Excommunication lifted from four Lefevbrite bishops. The Holy Father has accepted the formal petition of Monsignor Bernard Fellay and made in the name of the other three bishops of the Priestly Fraternity …More
Excommunication lifted from four Lefevbrite bishops.
The Holy Father has accepted the formal petition of Monsignor Bernard Fellay and made in the name of the other three bishops of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X, Monsignor Bernard Tissier of Mallerais, Monsignor Richard Williamson, and Monsignor Alfonso de Galarreta, to lift the excommunication which they incurred twenty years ago, as reported by a communique issued by the Information Service of the Holy See.
Because of the episcopal consecrations performed June 30, 1988 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre without papal mandate, the four bishops incurred the excommunication latae sententiae, formally declared by the Congregation for Bishops on July 1, 1988.
Benedict XVI, who has followed the process from the beginning, has always tried to find ways to mend the fracture with the Fraternity, even personally receiving Monsignor Bernard Fellay on August 29, 2005.
On that occasion, the Pope expressed the desire to proceed gradually and within …More
The Holy Father has accepted the formal petition of Monsignor Bernard Fellay and made in the name of the other three bishops of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X, Monsignor Bernard Tissier of Mallerais, Monsignor Richard Williamson, and Monsignor Alfonso de Galarreta, to lift the excommunication which they incurred twenty years ago, as reported by a communique issued by the Information Service of the Holy See.
Because of the episcopal consecrations performed June 30, 1988 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre without papal mandate, the four bishops incurred the excommunication latae sententiae, formally declared by the Congregation for Bishops on July 1, 1988.
Benedict XVI, who has followed the process from the beginning, has always tried to find ways to mend the fracture with the Fraternity, even personally receiving Monsignor Bernard Fellay on August 29, 2005.
On that occasion, the Pope expressed the desire to proceed gradually and within …More
How is it that we have more than half of our clergy refusing people who kneel to receive Communion? How is that we have numerous clergy telling us that homosexuals should be admitted 
in our seminaries and priesthood? How is that we have Many clergy telling us that women should be allowed to be ordained as "priest(esses)? How is it that not too few clergy and bishops say they will and DO give …More
How is it that we have more than half of our clergy refusing people who kneel to receive Communion? How is that we have numerous clergy telling us that homosexuals should be admitted in our seminaries and priesthood? How is that we have Many clergy telling us that women should be allowed to be ordained as "priest(esses)? How is it that not too few clergy and bishops say they will and DO give Communion to openly gay people (some who have dressed up as "mock nuns" and politicians who are PRO-ABortion? How is it that bishops and some now made cardinals have moved pedophile priests from one diocese to another, knowing of their inconceivably reprehensible behavior only to allow them to continue their actions?
WHY IS IT THAT THEY ARE CONSIDERED IN "FULL COMMUNION WITH ROME"??
WHY IS IT THAT THEY ARE CONSIDERED IN "FULL COMMUNION WITH ROME"??