Una Voce San Bernardino

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Interesting points:

1. It is the task of the Supreme Pontiff to maintain unity in the Church, among bishops, and faithful (par. 1).
2. The Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei was founded by PJPII to serve the needs of those clergy and faithful attached to the previous liturgical form (par. 2).
3. The pope wishes to widen and renew the scope of PJPII’s Motu proprio Ecclesia Dei Adflicta, along with PBXVI’s Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, with more precise rules (par. 3).
4. “We desired to remit the excommunication of the four Bishops illicitly ordained by Mons. Lefebvre. With such a decision, We intended to remove an obstacle which could prevent the opening of a door to dialogue, and thus invite the Bishops and the “Fraternity of Saint Pius X” to find anew the path towards full communion with the Church” (par. 4).
5. “The doctrinal questions, however, obviously remain, and, until they are not clarified, the Fraternity does not have a canonical status within the Church, and its ministers cannot exercise any ministry legitimately” (par. 4).
6. “Since the questions which must be dealt with the Fraternity are of an essentially doctrinal nature, We have decided - twenty-one years after the Motu Proprio Ecclesia Dei, and as We had planned to do - to restructure the Commission Ecclesia Dei, linking it more directly with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith” (par. 5).
7. “With this decision, We have desired, in particular, to display our fatherly solicitude to the “Fraternity of Saint Pius X” so that in the end it may come to full communion with the Church (par. 7).