The days are ticking down. What’s going to happen?
The SSPX in Italy has sent a booklet to all the residential bishops of the Italian Bishops Conference. HERE
The Priestly Society of Saint Pius X has sent to all the residential bishops of Italy the recently published book in which it explains the reasons behind the announced episcopal consecrations. The booklet, published by Edizioni Piane, the official publishing house of the SSPX in Italy, with the eloquent title ” At the Service of the Church ,” sets out the main theological and canonical arguments justifying what Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, in 1988, called “operation survival” of Tradition.
Delivered to the Bishops these days, the book introduces itself with a quote from St. Paul: “Even if we, or an angel from heaven, were to preach to you a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be accursed” (Gal 1:8). By “we ourselves,” the Apostle refers to the entire Apostolic College, with Peter at its head, and today we must acknowledge the dire reality of this “gospel” adulterated by the very Shepherds of the flock who place souls in the need to protect themselves, a situation that underlies the right to resist Authority invoked by the Society of St. Pius X.
This gesture is intended to be, writes the District Superior, Don Gabriele D’Avino, in his letter of presentation to the Bishops, “an invitation to renew reflection on the crisis” in the Church, and on the battle that must be undertaken to contribute to its Restoration; hoping “to be able to provide an opportunity, with this contribution, for a shared journey of reflection, study, and discussion, always and only in the interest of souls and for the greater glory of God.”
I wonder. How many of the 200+ diocesan bishops will read any of it it? Maybe… tens?
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