Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei
Ecclesia Dei is a set up by Pope John Paul II on July 2, 1988 Pontifical Commission.
Activity
Based on the Motu Proprio Ecclesia Dei, which condemned the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre illicitly carried out episcopal consecrations of four members of the Fraternity of St. Pius X, is a commission that
" The task has to cooperate with the bishops, the departments of the Roman Curia and the relevant groups in order to enable the full ecclesial communion of priests, seminarians, religious communities or individual religious who previously connected in various ways with the Brotherhood, founded by Archbishop Lefebvre were and who want to stay connected with the Successor of Peter in the Catholic Church. "
With the support of the Commission took place in the following years to Rekonziliation of groups of former followers of Lefebvre with the Roman Catholic Church and establishing various altritualistischer communities, for example the global Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Petri ( Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter), the Priestly Fraternity of St. St. John Mary Vianney, now Apostolic Personnel Administration of St. John Mary Vianney in the Diocese of Campos (Brazil) and, already under Pope Benedict XVI. , the Institut du Bon Pasteur in France.
In the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum of 7 July 2007, in which Pope Benedict XVI. the celebration of the so-called Tridentine Liturgy, more precisely, the liturgy of 1962, permits without prior approval of the Commission Ecclesia Dei on a larger scale, he announced that this Commission with full powers for the organization and development of this " extraordinary form of the Roman Rite " to be equipped. On the basis of Summorum Pontificum far only a part of the Transalpine Redemptorists took full community with the Roman Catholic Church. While negotiations to the Commission with the Fraternity of St. Pius X to take.
January 21, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI lifted. by decree by the prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the excommunication of the four Bishops consecrated in 1988 the Fraternity of St. Pius X on. This was driven by the hope that with this step, a full agreement could be reached on the disputed issues. The suspension of the incumbent without papal permission bishops is thus not canceled .. The lifting of the excommunication name of Bishop Richard Williamson sparked in public, due to the same time become known Holocaust denial Williamson ( in Germany a criminal offense ), incomprehension and indignation and pushed internationally protests, including by the Supreme Rabbi of Rome. The costs associated with this process, " margins " were blamed, not least the Ecclesia Dei Commission and its President, Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos in public.
On 8 July 2009, presented Pope Benedict XVI. the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei by the motu proprio Ecclesiae unit breath of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and ordered the Prefect of the CDF, Cardinal William Joseph Levada, the new president and Monsignor Guido Pozzo as the new Secretary of the Commission. The previous president, Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos was age-related offset from the Pope with 80 years in retirement, as well as the only a year earlier promoted to vice president Monsignor Camille Perl, who had contribution to the success of the Commission since its inception in 1988.
With published on 13 May 2011 Instruction " Universae Ecclesiae " the ordinary, deputy pastoral power of the pope for the supervision of compliance with and the application of the motu proprio " Summorum Pontificum " of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei was awarded.
Presidents and Secretaries
President
Vice President
- 2008-2009: Monsignor Camille Perl
- 2012-2013: Archbishop Augustine Di Noia OP