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Infovaticana: Fernández resists correcting the legal ambiguities of the excommunication decree against the FSSPX (Be Careful What You Ask For!)

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Well this is ... as always ... interesting...

The Dicastery for Legislative Texts has attempted on several occasions to collaborate with the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith to resolve the legal contradictions that arose following the decree of excommunication against the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (FSSPX), published on July 2. However, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the Doctrine of the Faith, does not appear willing to accept such collaboration, according to journalist Guido Horst in the German Catholic newspaper Die Tagespost.

Infovaticana: Fernández resists correcting the legal ambiguities of the excommunication decree against the FSSPX

I can see a few potential reasons for how we arrived with the obviously flawed decrees on the SSPX:

  1. Incompetence: The authors were so incompetent that they simply plagarized the 1988 declaration with the note from the 1990's.
    1. If this is the case, it makes sense that Cardinal CMF wouldn't want to be corrected by another dicastry. 
    2. Very reminiscent of Pope Francis I's refusal to respond to the Dubia.
  2. Plausible Deniability: The ambiguities are deliberate and designed to give someone (Pope Leo XIV?) room to see how things play out with the SSPX and the networks within Rome ... then take action in the 'real' direction at a later time.
    1. The documents used all predate and ignore the developments of the 2000's with gaps in logic and process so large that people lacking degrees in theology and canon law can see clearer than those that blindly believe what they want to believe.
    2. Those emboldened by the apparent refutation of Tradition are exposing their true nature and intent by their actions.
    3. What remains unknown in all this are explicit actions on the part of Pope Leo XIV.  Is he a Royal Protector of the Church and Faithful Traditional Catholics (SSPX et al) or an Apex Predator hell bent on the all consuming Spirit of Vatican II.
  3. Malicious Intent: It's all a trap that leaves Traditional Catholics open to persecution.
    1. Eventually (ie next two - 3 years) will see continual exclusion and isolation of Traditional Catholics until the cages in the 'Zoo' are complete and the captive Traditional Catholics, not realizing they are in a Cage within the Church, accept the scraps that are tossed to them while criticizing the actions of those Catholics still free to act.
  4. Other: People are not complicated, they are complex. Stuff is going to happen.
    1. Complicated indicates a significant degree of predictability.
    2. Complex means that for every input a different output can and is likely to occur.
    3. The Church is made up of human beings (suffering for Original Sin) who should be better, but history (1000's of years) has shown time and again that seldom do they live up to our expectations.
    4. So we need to continue study the Faith (Bible, Liturgy, Teachings, Orthodox Authors - like Ott etc), feed our Spiritual Life, and follow the Core Catholic principles embedded in the Virtues of Catholic Life.

So effectively, nothing changes until something changes.  The changes to watch for are how Rome treats the SSPX.  

They are the canary in the coal mine. 

P^3



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