You can read a report about the event hereĪt the buffet lunch table afterwards, I found myself alongside Fr Mawdsley, forced to divide my attention between selecting the delicious food on offer, while, at the same time, answering his friendly questions. German canonist Fr.I met Fr Mawdsley when he came to Immaculate Heart of Mary, Balornock in Glasgow in 2016, to offer one of his first Masses, after ordination. Undertaken by Archbishop Lefebvre and Bishop Castro de Two-part comprehensive study of "Operational Survival" Persons by the local bishop of that diocese. Twenty years ago in January 1991, a canonical decree ofĮxcommunication was issued in Honolulu, Hawaii against six lay SSPX with this select group of informative conferences Catholic Tradition is no longer excommunicated. Thanks to this gesture, Catholics attached to Tradition throughout the world will no longer be unjustly stigmatized and condemned for having kept the Faith of their fathers. and which we hadĪlways contested, has been withdrawn by another decree.īishop Fellay on the withdrawal of the 1988 excommunications The excommunication of the bishops consecrated byĪrchbishop Lefebvre, on June 30, 1988. (June 28,įellay's press release on withdrawal of excommunications it did not result that the facts referred to in the above-mentionedĭecree, are formal schismatic acts in the strict sense, as they do notĬonstitute the offense of schism and therefore the Congregation holds that theĭecree of May 1, 1991, lacks foundation and hence validity. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, overturned this decision:Ĭase. SSPX, and receiving a bishop of the Society to confer the sacrament of Confirmation. On May 1, 1991, Bishop Ferrario of Hawaii “excommunicated” certain Catholics of his diocese for attending Masses celebrated by priests of the
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Moral guilt, not a contagious disease! (Fr.
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1-39). This being so, how could any of the faithful whoĪpproach them incur these penalties? Besides:Įxcommunication is a penalty for those who commit certain crimes with full Society are neither excommunicated nor schismatics ( Is Tradition Excommunicated? pp. But Archbishop Lefebvre never presumed to confer anything but the full priestly powers ofĪnd in no way did he grant any jurisdiction (which he himself did not have personally to give).Īs for the faithful, threatened by Pope John Paul II himself with excommunication if they adhere formally to the schismĪfflicta, July 2, 1988), do they indeed incur any excommunication for going to SSPX priests for the sacraments? Pastor to a flock and empower him to govern it. Only the pope, who has universal jurisdiction over the whole Church, can appoint a Ordinatio Sacerdotalis against women priests.)Ĭonsecrating a bishop without pontifical mandate would be a schismatic act if one pretended to confer not just the fullness of the priesthood butĪlso jurisdiction, a governing power over a particular flock. (See, for example, its support for Pope John Paul Pope’s authority (proved by his consultations with Rome for a solution to the current Now, Archbishop Lefebvre always recognized the President of the Pontifical Commission for the Authentic Interpretation of Canon Permission) is not itself a schismatic act," Cardinal Lara, "The act of consecrating a bishop (without the pope's Glover, in Is Tradition Excommunicated? p. “The child who says ‘I won’t!’ to his mother does not deny that she is his Obeying a command, whilst still acknowledging the authority of the Not amount to schism schism requires that one not recognize theĪuthority of the pope to command disobedience consists in not Nor would it be a “schismatic act” to consecrate against theĮxpress wish of the Holy Father. Unity of the Church) of its penal section (Book 6).
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The 1983 Code of Canon Law itself lists this offense under Title 3 (abuse ofĮcclesiastical powers) and not under Title 1 (offenses against religion and the What, moreover, constitutes a schismatic act? Not the mere deed ofĬonsecrating bishops without pontifical mandate.
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With his co-consecrator and the four bishops whom he consecrated) excommunicatedĪlso for having done a “schismatic act” (as well as for consecrating without a