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(kreuz.net) The Vatican is allowing the Priestly Society of St. Pius X to bring corrections to the text of the Dogmatic Preamble.
This was according to the First Assistant to the General Council, Father Niklaus Pfluger in an interview with the website 'piusbruderschaft.de'.
Corrections are necessary in order only to eliminate "the shades of ambiguity and misunderstandings".
The Church Must Reject the Unbelief of the 60s
The Society will give an answer to the Preamble which will mirror its statement and make a clear statement about its concern about Tradition.
It will "not engage in compromise".
Earlier agreements, which the Vatican has made with other traditional Societies are considered to be unacceptable according to Father:
"If Rome is making an offer, it must be clear and not misunderstood, that it will be for the good of the Church and expedite a return to Tradition."
Because: "It was always the most ardent desire of our founder that Tradition would bloom again in the whole world."
A canonical recognition of the Society could effect that.
"Very, Very Difficult"
Father Pfluger criticized the hasty beatification of John Paul II and the upcoming, third inter-religious meeting of Assisi.
These examples show that the "leadership of the Church" -- therefore teh Pope and Bishops -- "are now as before unwilling to give up the false principles of the Second Vatican Council and their consequences."
A Vatican offer must guarantee the freedom for the Society to "to continue its direct criticism on <
At the same time the cleric considers that it will be "very, very" difficult for Rome to accommodate such criticism after reconciliation.
The Conciliar Church Will Become Increasingly Weaker
Father says the situation is different now than it was in the talks with the founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre († 1991), in 1988.
The Society has four Bishops with 550 world wide.
On the other side, the structure of the official Church is ever increasingly disintegrating.
Rome therefore can "not be as confrontational as it was twenty years ago."
Blank Recognition is Media Boss's Desire
Father Pfluger insists that diplomacy plays a large roll with Rome.
The Vatican wants to save face "in public" -- the powerful media bosses.
It has been suggested too often by the media that the Pope lifted the apparent Excommunications of the Society Bishops in 2009 without concessions -- recalled Father Pfluger.
The majority of the German Bishops are against that today and still desire that the Society first make a blank recognition of the Council.
The Bishops are demanding that now as before -- and don't even respect the Pastoral Council themselves.
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