Fraternal Appeal to Leo XIV to Build a Bridge with the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X
Bishop Athanasius Schneider published on Diane Montagna’s Substack.com-Account a “Fraternal Appeal” to Pope Leo XIV about the Priestly Fraternity of St Pius X (FSSPX). He urges Leo XIV in this “truly Providential moment” to grant the apostolic mandate for the episcopal consecrations. The backbone of the appeal.
- In this debate, new quasi-dogmas are being established that do not exist in the Depositum fidei.
- These quasi-dogmas maintain that the Pope’s consent to a bishop’s consecration is of divine right, and that a consecration carried out without this consent, or even against a papal prohibition, constitutes in itself a schismatic act.
- Centuries of ecclesial practice, as well as traditional canon law, stand in opposition to such absolutizing assertions.
Canonical Argument
- In the first millennium of the Church’s life, episcopal consecrations were generally performed without formal papal permission, and candidates were not required to be approved by the Pope.
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Luisella Scrosati: "...asking the Pope to authorize episcopal consecrations without the guarantee that the ministry of those bishops will be exercised in hierarchical communion is tantamount to asking him to approve a schism."
“St. Athanasius disobeyed the order of Pope Liberius, who instructed him to enter into hierarchical communion with the overwhelming majority of the episcopate, which was in fact Arian or semi-Arian. As a result, he was excommunicated….(he) disobeyed out of love for the Church…”
Schneider's problem is that he doesn't realize that both Bergoglio and Prevost are antipopes and Freemasons; the last valid pope (according to Garabandal) was Benedict XVI.
I see Schneider adopted Prevost's Masonic lingo of "building bridges". Why he must be "in universal brotherhood" with him
No one group has a monopoly on words. Nor could it be considered “Masonic” to simply speak of bridges and/or of building them. The good Bishop is a holy, faithful Shepherd and is unworthy of your calumnious disparagement.
Strategically, cutting off the SSPX (excommunication or otherwise) has only downsides for the foundering Synodal Church. As the ond saying goes, "never force someone to choose if you can't live with one of the options."
Drawing a strict boundary between the SSPX and the Synodal Church forces a choice and, in a number of countries, the Synodal Church is not well thought of enough to be the winner. "Deeply regretting" and continuing to dialogue as an act of mercy is the optimal stance.
@myunkie Does "deeply regretting" in your opinion mean that the Vatican will allow to consecrate bishops? I think their pride will forbid that.
My suggestion is that Tucho write that "We greatly regret the illicit consecration of bishops but, in a spirit of mercy, seek dialogue with the SSPX. Something like that.