(DICI) On May 10, 2014, the English-speaking blog Rorate Caeli published
under the pseudonym “Adfero”, some “exclusive information” whose sources
could not be – according to him – disclosed. This “exclusive
information”, spread by the media, revealed that Bishop Bernard Fellay,
Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X, met with Pope Francis. On
May 11, the Roman agency I.Media published that Bp. Fellay’s two
assistants, Fr. Niklaus Pfluger and Fr. Marc-Alain Nély, had attended
the Pope’s private Mass.
Fathers Pfluger and Nely have never attended the Pope’s private Mass,
and journalists who claim otherwise would have a hard time to indicate
the day of the alleged assistance. Here are the facts:
On December 13, 2013, Bishop Fellay and his assistants went to Rome
for an informal meeting at the request of the Ecclesia Dei Commission.
Following this interview, the Secretary of the Commission, Archbishop
Guido Pozzo, invited his counterparts for lunch at St. Martha House’s
dining room where they were joined by Archbishop Augustine Di Noia,
Assistant Secretary of the Congregation of the Faith. It is in this
large refectory that the Pope takes his daily meals, away from other
guests.
Archbishop Pozzo insisted on introducing Bishop Fellay to the pope
while the latter was leaving the refectory. There was a brief exchange
where Pope Francis said to Bishop Fellay, according to the usual polite
formula, “I’m very glad to meet you.” To this, Bishop Fellay answered
that he was praying a lot, and the pope asked him to pray for him. Such
was the “meeting” that lasted a few seconds.
In the interview he gave to Le Rocher
(April-May 2014), Bishop Fellay answered the following question: Has
Rome made an official approach to renew contact with you since the
election of Pope Francis? – “Rome made a ‘non-official’ approach to
renew contact with us, but nothing more, and I have not asked for an
audience as I did after Benedict XVI’s election. For me, things at
present are very simple: we stay as we are. Some concluded from my close
contact with Rome in 2012 that I regard the necessity of a canonical
recognition as a supreme principle. Preserving the Faith and our
traditional Catholic identity is essential and remains our first
principle.”
(Source: SSPX/MG – DICI 05/12/14)
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