Comissários do Vaticano contra Grupos Religiosos Tradicionais

O caso da Fraternidade Sacerdotal São Pio X  (SSPX) é o mais conhecido de grupos católicos tradicionalistas, mas há outros. Reecentemente, eu fiquei sabendo da Fraternità Sacerdotale Familia Christi, de Ferrara, na Itália, fundada por Dom Giuseppe Canovai, que tem tido muito sucesso entre os jovens e no seu trabalho pastoral.

O padre americano Zuhlsdorf falou dessa Fraternidade italiana em tom bastante elogioso.

Mas o Vaticano parece que não está gostando.

O padre inglês John Hunwicke, renomado teólogo de Oxford, denunciou a indicação de um comissário do Vaticano e ainda alertou a SSPX sobre negociações com o pontificado do Papa Francisco.

Ao fim do texto o padre Hunwicke diz que o pontificado de Francisco "não é apenas cruel, mas grosseiro e vulgar".

Por coincidência, eu li que o superior geral da SSPX está "chocado" com a ideia de "misericórdia do Papa Francisco, que não procurar converter.

A luta dentro da Igreja é gigante.

Não me sinto muito confortável sobre esse assunto, não acompanho de perto. Mas aqui vai o texto do padre John Hunwicke que ataca o pontificado de Bergoglio:

The Age of the Commissars

So ... one of the Roman auxiliary bishops, a Jesuit, has been appointed  Commissar of the Priestly Brotherhood of the Family of Christ (FSFC) in Ferrara. Is he, one can't help wondering, a Bergoglian? The mere fact that he himself comes from Ferrara is hardly a guarantree of austere impartiality. One wonders whose idea it was ... assuming that the FSFC really did need to be handed over to a Commissar ... to treat them like this. Is there no sympathetic bishop who could have advised this small but growing Traditionalist Family?

There have been reports recently that the SSPX might resume negotiations with the Holy See. I do not mean disrespectfully to imply that I know better than the new management of that organisation how, or whither, it should be led. But I find it hard to believe that, in the current climate, it would be wise to subject it to the current Roman regime. And I do understand why Rome might be anxious to get its hands on the Society ... one of the few places in the Latin Church where the writ of the bullies does not yet run. Lente lente currite noctis equi.

Readers will remember the regulations according to which diocesan bishops were peremptorily deprived of the right to set up religious communities of diocesan right within their jurisdictions without interference from the Congregation for Religious. I imagine that wise bishops will refrain from canonically erecting any new and orthodox groups, but will instead protect and foster them in an informal uncanonical state until the days of joy and freedom return. Is it a sign of health in an ecclesial body that pastoral and prudent hierarchs will feel the necessity to operate beneath the canonical radar?

It is hardly surprising that, when an orthodox Shepherd dies or retires, there should be such anxieties about what might happen to his diocese. There must be quite a few seedy would-be misthotoi slouching impatiently  behind Roman pillars puffing away at their fags while eagerly awaiting the rewards of sycophancy and networking.

This present pontificate is not only cruel.

It is also coarse and vulgar.