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Days before the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X’s new episcopal consecrations, Cardinal Gerhard Müller appealed for the re-establishment of a Vatican commission to help disillusioned members return to full communion with the pope.
The former Vatican doctrinal chief made the appeal in a June 26 speech at the extraordinary consistory of the College of Cardinals in Rome, in which he condemned the consecrations, which are scheduled to take place without papal mandate July 1.
“I propose the establishment of a commission, along the lines of the former Ecclesia Dei, to enable those who have embraced this schismatic position to return to full communion with the pope,” he said, in an intervention published June 28 by the Rome-based U.S. journalist Diane Montagna.
The Ecclesia Dei Commission was established by Pope John Paul II in 1988, after SSPX founder Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre ordained four bishops without papal approval. At the time, the SSPX consisted of hundreds of priests and tens of thousands of laypeople.
The Ecclesia Dei Commission’s purpose was to help priests, seminarians, religious communities, and individuals affiliated with the SSPX “to remain united to the Successor of Peter in the Catholic Church,
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