Posted on 01/02/2023 3:24:59 PM PST by ebb tide
The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP) have announced that the late Pope Benedict XVI recently sent a “private letter of encouragement to the Superior of the Fraternity of Saint Peter” following the issuing of Pope Francis’ Latin Mass restrictions as contained in his motu proprio Traditiones Custodes.
The revelation came in a press release Saturday, by which the FSSP marked the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI earlier that same day. The brief statement referred to the traditional community’s “sorrow” at learning of Benedict’s death, noting that he “was on several occasions a providential support for our community.”
The FSSP’s statement explained how as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was “instrumental in the founding of the Fraternity and even visited its seminary in Wigratzbad for Holy Week in 1990.”
The FSSP was erected in 1988 by Pope John Paul II, after a group of priests and seminarians left the traditional Society of St. Pius X, which was founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. The FSSP was thus founded with a particular devotion to celebrating the traditional Mass and sacraments.
Now in its revelatory statement, the Fraternity revealed that the community had enjoyed “personal contact” with Benedict XVI during his papacy. This culminated with a letter he reportedly sent to the superior of the FSSP only months ago.
The FSSP’s statement reads:
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Statements are nice. The bishop they were promised would have been better.
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