Thursday, August 09, 2012

The strange case of “His Eminence” Bell

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A tough clash has broken out between the Bishop of Fiesole and Leo XIII’s “Tridentine” congregation, whose superior, the “Archbishop of London”, is not in communion with the Roman Catholic Church and is cursing

ANDREA TORNIELLI
VATICAN CITY
The media often report on news to do with the negotiations between the Holy See and the Society of St. Pius X, founded by Mgr. Lefebvre, who in his lifetime only consecrated four bishops without a papal mandate, in 1988. Their excommunication was lifted by Benedict XVI in January 2009. Even less is said or known about the hundreds – some say a thousand – of “episcope vagantes” wandering around the world: bishops who have been illicitly consecrated as Christian bishops and who thus have apostolic succession but are not in communion with the Pope and as such are formally schismatic.
Read the article here: http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/inquiries-and-interviews/detail...

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