Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior general of the Society of St. Pius X, said on Feb. 21 that reconciliation talks with the Vatican would soon end with little change in the views of either side. The talks were launched in late 2009 in an effort by Pope Benedict XVI to repair a 21-year break with the society. The pope said that full communion for the group’s members would depend on “true recognition of the magisterium and the authority of the pope and of the Second Vatican Council.” But Bishop Fellay said his society went into the talks with a different purpose: to show the contradictions between the church’s traditional teachings and its practices since the Second Vatican Council. That is “the only goal that we are pursuing,” he said, and the dialogue with the Vatican is not a search for compromise but “a question of faith.”
Traditionalists Break With VaticanAgain
Show Comments (
)
Comments are automatically closed two weeks after an article's initial publication. See our comments policy for more.
The latest from america
“Let diplomacy silence the guns!” Pope Leo XIV told the crowd in St. Peter’s Square a few hours after the United States entered the Iran-Israel war by bombing three of Iran’s nuclear sites.
Pope Leo XIV’s statement was read at the premiere of a play about the Peruvian investigative journalist Paola Ugaz, who was subject to death threats because of her reporting on sexual abuse.
About a dozen religious leaders from the San Diego area, including Bishop Michael Pham, visited federal immigration court on Friday “to provide some sense of presence.”
In a time of increasing disaffiliation from and disillusionment with the institutional church, a new theological perspective on the church is needed—one that places Jesus’ own teaching at the center.