Not long ago, Bp. Schneider suggested that the SSPX should be canonically recognized and then more fruitful discussions, with the SSPX involved, could be opened up about certain thorny issues.
Now, Card. Müller…
From a substack Per Mariam
Cardinal Gerhard Müller has issued a firm critique of the Society of St. Pius X’s planned episcopal consecrations, while simultaneously proposing a possible canonical solution for the Society – with whom he used to meet while leading the Holy See’s “dialogue” for Pope Francis.
But in the face of this “internal confusion” in the Church, through which “great uncertainties in dogmatic questions and even heresies have also penetrated the Church,” Müller argued that the Society must “submit” to Pope Leo XIV’s “teaching authority and primacy of jurisdiction without preconditions.”
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“The only solution possible in conscience before God is for the Society of St. Pius X, with its bishops, priests, and laity, to recognize our Holy Father Pope Leo XIV as the legitimate Pope, not only in theory but also in practice, and to submit to his teaching authority and primacy of jurisdiction without preconditions,” he wrote.
Having predicated this, the former prefect of the CDF suggested a potential solution for the Society regarding their canonical status:
“Then a just solution can also be found for their canonical status, for example by granting their prelate ordinary jurisdiction over the Society, who would be directly subject to the Pope (perhaps without the mediation of a Curial authority). But these are canonical and practical conclusions that are only valid if they are dogmatically consistent with Catholic ecclesiology.”
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I think this is the best way forward.
I recently rediscovered a slim volume entitled The Osterley Selection from the Latin Fathers, published in 1950. The preface praises the great classical authors—Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Virgil—yet insists that Christian also worthy. The collection includes brief selections from Fathers of the Church. It occurred to me that I might offer a podcast of the readings with an English translation, comments and the Latin original.
