From this morning's Vatican Information Service email news brief:
Communique on the Society of St. Pius X
Vatican City, 16 May 2012 (VIS) - Early this afternoon, the Holy See Press Office issued the following communique regarding the Society of St. Pius X:
"As reported by news agencies, today, 16 May 2012, an Ordinary Session of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith met to discuss the question of the Society of St. Pius X.
In particular, the text of the response of Bishop Bernard Fellay, received on 17 April, 2012, was examined and some observations, which will be considered in further discussions between the Holy See and the Society of St. Pius X, were formulated.
Regarding the positions taken by the other three bishops of the Society of St. Pius X, their situations will have to be dealt with separately and singularly".
3 comments:
That doesn't really say much. Is this going to take a long time?
The thinking is that this will be resolved and publically announced by Pentecost, but the stances taken by the other three bishops may have caused a bit of a delay. The SSPX has been very public in more mainstream Catholic media in the last couple weeks, which is an interesting sign. Some seem to think Rome is being extra-cautious about this situation with the other three bishops, especially Bishop Williamson, because he said some taboo remarks just days after the excommunications were lifted a few years ago.
SSPX is being cautious of Rome, Rome is being cautious of SSPX.
Satan knew what he was doing when he tempted somebody to leak that internal letter, didn't he?
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