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New, very accurate reliable translation of Fellays Doctrinal Statement
« Reply #17 on: February 13, 2014, 08:53:06 AM »


Here is the English translation of the text of the Doctrinal Declaration (with footnotes) as officially put out by the SSPX in one of their Cor Unam's. [Cor Unum Td.] It can be found in the Appendix to Fr. Rioult's The Impossible Reconciliation, English edition:

TEXT OF THE DOCTRINAL DECLARATION

I.  We promise always to be faithful to the Catholic Church and to the Roman Pontiff, her Supreme Pastor, Vicar of Christ. successor of Peter and head of the Episcopal Corps.

II. We declare that we accept the teachings of the Magisterium of the Church in matters of faith and morals, giving to each doctrinal statement the requisite degree of adherence, according to the teaching contained in no.25 of the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium of Vatican Council II. [1]

III. In particular:

1. We declare that we accept the doctrine on the Roman Pontiff and the College of Bishops, with its head, the Pope, taught by the Dogmatic Constitution Pastor Aeternus of Vatican Council I and the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium of Vatican Council II, chapter III (De constitutione hierarchica Ecclesiae et in specie de Episcopatu), as explained and interpreted by the Nota explicativa praevia of that same chapter.

2. We acknowledge the authority of the Magisterium, to which alone has been entrusted the task of interpreting authentically the Word of God, whether written or handed down, [2] in fidelity to Tradition, recalling that “The Holy Spirit was not promised to the successors of Peter that they might, by his revelation, make known some new doctrine, but that by his assistance, they might religiously guard and faithfully expound the revelation transmitted by the apostles, i.e., the deposit of faith.” [3]

3. Tradition is the living transmission of Revelation “usque ad nos” [4] and the Church in her doctrine, life, and worship, perpetuates and transmits to all generations all that she is and all that she believes. Tradition progresses in the Church with the assistance of the Holy Spirit, [5] not by some contrary innovation [6] but by a better understanding of the depositum Fidei.[7] 

4. The entire Tradition of the Catholic faith must be the criterion and guide for understanding the teachings of Vatican Council II which Council in turn clarifies—i.e., deepens and makes more explicit over time—certain aspects of the life and doctrine of the Church that are implicitly present in them or not yet formulated conceptually. [8]

5. The statements of Vatican Council II and of the subsequent papal Magisterium relative to the relation of the Catholic Church to the non-Catholic Christian confessions, and also to the civic duty of religion and to the right to religious liberty, whose formulation is difficult to reconcile with the preceding doctrinal statements of the Magisterium, must be understood in the light of the whole and uninterrupted Tradition, in a way consistent with the truths previously taught by the Magisterium of the Church, without accepting any interpretation of these statements that might lead to a presentation of Catholic doctrine that is opposed to or breaks with Tradition and with that Magisterium.

6. For this reason it is legitimate to promote, through a legitimate discussion, the study and theological explanation of expressions or formulations of Vatican Council II and of the subsequent Magisterium, should they seem irreconcilable with the previous Magisterium of the Church.[9] 

7. We declare that we acknowledge the validity of the Sacrifice of the Mass and of the Sacraments when celebrated with the intention of doing what the Church does according to the rites indicated in the typical editions of the Roman Missal and of the Rituals of the Sacraments legitimately promulgated by Popes Paul VI and John Paul II.

Following the criteria spelled out above (III,5), as well as canon 21 of the Code, we promise to respect the common discipline of the Church and the ecclesiastical laws, especially those contained in the Code of Canon Law promulgated by Pope John Paul II (1983) and in the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches promulgated by the same Pontiff (1990), without prejudice to the discipline to be granted to the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X by a particular law.

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[1]  Cf. also the new formula of the Profession of Faith and of the Oath of Fidelity on Assuming an Office to be exercised in the Name of the Church, 1989: cf. CIC canons 749; 750 §1 and §2: 752: CCEO canons 597: 598 §1 and §2; 599).
[2]  Cf. Pius XII. Encyclical Letter Humani Generis, Denz. 3886.
[3]  Vatican I. Dogmatic Constitution Pastor Aeternus, Denz. 3070.
[4]  Council of Trent. Denz. 1501: “This truth and instruction [which] are contained in the written books and in the unwritten traditions, which have been received by the apostles from the mouth of Christ Himself, or from the apostles themselves, at the dictation of the Holy Spirit, have come down even to us.”
[5]  Cf. Vatican Council II. Dogmatic Constitution Dei Verbum, 8 and 10; Denz. 4209-4210.
[6]  Vatican I. Dogmatic Constitution Del Filius, Denz. 3020: “Hence, also. that understanding of its sacred dogmas must be perpetually retained, which Holy Mother Church has once declared; and there must never he recession from that meaning under the specious name of a deeper understanding. 'Therefore... let the understanding, the knowledge, and wisdom of individuals as of all, of one man as of the whole Church grow and progress strongly with the passage of the ages and the centuries: but let it be solely in its own genus, namely in the same dogma with the same sense and the same understanding.” (St. Vincent of Lerins. Commonitorium. 23.3 [n. 28])
[7]  Cf. Vatican I. Dogmatic Constitution Dei Filius, Denz. 3011; Antimodernist Oath, no. 4; Pius XII. Encyclical Letter Humani Generis, Denz. 3886: Vatican Council II. Dogmatic Constitution Dei Verbum, 10. Denz. 4213.
[8] As for example the teaching on the sacramentality of the episcopate in Lumen Gentium, 21.
[9] We find a parallel in history with the Decree of the Armenians of the Council of Florence, in which the presentation or the instruments was indicated as the matter of the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Nevertheless, even after that Decree theologians legitimately discussed the exactitude of such an assertion; finally the question was resolved in another way by Pope Pius XII.


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If the Novus Ordo of Mass was legitimately promulgated, why aren't serious Catholics assisting?  This is a big issue with this Doctrinal Declaration. So is accepting the Code of Canon Law of Pope JP II..., without reservations. (ie. Prots can now receive communion!!?...HELL ooh.??