http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/For the record: new PCED letter on SSPX Masses and Sunday obligation
Queen of Martyrs Press has publicized the following letter (dated March 28, 2012) from the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei. The full text of the original letter with dubia to which this is the response can be found here. (The dubia are also summarized concisely and completely in the PCED letter.)
This letter is an apparent reversal of earlier statements from the time when Dario Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos stood at the helm of the PCED, notably the 2003 letter to Una Voce America signed by Msgr. Camille Perl and explicitly affirming, also "in a strict sense", that attendance in SSPX Masses suffice to fulfill one's Sunday obligation. And just as the statements in the time of Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos reversed even earlier PCED statements that had strongly denounced attendance in SSPX Masses (notably a 1995 letter signed also by Msgr. Perl), so one is left to wonder whether this latest statement will also be reversed in a time not too far off. The history of PCED is a history of reversals and instability, which is a typical sign of the lack of any seriousness and of solid... tradition (small 't').
Refer also to the following Rorate Caeli post from 2006: Ecclesia Dei: SSPX priests and faithful are not excommunicates.
Posted by Augustinus at 5/31/2012 12:07:00 PM
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