![]() We are not going to do suicide there, that’s very clear.”īishop Fellay insisted that the impetus for a resolution came from Pope Benedict XVI. ![]() “We need some reasonable understanding that the proposed structure and conditions are workable. “The thing is not yet done,” the bishop said. He said the guarantees are related to the Society’s traditional liturgical practices and teachings, among other areas. He cautioned, however, that the two sides still have not arrived at an agreement, and that unspecified guarantees from the Vatican are still pending. ![]() “So we have to look into it very closely and if possible move ahead.” There doesn’t seem to be any trap,” he said. “I think that the move of the Holy Father – because it really comes from him – is genuine. “I cannot exclude that there might be a split.”īut the bishop defended his generally favourable stance toward the Vatican’s offer against the objections of his peers. “There are some discrepancies in the Society,” Bishop Fellay told CNS. In April, according to a letter which surfaced on the internet yesterday, the Society’s other three bishops warned Bishop Fellay that the Vatican’s apparent offer to establish the group as a personal prelature – a status currently held only by Opus Dei – constituted a “trap” and urged him to say no. The Society is hardly united behind its leader’s position, however. The Vatican has yet to respond, but the director of the Vatican press office initially described the latest position as a “step forward”. In April the Society responded to a “doctrinal preamble” stipulating the group’s assent to certain Church teachings, presumably including elements of the teaching of Vatican II, as a prerequisite for reconciliation. The Society effectively broke with Rome in 1988, when its founder, the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, ordained four bishops without the permission of Blessed John Paul II in a protest against modernising changes that followed the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65. The leader of a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics has spoken in unusually hopeful terms about a possible reconciliation with Rome, but acknowledged significant internal resistance to such a move, which he said might lead to the group splitting apart.īishop Bernard Fellay, superior general of the Society of St Pius X (SSPX), spoke to the Catholic News Service today at the Society’s headquarters in Switzerland about the latest events in more than two years of efforts at reconciliation with the Vatican.
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