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全部區域 > 神學 > 信理與神學 > The excommunication of the bishops consecrated by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre has been withdrawn by Pope Benedict XVI.

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morrie


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2009/1/24 下午 11:07:44

Saturday, January 24, 2009


Document repealing excommunications
CONGREGATIO PRO EPISCOPIS


By way of a letter of December 15, 2008 addressed to His Eminence Cardinal Dario Castrillón Hoyos, President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, Mons. Bernard Fellay, also in the name of the other three Bishops consecrated on June 30, 1988, requested anew the removal of the latae sententiae excommunication formally declared with the Decree of the Prefect of this Congregation on July 1, 1988. In the aforementioned letter, Mons. Fellay affirms, among other things: "We are always firmly determined in our will to remain Catholic and to place all our efforts at the service of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ, which is the Roman Catholic Church. We accept its teachings with filial animus. We believe firmly in the Primacy of Peter and in its prerogatives, and for this the current situation makes us suffer so much."

His Holiness Benedict XVI - paternally sensitive to the spiritual unease manifested by the interested party due to the sanction of excommunication and faithful in the effort expressed by them in the aforementioned letter of not sparing any effort to deepen the necessary discussions with the Authority of the Holy See in the still open matters, so as to achieve shortly a full and satisfactory solution of the problem posed in the origin - decided to reconsider the canonical situation of Bishops Bernard Fellay, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, Richard Williamson, and Alfonso de Galarreta, arisen with their episcopal consecration.

With this act, it is desires to consolidate the reciprocal relations of confidence and to intensify and grant stability to the relationship of the Fraternity of Saint Pius X with this Apostolic See. This gift of peace, at the end of the Christmas celebrations, wishes also to be a sign to promote unity in the charity of the universal Church and to try to end the scandal of division.

It is hoped that this step be followed by the prompt accomplishment of full communion with the Church of the entire Fraternity of Saint Pius X, thus testifying true fidelity and true recognition of the Magisterium and of the authority of the Pope with the proof of visible unity.

Based in the faculty expressly granted to me by the Holy Father Benedict XVI, in virtue of the present Decree, I remit to Bishops Bernard Fellay, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, Richard Williamson, and Alfonso de Galarreta the censure of latae sententiae excommunication declared by this Congregation on July 1, 1988, while I declare deprived of any juridical effect, from the present date, the Decree emanated at that date.


Rome, from the Congregation for Bishops, January 21, 2009.

Card. Giovanni Battista Re
Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops

Ignatius


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2009/1/25 上午 07:56:52

教宗撤銷對勒菲弗主教非法祝聖的四位主教的開除教籍令

(梵蒂岡電臺訊)全球基督信徒合一祈禱週以一項好消息結束。聖座元月二十四日宣佈:教宗本篤十六世撤銷對四位被非法祝聖的主教的開除教籍令。這四位主教分別是貝爾納·費萊(Bernard Fellay),貝爾納·蒂西耶(Bernard Tissier de Mallerais),理查·威廉松(Richard Williamson),以及阿方索·加拉雷塔(Alfonso del Gallareta)。這四位主教在一九八八年六月三十日由被開除教籍的法國勒菲弗(Lefebvre)縂主教在沒有教宗授權下非法祝聖。聖座在宣佈這項撤銷消息時,附以聖座主教部所發佈的一份相關法令。

按照聖教法典規定:一位主教在沒有羅馬教宗授權下私自祝聖一位或多位主教,即遭受自科絕罰的處分,也就是自我開除教籍;而接受如此祝聖者也遭受同樣處罰。這兩項處罰只有教宗有權收回撤銷。

聖座通告說:這項撤銷開除教籍令是經過聖座與《聖庇護十世司鐸兄弟會》一番對話後決定的。這個兄弟會團體是上面所提的勒菲弗主教于一九七零年在弗萊堡創立的。這位法國縂主教不接受梵蒂岡第二屆大公會議的一些改革,因此與聖座發生糾葛,進而脫離羅馬天主教,私自創立《聖庇護十世司鐸兄弟會》,並在未經教宗授權下非法祝聖主教司鐸,使自己處於自科絕罰之中。

聖座通告指出:“教宗接納貝爾納·費萊主教本身並以其他三位主教名義,在二零零八年十二月十五日寫的一封信的請求。在這封信中,四位主教表示:‘我們始終堅決願意做個天主教徒,把並盡一切力量為我們的主耶穌基督的教會服務,這個教會就是羅馬天主教。我們懷著赤子之心接受羅馬天主教的教導。我們堅信伯多祿的首席地位,和他的特權,正因爲如此,目前的處境令我們痛苦難堪’”。

這四位主教在一九八八年六月三十日由勒菲弗縂主教非法祝聖後次日,即七月一日,聖座主教部便正式宣佈他們遭受自科絕罰。

教宗本篤十六世對教會内部這樁決裂的事端一直設法予以修復,他曾于二零零五年八月二十九日親自會晤費萊主教。在那次會晤中,教宗表示願意逐步展開修復的步伐。這個步伐終于在昨天,二零零九年元月二十四日,抵達終點,教宗懷著牧靈的關懷和慈父憐憫的心腸,撤銷了開除教籍令。

聖座主教部在法令文件中說:“教宗深信四位主教的承諾,他們將在和聖座有關當局進行的必要交談中,不餘遺力地深入了解仍然存在的問題,以便早日達致圓滿和令人滿意的解決”。法令又說:“希望藉著這項法令鞏固彼此信任的關係,同時加緊賦予聖庇護十世兄弟會與本聖座關係的穩定”。“在聖誕慶節結束之際,這項和平的恩典也願意成爲在普世教會的愛德中促進合一,消除分裂惡表的標記”。

主教部法令結束說:“但願接著而來的,是備受關心的整個聖庇護十世兄弟會與教會圓滿共融的實現,以有形可見的合一來證明他們對教宗訓導和權威的真正忠誠和承認”。

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