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BENEDICT XVI: NEWS, PAPAL TEXTS, PHOTOS AND COMMENTARY

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In a week of big news, this is certainly huge and historic. With the superstitious hope that I am not celebrating too early and therefore contributing in some way that would make this news turn out to be false, one can only say, Deo gratias! And be very happy for the Church and for the Holy Father - and grateful to Mons. Fellay for this great gift of grace to the Church as Benedict XVI marks two important milestones this week. When this news becomes official, it will be time to hang out all the ALLELUIA banners.. This story came before I could translate Tornielli's earlier story about the confidential letter sent by Fellay to his bishops and the FSSPX community assuring them that he would not make any unprincipled concessions to the Holy See...

The Vatican has received the FSSPX response -
and it is positive, though with minor changes

by Andrea Tornielli
Translated from

April 17, 2012

VATICAN CITY - The response of the FSSPX to the Vatican letter of March 15 seeking further clarification of their position has arrived at the Vatican and it is positive, according to information received by Vatican Insider.

Our source said Mons. Bernard Fellay, FSSPX superior-general, has signed the Doctrinal Preamble that the Holy See first proposed last September as a basis for the society's reconciliation with Rome and the regularization of its canonical status. An official confirmation from the Vatican is expected in the next few hours.

From what we have learned, Fellay sent back the Preamble with a few changes, said to be not substantial, to the Vatican proposal. It will be recalled that the Ecclesia Dei Commission of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - which had handled the doctrinal discussions and subsequent communications with the FSSPX - did not wish to make the proposed Preamble public, precisely to allow for the possibility of modifications proposed by the FSSPX that would not change the sense of the document.

Basically, the Preamble contains the Profession of Faith required by the Church from anyone who takes on an ecclesiastical function. It includes a provision to observe "religious obedience to the will and intellect" of the teachings of the Pope and the bishops "proposed in the exercise of their authentic Magisterium", even if such teachings are not proclaimed and defined in a dogmatic way, as is the case with most documents of the Magisterium.

The Holy See had stressed many times to the FSSPX that signing the Doctrinal preamble would not mean putting an end "to the legitimate discussion, study and theological explanation of specific expressions or formulations found in the documents of Vatican II".

Now the text signed by Fellay with his modifications will be presented to Benedict XVI, for whom this answer comes a day after his 85th birthday and two days before the seventh anniversary of his Pontificate.

It is an answer that he has long awaited and hoped for - and one that in the next few weeks, could put an end to the wound inflicted on the Church in 1988 when the FSSPX founder, Mons. Marcel Lefebvre, ordained four bishops illegitimately, against the express instructions of John Paul II.

Fellay's response will also be examined by the cardinal members of the CDF in their next general meeting which takes place next month.

A few more weeks would be necessary to arrange the canonical regularization of the FSSPX. The most likely structure would be a non-territorial personal prelature, an idea introduced into the Code of Canon Law in 1983, and which has so far been availed of only by the Opus Dei.

The non-territorial prelature (not tied to a geographical jurisdiction) would be responsible directly to the Holy See and not to any diocesan bishop. The FSSPX would continue to use the extraordinary form of the Roman rite, and would continue to form priests in its own seminaries.



Subsequently, the Ecclesia Dei Commission made this announcement:




The text of the response from His Excellency Mons. Bernard Fellay, Superior Gene4ral of the Fraternal Society of St. Pius X, which was requested of him during a meeting on March 16, 2012, at the seat of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, arrived on April 17, 2102. This text will be examined by the Dicastery and then submitted to the Holy Father for his decision.




And a statement from Fr. Lombardi
in response to questions



VATICAN CITY, April 18 (Translated from ASCA) - The response from the FSSPX on the Vatican's formula for reconciliation is 'perceptibly different' from that which was received in March by the Vatican and considered 'insufficient', Fr. Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said today in response to questions by reporters.

"It's a step forward, and this is very encouraging", he said.

He said that the response from the FSSPX included "proposals for integration and some specific adjustments ti the text of the Doctrinal Preamble... which will then be examined and evaluated" first by the CDF and then by the Pope.

He added that there will be a definitive resolution 'within a few weeks', at which time the Vatican will also publish the text of the Doctrinal Preamble as finally agreed on.

Within a few weeks? I think it means I will keep the Alleluia banners furled for now, and Father Z can keep the champagne on chill. Oh, I hope it becomes definite much earlier!
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