FSSPX: Bishop Eleganti Contradicts Bishop Schneider
Bishop Schneider has suggested in several recent interviews that the excommunications would not be valid because the FSSPX does "not intend" to separate from Rome.
Bishop Eleganti replied that the absence of a declared intention to break with the Vatican would not alter the objective nature of the act:
“To declare a questionable intention doesn’t help,” Bishop Eleganti said. “That’s a ploy to practise total autonomy while pretending to be in union with the Pope. It is in fact not the case so long as the Pope does not accept or authorise these consecrations.”
Key argument: “It’s not about what they claim or declare, but about the facts they create,” Bishop Eleganti said. “It’s not primarily about intentions but about objective facts and behaviour.”
Bishop Eleganti resumes that the FSSPX acts with full autonomy without papal mandate, operates with bishops not in union with the Pope and episcopal college, maintains hundreds of priests who are not incardinated in dioceses and exists in a “jurisdictional nirvana”.
For him, the Fraternity's structures resemble a parallel Church: “They claim not to want a Church beside the Church while creating one and behaving in a way that corresponds exactly to that.”
Bishop Schneider served as the Holy See’s official visitor to the FSSPX under Pope Francis. He suggested in several interviews that Leo XIV might approve the planned consecrations as a reconciliation step.
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