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As a longtime friend of Pope Benedict XVI, he In the final paragraph of his article, Msgr. Bux cites a letter wrote a letter in 2012 to Bishop Bernard Fellay and members of that Bishop Laise wrote to Benedict XVI in October of 2005. the Society of St. Pius X, wishing to persuade them to accept an We are posting Bishop Laise’s letter on our web site both in the agreement proposed to them by the Pope. And five years later Spanish and in an English translation: the SSPX itself stated that “Monsignor Nicola Bux unexpectedly http://www.pcpbooks.net/laiseng.pdf & http://www.pcpbooks.net/laisesp.pdf. echoed the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX)’s position on the Msgr. Bux mentions that Bishop Laise had a longstanding widespread crisis of the faith within the Church.” relationship with Benedict XVI when the latter was Prefect of the Although Msgr. Bux and the SSPX may not have yet Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Building on that reached an agreement on all doctrinal points relating to the relationship, Bishop Laise could write to him as the Holy Father present crisis, Msgr. Bux has recently provided leadership in an with a recommendation, motivated by the gravity of the situation, area where many Catholics concerned about the present crisis are which had arisen because of decades of ignoring the universal of one mind, the irreverence brought about by Communion in the laws of the Church governing the reception of Holy Communion: hand. To honor the late Bishop Juan Rodolfo Laise a year after “I also consider that the Synod on the Eucharist should stop his death, a prelate whom Msgr. Bux describes as the author of at an examination of conscience about the extension of the the first book defending the traditional practice of Communion permission to give Communion in the hand to almost all the local on the tongue, he wrote a detailed analysis of the role that Bishop Churches, which in 1969 had only been granted to some local Laise played in exposing the inappropriateness and illegality of Churches in Europe at the particular request of their Pastors.” the practice of Communion in the hand, and added to Bishop In a previous online article we cited Bishop Athanasius Laise’s own analysis some more recently documented evidence Schneider, who wrote a preface to Bishop Laise’s book. Bishop showing how Episcopal Conferences throughout the world Schneider stated more recently that Paul VI had “approved” ignored papal norms, and how the Roman Curia itself came to Communion in the hand. We explained that this approval was de bypass those papal regulations. We offer to our readers both facto rather than de jure, for reasons demonstrated in Bishop English and Spanish translations of Msgr. Bux’s article: Laise’s book. For Paul VI did not want this practice to spread Communion in the Hand: Disobedience Permitted throughout the universal Church, and he established laws to In Memoriam: Bishop Juan Rodolfo Laise on the First prevent it. But what occurred is indicated in the title of Msgr. Anniversary of His Death Bux’s article on Bishop Laise – a “Disobedience Permitted.” http://www.pcpbooks.net/buxeng.html When his orders were openly disobeyed, Paul VI was reluctant to correct and discipline the offenders, and therefore the practice Comunión en la mano: una desobediencia permitida spread against his will. Then John Paul II suspended the granting In Memoriam SER Juan Rodolfo Laise en el primer aniversario of additional indults for a time, but his authority also was de su muerte resisted. Finally, Benedict XVI acted against the practice of http://www.pcpbooks.net/buxesp.html Communion in the hand through his personal example, by Msgr. Bux is a Doctor in Eastern Ecclesiastical Sciences distributing Communion himself only on the tongue and from the Pontifical Oriental Institute of Rome, and has been a kneeling. This occurred after Bishop Laise asked him to take consultant to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith action to halt the illicit practice, which shows that Bishop Laise’s (2002-2013), to the Office of the Liturgical Celebrations of the request to Pope Benedict XVI was not in vain. (See ad, page 4.) 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