Vatican Allows Nun to Join the SSPX

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On 28 May 2011 Father Couture, the District Superior, came to visit our Convent. He had been delegated by Bishop Fellay to receive the vows of Mother Mary Micaela as she transferred from the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of New Zealand to the Dominican Sisters of Wanganui.
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She had special permission from the Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes in Rome to do this. As far as we know this is a world first, that a Sister would be allowed to transfer from a Novus Ordo congregation to a congregation set up by Bishop Fellay. The whole procedure implies a recognition of our Congregation, and of the religious of Tradition, by Rome.
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Sign that there is some big news coming on September 14?

Source: dominicansisterswanganui.blogspot.com/2011/08/momentous-occasion.html
 
Yep! This is WONDERFUL! It’s a long road to Tipperary, but no one said how long the road to full reunion is! God Bless :signofcross::byzsoc:
 
ProVobis said:
Interesting. Seems to be a firm beginning to some canonical regularization of the SSPX. I hope we hear more.
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A red hat for Bishop Fellay in the works ?

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Notice Cardinal Hoyos holding onto his ? “Oh no Holy Father, he can’t have mine ! Get him his own !”

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Outstanding news. Keep the prayers going. In fact intensify them for the next 3+ weeks.

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This is interesting and I wonder what significance it will have.

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Oh dear, this is too delicious! Pray the Holy Father remains hale and hearty and healthy for the next month, at least, so a great chapter in the Church’s history can be closed.

My conservative Anglican friend says the Church would explode with both FSSP and SSPX being approved. 😛 “There’s not enough room for two huge, virtuous, muscular traditionalist groups!”; oh, how little he knows Catholicism!
 
GloriousOrder said:
Oh dear, this is too delicious! Pray the Holy Father remains hale and hearty and healthy for the next month, at least, so a great chapter in the Church’s history can be closed.
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It is delicious! I loved your comment, it suited the situation excellently!
 
Denise1957 said:
Would you happen to know if there is an official Vatican source, or some other official source from Rome, that can confirm this?
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No, but the SSPX’s German website is also reporting now that this nun’s move was approved by the Vatican. I can’t imagine they would just make that up.
 
Warloff said:
No, but the SSPX’s German website is also reporting now that this nun’s move was approved by the Vatican. I can’t imagine they would just make that up.
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The SSPX German website isn’t an official source for the Vatican or Rome. Also, from the OP, the nun’s move happened this last May, so it isn’t immediately recent.

I’m not implying that the situation is made up. But I’d like to see an official non-SSPX version. What bothers me is that the OP states that the situation “implies recognition of our congregation, and of tradition, by Rome.”

Question: can recognition be implied? I thought that a congregation or religious group is either recognised, or not recognised (officially?). One or the other. I could be wrong.

And what is meant, really, by “recognised?”

Sorry if I’m seeming to nit-pick here.
 
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