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The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith published July 2 a document explaining a process for the reconciliation of priests and lay people wishing to leave the Society St. Pius X, just hours after the Holy See announced that the society had entered into schism following the illicit episcopal consecration of four of its priests on July 1.
The procedure requires priests to sign a declaration accepting the Second Vatican Council and the legitimacy of the Novus Ordo Missae, while allowing them to “remain attached to” the extraordinary form of the Roman rite.
The protocol also outlines a process for reconciling laypeople who formally adhered to the schism and wish to return to full communion with the Church, as well as explaining that not every lay person attached to the SSPX’s ministry can be assumed to have adhered to its schism.
Credit: Clearview / Alamy.The decision by SSPX leaders to hold the illicit episcopal consecrations came despite many warnings from the Vatican that doing so would constitute an act of schism resulting in the excommunication of both the bishops conferring ordination, and those being ordained.
SSPX leadership argued that the step was a legitimate response to an “objective state of grave necessity.”
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