Edit: Someone in England was trigger happy.
The red-hot Statement of a British District Superior that the Society would find the Dogmatic Preamble "unacceptable" has disappeared from the net.
(Kreuz.net, Menzingen) Only the General House of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X is entitled to publish an authorized commentary on the negotiations with Rome.
This was explained by the General House today in a press release.
The occasion was a recent Statment by the British District Superior Father Paul Morgan.
He said that the Superior of the Society would find the dogmatic preamble "unacceptable".
The newsletter has now disappeared from the website of the British District of the SSPX.
The content is not denied
Interesting detail: The media statement by the General House did not deny the statement by the British District Superior content on any point.
It just means general that since the meeting of the Society on the 7th and 8th of October in Rome, several comments were circulating about what the Superior General, Bishop Bernard Fellay, will say to the Vatican.
An official communiqué on the subject would only be published by the General's House.
Therefore applies as long as no further information appears that - the meaningless in content - press release of 7 October still stands.
Link to kreuz.net...
5 comments:
Best case scenario?
The Superiors accept the Doctrinal Preamble, but certain regions within the SSPX, ie, Britain, would break away because of this disagreement.
Worst case scenario?
Complete rejection of the Doctrinal Preamble.
(and my complete disappointment in the obtuseness of the SSPX, at least we have the FSSP equal in orthodoxy AND in communion with the Church).
I still think they're going to sign this.
FSSP pays a price for their "communion" (which includes, by the way, such orthodox paragons as the Neocatechumans): silence in the midst of the philosophical and theological chaos. If silence isn't the price, how else do you explain their dearth of intellectual defense of tradition?
Didn't the Archbishop found the society with canonical regularity precisely to form priests and fight for tradition? If the preamble does not affirm error, why not sign it? I could understand better if they signed it and then afterwards said that they found the canonical solution unacceptable; but if the document does not affirm error, why not sign it? It would certainly boost their credibility with the wider Church, and thus increase their ability to fight for tradition.
A second anonymous
I agree with you, yet there are many laity who feel that the Society will head down a bad path by signing this document, and that the things that have been fought for will be thrown out and that Rome won't keeps it's word, while the Society will be effectively hamstrung and prevented from continuing its mission of promoting Tradition within the Church.
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