Some thoughts on the Society's Imminent Response to Rome

[EcceAgnusDei]

Are others allowed to say they they pray the status-quo remains? Or pray that there is only one common Form, with the currently Ordinary Form being that one?

Certainly, but you’d be praying for the wrong thing

• PAX

 

[TimothyH]

Are others allowed to say they they pray the status-quo remains? Or pray that there is only one common Form, with the currently Ordinary Form being that one?

Lincoln’s second innaugural address came to my mind when I read this.

-Tim-

 

[TimothyH]

Certainly, but you’d be praying for the wrong thing

• PAX

Lincoln’s second innaugural address came to mind when I read this.

-Tim-

 

[JReducation]

Brother, it seems like a lot more than suggestions. Cardinal Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, explained this plan, not as his own, but as the Pope’s own plan. Thus it comes from the Holy See itself, which means it does take it seriously.

See here: catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1101922.htm

and

Long before this hit the press, every bishop and major religious superior of men knew this. But we also know that this is a wish of the Holy Father and that nothing has been done to take the next step. It remains on the table, but there are other priorities.

(Other priorities) such as? Do you have any sources for this? How do you know so much more than everybody else about the Vatican’s “priorities”?

The issue is a canonical one.

1. Where to place the SSPX bishops when they get their faculties (I’m hoping they will). With their vision, it would be very difficult to give them a diocese or make them auxiliaries to other bishops. At the same time, they must have a niche in order to have faculties. All of them can’t be the Superior General of the Society.
2. No priest or religious is allowed to float freely. He has to be incardinated into a diocese or an institute. The SSPX has secular priests, but also has religious brothers. I’m not sure if they have sisters. This raises the question of the erection of the Society as an Institute of Pontifical Right, be it in the mainstream, in a prelature or an ordinariate. The institute needs that in order to incardinate these men. Without the incardination, they can’t have faculties. To give the Society Pontifical Right, it’s constitutions must be approved by the Prefect for Religious. Even though they are not religious, every constitution must be approved by religious. No one else has authority to approve a constitution except a pope. Popes don’t usually sit down and read these things. They sign off on them after the Sacred Congregation says that everything is in order.

As a major superior who is responsible for his men, those two issues alone would be of much greater importance to me than a hybrid mass. It does my men no good to have reconciliation without incardination.

This is not the first time this happens. I believe that it was in this thread that I mentioned where the Transalpine Redemptorists signed all of the agreements with the Vatican, but had to stop receiving novices for one year, because it took that long to read their constitutions and edit them to the satisfaction of the Sacred Congregation. I greatly admire them and their general superior. They were very patient and very humble about it too.