Monsignor Rudolf Voderholzer, Bishop of Regensburg, Germany, who is considered a "conservative", has "forbidden" the "unauthorised ordinations" at the Priestly Society of St Pius X seminary in Zaitzkofen near Regensburg.
As reported by Bistum-Regensburg.de on 26 June, Voderholzer had nothing better to do than to write a letter to the seminary's rector, Father Pascal Schreiber, stating that the ordinations were "not permitted".
Bishop Tissier de Mallerais, who is based in Ecône, Switzerland, will ordain a Hungarian and a Czech candidate to the priesthood in Zaitzkofen.
Monsignor Voderholzer expressed his hope that in the future the Priestly Society of St Pius X will make an honest effort "to return to full communion with the Catholic Church".
"Once again I feel obliged to protect the order of the Church and, as Ordinarius loci, to prohibit the unauthorised ordinations for the area of the Diocese of Regensburg, as in previous years," Voderholzer wrote in his letter.
Voderholzer has been …More