... The rupture at Écône is "a grave wound to the Church that could have been avoided" eight years ago: it was not the Apostolic See that closed the door, but the Society that demanded Rome acknowledge its own errors and rejected a Declaration that was "the fruit of common work," recalls the former Secretary of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei. History might have unfolded differently had the Society of Saint Pius X not, eight years ago, rejected the doctrinal declaration proposed by Rome — despite the fact that it had been the fruit of a collaborative effort — while demanding that the Apostolic See make its own self-correction. The patient work of reconciliation that was interrupted at that moment has now been followed by the rupture consummated on July 1st at Écône, an event experienced with deep sorrow by those who knew those negotiations at close range. Speaking to La Bussola is Archbishop Guido Pozzo, titular Archbishop of Bagnoregio and current Superintendent of the Economy of the Pontifical Musical Chapel, who served as the last Secretary of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei from 2009 to 2018. The prelate does not minimize the post-conciliar turbulence afflicting the ecclesial community, but reaffirms that none of it can justify a schismatic act, nor the pretension of a so-called "emergency Church" removed from the authority of the Pope. ... >> Archbishop Pozzo, former head of Ecclesia Dei …
... Around the SSPX there is, naturally, a great deal of media clamor — but there are "traditional realities" that already live sub Petro. Are these not perhaps ignored and somewhat marginalized, even within the Catholic world itself, as though they were reservations rather than a gift to be offered to the whole Church? The institutes to which you refer are living realities in continuous growth. As Pope Benedict XVI taught and declared, the two liturgical forms — the Novus Ordo, which is the common, habitual, and universal form of the liturgy, and the Vetus Ordo, for particular and special groups — are both a mutual enrichment and are not in opposition to one another. The institutes and the faithful who follow traditional liturgical and spiritual disciplines must not only not be marginalized or isolated; they must contribute, in communion with the other ecclesial realities, to evangelization and the Christian apostolate. What seems to me urgently necessary is to strengthen those ecclesial and priestly communities that live fidelity to Tradition, to the integrity of the Catholic faith, and to the sacred liturgy, in full communion with the episcopal order sub Petro et cum Petro. READ THE ARTICLE >> Archbishop Pozzo, former head of Ecclesia Dei …