Cardinal Aveline: Latin Mass Catholics Must Accept Vatican II
Bishops are called to show “pastoral solicitude” toward those Catholics: “First, to welcome them. It is not about judging them.”
He added that this welcome should not begin by trying to redirect them and “not to say: 'they should go elsewhere or do it differently'.”
At the same time, Cardinal Aveline emphasized that this welcome must remain within the framework of official Church structures: “Tradition goes all the way to the last council, including the Second Vatican Council.”
Cardinal Aveline added that the liturgy and Vatican II “is not necessarily irreconcilable” as there is “a hermeneutic of continuity”. Councils “do not abolish previous ones.”
On the announcement of episcopal consecrations by the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X., Cardinal Aveline spoke of “a cause of sadness.”
He believes: “It is not the first time in the Church that a council has been difficult to receive.”
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