Church Law is only Applied only to Traditionalists

The Munich Canon Lawyer has pounded the Society of Pius X with the pan according to the letter of the law.

(Trier kreuz.net) On 18 January, Munich canon law professor, Fr. Stefan Haering (50) held a lecture against the Society of Pius X.

This was reported on the Trier diocesan web page on Monday.

The defense of the paper which was in April by the Emeritus Canon Law and Rector of Trier, Prelate Peter Kramer (67).

Another Theology?

Fr. Haering imputed to Pius X, a "a wide ranging clear and static picture of the Tradition of the Church".

They tend therefore, to be frozen in the Tradition "in the year 1962". The Society was in reality founded first in the summer of 1969.

Father Haering correctly recognizes, that the Society is a bit more than only about "the love for the old form of the Liturgy". He proceeded to explain: "It devolves upon the rejection of the Second Vatican Council."

In reality the Second Vatican Council itself made clear, that it wanted to pronounce no new teachings.

The Society rejects Ecumenism, the Collegiality of Bishops and Religious Freedom - mentions Father Haering some of the pastoral concerns of the Pastoral Council.

The greatest Church law is the Salvation of Souls?

Further the Benedictine said, that the Society in canonical sense has no jurisdiction (Rechtpersoenlichkeit). Still further intoned the Benedictine: "They can not be represented as a Society (Gruppierung) of the Catholic Church."

Father Haering grounded his judgement with the canonical decision on the Society in 1975 and the illegal Consecrations of 1988.

In this view the ecumenically fanatical priest in any event must maintain, that the Orthodox and Protestants as well have no jurisdiction (legal standing/jurisdiction) in a canonical sense -- even newly formed religious Communities don't have this.

Furthermore the Father imputes to the Society - the outdated language of the Vatican bears -- an "indisputable schismatic stamp"

Only Old Liberal Grievances are Tolerable

Furher on he describes -- in a right plump historical misrepresentation -- Pope Paul VI (+ 1978) as "good Father and Shepherd", who has "shown the way to return".

Which way that had been, the Benedictine doesn't say.

Later he maintains -- throughout without naming any examples --, that the Vatican "is silent but doesn't condone" over alleged grievances of the Society in order not to endanger reintegration:

"Under this general consciousness and the order within the Church, the authority of the Church can be mistaken for weak and arbitrary" - explained Fr. Haering, from whom no similar public complaints about the "De facto" suspension of Church law in the Diocese is known.

The lifting of the Excommunications against the Society of Pius X the Canon Lawyer named only one time, when excommunications are rare, a "free grace from the Pope."

"Pope Benedict managed the Church in an unusual way, he acts as it were as a religious teacher and is not strictly oriented by the law as a judge."

The Church cannot discuss with the Society - Father Haering explained despite the current discussions:

"Otherwise the tail wags the dog."