New Muto Proprio from the Pope

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Here is the new Muto Proprio on S.S.P.X. Very intresting. It looks like progress is being made.

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Motu Proprio “Ecclesiae Unitatem” - in English
APOSTOLIC LETTER
ECCLESIAE UNITATEM
OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF
BENEDICT XVI
GIVEN MOTU PROPRIO
1.The goal of guarding THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH, with the solicitousness of offering to all the aid for responding in an opportune manner to this vocation and divine grace, belongs in a particular way to the Successor of the Apostle Peter, who is the perpetual and visible principle and foundation of the unity both of Bishops and of the faithful1. The supreme and fundamental priority of the Church, in every age, of leading men towards an encounter with God must be favored through the effort of promoting the common witness of faith of all Christians.
  1. In faithfulness to this mandate, following the act with which Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, on June 30, 1988, illicitly conferred the episcopal ordination on four priests, Pope John Paul II, of venerable memory, instituted, on July 2, 1988, the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei "whose task of collaborating with the bishops, with the Departments of the Roman Curia and with the circles concerned, for the purpose of facilitating full ecclesial communion of priests, seminarians, religious communities or individuals until now linked in various ways to the Fraternity founded by Mons. Lefebvre, who may wish to remain united to the Successor Peter in the Catholic Church, while preserving their spiritual and liturgical traditions, in the light of the Protocol signed on 5 May last by Cardinal Ratzinger and Mons. Lefebvre"2.
  2. In this way faithfully adhering to the same purpose of serving the universal communion of the Church also in her visible manifestation and making every effort so that to all those who truly desire unity it is made possible to remain in it or to find it anew, We have desired to widen and renew, with the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, the general indications already contained in the Motu Proprio Ecclesia Dei regarding the possibility of using the Missale Romanum of 1962, through more precise and detailed rules3.
  3. In the same spirit, and with the same commitment of favoring the overcoming of each fracture and division in the Church and to heal a wound felt in an always more painful way in the ecclesial tissue, We desired to remit the excommunication of the four Bishops illicitly ordained by Mons. Lefebvre. With such a decision, We intended to remove an obstacle which could prevent the opening of a door to dialogue, and thus invite the Bishops and the “Fraternity of Saint Pius X” to find anew the path towards full communion with the Church. As We explained in the Letter to the Catholic Bishops of past March 10, the remission of the excommunication was a decision in the area of ecclesiastical discipline which could liberate the weight of conscience represented by the gravest ecclesiastical censure. The doctrinal questions, however, obviously remain, and, until they are not clarified, the Fraternity does not have a canonical status within the Church, and its ministers cannot exercise any ministry legitimately.
  4. Since the questions which must be dealt with the Fraternity are of an essentially doctrinal nature, We have decided - twenty-one years after the Motu Proprio Ecclesia Dei, and as We had planned to do4 - to restructure the Commission Ecclesia Dei, linking it more directly with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
  5. Therefore, the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei will be constituted thus:
a) The President of the Commission is the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

b) The Commission has its own structure, including a Secretary and Officials.

c) It belongs to the President, aided by the Secretary, to present the main events and questions of a doctrinal nature to the study and deliberation of the ordinary instances of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, as well as to submit the conclusions to the superior judgment of the Supreme Pontiff.
  1. With this decision, We have desired, in particular, to display our fatherly solicitude to the “Fraternity of Saint Pius X” so that in the end it may come to full communion with the Church.
We earnestly invite all to pray to the Lord incessantly, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, “ut unum sint”.

Given in Rome, at Saint Peter’s, on July 2 of the year 2009, the fifth of Our Pontificate.

BENEDICTUS PP. XVI
  1. Cfr Conc. Oecum. Vat. II, Const. dogm. de Ecclesia, Lumen gentium, 23; Conc. Oecum. Vat. I, Const. dogm. de Ecclesia Christi Pastor aeternus, c. 3: DS 3060.
  2. Ioannes Paulus II, Litt. ap. motu proprio datae Ecclesia Dei (2 Iulii 1988), n. 6: AAS 80 (1988), 1498.
  3. Cfr Benedictus XVI, Litt. ap. motu proprio datae Summorum Pontificum (7 Iulii 2007): AAS 99 (2007), 777-781.
  4. Cfr ibid. art. 11, 781.
 
It seems the main point is moving Ecclesia Dei under the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith? Does that help make progress somehow?
 
Since the Rite of the Mass is offered is a focal point that distracts from the essential issues between the SSPX and the Holy See, hopefully this will remove those distractions.

The SSPX claims that the documents of the Second Vatican Council teach a defective Ecclesiology. Archbishop Lefebvre originally permitted the New Rites along side the 1962 and 1965 Reforms at the Seminary in Econe. Seminarians were at liberty to assit at Masses in any of the Approved Rites of the Church. Later as a more militant stance developed in Econe, the New Mass and 1965 reforms were dropped, and a staunch rejection to them developed.

The questions at hand are, can a segment of the Church finding fault with a Council or any changes in the Church, implemented by Lawful Authority, (in this case the Holy See, who both promulgated the Documents of Vatican II, and later the re-Revised Order for the Roman Mass, and other Sacraments) be disregarded, or can one disobey the current Pope, in favor of ones interpretation of a previous Pope. Is the Magestarium a living or ossified teaching authority of the Church. As the rite which the Mass has been offered in has been used by both Liberals, and Traditionalists as a smoke-screen for these important issues, I see it as a sign of hope, that the real issues between the clerics of SSPX, and the Holy See will finally be treated in the manner that they need to be. In the past after meetings with the Holy See, the SSPX would make accusations about the Vatican, and the Vatican (for the most part) would sit back and watch a child throw a temper tantrum.
 
I find these words telling:
4…The doctrinal questions, however, obviously remain, and, until they are not clarified, the Fraternity does not have a canonical status within the Church, and its ministers cannot exercise any ministry legitimately.
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IOW, the Sacraments of SSPX and those associated with them (which would include SSJK) are illicit, and it follows that the faithful should avoid them.
 
Unless your soul is endangered by attending the mainstream modernist “services”. In which case, there is a case of necessity, and thus, the SSPX does have legitimate ministry.
 
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Unless your soul is endangered by attending the mainstream modernist “services”. In which case, there is a case of necessity, and thus, the SSPX does have legitimate ministry.
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As the Pope said, “The doctrinal questions, however, obviously remain, and, until they are not clarified, the Fraternity does not have a canonical status within the Church, and its ministers cannot exercise any ministry legitimately.”

I would say that no legitimate ministry means no legitimate ministry. There is no way around that.

I would urge you to prayerfully reconsider your position.
 
I would find justification for supporting the SSPX chapels a rare case. Even here in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, where there are many parishes that are less than nourishing for the soul, I have found many a safe haven. I’ll discuss the NO Parishes after a review of the other Options. We have at least two parishes with TLM every Sunday. St. Theresa a Carmelite parish, and in Whittier, Ss. Peter and Paul, this does not include the Masses that are once a month. There area also eleven Eastern Rite Catholic Churches within the Archdiocese and several just outside the boarders, within a mile or so in a few cases.) This is according to the Website of the Archdiocese, however it does not count the five Eastern Rite Missions I would add to the list.

As far as NO Parishes. The parish I am registered at has a new pastor who was allegedly heard at the local Catholic Supply store, (Cotter’s) proudly proclaiming that he had run off all the conservatives from the parish. While that may be, there are several parishes in the area where the priests are very orthodox, as are the sermons. While the NO is offered there, (and the NO is not at all to my sensibilities something I care for) they do so in a reverent manner, following the rubrics. A few even hold the canonical fingers together after the consecration, and follow other old rubrics that while not mandated by the new Missal, are at least tolerated. Needless to say, you will hear sermons there about frequent confession, the Eucharist, Indulgences, and authentic Catholic moral teachings from the pulpit. While I do rarely assist at Mass in these parishes, as I’d rather drive the extra ten or twenty minutes to an Eastern Liturgy, or to St. Therese, I have had to, and in the confessional find the priests to be very Catholic. For those who want a reverent NOM, in Los Angeles, with Gregorian chant, and a latin, Gloria, Credo and Agnus Dei, try Ss. Peter and Paul, or Holy Trinity in Attwatter. St. Victors in W. Hollywood, formerly a liberal parish now has the TLM once a month or so.

All in all, I think both the example of humble obedience to the Holy See, and the influence of good Traditinal priests within the full communion of the Church would both irritate the liberals, and encourage the return to the Church of the traditional rites to more Catholics.

If the SSPX priests submit, in all humility, liberal bishops and priests could no longer warn the populus of “those schismatics” and by implication EF priests and parishes in communion with the diocese would not fall under a veil of suspicion. There are a few dozen priests I know who have left the SSPX, and are in circumstances that do not allow them to function (illness, personal or family) who would have an easier time being regularized and able to serve the Church again, even if only as a supply priest.

Reunion will only help the Church.
 
I agree that the regularization of the SSPX would be good both for them and the Roman Catholic Church.

Until then, as His Holiness said, SSPX exercises no legitimate ministry in the Catholic Church.

Period.
 
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