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Mise En Page 1 Res novae-11-en.qxp 20/09/2019 09:50 Page 2 RES NOVAE ROMAN PERSPECTIVE - English Edition International monthly newsletter of analysis and prospective ❚ N° 11 ❚ September 2019 ❚ Année I ❚ 3 € Published in French, English and Italian PRÉSENTATION In an ever changing world and in a Church constantly in the About the Bergoglian pontificate spotlights, the important infor- mations and the meaning to give Part II - Expected failure them may be buried under a mass of commentaries, opinions n our conclusion to part I of this article we wrote that the « progres- and fake news. At a time when it sivism » of the present pontificate was overcome by the state of Ca- is urgent to restore the magiste- tholicism in the Western world. We should add that it is developing rium and pontifical authority so in an all new context than what was the one of the lively and joyful that the Church may continue its I era of the council and of the times right after, when the Church was still mission received from Christ, rich in men and moral resilience. One could qualify today’s progressivism Res Novæ intends to be an infor- as a « second progressivism », undermining a Church weakened to the ex- mational and analysis tool at the treme because of the absence of defences against contemporary relativism. service of the petrinian power. One must note the often contradictory aspect of Pope Francis statement : By subscribing now you will THE ÉDITORIAL he gives his support to contemporary globalist theories, but at the same help with the start of Res Novæ time, he professes a social anti-liberalism in continuity with what is known and its development. as the « social doctrine of the Church » ; he showed openness to liberal doctrinal views (on moral, as we said previously, but also in ecclesiology), while offering a royal path to the Society of Saint Pius X, patented oppo- nent to this liberalism ; and so forth, thus delivering an impressionist tea- ching which does not bother with rigorous theology, but which goes along INDEX with a sense of authority forgotten since a long time. Page 1 All in all, no matter how the relatively moderate and sometimes compen- ❚ ❚ Pope Jean XXIII Pope Francis Fra- sated openness of the Amoris lætitia pontificate might be, it powerfully ac- ternità San Pio X celerates the fading of catholicism in the mist of ultra-modernity. If, indeed, Page 2 there are still hardcore catholics – though we should not overestimate its Pope Francis ❚ Mgr Marcel Lefebvre ❚ importance and their strength – who try to resist the havoc of this openness, Fraternità San Pio X the entire ecclesial body is exhausted, and the resurgence of an ultra-conci- Page 3 liary pastoral ministry of the Church can only weaken it even more. Inte- Card. Konrad Krajewski ❚ Imam resting enough, it is certainly self-consuming too. ❚ Ahmad Al-Tayyeb Pope John-Paul II ❚ Papa Francis Liturgy : marriage of contraries Page 4 St Augustin❚ Father Bourdon ❚ father The motu proprio of 9 September 2017, Magnum Principium, has rectified Leonardo Castellani ❚ st Ignace de canon 838 which concerns with liturgical translation. It thus reverted ins- ❚ ❚ Loyola Martin Luther René Schwob truction Liturgiam authenticam, published in 2001 by John Paul II, orga- nising the correction of defective liturgical translation whose responsibility was attributed to the episcopal conferences. Like a pendulum swinging Subscription : €30.00 yearly ; back, the conferences have again the responsibility to « faithfully prepare € E-subscription : 20.00 yearly ; versions of the liturgical books in vernacular languages, suitably accom- Donor subscription : starting at modated within defined limits », the Holy See keeping as a prerogative to €50.00. To subscribe to the print edi- tion outside France, please contact us. « review » the translated books and no longer to « approve » them ; subtile IBAN : FR76 3006 6108 4500 0201 precision, but symbolically of great significance. 7170 155. The monthly newsletter Res In matter of declaration of sanctity, the pope has had frequently recourse Novæ is published by EHN (12, rue Ro- to « equipollent canonisation » (that is decided by a simple decree of the senwald, 75015 Paris). pope confirming an ancient cultus of the person, when his predecessors sel- Editor in Chief : Rev Fr. Claude Barthe. domly used it, liberally interpreting this procedure to canonise John XXIII, Rome Correspondant : Don Pio Pace who then only had one miracle officially recognised. On 11 July 2017, he Contact : [email protected] CPPAP : 0220K93862 introduced « the offering of life » (the baptised has accepted a premature Director of publication : Ch. Sergent. death in the service of others) among the criteria allowing the introduction Res novae-11-en.qxp 20/09/2019 09:50 Page 3 to a process for beatification followed by canonisation, effect on cultures » and the power of wealth. These po- alongside and equal to the criteria of martyrdom and the sitions have generated among some of his detractors practice of heroic virtues. accusations of crypto-marxism or « radical anti-libera- In rupture with the style of the previous pontificate, lism ». In reality, these positions represent the most tra- Pope Francis wilfully transgressed the established ditional chore of his teaching, consistent with the norms. On Holy Thursday, 28 March 2013, he washed anti-liberalism of what is commonly known as the social the feet of detainees of the detention centre for minors doctrine of the Church. of Casal del Marmo, in the suburb of Rome, of which, In this way, in Laudato si, published 24 May 2015, no. two women, one Italian Catholic and the other a Serb 93 : « The principle of the subordination of private pro- Muslim (a decree dated 21 January 2016 from the perty to the universal destination of goods, and thus the Congregation for Divine Worship allowed it a poste- right of everyone to their use, is a golden rule of social riori). Likewise, on Holy Thursday, 24 March 2016, he conduct and “the first principle of the whole ethical and washed the feet of eleven migrants Christian, Muslim, social order.” [Laborem Exercens, no. 19]. The Chris- and Hindu, in the housing facility of Castelnuovo di tian tradition has never recognized the right to private Porto, near Rome. property as absolute or inviolable, and has stressed the But, on the other hand, he has granted the Society of social purpose of all forms of private property. » Or, Saint Pius X, conservatory of the ante-conciliar liturgy, again, in the exhortation Evangelii gaudium, published repeated favours and without asking for anything in re- 24 November 2013, no. 56 : « While the earnings of a turn. In Argentina, where all institutes calling them- minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap se- selves catholic have to obtain a recognition from the parating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by Church to benefit from the special status given by the those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideolo- State, Cardinal Poli, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, asked gies which defend the absolute autonomy of the market- in 2015 to the Argentine minister of worship, in agree- place and financial speculation. Consequently, they ment with the Pope, to consider the Society of Saint Pius reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the X as an organisation of faithful of diocesan right. common good… » During the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy (8 December But these are punctual notations within the frame of a 2015 to 20 November 2016) the Pope declared that the teaching on ecology. Although they contained nice de- faithful going to the SSPX priests for confession would velopments on the care of creation entrusted to Men, have the possibility to receive a valid and licite absolu- though they also contained strange pagan tones (cf. the tion of their sins. In the letter Misericordia et misera, stupefying Instrumentum laboris of the assembly of the signed the same day of the closing of the jubilee, he de- Synod for the Amazon), largely give way to fashionable cided to extend without limits this authorisation. Like- themes such as « integral ecology » and « sustainable wise, on 4 April 2017, by a letter from the Commission development ». Nobody will deny the common sense of Ecclesia Dei, the marriages of catholic faithful blessed the Pope who denounces the fact that « each year hun- by SSPX priests were authorised. dreds of millions of tons of waste are generated, much Finally, in a more subtile fashion, he did a favor to the of it non-biodegradable… » But he ventures too far the same Society by suppressing, by motu proprio, publi- pontifical authority by saying that « most global war- shed on 19 January 2018, the Ecclesia Dei Commission, ming in recent decades is due to the great concentration now absorbed by the Congregation for the Doctrine of of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen the Faith. The competence of this Commission (notably oxides and others) released mainly as a result of human to establish contacts with the SSPX in view of a « return activity. As these gases build up in the atmosphere, they to full communion »), funded by the motu proprio Ec- hamper the escape of heat produced by sunlight at the clesia Dei adflicta, of 2 July 1988, following the conse- earth’s surface. » (Laudato si, no. 23) cration by Archbishop Lefebvre, without pontifical Likewise, the positions taken on migratory issues are mandate, of four bishops, are now exercised by the perceived as participating in the fashionable ideas, with Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the SSPX the resurgence of pro-immigration themes not being cor- reluctance to treat with the Commission and only wan- rected by any critical argument of the globalist theories ting relation with the Congregation.
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