Posted on 04/03/2011 12:49:43 AM PDT by 0beron
Pope May Offer the Society a Personal Ordinariat Msgr Galarreta leads Rome Talks for SSPX Editor: More speculation arising, surrounding Bishop Williamson's statement last year about the possibility of a Motu Propio.
The Holy see is ascertaining the possibility of the unifying of the Society of St. Pius X by erecting a Personal Ordinariat.
As far as concerns the question of a form in church law for the Society founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the Vatican appears to be considering the erection of a Personal Ordinariat. since Autumn 2010 Canon lawyers have been studying this idea. One such canonical solution for the Society put in a quasischismatic situation by the 1988 Episcopal consecrations will be proposed by the summer. This was reported on the French site Summorum Pontificum observatus.
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Very interesting. I think this is the only workable structure and it offers protection from hostile bishops. Bishop Fellay said recently the only thing lacking is a structure for the SSPX and the Pope could do it.
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