![]() ![]() So, SSPX priests can validly absolve sins even when there is no danger of death. Popes can do that sort of thing, whereas other entities such as dicasteries of the Holy See (e.g., the Pontifical Commission “ Ecclesia Dei” (PCED) of old and now CDF, and diocesan bishops) have to use another procedure. ![]() In this case, Francis said that people can be absolved by SSPX priests and that, as they say, is that. ![]() It’s better when they do things in a way that make things clear, with all the i’s dotted. However, Popes can do what they want in this regard. In this case there is no document that I’m aware of that explicitly grants faculties to the priests of the SSPX to hear confessions and to absolve. Those faculties are demonstrable with a document saying that Fr. This is a little odd, because it was not really a formal grant of faculties in the usual and expected way to the priests of the SSPX, as when a bishop grants faculties to a priest to receive sacramental confessions. That provision was extended beyond the “Year of Mercy” in the 2016 Apostolic Letter Misericordia et misera. On 8 December 2015, Francis told the Catholic faithful that for the Holy Year of Mercy they could go to priests of the SSPX for the Sacrament of Penance and that they could be validly absolved. The SSPX is an association of the faithful. 298 §1, which are, for example, when clerics or laity want to strive with common effort for foster a more perfect life, promote public worship, etc. 299 §1 says that by private agreement among themselves, the faithful have the right to constitute associations for the purposes mentioned in can. Hopefully one day they will be set up and recognized formally as a, say, Personal Prelature or some variant. Their “association of the faithful” does not now have canonical recognition. The SSPX does not have formal canonical status other than they are exercising a canonical right to associate with each other. The SSPX continues to have a canonically irregular status.The SSPX (technically Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Santi Pii X) is a priestly Fraternity or Society of priests. Lefebvre, who based the SSPX in Écône, Switzerland, was excommunicated along with the four bishops.īenedict lifted the excommunication of the four illegitimately consecrated bishops in 2009, years after Lefebvre’s death, as part of his attempt to bring the Society back into full unity with the Catholic Church. Pope John Paul II wrote the apostolic letter Ecclesia Dei in 1988, after Lefebvre ordained four bishops without the permission of the Holy See. ![]() The Mass said using the 1962 Missal is known variously as the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite, the Tridentine Mass, and the Traditional Latin Mass. Traditionis custodes made significant changes to Summorum Pontificum, a 2007 apostolic letter acknowledging the right of all priests to say Mass using the Roman Missal of 1962. In a letter to the world’s bishops explaining his decision, the pope said he felt compelled to act because the use of the 1962 Missal was “often characterized by a rejection not only of the liturgical reform, but of the Vatican Council II itself, claiming, with unfounded and unsustainable assertions, that it betrayed the Tradition and the ‘true Church.’” Issued with immediate effect on July 16, Pope Francis’ motu proprio Traditionis custodes (“Guardians of the tradition”) underlined that it is each bishop’s “exclusive competence” to authorize the use of the Traditional Latin Mass in his diocese. And so, let us go back to what the Council required of the Church,” the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments said. “It’s clear that Traditionis custodes is saying: OK, this experiment has not entirely been successful. Pope John Paul II’s Ecclesia Dei and Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum “were established in order to encourage the Lefebvrists, above all, to return to unity with the Church,” Roche continued, referring to the SSPX by the name of its founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. 14, Archbishop Arthur Roche said that “the normal form of the celebration of the Roman Rite is found in those documents that have been published since the Second Vatican Council.” In an interview with a television channel serving Italian-speaking Switzerland, aired Nov. Pius X (SSPX) “has not entirely been successful” and it is necessary to “go back” to what Vatican II required of the Church. The Vatican’s liturgy chief said this week that Pope Francis issued Traditionis custodes as the effort to reconcile the Society of St. ![]()
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