Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei

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Ecclesia Dei was a papal commission set up by Pope John Paul II on July 2, 1988 and repealed by Pope Francis on January 19, 2019. Its Latin name was Pontificia Commissio Ecclesia Dei . The tasks of the commission were the restoration of ecclesiastical communion with traditionalist groups from the environment of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre as well as the exercise of authority over communities that celebrate the liturgy according to the extraordinary form of the Roman rite .

activity

Based on the Motu Proprio Ecclesia Dei , which condemns the unauthorized episcopal ordinations of four members of the Society of St. Pius X , carried out by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre , it is a commission that

“Has the task of working with the bishops, the dicasteries of the Roman Curia and the groups concerned, in order to enable the full ecclesial communion of priests , seminarians , religious communities or individual religious who have hitherto been connected in various ways with the brotherhood founded by Archbishop Lefebvre and who want to remain connected with the successor of Peter in the Catholic Church. "

With the support of the commission, groups of former followers of Lefebvre were reconciled with that of the Roman Catholic Church and various communities were founded that celebrate the liturgy in the extraordinary form of the Roman rite , such as the Society of St. Peter , the Apostolic Personnel Administration of St. John Maria Vianney in the diocese of Campos dos Goytacazes (Brazil), the servants of Jesus and Mary (who celebrate the liturgy in both the ordinary and the extraordinary form) and, already under Pope Benedict XVI. , of the Institut du Bon Pasteur in France.

In the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum of July 7, 2007, in which Pope Benedict XVI. allows the celebration of the extraordinary form of the Roman rite on a larger scale without the prior consent of the Ecclesia Dei Commission , he announced that this commission should be given full powers. On the basis of Summorum Pontificum , some of the Transalpine Redemptorists have so far taken full communion with the Roman Catholic Church.

On January 21, 2009 Pope Benedict XVI. by decree issued by the Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops , Giovanni Battista Cardinal Re , the excommunication of the four Bishops of the Society of St. Pius X, consecrated in 1988. This was supported by the hope that this step would lead to full agreement on contentious issues. The suspension of these bishops is therefore not canceled. On July 8, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI. the Ecclesia Dei Pontifical Commission through the Motu Proprio Ecclesiae unitatem of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and appointed the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith William Joseph Cardinal Levada as the new President and Monsignor Guido Pozzo as the new Secretary of the Commission. The previous President, Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos, was retired by the Pope at the age of 80, as was Monsignor Camille Perl , who had been promoted to Vice-President only a year earlier and who had helped shape the fate of the Commission since it was founded in 1988.

With the instruction Universae Ecclesiae published on May 13, 2011 , the papal Ecclesia Dei commission was given the ordinary, vicarious pastoral power of the Pope for the supervision of the observance and application of the regulations of the Motu proprio Summorum Pontificum .

On January 19, 2019, Pope Francis dissolved the commission with the Motu proprio Da oltre (trent'anni) after more than thirty years of existence and transferred its tasks directly to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, since the institutes and communities concerned have now found a stable way of life and are contributing to it the matters dealt with by the commission mainly concern questions of doctrine.

Presidents and Secretaries

President

Vice President

Secretaries

literature

  • H. Schmitz: Special powers of a special commission . In: Archives for Catholic Church Law . tape 159 , 1990, ISSN  0003-9160 , pp. 36-59 .
  • Camille Perl: The Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” . In: In unum congregati, ceremony for Augustine Cardinal Mayer OSB . Abtei-Verlag, Metten 1991, ISBN 3-9801820-5-3 , p. 549-555 .
  • R. Scheulen: The legal status of the Priestly Society “St. Peter". A critical examination against the background of the current structure and discipline of the Latin Church . Ludgerus, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-87497-233-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Pope Francis: Lettera Apostolica in forma di Motu proprio circa la Pontificia Commissione “Ecclesia Dei”. In: Vatican website. January 19, 2019, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  2. ^ Pope John Paul II: Apostolic Letter "Ecclesia Dei" in the form of a motu proprio. In: Vatican website. July 2, 1988, retrieved January 19, 2019 (No. 6a).
  3. ↑ Order online: Servi Jesu et Mariae. March 13, 1994
  4. ↑ Interview with Anton Bentlage SJM: A church community is first and foremost a work of God. kath.net from October 9, 2008
  5. ^ Wording of the decree of the Congregation of Bishops of January 21, 2009
  6. ^ Christopher Altieri: Vatican confirms suppression of Ecclesia Dei commission. In: Catholic Herald , January 19, 2019, accessed January 22, 2019.

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