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Society Of Saint Peter; can anyone tell me more?
Topic Started: Tuesday, 5. June 2007, 22:08 (415 Views)
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Jamie
Jun 6 2007, 08:27 AM

I followed Michael's link and certainly reading the explanation offered on this site they would seem to be an odd bunch who deny  the validity of most of the sacraments post VII, and also the standing of bishops who, they claim, have no valid power  to ordain.

Can't say I had ever heard of them before, but I would agree they certainly seem to be an odd clique and probably not what Cardinal Ratzinger had in mind when he sanctioned them....but of course that was in the days before he was infallible :unsure:

The link to which Michael referred was an article viewing the FSSP from the perspective of SSPX, . The international FSSP site and the UK site have more reliable information'
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Since 1988 the FSSP has grown rapidly and is now present in over fifty dioceses in Europe, North America, and Australia. The bishops of these dioceses have responded effectively to the clearly expressed will of the late John Paul II:
Respect must everywhere be shown for the feelings of all those who are attached to the Latin liturgical tradition, by a wide and generous application of the directives already issued some time ago by the Apostolic See, for the use of the Roman Missal according to the typical edition of 1962.
Pope John-Paul II, Motu Proprio "Ecclesia Dei"
2 July 1988

In Great Britain, various Bishops have already allowed FSSP priests to fulfil their Traditional ministry in London and other cities. These priests are able to answer the requests of many other local communities throughout the United Kingdom, while other diocesan bishops give occasional or regular permissions for the celebration of the Traditional liturgy. By doing so, these bishops respond to the invitation John Paul II addressed to them in October 1998, on the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the Motu Proprio Ecclesia Dei:
I invite the bishops also, fraternally, to understand and have a renewed pastoral attention for the faithful attached to the Old Rite.

As pastors of their dioceses, these bishops have learned that a plurality of rites causes not division but unity in diversity, as our current Holy Father, Benedict XVI (then Cardinal Ratzinger), pointed out:
One has to realize that several forms of the Latin Rite have always existed ... Up to the Council there existed alongside the Roman Rite, the Ambrosian Rite, the Mozarabic Rite of Toledo, the Rite of Braga, the Rite of the Carthusians and the Carmelites, and the best known, the Dominican Rite ­ and perhaps others which I do not know. Nobody was ever scandalized that the Dominicans, often when present in parishes, did not celebrate like parish priests but rather had their own rite. We had no doubt that their rite was both Catholic and Roman. We were proud of the richness of having several rites.
Conference to the Ecclesia Dei communities
Rome, 24 October 1998
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On an old thread, someone say the Institute of Christ the King offered to run this magnificent church, and the bishop rejected the offer. If the only church within reasonable distance of my home was to be closed, and an approved Society offered to run the parish, I would rather attend any valid Rite, than none.

Catholic Church, Everingham
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Information can be found at their website
http://www.institute-christ-king.org/
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the Institute, founded by two French priests formed in Italy and canonically erected in the African Diocese of Mouila, opened its doors very wide for vocations coming from many countries throughout the world. Even if the French in the first years were a small majority, Americans, Germans, Austrians, Spaniards, Italians, English, and many others belonged immediately to the group of seminarians formed in our seminary in Gricigliano near Florence.

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Thank you all for your posts, and for th elinks. Most informative and interesting.

Josephine
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