US EditionVatican extends olive branch to breakaway SSPX society
The Vatican urged the SSPX to pause planned bishop ordinations to avoid automatic excommunications and offered a clear process for theological dialogue to restore full communion.
- A Feb. 12 communique said Argentine Cardinal Víctor Fernández met Father Davide Pagliarani and offered a path through structured theological dialogue if SSPX suspends announced episcopal ordinations.
- Longstanding tensions from the 1988 illicit consecrations by Lefebvre and Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer prompted the Vatican's recent warning after the SSPX announced plans to proceed without papal approval on Feb. 2.
- The talks would cover doctrinal points including Vatican II interpretations, distinctions like an act of faith versus `religious submission of the mind and will`, and topics from the Jan. 17, 2019 letter from the SSPX.
- The DDF warned that illicit episcopal consecrations carry automatic excommunication and could cause a decisive rupture of ecclesial communion, risking serious consequences for the SSPX.
- Possible canonical models include a personal prelature, with steps and stages to be set by mutual agreement if talks progress, and the Church community urged to pray for the process.
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Vatican extends olive branch to breakaway SSPX society
ROME – In a bid to stop members of a breakaway traditionalist society from incurring excommunications through the illicit ordination of new bishops, the Vatican has offered a path forward based on theological dialogue. A Feb. 12 communique published by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and signed by its prefect, Argentine Cardinal Victor Fernandez, said a meeting between Fernandez and the Superior General of the Society of Sa…
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