Castrillón speaks: "We are moving forward"

[StevusMagnus]

Monday, February 09, 2009

                           

          The turning tide:
Castrillón speaks: "We are moving forward"          

                           

In an interview to the RCN radio network of Colombia, Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos, president of the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei", aside from emphatically reiterating Pope Benedict's position on the Shoah, had some interesting words on current events:

"I have always had truth as a rule. The Holy Father knows this. We are moving forward, ensuring that this unity of the Church be rebuilt, and that this schism be completely ended."

"[W]hat is important at this moment is that the Pope has stopped a schism. The charity that Christ wanted to exist in the Church has been remarkably reestablished, and paths of hope are opened."

[phaley]

Moving Forward? Your Eminence, with all due respect is it at a snail's pace? Are issues outside of doctrine and dogma plastered all over the media detracting from the process? What about those faithful catholics in the pews that attend SSPX liturgies? When they hear that SSPX priests don't have faculties but they can, according to Mons. Perl, still attend Masses said by those priests and fulfill their Sunday obligation by doing so, what are they to think? Even more egregious, they are told that if they receive the sacraments of Penance or Holy Matrimony from those priests, those sacraments are invalid? How can this be?

The situation in the Diocese of Rockville Center, NY, with Bishop Murphy stating the SSPX is in schism and forbidding his subject from attending SSPX masses as in this quote from http://www.licatholic.org/columns/murphy.htm to wit:

To the person who wrote to me (and others) asking if it is now all right for Catholics to attend Mass at St. Michael the Archangel Church in Farmingville, the answer is NO. No Catholic is to attend Mass or fulfill one’s Sunday obligation or seek sacraments from priests of that Church because they remain in schism.

How can this be Your Eminence? Do you have authority as Head of PCED to grant temporary faculties and put this matter to rest?

Surely, you can see the pain that such opposition is causing loyal catholics who wish only to practice their Faith according to what the Church has always taught, held and professed to be true. I ask you, I beg you, if it is in your power, either grant the temporary faculties to these bishops and priests or ask the Holy Father to do so. With the greatest respect for you and your work in the Commission I offer you my solidarity as a loyal catholic father and grandfather.

[Valz]

Moving Forward?

I think that by saying "moving forward" he is talking about the whole Holocaust incident. They are leaving that behind now and are focusing on the SSPX. The best thing for people who attend SSPX now is for them to ignore dissident bishops. Focus on what the Pope and Castrillón have to say.

[phaley]

Moving Forward?

I think that by saying "moving forward" he is talking about the whole Holocaust incident. They are leaving that behind now and are focusing on the SSPX. The best thing for people who attend SSPX now is for them to ignore dissident bishops. Focus on what the Pope and Castrillón have to say.

That would be easy to do if they actually said something more than "Moving Forward".  In particular, His Holiness has not to my knowledge spoken about the faculties issue which is of the utmost importance, at least to catholics confused by mixed signals like yes, you can fulfill your Sunday obligation there but don't go to confession or get married there.

[didishroom]

I have alot of mixed feelings about this whole incident but I must say how grateful I am to Pope Benedict for his sympathies towards the Traditionalist Movement and his desire to bring unity to the Church. This is also evident with the recent development with the Anglican Church.