Religiosi accusati di violentare 12 minori trasferiti in giro per il mondo. I tradizionalisti traslocano a Roma
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Il capo dei lefebvriani, vescovo Bernard Fellay
https://cruxnow.com/global-church/2017/04/...nalist-society/Report charges cover-up of sexual abuse by traditionalist society
Inés San MartínApril 5, 2017 VATICAN CORRESPONDENT
Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X, ordains a priest during a 2009 ceremony in Econe, Switzerland. (Credit: CNS photo/Denis Balibouse, Reuters.)
An explosive report airing tonight on Swedish television charges that the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X knew about at least three cases of its priests being accused of sexually abusing minors, but failed to enforce a 'zero tolerance' policy. An alleged victim told Crux he believes the Vatican should have done more to hold the society accountable.
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ROME - A major report airing tonight on Swedish television documents four clerical sexual abuse cases, with previously unknown details on three of them, within the Society of St. Pius X, a traditionalist breakaway group founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in the wake of the Second Vatican Council.
At the center of the report are four different men. Three are priests, who remain in active ministry, and one is a former seminarian and volunteer at a church run by the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) in Idaho who’s been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of abusing seven boys over the course of a decade.
They allegedly have abused at least 12 minors over the span of three decades, in France, Germany, Australia, Ireland, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
The report comes out just a day after the Vatican announced, with Pope Francis’s approval, that priests belonging to the traditionalist society, which currently has no legal standing within the Catholic Church, will be able to celebrate sacramentally valid marriages.
Since its inception in 1970, the SSPX has been a lightning rod in the life of the Catholic Church. It’s seen in a favorable light by some Catholics who harbor reservations about the liberalizing reforms unleashed by Vatican II (1962-65), but as retrograde and dangerous by others who object to its hard-line positions on matters such as ecumenism, inter-faith dialogue, religious freedom, and liturgical reform.
Some have also accused the SSPX of turning a blind eye to prejudices the Church has made strenuous efforts in recent decades to combat, including anti-Semitism.
Beginning with Pope Paul VI in the 1970s, every pope has made efforts to reach out to the Society and try to re-integrate it into the Church, seeing healing schism as a time-honored papal priority.
Most recently under Pope Francis, a hypothesis has been floated that the group might be brought back into the fold through the canonical structure of a personal prelature, which is currently held only by Opus Dei. That possibility had been suggested under emeritus Pope Benedict XVI.
It’s not clear whether the new revelations will set back those reunion efforts. In any event, they raise questions about the extent to which the society is committed to the fight against clerical sexual abuse, which has become a defining cause of both recent popes and also the Catholic Church around the world.
The Catholic Church today vows to respect a policy of “zero tolerance” with respect to both abusive priests and also bishops who engage in cover-ups.
(Producers of the Swedish program interviewed a variety of commentators and reporters on Catholic affairs. This reporter was among those interviewed, speaking not on the abuse allegations but the general situation of the SSPX and the Church.)
A source who claims to be a victim of one of the three priests featured in the Swedish TV report spoke with Crux on Monday night, on the condition of anonymity. He said that if he could speak to the Vatican department in charge of negotiations with the SSPX, he would tell them that they are being “irresponsible and hypocritical, in the sense that they [members of the Vatican department] know full well about these stories.”
That department is the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), headed by German Cardinal Gerhard Müller, which includes a commission called Ecclesia Dei, responsible for outreach to the traditionalist body. Though officially headed by Müller, the commission is run on a day-to-day basis by Italian Archbishop Guido Pozzo.
The CDF is also the Vatican department with lead responsibility for handling cases of clerical sexual abuse.
As things stand, however, the Vatican’s influence over the SSPX is extremely limited. Father Eduardo Baura, a professor of Canon Law at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, told Crux that Rome has a “moral obligation to ask, demand, for something to be done, for the priest to be removed from ministry,” when accusations of abuse surface.
“But it has no legal power, because the SSPX doesn’t recognize the Vatican’s authority,” Baura said.
The 37-year-old survivor spoke with Crux over the phone, using the pseudonym “Andre,” the name which the makers of the program Uppdrag Granskning, produced by Sveriges Television, also employed.
Andre said that although he has little faith in the CDF, he also has no reason to believe Francis knows about the cases of sexual abuse within the society.
Producers divided their research into two episodes, one of which will air tonight (Wednesday), the second one next week. The second episode deals with the case of the former seminarian, Kevin Gerard Sloniker, who is today in prison.
Producers decided to omit the names of the priests, since they have not been found guilty by any civil court, identifying them as Father P, Father S and Father M. Two of those priests, P and S, reportedly have left the SSPX to join a splinter group led by British Bishop Richard Williamson, who, in 2009, gave an interview to the same Swedish program in which he cast doubt on the Holocaust.
Williamson was later expelled from the Society and founded his own group, popularly referred to as “the Resistance.”
P is identified as a French cleric, first accused of sexually abusing a minor in the 1980s. Uppdrag Granskning spoke to Andre about him, the abuse he says he endured at his hands, and efforts made by the SSPX to cover-up for the cleric.
In the program, Andre shares a secretly recorded conversation between him and a man identified as Fr. Niklaus Pfluger, today First Assistant to Swiss Bishop Bernard Fellay, who heads the SSPX. Pfluger’s position is considered the second most important within the society.
The recording reveals that the society knew P abused at least two other minors from 1987-1990, and that he was transferred from one parish to another.
Andre said his family did not report his own abuse to civil authorities.
“I think they should have done so, however … They did not, no,” Andre said. “I think it was because of the fear of going against the SSPX.”
That decision not to report the abuse is a pattern found in all three cases.
“[I decided to talk] to shake things up. [I’ve began doing so] back in 2005.” he told Crux. “I first complained about that priest just a few years after the abuse, in 1991, and then didn’t hear back about him for many, many years.”
In the recordings, Pfluger reads fragments from letters showing that P had been found guilty of sexual abuse and banned from ministry, particularly with children. Yet that sentence, he conceded, was never enforced.
“The major error on our part is rather why we did not implement it,” Pfluger says on the tape. “That’s precisely the problem. Father [Franz] Schmidberger changed his mind. That’s the problem.”
Schmidberger was the first successor of Lefebvre as head of the SSPX, and is currently the rector of the SSPX seminary in Germany. It was to him that Andre first wrote denouncing the abuses. In response, both he and his family were promised P would no longer be allowed to work with children.
Later in the tape, Pfluger is heard saying that his superiors repeatedly told P he was no longer allowed to minister to children, but “he did not believe it and continued.”
Twelve years ago, Fellay reportedly allowed P to organize camping trips for children, and it was a flyer about those trips that alerted Andre of the fact that he was still in contact with minors, despite the assurances given to his family.
When Andre wrote to Fellay expressing outrage, the bishop sent Pfluger to talk to Andre. It was that conversation he recorded, which allowed for the events to be reconstructed.
Letter from the Vatican's Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith obtained by Uppdrag Granskning, regarding the case of the man being identified as Father P. (Credit: Courtesy of Uppdrag Granskning.)
Letter from the Vatican’s Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith obtained by Uppdrag Granskning, regarding the case of the man being identified as Father P. (Credit: Courtesy of Uppdrag Granskning.)
Documentation from the CDF, and revealed by the Swedish TV program, shows that the Vatican knew about the case and instructed Fellay to subject the accused priest to a canonical trial.
That decision, Andre said, is one reason he doesn’t “feel good about the Vatican.” He told Crux that it “makes no sense to me” that they would entrust the trial to the SSPX.
“They gave a mandate to Bishop Fellay to judge the man he’d covered up for,” he said.
P eventually was found guilty by the SSPX trial and transferred to the Maison Notre-Dame de Montgardin in the French Alps. It’s allegedly a retreat home, but critics say it doubles as a “golden jail,” where the priests found guilty of sexually abusing minors are sent to lead a life of “penitence and prayer.”
P refused to go, and, according to officials of the SSPX, he joined Williamson’s Resistance in 2014. Yet the Uppdrag Granskning program obtained pictures from as recently as 2015 that prove P took part in priestly ordinations of the Society held in Econe, Switzerland.
A second priest featured in the investigation, called M, was found by producers in Paris, where he’s stationed now, and Montgardin in the French Alps, where he’d been sent by the society when it was determined that he had engaged in what the SSPX described as “immature conduct” around children while stationed in Australia.
Before being sent to Montgardin, M had also served in Ireland, and the Swedish program presents a letter from a mother of one the children under his care there. She wrote that she didn’t know about actual abuses, but only “grooming” of at least one boy and one girl.
“I heard this from a priest who wished to warn me to keep my children away from the camps” under M’s care, the mother said.
In the letter, the mother also wrote about a rumor as to why the priest was hastily moved to Montgardin.
“He had been moved for molesting young boys,” she wrote. “This last information actually came from Germany.”
M is currently ministering in Paris. The SSPX reportedly denies that the case involves sexual abuse, yet they have declined to explain what was meant by the reference to “immature conduct,” or why he spent two years in the society’s retreat house in the Alps.
S, an Englishman, was accused of sexually abusing at least one boy in 2006 while stationed in Mulhouse in France. Reportedly, he was tried by the SSPX, found guilty, and barred from ministry. That same year he was transferred to a residence owned by the society in Bristol, and then to London in 2012.
S reportedly underwent years of therapy and counseling, until, in 2014, he left the SSPX to join the Resistance. He currently lives with Williamson in the coastal town of Broadstairs, some 80 miles from London. He’s once again in active ministry, and there are pictures of him celebrating Mass for this splinter group in Ireland and England.
The program airing tonight shows footage of Jean-Michel Faure, who was ordained a bishop by Williamson in 2015. In it, he’s asked about S.
“Of course, you must have no endangerment, you must not put anyone, any soul in danger,” Faure says. “If these precautions are taken, then you may try to save the soul of this priest.”
Among other questions raised by the Swedish TV report, the revelations may suggest yet another stumbling block to reconciliation between the Vatican and the SSPX, beyond well-known magisterial matters.
Observers may also wonder if the society will be willing to accept, and implement, the “zero tolerance” protocols now considered mandatory by the Catholic Church in the fight against child sexual abuse.
Editor’s Note: This article is one of two on the report by Uppdrag Granskning. A second, exploring Pope Francis’s attempts to bring the Society of Pius X into full communion with Rome, will be published tomorrow.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime...n-a7670591.htmlSplinter Catholic group based in Kent 'welcomed priests accused of child abuse'
SSPX Resistance have controversial leader, Richard Williamson, who was once convicted of denying the holocaust
Will Worley @willrworley Friday 7 April 2017 15:47 BST
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Convicted holocaust denier Richard Williamson, who leads the SSPX Resistance group, which is alleged to have sheltered child abusers LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images
An ultra-conservative Catholic splinter group based in Kent has been accused of welcoming priests accused of child abuse.
The Society of St Pius X (SSPX) Resistance order is led by convicted holocaust denier ‘Bishop’ Richard Williamson, who heads the organisation from a property in Broadstairs, South England.
He has allowed two priests accused of molesting children to become part of his group, a Swedish documentary alleged.
SSPX Resistance is not officially associated with the Catholic Church but there is speculation the Vatican may welcome the group back into the faith.
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The priests, identified only as Father S, an Englishman, and Father P, a Frenchman, were members of the original SSPX order, who internally investigated the men over abuse allegations but did not inform the authorities. The Vatican reportedly approved of the internal investigations.
Father S was moved by the SSPX to Bristol and underwent years of therapy before fleeing the group before the investigation was concluded. He joined the SSPX Resistance, also known as Respice Stellam, the documentary alleged. His case was apparently closed by the authorities.
He reportedly went to live in Broadstairs and continued to practice.
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The SSPX found Father P guilty of child abuse, committed in the 1980s, and banned him from working with children. He also joined the SSPX Resistance and is also practicing again, the documentary said. His alleged victim’s families said they did not wish to press charges.
He was reportedly filmed celebrating mass in Bordeaux in November 2016.
The film, named The Golden Jail and made by investigative reporter Ali Fegan, alleged over 100 former SSPX priests have joined Mr Williamson’s group.
Mr Williamson was excommunicated from his faith on two occasions by different popes. In 1988, he was ordained as a priest by the SSPX – of which he was once a member – against the wishes of the Vatican. This led to his excommunication by Pope John Paul II but it was later reversed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009.
In 2015, Mr Williamson ordained another man, Jean-Michel Faure, as a bishop and was again excommunicated.
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Mr Faure was quoted in the documentary as saying of Father S: “Of course, you must have no endangerment, you must not put anyone, any soul in danger. If these precautions are taken, then you may try to save the soul of this priest.”
The SSPX Resistance describes itself as “a group of traditional Catholics who wish to practise their Faith without compromise to Liberalism or Modernism”.
It celebrates mass in London, Liverpool and Bingley, West Yorkshire.
The Independent has contacted the SSPX Resistance for comment.
https://laicismo.org/2017/el-obispo-bernar...derastia/160666El obispo Bernard Fellay encubrió a varios sacerdotes lefebvrianos acusados de pederastia
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Un informe acusa a cuatro religiosos de abusar de 12 niños: tres de ellos siguen en el ministerio activo.
La Fraternidad de San Pío X encubrió los abusos de menores cometidos por tres de sus sacerdotes y otro voluntario de la congregación. Y en un caso, al menos, con la colaboración de Doctrina de la Fe. Son los detalles explosivos de un reportaje emitido este miércoles en una televisión sueca, un día después de que el Papa Francisco autorizara a los sacerdotes lefebvrianos a confesar y a celebrar los matrimonios de sus feligreses.
Tal y como recoge Crux, las alegaciones aireadas en el programa Uppdrag Granskning (“Misión: Investigar”) involucran a tres curas que siguen en el ministerio activo en la Fraternidad y otro ex-seminarista condenada a cadena perpetua en EEUU por agresiones sexuales a menores. A los cuatro se les acusa de haber abusado a doce niños a lo largo de tres décadas, hechos que fueron posibles gracias a que la Fraternidad los movía entre Francia, Alemania, Australia, Irlanda, EEUU y Reino Unido.
Una presunta víctima de uno de estos sacerdotes habló con Crux y detalló no solo el encubrimiento de su caso que mandó la propia Fraternidad sino también la complicidad de Doctrina de la Fe.
“Andre”, de 37 años, revela a la televisión sueca que sufrió abusos a manos del padre “P”. Seudónimos ambos que usa el programa, para proteger tanto la identidad de la víctima como la del cura, quien no ha sido condenado por ningún tribunal civil.
La primera prueba que aporta Andre del calvario que experimentó cuando intentó denunciar su caso a las autoridades lefebvrianas es una grabación secreta con Niklaus Pfluger, el primer asistente del actual superior general de la Congregación, el obispo Bernard Fellay y como tal el “número dos” de la Fraternidad.
En ese audio, se escucha a Pfluger reconocer que, aunque el padre P había sido hallado culpable de abusos sexuales en juicios internos, su sentencia -la prohibición de volver al ministerio activo- nunca había sido ejecutada.
“El error más grande de nuestra parte es… por qué no la implementamos”, dice Pfluger en la grabación. “Ese es precisamente el problema”, continúa, antes de señalar, como responsable de esta decisión, a Franz Schmidberger, el entonces superior general de la Fraternidad y actual rector de su seminario en Zaitzkofen, Alemania, quien habría “cambiado de parecer”.
Después de escuchar su caso, Schmidberger prometió a Andre que el padre P jamás volvería a trabajar con niños, pero durante la conversación grabada entre Andre y Pfluger se revela que éste habría descubierto que el superior de la Fraternidad, Bernard Fellay, continuaba permitiendo que el presunto pederasta organizara campamentos para niños, años después de haberle denunciado.
Esto ocurrió hace doce años. Paralelamente, como ha descubierto Uppdrag Granskning, Doctrina de la Fe fue informada del caso del padre P y dispuso que Fellay sometiera al padre P a un juicio canónico. Decisión que no sentó bien a Andre, como cuenta a Crux, ya que Fellay habría ocultado, o ignorado, las conclusiones a las que había llegado Schmidberger. “Para mí, no tiene sentido”, reconoce la víctima. “Dieron un mandato al obispo Fellay a juzgar a un hombre al que había encubierto”.
Aunque al final el juicio canónico al padre P le valió una sentencia de “penitencia y oración” en aislamiento en una casa de la Fraternidad en los alpes franceses, en Montgardin, el sacerdote se negó a acatarla, y a su vez se juntó a la llamada “Resistencia”, el ala cismática de la Fraternidad fundada por el controvertido ex-obispo de la Fraternidad Richard Williamson. No obstante esa huida del padre P, el programa sueco obtuvo fotos que demuestran su participación en las ordenaciones llevadas a cabo por la Fraternidad en Écône, Suiza, en 2015.
En el caso del segundo sacerdote lefebvriano, el padre “M”, sobre cuyos presuntos crímenes arroja luz la televisión sueca, se remontan a sus tiempos en Australia, país en el que la Fraternidad acabó reconciendo que había participado en “conducto inmaduro” con niños.
Posteriormente, sin embargo, M fue trasladado a Alemania y luego a Irlanda, desde donde una madre de un niño a cargo de M denunció al programa televisivo que le habían advertido que la reubicación del cura había sido motivada por “haber abusado de niños”. Crux precisa que el padre M sigue actualmente en ministerio activo en París, pese a que la Fraternidad nunca ha explicado en qué ha quedado las alegaciones de “conducto inmaduro” contra él ni por qué tuvo que pasar dos años en aislamiento en Montgardin.
El tercer caso de encubrimientos que ha sacudido a la Fraternidad se refiere a un cura inglés, el padre “S”, que sigue celebrando misa en las parroquias de la “Resistencia” de Williamson en Irlanda y Inglaterra. Y eso pese a que fue hallado culpable en un juicio interno de la Fraternidad en 2006 por haber abusado de un niño en Mulhouse, Francia, e inhabilitado permanentemente para el ministerio.
A la luz de todos estos casos, a Andre, la víctima del padre P -y en cierta medida también de Doctrina de la Fe- el acercamiento de los febvrianos a Roma no le sienta especialmente bien. En este dicasterio -del que depende la comisión encargada con las relaciones con la Fraternidad, la “Ecclesia Dei”- solo se ha encontrado con actitudes “irresponsable y hipócritas, en el sentido en que conocían bien todas estas historias”.
Las conocieran o no en el dicasterio del cardenal Müller, o hasta qué punto, el escándalo descubierto por Uppdrag Granskning revela una incógnita clave: la de que si el compromiso de “tolerancia cero” del Papa Francisco con los abusos del clero le va a quedar grande para la Fraternidad de San Pío X. Especialmente mientras siga sin aceptar la autoridad plena de la Iglesia de Roma.
www.clarin.com/mundo/denuncias-ped..._S15URxYCg.html22/04/2017 - 18:04Clarin.com Mundo
Un grave escándalo
Denuncias de pedofilia traban la reconciliación con los lefebrianosEl Papa busca acabar con el cisma. Y había avances, pero ahora se supo que miembros de esa línea conservadora abusaron de niños durante años.
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Esta vez sería la buena. Tras varios anuncios en los cuatro años de pontificado de Francisco de negociaciones, expectativas de que el cisma más importante que han vivido los últimos Papas se encamina a concluir en un acuerdo, puntualmente desmentidos después por repentinos rechazos de los líderes de la Fraternidad Pío X, llamados los lefebvrianos, ultraconservadores y ultratradicionlistas, la tratativa con el Vaticano está llegando a buen fin, según monseñor Guido Pozzo, secretario de la comisión Ecclesia Dei, a la que el Papa Francisco ha encargado negociar la absorción del cisma que en 2018 cumplirá 30 años si la reconciliación no se alcanza.
“Faltan las firmas del acuerdo”, afirman los más entusiastas, pero otras fuentes internas del Vaticano se muestran mucho más prudentes. La clave de la fractura sigue siendo el rechazo de los documentos y el espíritu renovador del Concilio Vaticano II (1962-65), por parte de los seguidores del obispo francés Marcel Lefebvre, que en 1970 fundó la Fraternidad, cuyo centro está en Econne, Suiza.
Los lefebvrianos cuentan con 750 iglesias, capillas y centro de misa, dos universidades, un centenar de escuelas, tres obispos, 622 sacerdotes y 215 seminaristas, además de unas 200 monjas y un número indeterminado de fieles, que se cuentan por miles.
Para la Iglesia, el cisma que llegó después de muchas vueltas en 1988, cuando Juan Pablo II debió excomulgar a Lefebvre, a un obispo brasileño y cuatro obispos consagrados por el líder tradicionalista, es una herida abierta y sangrante que el Papa argentino quiere cerrar. Muchos progresistas que lo apoyan no están de acuerdo con su voluntad insistente, que se remonta a la época en que era arzobispo de Buenos Aires y ayudó a los lefebvrianos en más de una ocasión. A su vez la mayoría de los conservadores que pueblan el Vaticano y las manijas del poder de la Iglesia en el mundo, creen que la absorción del cisma con los ultratradicionalistas demuestra que Francisco quiere reasegurar a todos de que la unidad de la Iglesia es una prioridad que constituye una garantía de que no habrá reformas desgarradoras en el tejido doctrinal ni mucho menos.
Pero el debate sobre la recuperación de la escisión lefebvriana ha dado una vuelta de tuerca inesperada que complica las cosas.
Monseñor Bernard Fellay, el suizo que es actualmente el sucesor de monseñor Lefebvre en la comunidad (muerto en 1991), aparece envuelto en un escándalo de protección de curas pedófilos, según una amplia investigación de la televisión sueca que se conoció este mes.
El informe sueco acusa a cuatro religiosos lefebvrianos de abusar sexualmente de doce niños. Tres curas siguen ejercitando el ministerio activo. Según la investigación de la TV escandinava, en uno de los casos, las cumbres lefebvrianas contaron con la complicidad de la “Congregación Suprema” del Vaticano, la de la Doctrina de la Fe encargada de velar por la pureza doctrinaria católica y con jurisdicción disciplinaria por los casos de miembros del clero sospechosos de abusos sexuales.Los detalles son explosivos y se amplifican con las decisiones del Papa Francisco de autorizar a los sacerdotes cismáticos a confesar y a celebrar los matrimonios de sus fieles, gestos evidentes del camino de la reconciliación auspiciado por el pontífice argentino.
A los cuatro religiosos (tres curas y un voluntario de la Fraternidad lefebvriana) se los acusa de haber prolongado durante treinta años su actividad de pederastas. La comunidad lefebvriana hizo posible su impunidad trasladando entre Francia, Alemania, Australia, Irlanda, EEUU y Gran Bretaña a los culpables.El testimonio de víctimas a la televisión sueca, reconstruye los abusos de los sacerdotes imputados. Hay que destacar que el líder de la Fraternidad, monseñor Fellay, es uno de los cuatro obispos consagrados por Marcel Lefebvre que determinó el cisma de 1988. Siempre se supo que el entonces cardenal Joseph Ratzinger era favorable a evitar las sanciones extremas. Cuando Ratzinger se convirtió en el Papa Benedicto XVI, las negociaciones con los cismáticos avanzaron y en enero de 2009 el pontífice alemán les levantó a los cuatro obispos la excomunión.
En la Iglesia, sobre todo en Europa, la medida escandalizó y de allí se pasó a la indignación cuando uno de los cuatro,el obispo británico Joseph Williamson, director del seminario lefebvriano en la Argentina, negó en una entrevista televisiva la existencia de las cámaras de gas nazis en los campos de exterminio y el genocidio de los judíos.
El caso Williamson puso en crisis del pontificado de Ratzinger, que atinó a suspender “a divinis” al ingles. Menos mal que el extremismo enloquecido de este obispo terminó obligando a la misma Fraternidad a expulsarlo cuando consagró por su cuenta a un obispo, o sea haciendo realidad el cisma en el cisma.
Las concesiones para ablandar la rigidez de los lefebvrianos por parte del Papa son bastante amplias. Al parecer los ultramontanos de Econne ya dijeron que sí a la propuesta de constituir para ellos una Preladura Personal, figura jurídica de una especie de diócesis sin territorio creado por el Concilio Vaticano II, que en la Iglesia tiene un solo ejemplo: el Opus Dei.
Monseñor Fellay debe firmar un documento que “es la condición necesaria para el reconocimiento canónico”, explica monseñor Pozzo. Alli se establecen las lineas básicas de reconocimiento de los principios católicas, del magisterio de los Papas, sobre todo los últimos seis a partir de Juan XXIII y del Concilio Vaticano II.
El Papa habría decidido que en este aspecto no es necesaria una adhesión detallada y que el Concilio que renovó a la Iglesia sea “comprendido y leído en el contexto de la tradición de la iglesia y se su constante magisterio”. Monseñor Fellay asegura que la aceptación completa del Vaticano II, “es una línea roja que no estamos dispuestos a atravesar”.
Quedan entonces para después, cuando los espíritus terminen de calmarse en la reconciliación plena, “las reservas sobre cuestiones que no son propias de la materia de la fe, sino de temas que se refieren a la aplicación pastoral de orientaciones y enseñanzas conciliares”.
¿Cuales?. Monseñor Guido Pozzo, el secretario de la comisión pontificia que negocia en nombre del Vaticano con los cismáticos, las resume: la relación entre la Iglesia y el Estado, el ecumenismo, el diálogo interreligioso y “algunos aspectos de la reforma litúrgica y su aplicación”. A muchos les parece que no se trata de “detalles”, que las concesiones son demasiadas.
Pero hay mucho espacio ambiguo para negociar. El Vaticano aclara que es un falso problema si un católico puede aceptar o no el Concilio Vaticano II: “un buen católico no puede rechazarlo”.
Monseñor Fellay advierte que “la condición para la comunidad plena con la Iglesia Católica es que el Vaticano nos acepte tal y como somos”.
Si las negociaciones avanzan en forma tan positiva como dicen los allegados al Papa en el Vaticano, es cierto que la Fraternidad está buscando casa en Roma, para trasladar desde la suiza Ecónne a la sede apostólica la central de los tradicionalistas. Favorito es el complejo de las Hermanas Inmaculadas de vía Monza, una ex escuela con amplios espacios y una iglesia que da a la calle. Otro inmueble majestuoso, propiedad del Vicariato de Roma, es el de Santa María Inmaculada, en el barrio del Esquilino, cercano a la sede del Papa obispo de Roma en San Juan de Letrán, y del “palazzo” de la embajada argentina ante el gobierno italiano.
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