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Bishop Fellay makes declaration on Synod
October 28, 2015
Read Bishop Fellay's declaration about the final report of the Synod on the Family!
The SSPX's Superior General, Bishop Bernard Fellay, has published a powerful declaration recalling the Church's doctrine on the function of the pope and bishops, and about matrimony and the family.
This declaration was made in reaction to the Synod's final report published on Saturday, October 24. Below we offer some extracts from this declaration.
The Final Report of the second session of the Synod on the Family..., far from showing a consensus of the Synod Fathers, is the expression of a compromise between profoundly divergent positions. Of course we can read in it some doctrinal reminders about marriage and the Catholic family, but we note also some regrettable ambiguities and omissions, and most importantly several breaches opened up in discipline in the name of a relativistic pastoral “mercy”...
...The meaning of the sacred dogmas that must be preserved perpetually is the one that the Magisterium of the pope and the bishops has taught once and for all, and it is never lawful to deviate from it. Hence the Church’s pastoral ministry, when it practices mercy, must begin by remedying the poverty of ignorance, by giving souls the expression of the truth that will save them...
...In this utter confusion it is now up to the pope—in keeping with his responsibility, and within the limits set on him by Christ—to restate clearly and firmly the Catholic truth quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus, and to keep this universal truth from being contradicted in practice locally....