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A translation of Tornielli's blog today:


I have learned from reliable sources that, contrary to what has emerged in some articles, the response of the SSPX to the letter of Cardinal Castrillon was in fact not negative. The Cardinal is pleased about it, he has responded to Fellay, and he has sent on the SSPX letter to Benedict XVI. The Lefebvrians want more time beyond the June 30 deadline given [by Castrillon], but - it seems - they want to comply with the five points.



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The U.S. District of the SSPX has published an English text of the Lefebvrians' reply to the Vatican, from the society's news service, DICI, as follows:



CONCERNING THE ULTIMATUM
of Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos

Released on July 1, 2008 from DICI



On June 4, 2008, at the request of Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, the Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X, Bishop Bernard Fellay, went to Rome accompanied the Second Assistant General, Fr. Alain-Marc Nely.

During the interview, he was given a memorandum in the form of an ultimatum, demanding an answer by the end of the month of June. On June 23, contrary to the established custom, the Italian daily Il Giornale revealed the existence of the ultimatum and, the next day, published its content in its online edition. In the days following, the information was broadcasted by all of the international press. Thus, to the urgency of the ultimatum was added media pressure.

Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos’ document expressed five demands: besides a positive answer requested before the end of June, the Society of St. Pius X, in the person of its General Superior, had to commit itself (1) “to give a response proportionate to the Pope’s generosity”; (2) “to avoid any public comment which would not respect the person of the Holy Father and would have a negative impact upon ecclesial charity;” (3) “to avoid claiming a magisterium superior to the Holy Father’s and not to set the Society in opposition to the Church;” (4) “to demonstrate its will to act in all honesty and ecclesial charity, and in the respect of the authority of the Vicar of Christ.”

We must observe that the very general — not to say vague — character of the demands singularly contrasts with the urgency of the ultimatum. The conditions seem to be meant to obtain an atmosphere favorable to a further dialogue, rather than imply any precise commitment on definite issues.

The Society of St. Pius X wishes that the dialogue be on the doctrinal level and take into accounts all the issues, which, if they were evaded, might jeopardize a canonical status hastily set up. The SSPX considers that the preliminary withdrawal of the 1988 decrees of excommunication would foster serenity in the dialogue.

The SSPX does not claim the exercise of a magisterium superior to the Holy Father’s, nor does it seek to oppose the Church. Following in the footsteps of its founder, it wants to hand down what it has received, namely “what has always been believed everywhere and by all.”

It claims as its own the profession of faith addressed by Archbishop Lefebvre to Paul VI on September 24, 1975: “Jesus Christ has entrusted to His Vicar the charge of confirming his brethren in the faith, and has asked him to make sure that every bishop faithfully keep the deposit of the faith, according to St. Paul’s recommendation to Timothy.”

In a letter to Pope Benedict XVI, dated June 26, 2008, Bishop Fellay answered in this sense. Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos acknowledged receipt of the letter the next day.

Until further details are available, we will make no comment.



I must once again note that the home page of the SSPX U.S. district carries the following statement in a box on the upper right-hand corner of its homepage, www.sspx.org/index.htm
with a picture of Benedict XVI
:

The Society of St. Pius X professes filial devotion and loyalty to Pope Benedict XVI, the Successor of Saint Peter and the Vicar of Christ.

The priests of the SSPX pray for the intentions of the Holy Father and the welfare of the local Ordinary at every Mass they celebrate.

Is the US district acting autonomously in this regard?


I know too little of SSPX relations with the Vatican - and therefore with the one Church which is also the official Church - before Benedict XVI became Pope, but even the most suspicious 'loyalist' to the Church would have to conclude that the above response most certainly does not slam the door shut to 'reconciliation'.

The one 'positive' statement in the response was this:

The SSPX does not claim the exercise of a magisterium superior to the Holy Father’s, nor does it seek to oppose the Church.

which would seem to be an agreement in principle to all four conditions (with the exception of the deadline) that all have to do with respecting the Magisterium of the Church and the authority of the Pope who is the principal voice of the Magisterium.

I do not know whether, outside of the US District's open statement of loyalty to Benedict XVI, the SSPX has ever been as 'explicit' on this issue, since on the contrary, Mons. Fellay's own last reported public sermon was very defiant - "They want us to shut up - we won't shut up!"

However, the fact that the SSPX did set down such a statement in black and white cannot have been a step not amply deliberated on - and is therefore a public commitment of sorts.

Fellay needs time, one must conclude, to get all his people into line. But he can't expect a unanimous consensus - people like Bishop Williamson seem to be too far gone to hope much from. So it's really up to him to decide whether it's worth pandering to the few unrelenting extremists to prolong the entire sect's continued exclusion from the fold of the one Roman Catholic Church.

Of course, the statement released by DIC makes two audacious assumptions that are, to say the least, highly questionable:

Following in the footsteps of its founder, it wants to hand down what it has received, namely “what has always been believed everywhere and by all.”

It implies it is up to them, the SSPX, to decide “what has always been believed everywhere and by all" - which is tantamount to saying they get to decide what the Magisterium is, or should be, in their opinion. If everyone thought that, there would be no Church but 1.2 billion separate self-constituted, single-membership churchlets!

And what about this?

It claims as its own the profession of faith addressed by Archbishop Lefebvre to Paul VI on September 24, 1975: “Jesus Christ has entrusted to His Vicar the charge of confirming his brethren in the faith, and has asked him to make sure that every bishop faithfully keep the deposit of the faith, according to St. Paul’s recommendation to Timothy.”

Now, they are lecturing the Vicar of Christ on his duties! Well, the 'deposit of the faith' also includes what the Church decides at its great Councils.

And yet, by 1988, when Lefebvre's excommunication more or less 'formalized' a schism, his line by then - after he had signed an agreement protocol with Cardinal Ratzinger that he reneged on at the last minute - was that they do not recognize the teachings of Vatican-II (which Lefebvre had freely signed as a Council member) nor any Pope who would uphold its teachings!

The extremists of the right, it must be repeated, are just as bad as those of the left - all of them driven by an arrogance they do not seem to be aware of, and best encapsulated by those dissidents who name themselves 'We are the Church'.


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