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cosmas · « **on:** April 03, 2019, 10:11:58 PM »

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Frenchman named Vatican's new liaison with the 'Lefebvrists'
Msgr. Patrick Descourtieux, official at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, will now be responsible for relations with Catholic traditionalists
Nicolas Senèze
Vatican City

April 3, 2019

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Pope Francis has appointed a French priest as head of the section of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) that is now responsible for relations with Catholic traditionalists. (Photo by ALESSIA GIULIANI/CPP/CIRIC)

Pope Francis has appointed Msgr. Patrick Descourtieux, a French official at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), to oversee the Vatican's relations with Catholic traditionalists. These include members of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX or "Lefebvrists"), an anti-Vatican II clerical group founded by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
The move was announced on March 30. It comes less than two months after the pope suppressed the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei," which John Paul II created in 1988 to deal with followers of the late schismatic Archbishop Lefebvre.
Msgr. Descourtieux, 61, spent the past ten years working at the now defunct commission. He succeeds Archbishop Guido Pozzo, former head of "Ecclesia Dei", as the Vatican's liaison with the "Lefebvrists" and other traditionalist groups.
Descourtieux was ordained for the Archdiocese of Paris in 1986 and spent his first three years working in a parish in the city. In 1989, he was sent to Rome and worked for ten years in the French-speaking section of the Vatican's Secretariat of State.
During this period, he was also the organist at the principal French national church in Rome, Saint Louis des Français.
After finishing his service at the Secretariat of State in 1999 Msgr. Descourtieux was named rector of the Santa Trinità dei Monti, the Rome titular church of Cardinal Philippe Barbarin of Lyon and location of a prestigious French girl's school. During his seven years as rector, he also taught at the Augustinianum, the Pontifical Institute for Patristics.
After the female religious order in charge of the Trinità dei Monti institute was replaced by men religious from the Jerusalem Fraternity (and now the Emmanuel Community), Msgr. Descourtieux returned to Paris in 2008 where served as a chaplain at the Cathedral of Notre Dame.
During this time also taught patristics at the Notre Dame Faculty of the Cathedral College.
Traditionalists satisfied
Traditionalist circles have welcomed Msgr. Descourtieux's new appointment, noting he has a good understanding of pre-Vatican II liturgy.
They say he is ready to listen to those faithful who desire to celebrate Mass according to the Tridentine rite.
In Paris, Descourtieux was one of the diocesan priests delegated to celebrate the in the Old Rite.
In an opinion piece published in L'Homme Nouveau magazine, Jacques Bégué, who writes on the Society of St Pius X, also characterized the appointment as a "favorable sign."
"Msgr. Descourtieux has always tried to help all traditionalist groups, but he has developed particularly close links with various representatives of the SSPX, links that are all the more relaxed and confident since he was well known for his 'openness' in managing the (SSPX's) file," Bégué wrote.
Ecclesia Dei abolished
The "Ecclesia Dei" Commission was launched in 1988 after Archbishop Lefebvre caused a schism. It was a way of reaching out to traditionalists who wished to stay faithful to Rome.
One of the commission's main tasks these past 30 years was to facilitate dialogue with the Society of St. Pius X, which has its headquarters in Ecône, Switzerland.
Several traditionalist websites have claimed that the SSPX actually wanted the commission to be abolished so it could conduct its dialogue directly with the CDF.
Will discussions between Rome and Ecône once again center on doctrinal issues as a result of these changes?
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songbird · « **Reply #1 on:** April 03, 2019, 11:09:34 PM »

An approach of invalid ordained/installed priest/no priest. All for show. Read lifesitenews. about St. Mary's in Rhode Island. For $50,000 grant, a new order parish, is what they call traditional mass. Very sly and clever, FSSP, Indult/insult to God is on stage.

Matthew · « **Reply #2 on:** April 04, 2019, 08:24:16 AM »

Quote from: cosmas on April 03, 2019, 10:11:58 PM

Frenchman named Vatican's new liaison...
Msgr. Patrick Descourtieux, official at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith...

Really? Msgr. Descourtieux is French? How could ANYONE have seen that coming?

What's this world coming to?

What's next? Italians with last names ending in a vowel? Irish names starting with Mc- and O-?

King Wenceslas · « **Reply #3 on:** April 04, 2019, 01:23:58 PM »

In the end it is all going to come apart. Then the pieces are going to be swept up and put into false church under Francis's gentle care.

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