Society of Saint Pius X: Bishop Fellay’s response to Cardinal Levada being studied in Rome
Benedict XVI received the participants of the Plenary Assembly of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) on January 27 at the Vatican. On that occasion its president, Cardinal William Joseph Levada, noted that the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, in close collaboration with his dicastery, “is accomplishing an important work and is following the development of the dialogue with the Society of Saint Pius X”. And so this four-day plenary assembly allowed the cardinals and bishops who are members of it to study, among other subjects, the response of the Society of Saint Pius X to the Doctrinal Preamble ...
Official recognition of the liturgical practices of the Neocatechumenal Way
On January 20, 2012, the Vatican announced that they have validated the non-liturgical celebrations of the Neocatechumenal Way, “that are not already regulated by the liturgical books of the Church.” Shortly before, during an audience given by Benedict XVI to 7,000 members of the Way, the Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, Bishop Josef Clemens, read the Decree of Approval for the celebrations contained in the Catechetical Directory of the community. The Decree occurs after the 2002 approval of the Statutes of the Neocatechumenal Way ad experimentum for a period of five years. The Statutes received final approval in ...
Benedict XVI will create 22 new cardinals
During the Angelus on January 6, 2012, Benedict XVI announced that he will convene a consistory on February 18th during which he will elevate twenty-two new members to the College of Cardinals, of whom eighteen will become new cardinal electors. This fourth consistory of his pontificate will bring the number of members of the Sacred College to 214, of whom 125 will be electors in the event of a conclave. The new College of Cardinals will have a majority of Europeans: 119, of whom 67 will be cardinal electors, well over half of electors. Far ahead of other European nations, Italy ...
Egypt: Salafis Draw up the Outline of an Islamic State
The Salafis, who carried off between 24 and 25% of the votes in the legislative elections on November 28, are now “drawing up an Islamic State” in Egypt. According to a long inquest published by the newspaper Egypt Independent and republished by the online information site, Slate Afrique, on January 9, the most extremist fringe of Egyptian Muslims has pronounced declarations that are worrisome for the secular population. One of the newly elected deputies advocates the application of Islamic laws to the bank system, which would forbid investments in alcohol, money games, and all other activities forbidden by Islam. According ...
France: Bishop Jacques Perrier rebuilds the pools at Lourdes
The Most Rev. Jacques Perrier, Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes has announced that as a part of the Siloam project, the pools of Lourdes will be rebuilt to better accommodate pilgrims. In a statement released January 18, 2012, the bishop explained the Siloam project would allow each pilgrim to decide whether to drink, bathe or wash. Because “we want to return to the original message of the Virgin: Go drink at the fountain and wash yourself there. And yet, today it is possible to drink or to bathe in two different places, but not to wash.” There is no question of ...
“Magisterium or living tradition?”, Fr. Gleize denounces a false dilemma
During a conference entitled “Magisterium or living tradition” given on January 25, 2012, in Sion (Switzerland), Fr. Jean-Michel Gleize, professor of ecclesiology at the Seminary in Ecône, made several clarifications with respect to his study, “A Crucial Question” that appeared in the December 2011 issue of the Courrier de Rome, which together with the response by Bishop Fellay addressed the Doctrinal Preamble (see DICI no. 247 dated December 23, 2011, and DICI no. 248 dated January 13, 2012). Here are the most significant excerpts from this conference: “Their objection to our position, in short, is that the only living magisterium worthy ...
In the following transcription, reviewed by His Excellency Bishop Fellay, we have retained the quality of the spoken word. You can also listen to the sermon here. The Society of St. Pius X has been founded by the Church and in the Church, and we say this Society continues to exist, despite the fact that there is a pretense that it does not exist; that...
Switzerland: Diocesan Priests on an Inexorable Decline?
The Swiss Institute of Pastoral Sociology just published a study entitled: Diocesan Priests in Switzerland: Prognoses, Interpretations, Perspectives (ed. SPI). In answer to an ever more insistent worry – the evolution of the number of diocesan priests – the Institute proposed “a prognosis and statistical projections for 2029” for the six Swiss...
Publication of pastoral guidelines for the Year of Faith
Cardinal William Joseph Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF). The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) published on January 7, 2012, the pastoral guidelines to be followed at the global, national, diocesan and local level during the Year of Faith (October 11, 2012 – November 24, 2013). According to...
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