VATICAN CITY (RNS) The leader of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) met for more than two hours with officials from the Vatican's doctrinal office on Wednesday (June 13), as negotiations to end a decades-old split in the Roman Catholic Church draw to an end after almost three years of talks.
The breakaway group rejects the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), including the acceptance of religious freedom and ecumenism.
According to the Vatican Insider website, Pope Benedict XVI reviewed a final draft of a reconciliation proposal aimed at bringing the SSPX back into “full communion” with the Vatican. The draft was then submitted to Bishop Bernard Fellay, the SSPX superior general, during Wednesday's meeting by American Cardinal William J. Levada, who heads the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
An SSPX spokesman, the Rev. Alain Lorans, told Agence France-Presse that it will be “a few days” before Fellay decides whether or not to accept the Vatican's final offer. Its contents, he said, won't be made public “before the end of this week or the beginning of the next,” adding that today's meeting was “just a step.”
The Vatican's chief spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, struck a similar note describing the meeting as a “step in a process that is still ongoing.”
Last September, the Vatican submitted to the SSPX a “doctrinal preamble” as a prerequisite for full reconciliation. The traditionalist group's first response, in January, was considered “not sufficient” by the Vatican and the pope, and Fellay delivered a second one in April, which has been reviewed by the Vatican's doctrinal office and then forwarded to Benedict.
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gilhow | Jun 16, 2012 | 12:37am
There should be no problem in resolving this separation. Benedict himself, as his predecessor John Paul II who manipulated Ratzinger’s election to succeed him, agrees fully with the separatist Pius X group. He obviously despises religious freedom and ecumenism, also. He has spent his Vatican career deposing or threatening everyone who disagreed with his theology, and he will only agree to any union that involves kneeling before him as supreme and joining him in covering-up all the wickedness of his church.
Matt Wykoff | Jun 16, 2012 | 4:25pm
Hello, there
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Eternity is something that has no beginning and no end. It is time which is always present and never passes away.Thus, the torments of the condemned will never end never pass away; another thousand years will commence and another will pass by, but eternity will only be beginning. Reflect, honestly on what truly matters. Before God, all that matters is belonging to HIS Catholic Faith and persevering in keeping the Commandments.
We are in an interregnum (a period of time when there is no Pope). It commenced after the death of Pius XII in 1958. We are living in the times of the Great Apostasy. OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST foretold the Great Apostasy would signify HIS imminent return -“It will be as in the days of Noe.”
Luke 18:8- “But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on Earth?”
Sincerely, Thy Neighbor
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