Source: TV Libertés (Video)
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Pope Francis has proposed a personal prelature for the SSPX. With this canonical situation you retain an independence with the bishops. Bishop Schneider who has visited his seminaries urges him to accept this proposition even if the situation in the Church is not 100% satisfactory. Is there not, in time, a risk of creating a more or less autonomous, autocephalous Church, if this situation of constant detachment from Rome, with respect to the Pope, with respect to the Curia, with respect to the bishops, should continue? Do you expect to sign a proposal from Rome, the appearance at the See of Peter of a Pius XIII that we all expect?
I do not think it is necessary to wait until everything is arranged in the Church, that all problems are fixed .
There are however a number of conditions that are necessary and for us the necessary condition is the condition of survival . I have let Rome know, without any ambiguity, that in the same way that Monsignor Lefebvre once said: there is a sine qua non condition, that is, if the condition is not fulfilled, we do not move: that we can To remain as we are, that is, to preserve all the principles we have maintained, which are Catholic principles.
Indeed, we have grave reproaches for what happened from the council, in the Church, in certain men, the famous question of the way in which ecumenism has been conducted, for example, what is called religious freedom, the relationship between The Church and the State, then the freedom to give, and what title to give each one the freedom to exercise their religion ... and I believe that we move on that side, in the right direction, that is to say that Rome is giving way .
It is interesting that for two years we can say that we are told that there are issues that were enunciated, propositions made by the council, which are not criteria of catholicity. This means that we have the right to disagree and nonetheless be considered Catholic .
Precisely this set of issues on which we discuss. This is a first part. The second part is that if there is a risk of schism , of establishing a parallel Church. I have evoked this problem with the same Pope, Pope Francis, and we both agree . There are now a number of practical dispositions that make schism virtually impossible, that is to say that in practice, in the acts of every day, we express to Rome, we show our submission, we recognize these authorities. And not only in the Mass saying the name of the pope and the bishops of the place in the canon of the Mass, we also have the beautiful example of the pope who gives us the power to confess and also to do (legal) acts .
It is complicated but it can happen that a priest commits criminal acts, we have references from Rome that ask us to judge this case, it is really a normal relationship. And not only confession: last summer it was confirmed that the Superior General can freely ordain the priests of the Fraternity, without having to ask permission of the bishop of the place. This was a text of Rome published in several parts and that says that the Fraternity orders, therefore, legitimately because it says that freely.
Here, then, are acts that are legal acts that are canonical and which are already in place and which in my opinion suppress the possibility of schism. Obviously always must be watched.
And today, concretely What is missing?
The seal is missing and then also the clear and clear statement that these guarantees will be respected .
And is it the Pope who should give that seal, those guarantees?
It is the pope who does it. Yes.
