parallel magisterium is far from our thinking.”

“Nous sommes catholiques, nous reconnaissons le pape et les évêques, mais devons avant tout conserver inaltérée la foi, source de la grâce du Bon Dieu. Il faut par conséquent éviter tout ce qui pourrait la mettre en danger, sans pourtant nous substituer à l’Eglise catholique, apostolique et romaine. Loin de nous l’idée de constituer une Eglise parallèle, exerçant un magistère parallèle !”

 

[Usbek_de_Perse]

Ambiguity R Us!

I just read the interview in French. If you like reading tea-leaves, this is one for you!

The good bish says on the one hand that the appointment of Bishop Ludwig Müller to head the CDF is questionable because many writings of Mgr Müller on transubstantiation, the virgin birth of Mary, and on the necessity of non-Catholics to convert to the Catholic Church are more than a little problematic.

On the other hand, he says that “We are Catholic, we recognize the Pope and the bishops, but we must, before everything, preserve unaltered the faith, the source of God’s grace. We must thus avoid everything that could put that in danger, without substituting ourselves for the Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church. The idea of constituting a parallel church with a parallel magisterium is far from our thinking.”

“Nous sommes catholiques, nous reconnaissons le pape et les évêques, mais devons avant tout conserver inaltérée la foi, source de la grâce du Bon Dieu. Il faut par conséquent éviter tout ce qui pourrait la mettre en danger, sans pourtant nous substituer à l’Eglise catholique, apostolique et romaine. Loin de nous l’idée de constituer une Eglise parallèle, exerçant un magistère parallèle !”